Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
ASSISTED
MORMONS
Dubois Accuses the
President
Says Roosevelt Encouraged the Elee-
ton of "Hierarchy's" Candi-
dates--Awaigns smoot
and PoIygamy
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-President
Roosevelt was directly charged with
using his influence for the election of
Republican Mormon candidates in the
the senate today
The charge was made by Senator
Dubois in the course of a speech in
which he discussed the right of Reed
Smoot to a seat in the senate.
Mr.. Dubois said:
when Governor Gooding of Idaho
and the chairman of the Republican
state committee were engaged in in
citing lawbreaking and lawdefying
Mormons to additional lawlessness the
president of the United States sent his
secretary of war to Idaho to plead with
the people to stand by Governor Good
ing in order to maintain law and or
der in Idaho.
I'm Utah there is a Republican Nor
mon party and a Democratic Mormon
party, both equally controlled by the
Mormon hierarchy. The American
party in Utah is composed of gentiles,
are battlin.; there under the very
shadow of this tremendous ecclesias-
tical power for American citizenship,
for the separation of the church and
state and against the degradation of
Womanhood and home. 1t is a noble,
magnificent contest they are making.
1.-The nom Mormon citizenship of Utah
and Idaho are entitled to the support
of law abiding citizens everywhere in
their efforts to maintain American
citizenship in these Mormon states and
If they cannot receive that they have
the right to demand that the president
of the United States shall not use the
great power vested in him in the in
terest of these law dcfying and un-
American organizations in their de-
termination to rule the politics of this
section"
Mr.. Dubois asserted the control of
the Mormon church to be complete in
the hierarchy, consisting Of the presi-
dency and the twelve apostles, of which
Mr.. Smoot was one.
This control, he maintained, was &C.
cesiastical political and commercial
and was exercised completely over
followers who come principally from
foreign countries.
The constant tendency, he said, was
to make the church and state one, with
the control in the church.
Polygamous relations were being sus-
tained, Mr.. Dubois said, by President
Joseph Smith and a majority of the
twelve apostles.
Continually there was contracting of
new polygamous marriages surrepti-
tiously arranged by the church in
Canada, Mexico, or on the high seas.
Polygamists, he said, occupy the high
est positions politically and in the
church, and constitute the wealthiest
and most powerful members of the
church organization.
Politically. he said, the Mormon
church has absolute sway i'm Utah and
is extending its control into Wyoming.
Idaho and Oregon.
AS TO Senator Smoot, he said, 1t made
no difference whether he was or was
not polygamist. The senator was
pillar in the church and In control of
its temporal, spiritual and political
policies and was selected for the senate
because of his position I'm the church.
"Smoot." he said, represents the
church and not the state and would do
the bidding of the church before he
would serve the real interests of the
state or the nation. By being an apostle
Of the church Smoot is one of the chief
and by his acquiescenee
supports the plans and aims OF the
conspiracy"