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Goon GOOD It Is Js not tho the intention of oC The Republican Re TIc- publican to print all the good things thinS's said of ot Senator Smoot b by persons of discrimination and sense One Ono time and another we have o given gl place pace to comments upon him and amI upon his work when it seemed tho the best va way to prove e that lint Utah had hall made no mistake mistake mis nis- take in his selection And here is another an an- other It Is taken talen from itom tho the Saturday Evening Post and appears under the I caption Tho The Senators Senator's Secretary The articles so appearing are arc suppo supposed ed to bo be written by Samuel Blythe admittedly ad admittedly ad- ad one ono of oC th the thc shrewdest and best informed writers In America The Tho extract here given from the current Issue of ot the magazine named will be read with Interest In Utah We 0 have had but one ono apostle In the United States Senate and we tr tried 1 mighty hard to keep keel out the one we have han but now that he lie Is in beyond the peradventure the same being R Reed ed Smoot of or Utah apostle of oC the Mormon l church church he he Is being utilized to the fullest extent of or his resources that resources that is being a willing young worker he hc is allowed to work worl his head off while others more experienced and thus moro more conservative with their energies Is sit in the tho background and pull whatever whatever whatever what what- ever wires are arc to bo pulled pulled not not more to bo exact than fire arc observed In a flock of oC grand pianos Smoot went on the lie finance committee commit commit- tee when tho the committees were g The finance committee has charge of oC making the tariff bill for forand forand and of the tho Senate Jumping Impetuously Impetuously at his task Smoot displayed a knowledge of wool and anti similar schedules sched ules that made It apparent he ho might be led to a a. position with r regard reg-ard to other complicated items In Inthe Inthe t the he bill and bill and they led him They rhey lE led him you mu oU ma may be sure of or that Being a glutton for punishment the they put Smoot out In front of the whole affair af at- fair fall so far as ns the devious gentlemen are concerned who want the tariff shoved sho up on this or shoved down on that For weeks whenever one ono of these Infant industry owners or protected protected protected pro pro- plutocrats came around and endeavored en endeavored en- en endeavored to mix it with Senator Aidrich Aid Aid- ld- ld rich or Senator Flint or any other who was as doing the fine Cine Italian In the background back back- ground that person was told See Smoot Sm Smoot has been the tho buffer He has been out In the foreground No matter matter matter mat mat- ter what has been wanted on an any tariff subject from false whiskers to silk stockings it has been always See Smoot He lie has been heen the man on whom the hordes of or visiting have fallen and he ho has stood out there ther and fought them all off orf Really r it was not much of oC a Joke although they thy all said it wa was one on oil Smoot to be the tho front for that finance committee out but Smoot was so 80 eager for work so much L Inclined to labor that the they handed L it to him and the community Is waking up to tho the tact fact that this tall gangling GantlIng apostle Is 18 a good deal of or a a L citizen He ha has hai developed more In ir I the past three months than he lie did in I his first six ears In flat thA Sr Th P can cnn not hand him anything j he will Il n not t t. t d do do o and the they have discovered that hc he is i s a genius at the tariff business r a n son sort L o of f a natural-born natural tariff sharp so t to i s speak peak Hence the corridors of th the Senate office building and the Senate end of or the Capitol have been echoing 3 for weeks with See Smoot am and I Smoot has been there the cold gra gray rock on which the tariff hor hordes es have havi dashed and fallen faJen away broken or broke as the ultimate result may be Men Ien of or Utah who have gone gone- to Washington come back with the state slate ment meat Smoot Is a bigger man than thai I thought rhe They rhey find him taking rank with the lie foremost men of or the nation It might be possible for a ael el very clever man to tool fool us people here In Utah We re are quite aside from flom th the big activities But gentle reader he Is not going to fool Washington v very I much Make sure of ot that When hen a man gets to a place of or in In- In fluence in Washington when he hc has hag the tha favor or of tho President of the United and anti then a succeeding President of or the lie United States ho ranks high In committee appoIntments appointments appoint appoInt- ments meats when he does things thinS's creditably In that most moat exacting place on earth the the United States Senate Senate lie he j I-j u u. big man Dont Don't make any mistake about that either Of Or course the Salt Lake Tribune sees through him Tho The Tribune Is shrewder than anyone In Washington Washing Washing- ton now nos or formerly It Is not le- le It knows s that Senator Smoot Smoot Is a Joke and an Incompetent pre pro tender But Dut er e everyone ono else knows that Senator Smoot has hns done dono more for Utah for tor tho good name of the state for tOt the bettor better understanding of or our people than nn any other ten men menu alive Which also could be remembered with profit |