Show WIlY WHY I nl YOU YOn LIE TO ro THEM Ilg I The Tho people of tits tho I East HII believed Vr l Hell Ri-cd Smoot I is a n polygamist mist They The believed ll J It because hired calumniators wont Into the Iho East anti and made mado oath to that effect and procured pro pro- oil cured rod the publication of or their sworn statements In the newspapers of nf that lint section Thousands of nf copies of the tho Salt SaIL Lake Lako Tribune were sent ent regularly tiny day after day Clay into the homes hones and th the tho clubs of the good people of ot the Hast and papers 1 spread th the tho belief bellof their purchased perjurer 1 had hUcl Im ins- Im- Im planted If the slanderers of Senator Smoot tho the defamers detainers of or Utah had hall told the tho truth If IC f the they hall hail told Iho tho Easte Eastern people that Senator Smoot never r was nuns a 3 polygamist In his life that ho he opposed ed polygamy that his example and find Influence nce we were c all a against aln t It never er a protest would have havo gone up UI to the senate from the women of America or from any other othel reputable source whatever If the people of the East had hall been hlen told from th the tho beginning Just what Senator Burrows was forced by hy the tho d decencies 0 of debate to say when hen ho he came to lo discuss th the case caRO of unseating unsealing S Senator Smoot there never neve would have havo been a petition for the ln unseating These are aro Senator Bu Burrows Burrow's words Let me say at the outset l. l touching lie Iho charge that the s senator rent from Utah Is a polygamist and for that reason reason rea rea- son cl from holding a seat eat In this hod body no evidence evidence evi Ivl dence was waR submitted d to the th committee In support of such allegation allon and so IO far for as os the investigation discloses discloses dis dis- closes the senator stands acquitted of oC the till charge The Th senator stands before the senate in personal personal per por- character and bearing above criticism m and re reproach reproach re- re and If it found disqualified for 01 membership In this hotly body It mu must t be he upon other grounds and from other considerations Women of or the East read those words word and suddenly wondered what then had they been heen Induced to fight for They had gone on the assumption carefully and atHI criminally circulated that he was and alwa always s 's had been heen beena heena a polygamist polygamist If he ho were wert not they had no fight to make mali Vh Why dill did the Tribune Ito llo to them 1 |