The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-02-09
SAYS HIGH CCuNyIL
ENDORSED SEN. SMO0T
Professor Wolfe Tells More
Interesting Things About
Utah Senator.
70 DlscREDIT WITNESS
Counsel for smoot Introduce. Letters
w. J. Thomas Tells of the Oath
Of Vengeance Against the
Natives.

Washington. Feb. 10-In the investi.
CATION Of the protests against Sena-
tor Smoot before the committee on
elections. Professor Walter NJ. Wolfe.
today subjected to severe cross ex-
animation by A. s. WorthinGton, coun-
gel for the senator.
large number of letters which had
been written by Wolfe to members of
the church were put into the record to
show he had not made complaints OF
the conduct Of Benjamin Clufr on the
fed in direct examination.
Worthlngton Will call q large num-
ber OF witnesses to discredit Wolfe.
Names Polysamists.
On redirect examination the names
ut a number Of residents in Provo were
read to the witness and ten OF them.
he said, were living in polygumous CO.
habitation.
He said he knew George Taylor.
Taylor had asked him (Wolfe) to give
up his democratic faith and come in
with the great majority"
This was Just previous to the cleo
ton OF the legislature that elected
Smoot to the senate. He said Taylor
asked him to do all he could for the
election OF Smoot.
so'a mn, Sdlu lnS Witness, Il
would If I thought 1t to be the will Of
the Lord. Taylor said he believed 1t
was the will OF God. and 1t seems to
have been. He then told me Shoots
candidacy had been discussed and in
.dorsed by the high council Of Utah.
convened as prayer circle"
A "Divins institution"
Wolfe said in the Brigham Young
college Ovena Jorgenson and Florence
Reynolds were the only students whom
he knew to have become plural wives.
He thought children Of polygamous re-
lations looked upon polygamy as q de
vine institution.
A number Of songs alleged to have
been hostile to the government Of tho
United States were put into the rec
ords. Wolfe said these songs were
sung frequently.
William J. Thomas. Of Spanish Fork,
Utah, was the next witness He said
he had gone through the endowment
house in 1869 and had taken the oath
to avenge the blood of the prophet, Jo-
seph Smith. upon this nation, and to
teach his children to do so down to the
third and fourth generations.
He said he was dropped from tho
church In the sos because he had spok :
en- too openly against plural marriages.
Hymns Breathe Hostility.
Af4A VoiAS JSoACluoy ouiu Ills
dissatisfaction with the church had
grown since the hostility that seemed
20 raise up between the church and the
United States government, but he had
rot lost his faith until late in 1904. He
was asked concerning the hostility in
The church to the nation. and where
the lines were drawn. He thought the
lines We're between those living in
polygamy and those who were not. He
said that number of hymns of the
church breathed hostility and these
were favorites in the church.
Mr.. Worthington asked concerning
the oaths in the temple and the witness
Said he believed that in the obligation
of vengeance" the seed of treason is
planted. He said he realized that with
IN an hour after he had taken the oath
md had taken it only once for himself.
The other eleven times, he said. had
been for dead persons.
An effort was made by Mr.. Worth
ington to procure an unqualified answer
rs to whether there was anything in
the endowment house ceremony which
would interfere with any one taking 1t,
in serving in the United States senate,
and whether such PERSONS duties to
the church and country would conflict.
The witness declared that every Nor
mons first duty is to the Church OF
latter Day Saints.