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Show Politico -Personal As & tfreliminary of the fall campaign, the Mormon Mor-mon and jack-Mormon, press has started an as- sault on. the oredit of Salt Lake Oity. The Herald j and Inter-Mormon, who are generally set apart to do things the Deseret News will not stoop to do,, are vying with each other in holding out to the world that Salt Lake is bankrupt, which is not true; that her warrants are at a discount at the hanks, which Is a falsehood, and her tax rate is high and will go higher as a result of the city administration's extravagance, which is an unmitigated un-mitigated lie. The Herald is fond of drawing comparisons between the American administration and the administration of ex-Mayor Richard P. Morris; but it is a noticeable fact that Senator Smoot and the other loaders of the Demo-Republican-church machine, to which the Herald gives the best of its humble service, are not willing to accept Mr. Morris as a fusion candidate for mayor. Their objection to Mr. Morris cannot be based on religious re-ligious grounds, for he will "obey counsel" as quick.. as ardently as Gov'nah Cutlah; it cannot 1 political grounds, for, though nominally nom-inally . democrat, Mayor Morris recognizes the authority of the holy priesthood in. all things spiritual and temporal, and would obey Apostle Smoot's orders as quickly as would "Fussy Jimmy." No; the objection to Mayor Morris Is due to a knowledge on the part of Apostle Smoot and his satellites that Morris' former administration would defeat him beyond hope, the howling of the Herald to the contrary notwithstanding. He could not possibly be elected with the franchise-grab franchise-grab and divers others scandals of his administration adminis-tration fresh in the public mind, ana tnererore somebody else will be selected to lead the forlorn church hope. l t Some zealous friends of Secretary of State C. S. Tingey are booming him for the Republican nomination for governor, but, if signs are interpreted inter-preted correctly, Mr. Tingey would do well to prepare to retire from his present office to private life with dignity when his term expires. Republican nominations in Utah are made by revelation to Reed Smoot, and the process of "sustaining" "sus-taining" them in Republican state conventions is as automatic as the sustaining of the general authorities au-thorities In a Mormon conference. The Provo apostle has hidden his face from Mr. Tingey, and wouldn't consent to his nomination ior governor or any other office In a thousand years, all of which is to Mr. Tingey's everlasting credit. When the apostle returned from his senatorial mission this -spring, he went to the city and county building and called on all the state officers of-ficers except Mr. Tingey. He gave the secretary of state the go-by. The closest approach he made to him was to open the door which connects Mr. Tingey's office and that of Gov'nah Cutlah, and 1 beckon with long, honey digit to Colonel George B. Squires, Mr. Tingey's deputy, to come Into the governor's office and shako the apostolic hand. Possibly had Mr. Tingey spent more time in boosting the political fortunes of the disreputable fang of which Smoot is the leader, and loss in attending strictly to the duties of his office, his tandlng with the apostle would be better than ft is. But Mr. Tingey has apparently preserved his selC-raepeot at the cost of his political pro motion. Apostle George Teasdale of the Mormon Ohuroh died tills week. The Deseret News, commenting com-menting editorially on hife demise, asserted that he was an Inspired man of God, who walked in his dally life close to the Savior of mankind. There are exceptions to all rules, and this edi- torlal effusion forces a departure of the rule to speak naught but good of the dead, for it is important im-portant that the public should know the manner of man designated as a "man of God" by the ruling rul-ing church authorities in Utah. Apostle Teasdale decamped from the United States whon he learned that he had been subpoenaed sub-poenaed in the Smoot Investigation, and remained out of the country until that investigation was over, when he returned to preach the everlasting gospel to the inhabitants of Zion. Claiming to be inspired, claiming to be qualified to lead the children of modern Israel and to act as a spiritual spirit-ual and temporal guide to American citizens, he dared not face a committee of the American Senate Sen-ate and swear that he had kept the laws of his country and the covenant of his church by abstaining ab-staining from new plural marriage after the Woodruff manifesto. Apostle Teasdale, despite his godliness, wont into the courts of Juab a few years ago and secured se-cured from his last wife a divorce on grounds so unspeakably vile that the Smoot investigating committee had to consider the divorce case behind be-hind closed doors; and in this connection it should be explained that he made no charges affecting af-fecting the character of his wife. His allegations, allega-tions, even if true, were merely disclosures of an old woman's misfortune and infirmity. Apostle Teasdale took at least one plural wife after the manifesto a young woman convert from England. He quarreled his life long with his own children, few of whom attended his funeral fu-neral and most of whom execrate his memory. That is the man who is heralded as a "man of God," who, according to ono of the speakers at his funeral, murmured as he passed into the eternal sleep, "Thank God for the holy priesthood." & & & Suppose the names of Senator Forakor, Senator Sen-ator Knox and Secretary Taft should all bo presented pre-sented to the next Republican national convention conven-tion fr president, what would Utah's delegates do? Senator Smoot, who will control the delegation, delega-tion, has made political deals with and is under personal obligation to all three. It Is then and there that Smoot's chickens will come homo to roost. And there Is every indication that at least two of the three will be in the race. It will do Smoot no good to pload that he was unable to control the Utah delegation, for he has kept his seat In the Senate solely upon his representation repre-sentation that he can not only control Utah's delegation, but those of Idaho and of Wyoming, and exert a strong influence on the delegations from Nevada, Oregon, Colorado and Arizona. Divers and sundry presidential aspirants are due to learn that an apostle's word, given to an un- . godly Gentile, Is of no force and effect, but the after-clap will prove uncomfortable to the apostle. |
