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Show SMOOT OPENS OTAH CAMPAIGN Support President Harding At Polls Is Appeal Of Senator SALT LAKE. net 4 Senator Reed Smoot fired the first gun of Hie Republican campaign In Utah last night in th( Orphcum theatre, with a stirring address In which he oppeniid to the people t uphold lh work of the present administration. "If you believe in the principles President Harding believes In; If you believe in the principles that have mado this country gre.u In the post xpresfl It at the polls," he said. He further appealed to the voters to uphold the work that ho and bia colleagues are doing by supporting the Republican ticket. Senator Bmooi was Introduced at thw meeting b Carl n. Matcuseu state chairman of tho Republican party, an the peer of any statesman In this eOUhtry The theatre was crowded to tbv doors and the audience overflowed overflow-ed into the lobby. s. n.iior .Smoot bepan Ills address by reviewing the early problems with which he bad to contend In the senate. He toid ,f tho right made Upon him and his religion und then of the work With which ho has beSti n- fatred since then, with emphasis on that of th elost eirht.en months "Twenty years ago," said the Speak er ' I vas a candidate for the I'nlted SI it. i senate. Wo were not elected by th. direct vote of the people then, but It was understood, that. If the ltn-publlcans ltn-publlcans were successful. I would be I sent to Washington I felt my weaknesses weak-nesses at that timet but that wasn't all that T had to face. Even before I was elected there was a plan on foot to prevent my taking the seat In the senate sen-ate to which the people of Vtah had jciectsa me. it was founded upon a falsehood and. more than that, they dragged my religion into the controversy contro-versy hero In Utah, where of all states I the religion should not be questioned . I took an oath to high heaven ut lhat time that. If I were In the senat- long enough, I would convince not onlv members of that body, but all of the people, that ft Mormon can be just is loyal to this grand country of our as anyone." The appointment of George Sutherland Suther-land to the I'nlted Slates supremo court was mentioned. and brought forth applause. Smajor Smoot said that It was nn honor for Utah fcr which he had worked, but had hardly darej to hope. He referred to the former for-mer senator from Utah as one of our own boys in whose success all tho country rejoiced. |