Arizona republican., 1904-03-08
THE SHOOT SEARCH
Another Damaging Witness
 Takes the Stand
fl Telegram From the Iowa Church Denying That the First Joseph Smith Introduced Pclygany.

Washington, March 7.-After having
 Jos. r. Smith, president of the Nor
 mon church, on the stand for nearly
 five hours today before the senate
 committee Investigating the right of
 Reed Shoot 40 sit as q senator, both
 the prosecution and the defense an
 nounced that they were through with
 him, and another witness, Mrs. Clara
 Mabel Kennedy, was called. She told
 some secrets of the mornlCn church. which, if not broken down, will prove
 as important as the statements of
 President Smith that he and other officials have been consistently cohabi-
 tating with plural wives in violation oe
 the law.
 Mrs. Kennedy said she was married
 by Brigham Young, an apostle Of the
 church, to James Francis Johnson. q polygamist, since the manifesto of 1890.
 and that she has had two children by
 that husband.
 The marriage was performed in Mex : leo, according to the witness. at the home of a high official of the church.
 As President Smith started tc leave the stand, Senator Overman said he had pamphlets saying that Jesus { Christ was Q polygamist. Turning to Mr. Smith he said:
 ''Is that what your church teaches ?'
 "No, sir" was the response. What we teach is that Jesus Christ was . descended through long line of DO
 lygamists through David and down from Abraham
 With that MT. Smith left the stand, ! having been the only witness in the 1 five days the hearing had progressed. WHEN POLYcAMY CAME IN. Chairman Burrows of the senate committee on privileges and elections, received from E. F. Shupe, president and A. F. Tabor, secretary of the east { ern Colorado conference of the ReOr- Eanized church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, a telegram denying i the testimony of Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church. that . Joseph Smith Jr., was the originator
 of the doctrine of polygamy. MT. Burrows caused subpoenaes to
 be issued for Shupe and Tabor. The
 telegram to Burrows declares as un- true the statements of Smith that revelations commanding polygamy were first given to Joseph Smith, Jr. It asserts that Brigham Young alone is responsible for that "pernicious doc
 tT4He ana that pOlySanly was lHtrO-
 duced first by Brigham Young in 1852. nearly mine years after the death of
 Joseph Smith, who never had but enc wife"
 i The telegram continues: State
 ments to the contrary are false. Ask Mir. Smith to show any children from any of the alleged plural wives of the | first Joseph Smith.
 "The courts have decided that the Utah Mormon church is not like the church organized by Joseph Smith | and the first Mormon church's success l sor is the reorganized Latter Day ] Saints, with headquarters at Laomi, Iowa, consisting of a thousand honor 1 able members. who do not believe in nor practice polygamy. The Mormon 1 covenants were changed in 1878 and what purported to be the polygamy revelation was inserted. The original
 book does not contain such a doctrine.
 If you will examine section 42, Book of | Mormon, page 116 you will find it con 1 demns polygamy in the strongest | terms"