Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-20
CHARGES AND DENIALS.

You can't please everybody You
need not expect TO satisfy a partzan or
religious opponent. nor to stop silly re-
marks from prejudiced writer's In the
opening session OF the inquiry by the
Senate committee on privileges and
elections into the charges against Sem
ator smoot, after his answer had been
received the attorney for the protest
ers, Mr.. Tayler, introduced new matter,
10 which the Senator had time granted
TO reply. lie soon furnished a specific
answer to those further objections. All
of this was In regular order and the
amended answer II It may be so des-
gnated, was rendered necessary by the
amended or supplementary COM
plant.
This seems to offend some Of the
Senator's antagonists and they want to
know why he makes so many donals.
The Salt Lake Herald has an editorial,
In which the Senator's response TO the
new charges Is called "ylrulent at
tack OF the denial disease and for
which mo ant-toXln has been found
1t is further spoken Of as Senator
Shoots most recent outbreak and a
lot OF supposltious gossip follows, by
way Of reply TO the gentleman's an
swer. Some further reflections are
cast upon the "senator-apostle or apos-
tie senator" and II is declared "a pity
that he did not content himself with
merely denying ohenses he was charg-
ed with"
Well. isn't II "a PITY that the pro-
testers against him did not content
themselves with charging him with Of
lenses of which they deem him person.
ally guilty, instead Of making accuse
tions against other persons and the
entire Mormon Church? And since
they did not so content themselves,
and their charges were received, and
he was required to meet them,
where does the PITY come in that
he entered his denials2 Was he TO
remain dumb? Was he to leave the
impression that the charges must be
true because he couldn't or didn't say
anything about them? That is the way
our contemporaries usually argue when
anything relating TO 'Mormons" or the
Mormon" Church is advanced IL
answer ls made they call II an "at-
tack" n no notice IL taken they say
1T has never been denied"
II il fact that nearly all the alloga-
tons of the professors are aimed at
the Mormon Church and the pun.
ported acts OF persons therein other
than the Senator and that rightly they
have no direct relevancy TO the quss-
ton Of his right to his seat But they
have been entertained by the committee
and he has been required TO answer
them, and II he had failed to make the
donials, now criticized by some carp.ng
and thoughtess persons, his silence
would have been construed az con-
sent But they should not ignore the
Senator's objection to those irrelevant
charges, for his answer commences with
the subjoined paragraph:
81 am advised and aver that none OF
the matters contained IN these revised
and amended charges even u same
were true, are such as 20 furnl7h amy
legal ground Tor my expulsion from
the senate, Insisting upon this objec-
ton 10 the jurisdiction Of the senate,
ana renewing and replying to the now
charges and motion 10 strike out hote-
tofore made in reference To the origin
al charges, ! answer az follows.
A little reflection, with grain Of
common sense. would suggest that
Fresh Denlals' are consequent and
requisite when fresh charges are on
tered, II any 'ant-toxln' Is called for,
II should be for the "ylruent attacks
OF the accusing disease" which render
necessary the denIas that 20
concern our morning contempo-
rarY And why does that paper
10 into the accusation business
Itself In charging that at least one
and perhaps several officials OF the
Mormon Church have taken unto Them
selves plural wives since 1890, either
with or without the consent OF thr
church authorities A little amt.
toxin of the kind described appears to
b. necessary IN It's own case,
We are aware that scandal, and gos-
sip, and Islander have been busy as TO
The matters mentioned, but what have
those insInuatlons and perhapses and
may-bo-soes to do with the election
and qualifications Of Reed smoot 10 a
seat IN the United states Senator And
why sneer about an Apostle-senator'