The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30

pretending that the seating of Reed Smoot a
Republican measure and saying that only few
Democrats voted to seat Smoot. l deny it. 1t is
absolutely untrue that the seating of Reed Smoot
party measure If | had time | would read
you the names of the Republican Senators that voted
against the seating of Reed Smoot and the Senator'S
that Mr. Hopkins would like to read out of the party
as a party measure. First of ALL Hale of Maine,
who succeeded that stalwart Republican, James G.
Blaine Then Senator Burrows, who is chairman
OF the committee, and 7Uio heard every bit OF the
testimony to seat Smoot Senator Clapp of Mime
sofa, Senator Hemingway of Indiana, who
ceeded Vice President Fairbanks Senator, Kit
tredge of South Dakota of the foremost lawyers
of the country-all are to be read out of the Re-
publican party mainly because, Mr.. Hopkins says,
if he had voted against Reed Smoot he would have
voted with the Democrats
Is it fair for him to say that it is party question:
when no party caucus was ever held on that sub
ject? know something about the proceedings there,
and it is practice of the Republican party to hold
a caucus for the consideration of party questions,
to which all Republicans invited. No such eau
Gus was ever held to seat Reed Smoot. And let
say to you now gentlemen that no party, Re
publican or Democratic, will dare go through the
country with one of the panks of its platform
dorsing the seating of Reed Smoot party policy.
You can't carry this county on that platform, you
can't carry this district that PLATFORM you can't
carry this State on that PLATFORM and you can't carry
any State in the United States that platform,
except Utah.
How can Mr. Hopkins, with any degree of pro-
prety and frankness, say that this is party ques
ton, when the majority report, which was in favor
of unseating Reed Smoot, was a Republican COM
mittee?
But ladies and gentlemen, he says that President
Roosevelt had sent him a letter congraulating him
upon his bravery in voting for what he, Mr. Hop
that letter The President doesn't say that he would
have voted for Reed Smoot had he been there. He
congratulated Mr.. Hopkins, and gives him state
ment that he believes Mr. Hopkins honest in his
vote, Isn't it a remarkable thing, ladies and gen
t1emen that he should ask any such endorsement
from the President? Every Senator there who voted
him, could have had the same kind of letter from
President Roosevelt if they had applied for it.
Isn't it remarkable that when Mr.. Hopkins found
he had made a mistake by offending 80 per cent
of the and women of his constituents he i'm
nediately ran and crawled under the Presidential
coat-tas and said please, Mr. President, give
me certificate OF character that may take back to
the people of Illinois"
Ladies and gentlemen, the President wrote an
other letter on this subject, 1t more than a
letter-it was message to Congress. He asked Mr..
the fact Congress could not prohibit polygamy
in Utah because it State, that they might
submit to the people amendment to the Consti-
tuition so that Congress could tear out this great
crime of slavery.
The President used this language in that message
read an extract from the Presidents message ask
ing that Congress be given power to stop polygamy
within the States:
st is neither safe proper to leave the
question OF poygamy to be dealt with by
certain States When home ties loos-
ened when men and women cease to regard
healthy family life as the best worth living,
then evil days to the common
wealth"
This is plea by the President to the Senate Of
the United States to give him power to stop poyg-
amy where he is now power1ess If polygamy has
been practically stopped since the manifesto why in
the name of common sense did Theodore Roosevelt
ask for increased power in Congress to stop
that crime? He begged Congress in this message,
during last Congress, to give him the power to stop
polygamy, and Mr. Hopkins answers the Presidents
request by seating of the twelve apostles, and
the leading teacher of the doctrine of polygamy,