The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
REED SHOOTS WORK IS
 OF THE GILT EDGE BRAND
Senator and Mormon Apostle Shoot Lays His Plans to Get Taft to Take Part in Exercises in
 the Tabernacle.
BY AFFORD HENRY LEWIS.


 Salt Lake City, September 25.-(Special) Bishop Nusser died here yesterday. He had 20 sons, 15 daughters. four wives. give you this by way of bit of local color.
 Salt Lake Is the best town I have yet visited. It welcomed me warmly at $15 day
 MT. Tafts programme for today has been full of stir. He breakfasted at the Commercial club, made a dash for the lake,. dashed back, attended organ cital at the Mormon tabernacle given in his honor and from which the hydra headed was barred Lunched and swat ted the ball about the links at the Coun- try club, shook hands with the hydra headed for two hours at Liberty park and An-. Ohio societies and Yale graduates ae the University club. He was this afternoon at the Alta club, re- posing from his labors.
 The gentle half of the community is trying hard to look pleasant and trade smile for smile with MT. Taft.
 That his stop-over at Provo, however, and the Taft talk in the Provo Mormon tabernacle under the protecting pinion of the senator-apostle Reed Shoot made it difficult piece of work That he will deliver an address to Sunday school chil- dren at the Salt Lake Mormon t.eber- nacle tomorrow Sunday makes it harder still.
 Sacred Tabernacle.
 No one not to the manner born can know the attitude toward the tabernacle of the common Mormon mind. It Is sa- cred ground. He cannot conceive of ah enemy entering it. To appear in its pull pit, whatever the subject in hand, is to the Mormon an indorsement Of all he thinks and says and does.
 The Tribune is the important morn ing paper In Salt Lake City politics the parties in are Mormon and American The Tribune is of the latter. For all that 1t is mild temperate and just now greatly apologetic so far Mir Taft Is concerned, being with the balance of Salt Lake City, that of the Presidents host.
 AS telling much better than could the local feeling let me quote from this morn- ing's Tribune:
 "Apostle-Senator Reed Shoot, regarded as the principal figure among those con stituting the general state committee to receive and entertain President Taft, would have found his present political honor 10 pc inlpOSSlDle Ol dcHltNcIutHl were 1t not for his priestly authority as an apostle. Had it not been for the ex- ercise of high ecclesiastical influence in the political activities of this state, Pres- ident w. H. Taft would never have had for a companion on this important event of his career one who represents and I countenances so much that is abhorrent Shoots Confession. 'Smcot confessed to the Senate com W Wmittee on privileges and elections that he considered it his duty as a citizen to gain the consent of superior ecclesiast be- fore he would attempt to exercise his political rights. He testified that the in dividual to whom he applied for this per- mission was a breaker of the law of the land. Shoot has made no effort to con- ceal the fact that he is the mere tool and creature of Joseph F. Smith, law breaker and curser of United States of ficials, man who had repeatedly advised people of Utah to go and get arms and ammunition and be prepared to drive out the federal authority then existing here. In every way imaginable Shoot has dis regarded the dignity of the Senate by the brutal assumption of a self-confessed bogus prophet and well-known polygam- ist There can be no wonderment over the fact that Shoot does not perform his duty as a senator of the United States. his On1c6 Wnlcn nS reBdTuS dS inIeTlor to ms office as an apostle, and both are subordi- nate to one self-confessed criminal. It is the chief regret that this man, who makes no secret of his defiance of the state of Utah, the United States and God Almighty, has been able to thrust Shoot his sponsor and supporter, before the world, upon the attention and compan- ionship of the chief magistrate of the nation to which the principal and subordi- Hate DrfQ n a hofh
 Shoots Fine Work.
 '"rhe programme \ Crafts reception) seems to have been arranged under the manipulation of Apostle Shoot. largely with the view of giving the appearance to the Mormon people that President Taft countenances polygamy by reason of his consenting to appear among the polygam- fists in their great tabernacle little recognition of this kind goes long way with the Mormon dupes, and 1t gives a basis for an immense amount of impu- dent claims on the part of the Mormon writers and speakers. If anyone should say that polygamy Is obnoxious and that polygamists are unrecognized ip good so- ciety the immediate reply would be that the President, whose dictum and action upna this question Is beyond dispute, had given. his sanction to polygamy and poly ganf1sts by appearing in the new taber- nscle in company with polygamists. under their auspices and in apparent con1ona- ton of their filthy practices. undoubted- ly 1t was to the achievement of this end that Apostle Shoot, no doubt melted by the inner circle of the polygamists, arr rai ged the programme so as to capture President Taft for a tabernacle address &l Sunday for there Is nothing dearer to the polygamist's heart than to have sone- thing like to say in extenuation or miti- gallon of his vile affront to civilization.
 Protest of Ministers. ''Yrhe protest of the Christian ministers N2f thia city to President Taft caused