Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-10
PRoTEsTANTs AGAINST MORMON
SENATOR CLOSE CASE
EVIDENCE is STRONG
A. S. Worthlneton, Shoots Attorney,
Asks For Postponement Of a Few
Days and Says He viii Introduce
100 or 200 Witnesses In Defense.

Washington, d. c., Feb. Counsel
for the protestants in the proceedings
against Senator Reed Smoot before the
senate committee on elections closed
their case this morning.
Many Witnesses for Defense.
A. S. Worthington, who represents
Smoot, said he was not ready to proceed
but would communicate with Chair
man Burrows within few days. The
character of the evidence offered at
this session, he said, made 1t necessary
to call from 100 to 200 witnesses to dis
prove the testimony of the prosecution,
unless the committee permits the filing
of affidavits.
Brigham Is Our King" is the title
of one of the Mormon songs that
breath treason to the government of
the United States.
This information was developed at
yesterdays hearing of the Smoot ex-
pulsion trial before the senate commit
tee on elections.
Henry w. Lawrence, of Salt Lake
City, named this and other songs plac-
ing the church and its apostles above
the laws of the republic.
Mr.. Lawrence was torn Of Mormon
parents and left the church in 1869
because he became doubtful of the
system
Concerning the endowment-house
ceremony, which he said he took early
in his life, he said an oath was ad-
ministered obligating him to cove
nant and agree before God, his agents
and the witnesses assembled to
avenge the blood Of the prophets Jo-
seph Smith, Hyrum Smiun, David Pat
ten, and Farley P. Pratt.
Church Before Republic.
His testimony Is the first that has
been given by any witness using the
names of David Patten and Farley p
Pratt in the obligation. In regard tc
teachings of the church he said thai
nowhere in the books was there to be
found anything directing loyalty te
tue government. He said -, reveIa
tion OF polygamy must be believed by
good church member whether he
practiced it or not, for to suspend one
revelation would be to suspend them
all.
Tells of Smoot's Canvass.
Professor Wolfe, former teacher in
Brigham Young college at Logan, Utah
who gave much sensational testimony
yesterday said he knew George Taylor
brother-ia-law of Mr.. Smoot. and that
Taylor had asked himf 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 Mr.
Smoot to the senate. he said. and. fur
ther, that Taylor had asked him to dc
all he could for the election Of Mr.
Smoot
Il told him. said the witness, .'that
would IL / thought it to be- the will
of the Lord. Mr.. Taylor said he be
lieved it was the will of God. and II
seems to have been. He then told me
that Mr.. Shoots candidacy had beer
discussed and indorsed by the higf
council of Utah state, convened as 6
prayer circle"
In response to questions by severa
members of the committee Wolfe sai6
that in Brigham Young college Ovens
Jorgenson and Florence Reynolds were
the only students whom he knew tt
have become plural wives He thought
that children of polygamous relations
| looked upon polygamy as a divine in
stitution.