Show SECRET HISTORY OF CONGRESS the most outspoken breezy button to the roberts contest literature Is the following from the forum middletown dle town N Y signed joseph the writer has apparently had an intimate knowledge of affairs la washington and docs not hesitate to speak of public men in the light of their private lives he says A great hue and cry is being raised because B H roberts recently elected to congress from one of the utah districts is alleged to have three wives and Is outspoken in his declaration that the people of this state have a right to practice their religion in the way that seems fittest to them even to a plurality or indeed so great is the sanctimonious clamor that it la now proposed to unseat mr roberts notwithstanding the fact that he received more votes than both of his opponents put together as they themselves acknowledge nor has it been the defeated candidates who have moved against him those who have determined to oust him are the ultra good people who think they are letting their light shine in thus sitting upon a horrid monster with three wives roscoe conkling had a wife he also had kate chase sprague and numerous others the malodorous name of breckenridge has not yet ceased to linger around the corridors of the capitol ike a dead rat in the wall but there was no movement to oust cither of those gentlemen the majority of the representatives in congress haye their wives and their concubines on tha back streets but roberts has offended awfully just see the hands of the pharisees Pharis ees go up in holy horror just hear congressman this senator that and hon the other howl aloud in frenzy of outraged virtue and spasmodic piety bosh bosh the whole of it I 1 dont care if roberts has as many wives as the saintly and sapient solo awn or as many concubines as the idy and virtuous david be was law ully elected to congress won his scat airey airly and I 1 hope he will bo smart enough to biang to it I 1 am not thus upholding polygamy personally I 1 am very modest in my matrimonial inspirations I 1 dont know what I 1 should do with even ona wife probably shed have to tare darned frugally but I 1 do look at the justice and consistency sis tency of the question roberts has been duly and lawfully elected therefore no matter how many wives or houses or barns or horses or cows or sheep or shares of bank stock or railroad bonds he may have give him his seat be is entitled to it let him that la without sin cast the first stone it this precept were carried out I 1 suspect that congressman elect roberts would not have much to tear from the brickbats brick bats of his adver 4 sarles anybody who thinks that our representatives in congress are pure virtuous angels dont know them very well at the final session of congress 1 in 1895 the floor of the house would have put to blush any house of assignation in the capitol city whisky lowed like water and many a distinguished representative reeled about the j corridore corr idora and cloak rooms embracing the most notorious strumpets strum pets of the city of washington hence I 1 eay if wo are to purge eln from our national congress let us eliminate the whole lot of it not simply lop oft one branchi of it because its church creed happens to differ from that of the majority |