The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-02

seer and revelator' does he not concede your right
to direct him spiritually? And from your view
point that concession involves the surrender of his
franchise into your hands, and, therefore, leaves
but one more contention of the American party, and
of several thousand Mormon Democrats and Re-
pubicans, to be proved-that you and other proph-
cts, and revelators have exercised that power
Opposite Reed Smoot is also, according to the con-
ference vote and the impression generally extant
among Latter-day Saints prophet, and
lator And it his election to the United States
Senate that proved to be the last straw in the way
of church interference that was necessary to
public indignation and to crystalline it into the organ
cation known the American party.
"In your testimony before the Senate committee
you repeatedly ducked lodged, side-stepped and
squirmed in order to avoid conceding that you had
aught to do with Apostle Shoots election further
than to give your consent that he be candidate.
Conceding the truth of your statement, you knew,
as did every and in Utah, that his cleo
ton was assured the instant he announced his
didacy and for no other reason than that he a
prophet, seer and revelator of the Mormon church.
And in order to reinforce that view of the question,
and to further prove that Shoots election was the
climax of fifteen years of continuous conspiracy the
part of yourself and others, it is only necessary to
refer the public to your claims that the seating of
Apostle Smoot the 'fulhllment of Gods will
That claim made on the 31st day of last March
at the dedication of the Seventeenth Ward meeting
house.
"On the same occasion you spoke as follows: I
defy any or body of men in the world to prove
that the church has welded political influence of any
extent nature in this any other state during
the past four years
Passing for the moment, your hackneyed defy
permit me to remind you that, in the sentence just
quoted you concede all that your enemies have
claimed and which, heretofore you had been
strenuously denying. Let paraphraSe your defy.
4 defy any man body of in the world to prove
that [ have cohabited with my plural wives to any
extent or nature during the past four
days. Would that palliate your cohabitaton with
them during the sixteen years since you promised
President Harrison that you would to break
the law of the nation?
Returning to your denial of church interference,
during the past four years. what your motive in
in the Improvement Era the quotation that
is to fo11ow?-a quotation used few days since in
the Tribune and which, along with your defy, should
be posted by the block teachers in every election dis
trct in this city as unmpeachable evidence that you
are man of truth and that you don't interfere in
politics.
Just now there is tendency among some of the
thoughtless young men to sympathize with the fight
against the church authorities waged by the assassnS
of virtue the supporters of vice and riot and lewd
women, gambling robbing and general corruption.
1t is a senseless tendency, and they who follow it
will do so to their own destruction At the present
time we about to make choice of some political
leaders 1t is scarcely necessary to say that man
who has the interests of himself and his people at heart
will choose his friends Who are friends? Men