The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-04
WORKS POLITICS
At CONFERENCES
Reed SmOOt GlOats to Saints
and Poses as Their Hero
and Deliyerer.
ELECTI0NEERING AT
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS
Church and Federal Bunch Lay
inc Plans for His Re-Elec-
ton to Senate.

Oaipn for reelection 10 lhe l hile"
States Senate. and he is going about
it III the way The Tribune predicted he
would when he succeeded last winter IN
holding TO his somewhat uncertain seat,
namely. bv making canvass Of the
Lattcr.day Saints at quarterly confer
ences in his capacity as an apostle and
sub revclator,
Apostle Smoot preached sermon at
the quarterly conference of the Aebo
stake of Zion. at Payson, on May 20.
The Dcseret News. in its abbreviated
account of the conference. says that the
apostle "spokc on the results of the
investigation at Washington, the signs
of the times. etc - What Smoot actu-
ally did. ii is claimed, was to gloat over
the triumph of the Mormon church III
his own case, aud point this out aS one
of the signs of the ultimate overthrow
of all the "cnemies of the new and
everlasting gospel This is but one of
a series Of similar sermons which the
apostle intends TO deliver during the
next year. The plan. ii is said, is to
send him 10 every stake OF Zion IN
Utah.
Posing as a. Hero.
Al these conference sessions Smoot
purposes to pose as the hero who won
for the Mormon hierarchy the only VIC
tory il ever achieved at the national
capital Smoot, in fact, is TO be flea,
tured' at quarterly conferences, and
held mp to the Mormon people as the
man who gave them standing and eclat
with the public at large and who over
came their 'enemies.
Thus are supposedly religious assem-
hlages to be turned into political meet
ines in order that the church may send
back its apostle as ambassador 10 the
foreign Government at Washington. The
idea is TO work up tremendous Smoot
sentiment among the rank and file of
the Mormon people, and to quell any
spirit of opposition that may exist to-
ward Smoot s reelection.
Gentiles to Be Jobbed.
A little handful of Gentiles who have
clung to Smoot hitherto have saved
their own self-respect by claiming that
after Smoot had been "vindicated
and his title to his seat quieted, he
would not again be an aspirant for the
Senate. Those Gentiles who actually
swallowed this story are about to have
their eyes opened Backed by the first
presidency, and assisted by the Federal
office holders, Smoot is already pulling
every wire possible TO accomplish his
own reelection, and Gentiles who stay
by the Republican partY will have 10
take their Smoot medicine and say they
like il.
Already the henchmep of the machine
are claiming that Smoot, in his contest
for reelection, will have the backing
of the Roosevelt administration and of
the Republican national organization as
at present constituted. In proof of
this, they point out that George b,
Corteiyou. Secretary of the Treasury,
who recently retired as chairman of
the Republican National committee, in
vested national committee funds in the
local Smoot "Moutb,' and that the
national committee is assisting Orange
Blossom Salisbury and Col. Ed Loose in
editing the payrolls of that money-eat-
ing journalistic venture.
Mr.. Salisbury, ex-Gov. Heber M.
Wells and other Republicans with Sen
atorjal aspirations are beginning TO
realize which way the land laws. They
are getting ready to shed their aspiTa
tons, or at least to lay them on the
shelf until Senator Sutherland s term
expires. Mr.. Salisbury, moreover. is be
ginning 10 feel like the farmer who
buys gold brick. Loving money with
a passionate devotion, he was induced
by Smoot ct al. TO put his cash into the
60 Mouth and TO contribute n goodIy
wad to the last State campaign fund
in the delusiyc hope that he would be
given the church IS help to capture
Smoot s seat Now he realizes that
ne is ar ungodly Gentle who has been
despoileG,
City Campaign First Object.
The preliminary step III Smoot S cam
paign Will be, if possible, to capture the
city government of Salt Lake next fall,
icl.
ticket will be nominated and the
church vote solidifed not only in fact,
but in name. too. Already the Smoot
Mouth has opened the campaign by
abusing and vilifying everybody-Re-
publican or Democrat-who opposes
consolidation Of the two alleged politi-
cal organizations against the American
party,
Smoot plans to use the city govern
ment Of Salt Lake. with its power and
prestige: to elect the Republican legis-
latiye ticket in this county next year,
regardless of whether tho city admins
tration is labeled Republican, Democrat
ic or Citizens. Even if he is forced 10
accept Democrat for Mayor to head
ms ms fusion ticket, he counts on that
Democrat s assistance for the Rcpubli-
can legislative ticket, and, knowing
this. good many Democrats-eyen
Mormon Democrats-are bucking his
fusion programme, although they risk
their standing in the church to do it.
Elder Howell Is Restive
Meanwhile Elder Joseph Howell,
member Of Congress, is restive. Howell
himself is in Europe, but his friends,
particularly III Cache county, have been
proceeding on the theory that he was
TO be set apart as Smoot IS successor in
the Senate, and the returns from the
quarterly conferences are therefore,
disquieting 10 them. Prior to Elder
liowcil's S departure for foreign shores
he confided TO his friends that he had
been set apart TO succeed Apostle
Smoot on the Senatorial mission, but
his friends fear now that there is a
slip In the programme.
There is considerable talk that How
ell will be placatcd with the Governor.
ship. Not even the Snoot crowd, it is
believed. will attempt 10 carry Gov
Cutler through another campaign. and
rs Howell is clamoring for the promo,
ton which he has earned from the