Show SOI SOME OHIO CO COMMENTS Y Wo Vo learn a n number of or new things hl tg from the lie Columbus Colum hus bus Ohio Press ProS One Is that President Roosevelt J I Is backing and Indor Indorsing th the Mormon ormon hierarchy hierarch whatever whatever what what- ever that Is that Secretary Taft ar n ns as the Presidents President's spokesman supported the he Mormon ticket in Utah this year Another Is best expressed In tho the following extract from the Pre Press editorial of December 28 28 I 1900 OG Smoots Smoot's seat tat in the tho the senate enat I is secure and 11 he Iw will wi stay slay out ont th the two years remaining of his lik hl term Else Fise wh why did Perry Perr S. S Heath acting for or III Mark MarJ Hanna fanna make th the deal dealIn In the tho campaign of or 1900 1904 with wih Lorenzo Snow the then president nt of 0 the Mormon church ChUch Joseph Joeph F. F Smith and tho ho lat late George Q Cannon whereby the church hierarchy made Utah Republican and gold standard In exchange e for a n promise e of oC dl discontinuance by by Republicans s In In con con- gress of the agitation for lor a constItUtIonal amen n nt prohibiting polygamy which deal lent was waR ratified by hy Theodore Throdore Theo odore o- o dore Roosevelt Roo J upon the lie occasion of his camal campaign n trip to Utah as a aIce vice Ice presidential cand candidate Idao that year al The Mormon hierarchy hierarch carried out IUt its Is part of the Ilal deal Maik laii lall Hanna lanna stood pat pal so 10 long as h he lived and Ih the In c Investigation of oC Smoot's Smoots rl right ht to a a seat has only been a little throwing of dust lust calculated to fool Cool tho those e p easily fooled Th The Press Is a D Democratic paper r. r Therefore it I Ion Is Isone Isone on one of or th the agencies depended on by hy Tom roni K Kearns of Utah for carrying hI his hl point The fact which wo we Imagine ine will wl appeal to the Republican senators and to the thc leathers leaders of f the Republican party part Is 19 that Tom and the tho rest of the Democrats arp are so I perfectly together In this C crusade ru sad o But Dut at the Am same time wo we e would like to remind the PIC Press that McKinley carried Ohio his own state please to remember by hut but seven forty thousand plurality in 1590 And Roosevelt Hoo eH carried carriel it i 11 by two hundred an and five fifty thousand eight years eal later latr What hat trade did tho the corrupt and 1 bargaining of nf Ohio make with wih the tho Ia leaders headers ers of oC the Republican party How did Kansas come coin come to tn o change her measly thirteen t thousand Republican majority y In I 1896 to a hundred and six 11 thousand in iii 1 1904 How How came caine Indiana to give eighteen thousand Republican lican Ian plurality In I 1890 and ninety thousand in Iii 1904 How does cops the Press and Tom rom I learns Kearns earns account for forthe forthe the tho change in Colorado That state gave cave Bryan a n hundred hundred hun bun dred tired and anc two thirty thou thousand plurality In and Mc- Mc Ic- Ic Kinley twenty nine thousand four years ears later hater Delaware DI al' went Democratic by three thol thousand In InI I 1896 sot and H Republican by hy three thousand in 1 1900 And Anc there ther are no Mormon Mornion hierarchy In Delaware California gave av ave McKinley two thousand in 1896 and forty thu thousand and In I 1900 Nebraska gave ga Bryan a n hundred and twenty thousand linus- linus and plurality in 1 1896 and l seven thousand in 1900 and Roosevelt six eighty thou thousand nl in fn 1904 What did Id lh the hierarch look lk like hike who sh ho o changed th hc 0 vote I In iMI i- i J f Nebraska s J v r J All MI Al over 01 0 th the country th the 1 change c w was t the tho 1 h o as In h Utah This nation had an academic ca belief belf in ne ness and the necessity of sliver sl er In 1896 and voted otel for Bryan because of oC a belief belef an nn honest belief belef in that doctrine The business sense sense en e of oC the tho cou country tr saved the therIa rIa lay day and before another Presidential election came can around there was a perfect a general indorsement of the verdict rendered In 18 Toda Today the tho people of the tt United 1 Status States know kno the lie Judgment of oC the lie men who won the first McKinley election electon was sound The ho country has become more moro and more Republican every even year ear Democratic governors governor have vanished from the Northern states Democratic United Stales Slates senators senator from rom roni north of oC the Ohio river rl will wi ho bo totally absent after the fourth day of oC March 1007 What hat has ha happened In Ulah Utah has happened every every- her The same conditions have caused the change here hero and el elsewhere here There here is no no more hierarchal rule iLlie here than there is in fn Ohio or New Jers Jersey or any part of or the lie East or the West Vest The Press Is a n nice paper Its Is Is a too conf confident con eon f en reliance on the thc data ata furnished by a liar lar Tom liar Tom Kearns of or the Salt Sail Lake Tribune |