The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
DELEGATE OF UTAH PRESENTS
 URGENT MEMORIAL.
Constitution of U. D. c. Prohibits Pol itics, So Chairman Rules Agntnst Action on tf-Mormon
 Resolution.

strong Appeal for Removal of smset l Whereas, The evidence given before | the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections proves that the Mormon
 heirarchy has broken every covenant
 by which Utah received statehood; and | Whereas, President Joseph F. Smith and his apostles have e-estabiished polygamy. defying the laws of State
 and nation; and
 | Whereas, The Mormon heirarchy ad- mits that the United States Senate Is its enemy. and it's leaders admit that, l in order to deceive the Senate Commit tee, they committed perjury in testi- 1 flying before that Committee; and
 Whereas, Reed Shoot, who { Is an apostle and in direct line for the Nor mon presidency, has pledged. first al- | legiance to the Mormon heirarchy. which has beenAproved to have broken | faith with this government, and unless he were in sympathy and accord with
 the disloyal and polygamous practices
 of the hierarchy he could not retain his place: and whereas. These conditions are stead fly growing verse, violations of the articles of. the covenant being more open and fragrant. the hierarchal tyr- amy and oppression in, the Mormon States more pronounced. and the bur den of shame and disgrace imposed by
 Mormon immoraiities upon the whole nation more and more intoleraple;
 Therefore. We, the women of the United States, representing every part
 of the Union, do earnestly petition your honorable body to olimmediately re-
 move from the place ho now holds In
 the Senate of the United States. Apos- tic Reed Smoot. one Of the highest offi-
 cials In the Mormon hierarchy. which has broken every covenant by which
 Utah received Statehood. We ask this
 as loyal. patriotic citizens. We ask 1t for the protection of the land we love, and for the protection of children un-
 born, whose right to legitimate parent age should be protected. We ask 1t in
 the name of American womanhood,
 whose voice has never yet been raised in vain when appealing to the honor of American manhood. We ask it be- cause the Mormon hierarchy has been proven to be perJured disloyal. diso- bedient to the laws of State and na-
 tion and defiant even of Divine laws. We ask it because the presence of Reed Shoot in the United States Senate Is an insult to every home and to every wo- man in our free and enlightened re- public.
 PoIygamy will not be officially con- demned by the Daughters of the Con- federacy. Every effort to bring the
 subject up for discussion yesterday was
 ruled against by the chairman, Mrs.
 Augustine T. Smythe, who held that 1t
 must be denied hearing because politics
 were not within constitutional juris-
 diction of the association. A hundred
 delegates were anxious to declare
 themselves allies of Mrs. Tom D. Pitt,
 the lone delegate from Utah. who has
 pluckily waged war for a year against
 polygamy, under auspices of the
 auxiliary to the American party.
 Mrs. Pitt Is State President of the
 T.. D. C., and a member of the Home
 Protective League. which belongs to
 the Federated Clubs. The memorial
 which she desired to present to the convention has been indorsed by Mrs.
 Schoff, National President of the
 Mothers Congress-; Daughters of the
 American Revolution; Mrs. PIatt Deck