Show lIt MR SMOOT snoOT AS A SI NEAR NEtt In fl the current number of nt the Saturday Evening Post POt A there Is II a n very cry clev clever I article hitting off ott the peculiarities V o of Senator Smoot as aM the they appear to the Posts Post's correspond correspondent 5 of t ent In Washington We have laughed at these articles when directed at other men of or the nation nallon and there Is la V V V no sound bound reason why our Utah senator should escape V the rather caustic pencil of or the tho Post o. o V V It is something to the credit of or the senator that S even evenin In n the estimate of oC a man mart who is unfriendly he isI Is li V I credited with Industry with propriety with the fail fal esteem of his brother senators But there is one phase of or the tho Posts Post's article which seems unfair That Th I is the tho Instantly accepted dictum that tha because o Utah went fifty three thousand for Bryan nm two thousand for tor McKInley with hut but four fa Ill years In into Inter tN the tho fact tact is hod that the tho Mormons wore were purchased on one or both hoth o occasions It will sIll be remembered l that In the campaign of mighty few tew people lien hero In Utah would deny that they were silver mc men n It will he hA rm remembered that that ml ruin does not apply appl to Mormons alone hut hilt to in Gentiles as well Mr Ir Kearns was for Bryan Mr Ir Lippman was wn for or Bryan Mr 11 Hay Haywood wood was at for fOI Bryan Mr Pitt was for fot Bryan Mighty few prominent Republicans R In the tho stale Mato wore re their church against Bryan Bryan no no matter what was waR as And In I 1900 these men inca sere all back in the ranks working for 1 McKInley Tho ThA Mormons were W not selling and delivering thorn them were they Tho The Mormons sere rt not I Issuing orders to the prominent Gentiles and securing th their lr servitude the they New York state east two hundred thousand moro more votes otes for McKinley in 1 than It did for tho the R later latr Something can candidate tp for go two years must have accounted cl for that change It II Is IH unfortunate there are arc not enough Mormons Mormon in Now New York to la lathe lay Jay laythe the blame upon upon Indiana went vent Republican by hy the narrowest margin margli in 1896 and went Republican In 1900 and there p are arl no Mormons there thero V Colorado made mado a bigger a bigger a far bigger change bigger change li In her vote between ISHi and 1900 than did dilt Utah and thorn ther nr are no Mormons there to ho IH charged with ith It II Men Ien seem to forget that the whole country countr cum CaIne t near n going for Bryan In 1896 and didn't come within a thousand miles four years ears later They Th Y seem scorn to forget forge that silver was a very potent issue here hrc In the tho West e t and am particularly in Utah Tile They seem to forget that the same considerations which Influenced men In other statS states may maj have ha had effect here in Utah And In Instead lad of viewing the th matter fairly fair I Jump to the conclusion that Utah was wn sold h hy bY the Mormons to Bryan In 1896 and sold b by the Mormons to 10 McKInley In 1900 It Is not a a. vr very reasonable reasonable ona- ona ble proposition and it is not very ry fair But It Is fashionable ble and ble-and and safe safe to f to to damn the Mormons The Tho fact that the damning has tIns a very yer injurious effect on nn all alJ Utah does not S seem In the tho slightest lIghtest to deter |