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Show I CHOOSING A PROR-HET. . Ever since the present president of ths Mormon Mor-mon church climbed Into his present exalted position posi-tion among the brethren, it has been apparent that his chief ambition was to establish a dynasty of Smiths, a fact which was emphasized when he appointed his son Hyrum and his nephew George A. Smith to the apostleship within a few months after he became the chief seer and Yevelator of all the Mormons. The proceedings in the recent conference did not indicate that he had in any way relaxed his intention. While there was much speculation regarding re-garding who would be appointed to fill apostolic vacancies, it was stated in these columns that the new Incumbents would neither be Cannons, nor Youngs nor Taylors, for the reason tint President Smith always believed that he was cheated of What was rightly his when the renowned pathfinders path-finders of these famous families assume I the leadership of Israel. He did the unprecedented thing of dropping two members from the quorum of twelve without any adequate explanation of why this dras.ic measure had been resorted to. No one is unsophisticated unso-phisticated enough to believe that it was because of the recent enlargement of their marital horizon. hori-zon. It is concedod that the chief reason was on behalf of the desperately beworried Smoot, but there was still another motive behind their apostolic apos-tolic obliteration. Apostle Taylor was the son of the late President Taylor, for many year3 chief of the Mormons, and Apostle was a relative- ani appointee ap-pointee of the late President Woodruff. Whether or not their dethronement was done to keep Smoot in the Senate, it is a notable coincidence lhat both apostles are members of families which President still believes robbed him of the rulership of the Mormon people. Does any one believe that the same action would have been taken had Apostle George A. Smith or Apostle Penrose been the offenders? of-fenders? Apostles Whitney, McKay and Richards wera quite fortunate in receiving the Smithsonian approval. ap-proval. It is' quite impossible to believe that they would have been selected had there been any other Smiths available. The fact was that the only son of the prophet Nwho could possibly have been looked upon as eligible for the office was Joseph F. Smith, Jr., who was by "unanimous vote" elevated to the position of assistant historian, histo-rian, doubtless as a stepping stone to the great and Immaculate quorum. A lot of the apostles are becoming quite ancient. an-cient. The president belives that he will have quite a number of more vacancies to fill befors many more of the rolling years have become history. his-tory. When they are filled the name of no Cannon, Can-non, no Young, no Taylor will appear on the apostolic apos-tolic roster. In the meantime some of the Smiths will be sufficiently mature so that they can be t 1 : tacked, upon the quorum, without, exciting, the suspicion sus-picion or creating incipient symptoms of apostacy among the long hoodwinked masses of the Mormon churc'i. Nellie Stewart, in "Sweet Nell of Old Drury" |