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Show Judge Powers. Judge Powers was summoned to Washington to testify in the case against Senator Reed Smoot, and In a carefully prepared testimony gave his opinion of the Mormon people. He has without equivocation character-bed character-bed thcin as "rebels" and as a people who dare not say tUelr souls are their own, befoie a committee of the highest high-est law making body In the land. The wily Judge, it will be lemcm-beied, lemcm-beied, was the leader of the Tuscaiora hosts In Salt Lake City, and was loth to have the tribes disband. In speaking speak-ing of the Hi st election In Utah after statehood In his testimony he says: "The election was held. Roberts was defeated by 8!)7 votes. John T. Calne, the candidato for governor, was defeated by l',300 votes. Had we succeeded suc-ceeded in that election I am confident this investigation would never have been in piogrcss, for It would have been revolution; but as it was, it was rebellion, and those who took part part were rebels." (Sec proceedings page 85o.) In speaking fuithcr of the Mormons he says: "It is the system that I condemn." con-demn." Mr. Van Cott then asked him If very many of tho Mormons did not object to the stand taken by some of their leaders, to which he lcplicd: "They have objected to me, personally person-ally and privately, many of them, and yet one of their conferences would come along and not one of them seemed to dare say that his soul was his own, or stand up In defense of that man or In defense of tho political liberties of the people." (See proceedings proceed-ings page 023.) Now Judge Powers is seeking the aid of these same rebels to put him In olllce. |