Show I Na Nation on Sustains the Senate n Y Comments by Editors on Result of oi Sena tor Reed Smoot 8 Case Casc I IllS IlIS WORD ACCEPTED FULLY lJ lon Record The four foul years years' fight light against Smoot ends as It haw has hf kern boon certain to end for 01 two Iwo years CillS or 01 more The Mormon senator retains his seat t n ns as on one who can not lIot ho bo excluded for 01 hI his hid religious loui or 01 on constitutional grounds 10 UI In Instead of f there thero being a two thirds voto volo to exclude him hint he was waR sustained on Iho tho final A ballot 4 42 43 to lo 28 8 against a The division dl was as In the main aon along party parly art lines lilies Both noth tho Iho Massachusetts senators voted In his 1118 favor ol a Smoot has haN kept the thc confidence con cuts and I respect peet of or the Iho senate senale all through h the thc conte contest t. t Ills word cord that he owes no allegiance to an any church which In an any R way Interferes with his su supreme su- su preme all allegiance In civil cl affairs s to his country countr Is accepted full fully That Thal he IlL himself Is hJ a a. Polygamist has hall never ne appeared In ht any testimony and was dropped ant with the Hie case casc ion long by J those really reull conversant cr ago ogo jr t J t AGITATION ILL ILL ADVISED AD AND D UNJUST Chicago Chronicle Republican n Of or course there has been but one legitimate question before lie senate c t with respect to Reed Smoot Is IN he eligible to lo a scat seal In that thai bod body That Thai I question however CI has been entirely ignored and all the talk Including that Of C Air Mr 11 Smoot himself has been been upon the entirely Irrelevant question whether a t. t Mornion ou ought ht to be he a United States Stales senator The senate admittedly is tho the Judge o of the qualifications of Its members mem mem- f hers bers and It can ean go o outside of oC the fe federal leral con constitution and exclude Mormons or orr r t Baptists ts or Jews Jows or 01 Roman Homan Catholics or Congregationalists If It chooses to lo lodo toI 4 f do so 10 Hut But f If It It should hould begin on the Mormons It il ought logically to lo go goY o Y through the whole list and antI finally limit membership In I the Hie senate to stat statesmen statesmen states states- I 1 men men who have ha no religion at ot all It could probably get set a quorum even cven under j. j that limitation r Tho The outcry a against the Mormon 1 church Is based not upon Japon the teachings leaching ft rt of that church cl lod today y but bui upon noun It Its teachings a quarter o of a century ago It ItIs Is JR charged with t having taught laughl treason and polygamy thou h It Is expressly 4 denied that those things s are arc taught in the Mormon 1 church now note Still a a. CIt ceic CI cei- c c t. t taro class of or people most of or them women demand that Smoot should bo IH i kept out of the senate t If IC Smoot were wen to bo be excluded because of the Iho pa past t slits sins of the church he Ill f I belongs to the senate senale would hardly baldly be consistent I if It did not apply the J I same ame test to the members o of all the other churches represented In ht tho the senale senale sen- sen enate ale ate for Coa If fC we go back fa far I enough there theae arc are few ew creeds that will with not show sho certain unpleasant blemishes It Is not necesS necessary l' l to lo particularize It t Is sur- sur to lo say a tint the Mormon church would probably hold Its own o fa fairly well In ht a general investigation of or past records r No such Investigation is probable however howe Th The outcry Is all nil n against Mormonism Tho The American public or 01 a certain section of It ft Is like the c British public as described tl by hy Macaulay It has periodical fits of morality and in Jn these ills fits It is un entirely tI re I unreasonable t I. I Tile Tho Smoot case Is a companion piece to lo the army canteen business In both Instances the agitation has been utterly ill advised emotional and andr r unjust j. j rt I KEARNS DIDN'T DID CONVINCE VI Boston Doston Advertiser d Republican i The rhe vot vote of or the senate was was sufficiently conclusive c ant and Senator Smoot r will retain the We seat seal which he has nearl nearly out f alun worn fidgeting along over o snore more titan than three years cars Though for that matter mailer Ills his opponents have done j more fidgeting than the thc Mormon senator Yet as Senator Smoot must must have ha done Ilone something during all aJl this this' time lime fidgeting ma may have havo been at least cast a part of oC his activity no distinctly restlessness having been not noted cd In other ways was It II now remains for teed Reed Smoot to be he c utterly forgotten or to tn tomake t f make good as a senator The Mormon issue appears to lo have had a setback sot sot- back in III the decision of oC this case which a 0 deal o of Salt Lake agitation can hardly reverse re The senate was not impressed with the assertion to quote t t i from lom the Salt tit Lake I Tribune that Smoot is a n man manir ir I against whom it has been Incontestably proved that he Is a are responsible reY re re- Y member of or an organization which teaches and protects t crime calme and which affirms as ns the object of Its Us existence a divine illo t authority to overthrow o this government and establish in lieu thereof f a government go b by a self perpetuating hierarchy hierarch of the Mormon church chuc s i And d' d l- l 1 It i must bo be said the the rest of the country has been no more impressed impressed im im- pIe pressed than the senate Senator Knox probably reflected the a average popular popular lar attitude e towards Smoot outside of ot those localities where Mormon l and antI t L Mormon anti feeling clash violently as a part of oC tho the political policy The Tho JJ country could not bring Itself to believe that Smoot sat In ht the s senate nale 0 r not as senator from a state but as from a t. t church chulch a a a arival 0 rival rhal earth earthly power to the government of oC this republic j Nor No will the Republican party part be Impressed tI by the dire threat that that the r I day Is not far distant when the party patt which gains temporary orar partisan profit from an alliance with the polygamous l p Ie ls o of the 1 Mormon s i n t men church chuIch will find that these priests have ha made a demand which can not be bo ani an answered vered ant and Q J then the churchwill church cast t off all an ties lies of gratitude and antl be as bitter and der dc- dc r tei mined In Its opposition to the Republican party as now It is to the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic erotic part party So the sacrifice of principle will have ha been unavailing after all alL t I In Iu other words the tho country has not nol been Impressed I by the alleged lIec issue The s nF 1 1 t. t now proceed I if It it IK is to 10 proceed at sill Ill 11 and it probably will c F i f outside of tho rho senate on O 1 thu tho local local field an and ami 1 Idaho can cau up tho the I l to t anti and elements there will of course COUIse do O so i PETITIONERS ERS WERE ERE DECEIVED Springfield Mass Rei Republican Independent The fhe collapse c of or the Smoot agitation had hall been evident for fOI months but the countr country was hardly prepared for so complete a defeat as the advocates for 01 the It j unseating unsealing n of the Utah senator have met on the final roll The result surely indicates that there ther was con considerable pure hysteria a in the earlier 1 stage ta c of or the Smoot anti-Smoot campaign T Two vo and three years eaIS ago ngo when the petitions petitions peti peti- were being heln signed and showered upon the senate II It t Is probable that a n 1 large ar c proportion of or tho those e who d i for fOl Air Mr Smoots Smoot's expulsion honestly j believed him to be a polygamist Only a conviction that thal the American hom home t founded upon the rock of assailed monogamy was by hy the appearance of o o a n polygamist In the upper branch of congress could account for CUI the intensity of the tho Smoot warfare and amI the prodigious size of or the petitions hostile to lo the mans man's I continuance as a senate member The Thc senate leaders leaden appreciating this fact tact have In dealing 1 with the case casc and their jud Judgment app appears arli to lo be he vindicated b by the popular i t indifference with which the lie contest has late lately I been regarded The 1 1 cans have to be he sure ure been heen reluctant to expel a senator o of their own on party It 1 may be erue cruel to say 1 so so yet cl the pa party ty leaders could not forget that thai I If the they y 4 patted palled with the thu Mormon apostle Utah would doubtless be lost to the file J ena can party parly for years to come o There Is now nothing to pi prevent event it from volin voting t the straight Republican ticket for or a generation or 01 more Yet the case has f t not nol been a party part one altogether Involved in it have havo been heen Important lions of a constitutional nature and of or public policy and anti the senate as a whole t I I. I should bo ho credited with being swayed more mOle by h the c than by b selfish pallI partisan I considerations considerations' Of oc a wholesome a. a and a III beneficial character was the senate senale Investigation In Into Inlo tho the Mormon lormon church and pol polygamous amous practices The sorry exhibition upon the 4 witness stand made by the head hea o of the iho church when cross examined b by the iho late laic Senator Hoar and others was a solemn warning to lo the church as a whole j 1 that it must conform to tho the laws aws of or the land Yet all the while Senator Smoot was the point at Issue not the Mormon church It Il was Senator Smoot who had i taken the oath in ht the senate chamber not the board of apostles apostles- It was Senator Smoots Smoot's a personal qualifications which the senate ha had to lo consider f not the con constitution and antI character o of the iho Mormon hierarchy Under these condition It must be conceded that tho the case caso has been een disposed ell of wise wisely I J 1 i Senator Smoot is not a lOI polygamist nor docs does 1 he tc defend polygamy He Be 1 also solemnly proclaims that lint he owes owes no allegiance to any church which In ht f any wn way interferes with his supreme allegiance In civil affairs to his country countr I und rind In the absence o of convincing proof to lo the contrary his statement should r be accepted For the senate to lo have expelled him would have hae constituted 1 finally dually a n most questionable invasion aslon of or the th right light of or a state stale In fn Iho thu federal l Union to choose freely I eel Its Us own representatives e anti and state slate rights In this re- re of or real 4 specs are aro importance Y r P SMOOT S W WAS WS S DELIBERATELY y MALIGNED IJ I IG ED Dayton Daylon Ohio Journal CHepu Republican I ii Senator Smoots Smoot's speech In his own defense though comparatively brief hrh mill and carefully carer restrained in It word and form was probably one of ur the most best t cf- cf f i c that was wall ever made at al the thc Capitol So fa far I as aM the ab in ill the report of or the A Associated Press hoes goes oes it was wag devoid of or anything like e an un unpleasant ant T word ord to for or I nn any who have I pressed r cd ed th the file work oll of opposition Yet if Ir Senator t was wn right In the remarks which he made In ht support of oC Air Mr Smoot f the tho latter attel would have ha been Justified In using even 3 language For or Air Mr II DIllIngham explained that though h Air Mt 11 Smoot was opposed to am and was himself tic the husband of only one ore wife and a pretty good bust bus bus- hUt hutt hut hut- t t band tIU at al that thai yet t he had been beel deliberately mall maligned b ne by persons pen oni who ho claimed the tho privilege of or the cloth as a man ratan with several wives tIves and und a u correspond correspond- Iru In number of or families Air Mr 11 Dillingham ham protested against this as liS a falsehood and Jr if If he Is right then the pl preachers chers of Salt Sail Lake CIl City deliberately violated violaU-d d the Iho oldest law Jaw known n to lo either cither Judaism or Christianity by bearing false aro wit wit- neliA ess It will be observed that thai the thc Decalogue does docs not forbid poly polygamy polygamy polygamy-or m oi oa polyandry either for fol that matter matter but but bui It Il docs does put perjury on a level el with will Idolatry murder and antI adultery If an any of or the populous communities of tho the United States Stute were In ht the moral condition to cast a stone at Salt Lake CIl City even in ii Its old days das when plural IlIum I marriages were the rule rul there then might be less leis said In censure o of th the attack on Smoot But the fact Ix is that thal while pol polygamy ganty Is disappearing ii tin In Utah It I is If IC anything more common than ever In ht a secret way war In man many ai art all 1 h city So frequently does It happen hallum that some sonic rich nondescript who haH lias been all 11 his hi life lire pretentiously re regular ula in fn his devotions 1 at some ume ilch rich shrine In M Nw New w York is tg followed to his grave h by families from Brooklyn ln the um und and Now Je Jersey that the tho scandal barely draws a paragraph slut Hut what Is the difference between a deacon of or this kind on the Atlantic coast and a Mormon apostle tle of ot the old uld style on the slopes slope of the Hock Rocky mountains If Ir there Is any n difference J Is it not lint all In favor aWl of or the Mormon who nl l frankly acknowledges edges M his hiM wives vive and und offspring and provides pro for toa them A AH As a matter of tact fuel these points have ha nothing to do constitutionally const and lc legally ull with the thC Smoot oa case e. e Air Mr Ir Smoot was wan elected to the senate senale of ur tho thu United Unit Unit- id ed d States State b by the state o of Utah Utah Ulah I is sovereign so with respect lo to every e II right ht tot tur which It Is not deprived h by the American constitution It I. I In an un Imposition that a n lot of nC people In other stales stale should houd attempt to lo de degrade I. I that state stille or any un outer other uthel and to deprive c It of ll rights ht which nobody thinks o of withholding from rom other federal parts of the Union No 0 doubt the United States State has tho privilege f r A Hof of r excluding If a member who has hug done wron wrong an as M such A man who turned traitor to the country count after he hat hart bc been n elected to the senate senale must mum be ex ex- ex pulled polled A man mun who got nt his hlf place b by bribery and subornation of or perjury and 11 Ity secret conspiracy should be unseated and und could be But he could not be be tUl till the wrong doing was Wag proved pro In Smoots Smoot's case there thero Is a man a against whom no proof has haM beet been adduced a n man whom the iho vast Ut majority o of or of f his sotto supports It w will be the death knell o of the United States When Its Hs members give gl up their rights as 11 the representatives of sovereign so Mates taie at the demand o of an any person or an any organism not recognized politically political t all h by the Iho state l I i f n t i f t i. i L i ll J I j j h to 1 r. fB Pia fur i I I J I M in j r V VS S G i S' S SG r i 4 r ri 4 r rL L 4 tit J.- J. v t. t 1 rear I ML I f yi s t e fi I I r 4 t r rp p Republican Special Service Copyright 1907 Tho rho bill hill in e equity lt In the New ew Hamp Hampshire hill court COUlt by lIy the f son on of Mrs lar 1 Mary Alary Baker Haker G. G Eddy aslin asking for a receivership of the properly of the Christian Chris Chrls- tian ian Science leader has created a sensation George Geoage Glover Mrs Airs 11 Eddy's Eddys Eddyson SO son on charges charge |