The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-02-01
Roosevelt Carries Out
Hdnnd'S BARGAIN
HOW SMOOT WAS ELECTED
If There Is No Compact the President
Is Lied About

The open and shameful alliance of the
Republican party with the Mormon
church is exemplifed in an article in a
recent number Of the Saturday Evening
Post, from which we make the following
extracts:
"The Mormon church is an institution
that carries many side lines with its re-
ligion. One is politics. The Mormons
control Utah and probably, Idaho, and
they are getting stronger in other states.
The managers OF the church are po-
litical bosses without equals so far as
results go. They tell the faithful how
to vote, and the faithful get out and
vote as they are told.
in 1896, when Bryan ran for presi-
dent the first time, the Mormons had
revelation about the Peerless Leader. 1t
was handed out to them that Bryan
was the man, and they gave him ST.
800 plurality in Utah over Mckinley.
The late Marcus A. Hanna was not the
kind of a campaign manager to sit by
and have that performance repeated if
there was any way to stop it. He did a
little revealing himself, so the story
goes, to Joseph F. Smith and his apos-
ties. 1t was pointed out to Joseph, by a
competent pointer-out whom Hanna put
on the job, that it wasn't necessary for
the Mormons to vote again for Bryan,
and in 1900 the Mormons walked gayly
to the polls and overturned that 1890
for Bryan and made it 2,133 for Nc
kinley, which is somewhat of a shift in
state with so few voters as Utah. |
Twenty-one hundred and thirty-three is 1
a nice, modest figure, and when you
win with 2,133 you win just as com
pletely as you do with hundred thou
sand, so far as practical results are con
cerned.
"Smoot came out in the wash The
Mormons wanted senator of their kind.
Rawlins, the retiring senator, had been
peevish about the Mormons He threw
bricks at them every time he had a
chance. Smoot was an apostle. He lived
at Provo and had a lot of interests
there He was an ardent churchman,
but he had a record as good, clean,
chap. The Mormons sent
him to Washington with the under
standing that the Republicans would be !
waiting to receive him and give him ,
the grand hailing sign of good-fellow-
ship The Republicans in the senate re-
,eived him into the fold 1t was thought
here might be trouble, and there was
"The winding up of the case is simply :
he last part of the Smoot chess game,
The Mormon church will bet the bally-
vhack, and if Smoot goes out, all right. :
+ he can get enough support to keep
lin in, that will be all right, too The
enate will have proved its virtue and :
IS high regard for orthodox religious 3
by pounding the Mormons
"The Mormons wanted an apostle for 5
enator and they picked Smoot If they 81
al picked any other of the twelve re
moot would never have tried his hand bi
craftsmanship Mormons must do as in
ley are told Smoot was told to go re
} the senate and he went meekly, and to
) matter of course, just as he would r
ave gone TO England or Arizona or
laska There was revelation about
of course. Still, it is curious, if old !.
,seph F. Smith had a revelation about
moot picking him for the senate, that " -
e revelation did not reveal the trouble =
was going to make for the church
ID for Smoot"
And to this may be added the follow be.
q solar plexus blow at President br,