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Show PERSONAL a.BUSE Or I SENATOR SMOOT. J Forecasting a campaign of vlllfica- don In which Senator Smoot Will be charged with - ery crime covered by I the ten comniandnnnts and the statutes, sta-tutes, the Herald-Republican Bays 1 Senator Smoot s friends need not be amazed by the character of the latest attack upou Vim It is but Ufa forerunner of mamy that will inei-ase in virulence until the votes are counted count-ed next November The charges that he Is a traitor to hie country, and that he stole his Memorial day ad dress from a notoriety-hunting gen tleman of Chicago, are but gentle zephyrs as compared to the bitter blasts which will blow upon Utah he fore this senator. il campaign is satisfactorily sat-isfactorily concluded. Persons with Irazzled nerves will do well to seek early reservations in the cyclone cellar. cel-lar. "Word has gone forth that Senator Smoot is to be destroyed. From the headquarters of every enemy oi Utah and of Republicanism, the batter!?:-Of batter!?:-Of antagonism are trained upon thisj state Whatever else may be in the political horoscope for the approach Ing congressional election. ictory will be but barren, and triumph butl Dead Sea apples, which turn to ashes ash-es In the mouth. If Utah's senior sen I ator i6 returned to the senate His position as one of the Republican leaders in that body, and the admin-1 istratlon's chief critic upon economic questions, invests his defeat with a burning desire in the hearts of the Democratic leaders. "He must be obtuse indeed who' does not already discern that the mightiest political battle this beciev-l illed commonwealth h-ts ever known is already begun It will be political, social, and religious, before it has been finished. Utah will be torn with contending factions as never before Slander and defamation will be poured pour-ed upon the man and the state whom the President and his parly wouh: crush, and their lightest words wli: b pregnant with a malignity they would dare utter in no other commonwealth com-monwealth Utah is to rcacn the acme of the calumnious camps go that has been going forward tor a dorado "Senator Smoot's Arlington addi-os' was not stolen from Jasper T Darl-ing Darl-ing of Chicago or anybody tilsr Not being quite the fool his enemies sincerely sin-cerely wish he were, he would scirre. ly publish broadcast over the country as a public document anything he had filched from another ?ind under whose eyes it was certain to ail. a pari oi" Mr. Darling's address upon a s!m- liar and prior occasion was incorpo-: incorpo-: rated by the senator into his remarks 1 with the explanation that ll was a quotation Even writer anil speaker uses the words of others and, while they ordinarily indicate they are quotations, quo-tations, they do not necessarily ci the name of the author "Mr Darlings Interest in the mat-I mat-I ter naturally is notoriety His forth : coming book which he announces he will publish soon with the civil War as his subject, will be of great' r 111 ! terest because its author ha6 made ' himself known through a controversy with an Lnited States senator. A (charge of plagiarism Is easily made, l and difflcull of disproof, especially ' slneo Mr. Darling's own remarks are! liberally interlarded with quotations j Mr Smoot prefaced his use of the' Chicago man's language with the phrase. "Well has it been said." an'1 the quotation then follows In the same type and with the same quotation quota-tion marks that were used In quoting from Historian Bancroft and from Robert G lnr;ersoll. "Senator Smoot's address occupied four pages of the Congressional Record Rec-ord The section Mr Darling accuses him of having stolen would occupy about one-sixteenth of one page ot the Record Een though the sena-j tor had not plainly indicated by prefatory prefa-tory remarks that he was using the, words of another, Mr Darling could not have been greatly injured. One cannot, howeor elude this estimable Chicago person Publicity means mon ey to him and he chooses this method meth-od of getting it "All this is, however beside the point Those who are determined to' defeat Senator Smoot know he did not' filch from anybody and they would not care If he had. Their charge of plagiarizing from Mr. Darling is a absurd as if they accused him also ofi plagiarizing from Francis M Finch from whose famous poem "The Bluej and the Gray" he also quoted with-' out mentioning the namp of the au thor. One who has maintained his footing among the great men of the nation, in that nation's chief lawmaking law-making body , is not likely to be so foolish as to use before the assemblage assem-blage of veterans, a speech they had heard but a few years before upon a similar occasion ' Had Mr. Smoot added to his iniro ductorj phrase, 'Well has it ooen said.' in quoting from Mr. Darling, the words 'by Jasper Darling,' and, to his excerpt from The Blue and the Gray.' the words by Francis M Finch.' and to other quotations the ii :ni" of each original author, Mr Darling's amour propre doubtless would have been satisfied He would have att. lined the same prominence he now gets by the accusation ot plagiarism." . rn |