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Show I As It Looks Now. The American party is gaining ground every day. No matter what the result of the election may be, the cause Is marching on. In ten thousand thou-sand Mormon homes the questions are being asked, Why was such a party called into being? What are its demands? The answers to those questions cannot always be ignored. The reason is that the very answers !are an appeal to the higher aspirations of all intelligent Mormons. If the state goes Republican, as is expected, and with it Wyoming and Idaho, Mr. Smoot -can point to all three as his contributions to the Republican Re-publican party and it will come very nearly retaining re-taining him in his seat. If that should happen, then on his return to Utah next summer he would want to take control more pronouncedly than ever, and it would not be two months until it would be understood that he would be a "Candidate "Can-didate to succeed himself. We know pretty well that he has mapped out that program already. That would fix things. Every self-respecting Re- S publican would recoil before that and thousands in the ranks of young Utah would repudiate the I whole business. j Every day that the present campaign' contin- I ues the barrenness of the pretentions of the old I , parties is made more apparent; the fact that both rely upon the support of the Mormon church chiefs is made more clear, and the degradation of such a. situation is made more and more prominent promi-nent and decent men in both parties are debating with their own souls whether any party ties, in a year when no national issues are at stake, require re-quire that they shall disgrace themselves by indirectly in-directly voting for Reed Smoot. For such men the pill is not sugar-coated, by a blamed sight! |