| Show I HIS IUS ENEMIES ENEMIES' UNFAIRNESS A I 1 t The Tribune has ha said Smoot never proved pro that he ho Is not a polygamist Tho The said Clemenson has hues declared for declared for money that money that you must bellevo believe Smoot Is a polygamist even In the tho absence of or p proof roof But the sensible people of or the United States have seen that argument thre threshed hed out and they dont don't care to encourage It any further They find that tho the Mormon bugaboo ho has been sadly overworked The They havo have found Mr Ir Smoot a strong man In 1st tho rho Union that a 0 very great majority ma ma- majority of ot the tho people of ot Utah aro are pleased with the service er he has rendered the state and tho nation that President Roosevelt h has found him so 60 helpful helpful help help- ful in big affairs that he Ito sent him abroad to study forestry And the tho people of or tho the state and their thel r senators In Washington will not again give car caro carto carto to o the tho Invective of er Tom Kearns Thero There will wilt be no repetition of ot tho the tight fight on Mr Ir Smoot If it the legislature of or Utah shall shaH elect him to succeed himself Tho The temper of oC the naion nation nation na- na tion ion has been prett pretty well wen tried b by the tho Tom Kearns earns tactics They have come to understand that Toms Tom's grievance is his failure to get the tho Mormon church Into nto politics politics not not that it Is there thero They find himan him himan an un undesirable citizen a bad representative a worse patriot q a shift shifty treacherous dangerous tailing falling man And the they will not again bo Inflamed b by his hate Into permitting the formation of or a n. tribunal for for a trial re-trial of ot the case Bo Be reasonable even when earnest Mr r. r Smoot was the free choice of or the people of or Utah and he has made a good senator There seems every probability that he will again be a a. candidate and again elected Tho only purpose of or an opposition to him after atter election would bo be to make good Tom Kearns's threat to raise mise hell with Utah And that Isn't sufficient reason for reasonable men and women Besides there Is another phase to the ques ques- tion If It a man is right the threat o of or a n tight fight against him should not deter him at nt all If It you being thrice armed because your quarrel Is Just are aro menaced b by the bully ull of or tho the woods he wilnot will wil not drive you OU an Inch If It you go you aro are no worthy citizen of or America If Ir Reed Peed Smoot could bo be frightened Into abandoning the race be Use because cruise of or the tho threat of ot Tom Kearns's further attack on him then all the charge of oC un unfitness made against him would be proved pro |
