The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-12
MORMONS SPEAK
DEFIANT WORDS
Smoot Investigation Evokes
Emphatic Defense of
PoIygamy.

SALT LAKE, Utah, March 1.-THE
Telegram tonight prints a dispatch
from Logan, describing the Mormon
monthly fast meeting, held in the tenn
pie. The meeting was addressed by j.
M. Blair, who made a strong defense of
polygamy. Heber Carlisle declared
with great emphasis that congress and
the entire country were the prosecutors
OF the Norman church, and then de-
tended polygan1y, declaring it is the
doctrine of God and the revelation that
had been given to the prophet, Joseph
Smith. He approved of the conduct of
Mr.. Smith in Washington, declaring:
If 1t ever comes to difficulty, 1 will
be ready to die for President Smith"
M. S. Lamoreaux declared that he
believed in loyalty to the United States
government. 1t was dangerous, he
said, to say such things as the preced-
ing speakers had given utterance to.
1.-The Mormon church." he said, "is
not now teaching polygamy; the
church has given up such teachings,
and there is no occasion for such re-
marks"
Counselor Isaac Smith, the presiding
officer, ordered Mr.. Lamoreaux to take
his seat, which he did,
critehIow Testifies Further.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March IL
The only witness on the stand today In
the investigation of the Reed Smoot
case before the senate committee
on privileges and elections was E. B.
Critchlow, the former United States at
torney for Utah. He continued his
history of the Mormon church, detail
ing instances where the high officials
OF the church have manifested their
power over the members in order to
compel obedience in all matters and
where accommodation has been the
price of an Independent spirit Sena-
tor Beveridge assisted in the cross-ex-
animation of the witness and his at.
tempt to prove certain evidence incom-
petent enlivened what otherwise would
have been the first dull day of the
hearing. Mr.. Critchlow said he had
drafted the protest against Mr.. Smoot
and had never heard it charged that the
senator was polygamist.
Many women representing organiza-
tons interested in the contest against
Mr.. Smoot arrived here today to per-
feet their plans and wage more eff
1ectlVe contest. Iney aItendeQ the SeS-
sions of the committee. The delegation
was headed by Mrs. Frederic Schoff,
Philadelphia, president of the National
Congress of Mothers and chairman of
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Union of Women's Organiza-
lions. The following statement was
made after meeting of the women:
cat a meeting Of the executive board
of the National League of Women's
Organizations of America, held today
in Washington, resolution was adopt
ed unanimously requesting that on
Sunday, March 81, or as soon thereafter
as possible, every clergyman in the
United States ask every man to write
to his senators requesting them, in
view of the evidence already presented
in the case of Reed Smoot, to vote
against the retention of said Smoot in
the highest lawmalxing body of the
country For the honor of American
womanhood and the protection of mo-
rality of the American home, the League
of American Homes, representing at
least a million women, asks that the
ministers aid them in the home defense
on which the safety of the nation
rests"