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Show 1!l II L Apostle Smoot Befuses to Back Down After consultation with State iien tor C. E. Loose of Provo, tution the United states as a member of the Senate. The fact, also, that he is one of the few men who had the custody of the marriage records was declared by Air. McKinley to be a potent reason why Mr. Smoot should not come to the senate. '' Concerning the foregoing statement. Moses Thatcher on Sunday said: "Any statement that Mr. Cleveland or anybody else outside out-side of Utah interfered to prevent pre-vent my election is totally false. At the time my name came up before the legislature I was not an apostle. I left the quorum of twelve in April and the legislature legisla-ture met the following January, so the issue was not the same. The fact that I was being talked of as a senatorial candidate had a great deal to do with my leaving leav-ing the quorum." Apostle Reed Smoot announced Lhat he would remain a candidate 'or the U. S. senate, in spite of he President's utterance, and would do all in his power to bring 'about his election. Upon his arrival from Washington, Wash-ington, Mr. Loose made the following statement. I "Yes, 1 had an interview with j President Roosevelt while in Washington. What he had to sav to me about the senatorial situation was private. I think it would be in bad taste for me to try to d.-aw the president of the i United States into local politics. . : M v talk with the president serves : only to strengthen my position. 1 ' Aftd- learning the situation, I i am stronger than ever for Reed ' Smoot for senator. I claim to j have the interest of Utah at heart as much as any man, and you can say for me that I have been I -nd will be for Reed Smoot for i "jnIte(rBates senator." Manv eastern papers published statements Sunday morning con-j cerning the candidacy of Apostle Reed Smoot. They stated stat-ed that two years ago President McKinlev, in an interview with y;r Smoot, advised him not to r,Prmit the use of his name for the Senatorsbip and not to suffer himself to be elected; that such action would injure the interests of Utah and her people and the Mormon church and bring about unnecessary friction, and that following- the advice of Pre si -- dent McKinley, Mr. Smoot returned re-turned to his home and issued a card declining to permit the use of his name for the Senatorsbip-The Senatorsbip-The Washington Post states that two years ago certain member mem-ber of the Republican national committee bad a conference here and that Mr. Smoot was present Among members of the national committee present with Mr. Smoot, were Messrs. Hanna Payne and R. C. Kerens of St. Louis, and all of these deemed it - inadvisable for an apostle to be elected to a United States Sena- t0ThePpost also attributed to the influence of President Cleveland he defeat of MTTThcher a Democrat, to the United Spates SeSe from Utah some years a-o, nd says that there is a Democratic as well as a Repubh can Presidential precedent for Se attitude assumed by President Presi-dent Roosevelt at th s time as to high church dignitaries going to the United States Senate. On this point the Post says: ' -It is stated that President McKinley had fully advised him-seff him-seff asto the peculiar responsibility responsi-bility that Smoot bore to the Sh, and took the grnd that he couid noUrde 1. as un HPostle-whi.:n. is one ot singular solemnity- f' the oath to support t.e Co ,u |