Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-06-02 | Page 4 | Smoot Was More Influential.

SMOOT OOT WAS 5 MORE OnE INFLUENTIAL Il Wo Yo will have to pa pay an unexpected compliment to the Tribune Time and again that dyspeptic paper has declared declared de do- dared Senator Smoot has no Influence In n Washington and is Indeed the butt of or tho the Senate One da day that paper told first In forged dispatch and later In repeated editorials that Senator Smoot had been grossly insulted b by other members members mem mom bers of tho the upper chamber and when the tho Congressional Record did not sustain sus- sus tam aln tain the statement but presented the Utah senator as quito en- en treated the Tribune declared that the Record had falsified the facts acts and that hat the editors of or the official Journal of ot the days day's proceedings had deferred d to o Senator Smoots Smoot's wishes and cut out the he compromising paragraphs and bitter retorts of or his confreres contreres On a n. later da day the Tribune tells of cC Senator Beveridge e being attacked with y vicious cl ci us bitterness b by two o f t the se lIen enji- enji tors t ore and adds that the man Indiana begged those who had attacked him to leave their ha harsh h words put of ot the official record And the Tribune adds that In spite of or the erl Be ge request the he Congressional Record contains every biting taunt uttered In the heat heator of or debate Which proves that Mr 11 Smoot I much more moro Influential than Is Senator one Beveridge-one one of the big men of or the nation We Ye hardly expected the Tribune Tribune Tri Tri- bune to pay so high a n compliment to Senator Smoot But logic Is logic And still the Tribune Is editorially a fool tool