| Show WHAT HAT THEY jEY WILL rl CO CONSIDER Sll gH I j Here nrc ac the tho things thing which we think the United States senators will consider when the they hey conio como to vote voto on 4 the Iho ca case o of Senator Smoot They will vIII realize first f of tX all that if tr thc they condemn f. f i r Jf him to expulsion from the senate or 01 put lUl any other 4 indignity upon him it will mean that the they accept and andI believe the Kearns statement that Mr 1 Smoot Smoot I Is a polygamist poly J kernel ernel of or the tho The That after nil all Is tho the case wone women of the country and man many men as well have been r r 1 stirred to protest against Senator Smoot because they 3 o h he is a n an nn upholder of if that institution i 5 i tion ant and resolved l not to obo obey tIe law Jaw Jawor or have ha it obeyed b by the thc people of ot the tho church to which ho belongs Th Thi The i story of an nn oath which binds him to tale take cn vengeance on oni i- i the United States docs loes not greatly interest the people h The rho charge chargo that he owes wes allegiance to his church above 1 the allegiance he owes to his government Is regarded a rather as a romance than as ns the truth Tho The nation Is not V- V Impressed by it But the thc pr protesters testers ers are arc stan standing on tho the 9 J question of I polygamy An And l they have ma made mado e their re remarkable re- re 1 r demand eman of oC the senate on the assumption that Senator Smoot is a willing willing- and n wilful violator of ot the tho law Jaw against that system No Now the thc senate can not refuse him the clear clear title 4 to his scat seat which Is the tho right of all under tinder the constitution 1 when his state stale selects an eligible man without pulling the thc everlasting e stamp tamp of their h Indorsement on that charge Rejection of the Utah Ulah senator will mean that the senators E believe him to be Je e a polygamist They rhey know it is not true but but but- j It can mean nothing Je less s than that j jAnd r f. f And AnI this In face faco of at the fact that Senator Burrows 1 I has l disclaimed the possession of or an any c to s sustain stal M th I m p c charge halge i In s spite spile Ho of ot t the fact facu tI that e the theM Leilich alleging affidavit polygamy my has been lI I b by Cl C every ono one of at the original protesters In SI suite ite of or tho the 1 f fact that not a scintilla of evidence o has beer adduced l c in committee or 01 before the tho senate from Crom the bc beginning of the case cas that even remotely attempts to sustain u the accusation f i But Dut if It the tho senate shall hall declare that Senator Smoot be not entitled to his scat seat the general verdict of or the nation will be Smoot Is a n. polygamist 1 That will bo be his hii status In tho the minds of or the American Amen Ameri I can people No matter where the subject is discussed the the fixed an and increasingly unalterable judgment t of ot the thc theL L fi nation will be that Reed Reel Smoot of Utah Is Js a polygamist Our people In this country are aro a bus busy people They have a variety of ot Interests an and l occupations They are not able ablo to give exhaustive study to tho case casc of ofa a man I. I hailing from flom far Utah an and simply asking for ju justice Uce at nt the hands of his fellow citizens Thc They will sum up the whole caso on the ver verdict lct of ot the senate and nothing will s iii lead them thom to go beyond that Now low we wo think the senators senators know that Senator ff 1 Smoot is not a polygamist We Wo think there is not n a aman man thero there who has any doubts about it ft Mr Dubols Dubois I i. i knows tho the charge chargo is untrue Mr 11 Burrows knows it is untrue of or Mr Smoot as of himself An And l In the tho entire c ninety men we wc do o not believe there is one who ho for a A moment believes what the general bo body y of the tho country 4 has so In industriously told and which the great body of or tho the American people will fixedly l an and firmly accept as the fact in the case If Jf Mr 11 Ir Smoot be unseated Is it fair fall to con condemn a man unjustly Is It fair fall to write black across the tho fair tall record of ot one against again t whom C they do o not believe the tho harmful charge Is it just and f right to hesitate before the choice of justice on the one hand or r he concession to tho demand of a confessedly misinformed populace Will ill they fix in the history of the nation a just mans man's status in an Infamy so unfairly implied l The nation will take lake Its cuo cue from the senate an and andI I If f tho the senate votes to expel or exclude the un unchangeable record of this tiis government will win be bo marre marred by the untrue data Reed Recd Smoot of ol Utah polygamist I Is there thero an any senator who wants to share 1 i 1 palpable an injustice bUIt for ko so |
