The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-21

But know that strong influences
are at work here. The president of the
United States is an open friend Of the
senator from Utah. You all know it.
Ice wants him seated. You have got
the Mormon vote You have every one
OK them, my friends. upon the Repuh-
Hcan Side. But II has cost you the
moral support OF the Christian women
and men OF the United States"
Senator BeVeridge followed with a
plea for Mr.. Shoots retention He be-
iieved the greatest wrong that could
be done any man was the ruin of his
reputation when his life had been stain
less The millions of petition signers
against Mr.. SmoOt, he said. expressed
the sentiments of a misinformed public.
The senate should no more regard the
petitions than would any other court
regard petitions 20 influence its verdict.
Mr.. Beveridge had talked TO more
than 300 men and wCmen and had
found an almost universal opinion that
Mr.. SmOOt was a pOlygamist. AS an
illustration, Mr.. Beverage presented
half a dozen clipping books which he
said were full of the statements of Mr..
Shoots poly2amy. Since the speech
Of Senator Burrows a few days ago,
he said, a newspaper clipping from a
pliddle northwestern paper had come TO
his notice. 1t stated that Mr.. Burrows
has shown that Mr.. Smoot had five
wives and forty achildren, three
Of whom were born during the present
year. Another illustration was clipped
literally from a Washington newspaper
bulletin board the day following Sem
ator KnOxs speech, which read:
Senator Knox defends POiygamist
Smoot."
All of this misinformation, he said.
was i'm the face Of absolute and undis-
had but one wife.
Criticism of Burrows.
senator Beveridge referred TO the re-
cent speech Of Senator Burrows, say
ing:
The senator from Michigan quoted
from an address of Mr.. Smoot before a
Mormon congregation i'm Salt Lake
city, made in 1908. since he has been a
senator. This was to show the senate
that Reed Smoot is ROW the upholder
of crime and the advocate of all the
practices of his church in the past Yet.
of this quotation. set out as single
passage, It's five sentences are selected
from five different portions of the adj
dress varying from 500 to 1,60O words
apart isolated from their context and
them were altered. Worse than that.
ther5addFsss- was not on the subject Of
polygamy at,aH, or on any other viola
ton of the law, but upon the eXpendi-
lures of the church funds which the
church authorities had been charged
with spending corruptly. Yet, this al
legged quotation is used to blacken the
senator, and so effectively that the SEN |
atoF from Arkansas based most of his !
speech upon it.
Mr.. BeVeridge disposed of what he re- (
garded as the>charge of treason against |
Mr.. Smoot in that he had taken a
church oath against his country. by
giving the record of Mormons in the |
recent war. They had fought and died !
for their country.
Senator Carmack offered a substitute I
resolution providing that Reed Smoot. 4
senator from Utah. be expelled from 4
the senate" 1t would, he said. require 1
a tWo-thirds vote OF the senate to adopt 1
his substitute. Previous to the recent 4
speech Of Senator Knox, Mr.. Carmack /
said /: had been his intention 10 vote /
for the committee resolution. Mr.. Knox 4
had demonstrated that the committee
resolution was an attempt to do by a /
vote what should be done uH-
der the constitution only by a two
thirds vote.
E HansbFough's Hot Speech.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dako-I
"a tftt iCSOiullDil utDflNHlB
Mr.. SmOOt of his seat in q brief speech /
IN which he denounced Mormonism
with vigor. He said:
Il shall east my vote in favor of the
resolution now pending. Were / TO do
otherwise, / would feel that had con-
aoned every offense ever committed
against good. morals and the written
laws OF the country by the Mormon
church. Not the least among the long
list of those offenses was the sending
10 this high legislative tribunal one of
The active apostles of the Mormon or
sanitation. These words are not ut
tered in hostility TO, or out of any lack
" respect 10 Reed SmOot They are
y oxen to giNe expression to the views
hold in regard TO the MOrmonism
based upon the public record it has
made for itself. In sending its apostle
here the Mormon managers, always ag-
sressive in advancing the political in
eTests of their leaders. furnished us
With another sample OF brazen effront-
~ in further defying the public SEN
iment of the country relative TO the on
ioxiOus Institution for which they are
'esponsibIe. Having intrenehed itself
n political power in many states ard
territories, Mormonisn comes here
seeking a clean bill of health in the
'orm OF an endorsement of all it's ia