Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-08
Mormon Senator Smoot of Utah
Persists In Being Candidate
for Reelection
HE REFUSES TO SURRENDER
Will Give UP Neither Religion Nor Job
Without a Fisht-senator suther-
land, His Colleague, Opposes Shoots
Return-RecentIy Active in LesisIa-
ton.

Especial Washington Correspondence
| Washington, July S.-Senator Reed
Smout, Of Utah. has determined to be
senate and has so announced to the
voters Of his state His candidacy
promises to arouse an animated fight
! in Utah and has already made an in
teresting situation as between Smoot
and his colleague, Senator Sutherland.
| Senator Smoot Is an apostle of the
Mormon church, as is well-known to
| those who gave attention to the efforts
| TO eXpel him from the senate. Senator
| Sutherland, who lis the head of the
| leading law firm of Salt Lake City, and
whose relations with the Mormon
church are good, altho he himself Is
not Mormon. does not believe 1T right
| for Smoot, while an apostle OF the
He stood by Smoot in opposition to
(! the movement for his expulsion from
| the senate but he feels that Smoot
now should either give up his apostle
ship or should not seek to remain In
! the senate after this term.
! Senator Smoot, however, will not
give up the position of apostle In his
church and will not be diverted from
his purpose to secure reelection to
| ~, Al oiy,t nf Wiz ha
could not give up the apostleship to
run for the senate for the reason that
Mormons would at once raise the cry
| against him that he had given up high
honors of a spiritual kind for the sake
of gratifying worldly ambitions. He has
either to take the senate office and re-
| tain the apostleship or abandon the
senatorship His term will expire
| March 8, 1909. Until recently, Mr..
Smoot has been little heard from in the
senate While he was under fire in
consequence of the movement for his
| expulsion he did not obtrude himself
on the senate. except in so far as it
was absolutely necessary for him to do
so. He sat in his seat day after day,
attending the sessions regularly, but
not taking any part other than voting
| in the proceedings on the floor. Lately,
Senator Smoot has been more con-
spicuous in senate affairs and in the
last session addressed the senate on a
| number of important subjects.
AS chairman of the senate commit
tee on patents, Senator Smoot has a
great deal to do with the copyright
measure which is pending in congress.
He spoke last session in favor of cur
rency legislation and he had a large
share in trying to get legislation fo-
a 320-acre homestead
Senator Sutherland and Senator
Smoot are personal friends, but the
position taken by Sutherland may
lead to breach between them. If
Sutherland opposes tsmoot for the SEN
ate as he is expected to do, then
Shoots influence and perhaps that of
the whole Mormon church will 4 be
turned against Sutherland and when
he seeks reelection for the term be-
ginning March 4, 1911. Smoot will have
formidable opposition apart from any
course Mr.. Sutherland may take. A
number of candidates have put up SEN
atorial lightning rods. Ex-senator
Thomas Kearns is one of the men who
aspire to replace Smoot.
Sutherland, WHO is a young man as
senators go, being 46 years of age. is
one of several senators born outside of
the United States, and is the only one
born Of English parents. He came to
this country from Buckinghamshire,
England, but when still young. Suth-
erland looks the. typical. high class
Englishman, and 1t is often remarked
of him that II one met him In London
he might easily take him for member
of parliament. He is regarded as one
of the most promising of the younger
group of senators and his opposition
to .smoot succeeding himself while
remaining an apostle, is likely to at
tract good deal Of public notice to
him.
Should Smoot be reelected, there is
little Likelihood any further effort
would be made by the senate or any
contingent Of it to unseait him. No
doubt protests would go UP from some
quarters, but the senate got thorough
ly tired of the ISnoot case when it was
considered. 1t was shown that 1t was
practically impossible to muster suffi-
cient votes to force the Mormon sena-
tor out and on personal grounds, Mr..
Smoot Is we'll liked by his colleagues