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Show In being completely dethroned as the political boss of the Republican party of this city, Mr. Smoot can at least say that he disappeared in the political quicksands in some rather distinguished company. Something quite similar happened to bosses in New York, Pennsylvania and other states. The names of the other defunct political bosses are considerably more lustrous than that of Smoot, and in this fact Mr. Smoot should find at least an evanescent glow of consolation. But the wiping out of the big grafters, the impaling im-paling of the political dictators this year in the bigger spheres, did not form half so pathetic a ceremony as did the sounding of taps over the inferior in-ferior god from Provo. He relied upon methods which had hitherto been supreme in this state; unlike the big bosses of other states, he sought to prostrate his political adversaries with the weapon of a mercenary ecclesiastical power. When this failed, it left Mr. Smoot more sadly shorn than any other deposed political autocrat in all Christendom. Christen-dom. The other bosses were men of intellect and dominating personality; Mr. Smoot is but a fragile-brained young man who achieved all his ends through manipulation of church tyranny, and now that he is deprived of that asset, he falls with a resounding thud among mediocre men, where he always rightfully belonged. Even among his own people there are no words of mourning for the exotic apostle whose abilities were so diminutive and whose political reign was so pathetically brief. His passing as a political power signifies as much to them as it does to the Gentiles who were able, after a hard struggle, to triumphantly retire him. That alone was probably prob-ably the most salutary achievement in connection with the Gentile victory. The United States Senate, when it reconvenes, should complete what was inaugurated here by i . . r... , , r jH expelling Mr. Smoot from the Senate. That jB would' do more toward the political regeneration of Utah than any other remedial act of which the Senate is capable. It would be a signal for the re- ! treat of high Mormon churchmen from the po- ; litical field, and would go a long way toward the j establishment here of political relations on an hon- t orable and American basis. If the Senate en- ' dorses the efforts of Wtah Gentiles to the extent of declaring Mr. Smoot's senatorial seat vacant, it , will not be a great number of years before eccle- I 'M siastical intolerance and interference will be over- ! thrown here, and Utah will assume an honorable j and dignified place in the great Union. J |