The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-30
A SWAT" FOR MORRIS,

The Smoot morning organ in this city
Is especially vicious against Nephi L.
Morris and also against all the prohibi
| tiou Republicans in Utah. II calls
them ''moral towards and covers them
With vituperation and abuse. 1t was
particularly snarling against Ncphi l..
! Morris IN its yesterday mornings dou-
bic column editorial. 1t did moi name
Mr.. Morris to be sure, but il referred
| to him Just as surely as IL it had named
him. Referring to the charge that was
made IN the Republican prohibition
convention OF 1909, the Smoot organ
made this denupciation:
There were men who sat and heard
Senator Shoots words who had hired
The salt Lake Thcater for meeting
TO denounce tho leaders of the Rcpub-
lican party in Utah. and mouth the
charges that the leaders had sold out
the party to the liquor interests OF the
state These were tho men who had
concocted tho charges. and not only
voiced Themselves wherever and when
but they had their dcluded followers re-
peat them here and there throughout the
State.
There were also men in that conven-
charges In the lower house OF the Utah
Legislature al its last session. They
repeated them from the floor; they were
careful, too, to repeat them where and
when there was no one to answer them.
They heard Senator Shoots denial OF
the lie and his denunclation Of those
who manufactured II. Yet they said
nothing.
Again continuing its attack upon
Morris and his prohibition friends, the
Smoot organ editorially says:
Where were the men who hired the
alter In order TO repeat their untruths
Ia6out the deal with the liquor men, a
plank In the Democratic State platform
just as surely as though they had act
ually penned it-where were these men
when Senator Smoot was dcnouncinG
them and their falsehoods from the chair
of the Republican State convention?
They were sitting on the convention
floor as chosen delegates or as holding
proxies. They were entitled to free
speech in the convention, They could
have gotten IL. Senator Smoot, who
permitted the widest possible latitude
would have given them run play. But
they did not want II. For the first time
the spcctcr Of ihcir own contumcly
faced them where they could talk and
it. Here was their opportunity TO reach
every Republican in Utah or his ac-
credited representative. They had had
enough.
President Morris, who was so point
edly referred TO in the above, is the
man who was especially active in the
call for the prohibition mass conven-
tion of February %, 1909. He was the
leading spirit in it; but it was big
and there were many speak
all-who gave a heart
and-sou support to the prohibition
cause, That convention was held as an
answer to the challenge of the Smoot
Mouth that there were no prohibi-
ton Republicans in Utah The thcatcr
was filed with shouting, earnest Re
publican prohibitionists, and Mr. Nor
ris was fully indicated in his claim
that under the leadership Of the Smoot
Mouth and the Republican bosses
Il prohibition campaign had been be.
gun and then deserted by the "Fcderal
bunch' after that bunch had fright
encd the liquor dealers into contribut-
ing some $4,000 for their campaign
expenses.
III Is possible that the big ecclcSlaStS
in the Mormon church have put the
snuifers on the Morris glm SO com
plctely that not even spark will come
from that heretofore electric transform
er; but it is hardly TO be supposed, even
If Morris is snuffed out, that he will
come ramping to the front as he did
two years ago, demanding that all of
his flock shall vote the Republican tick
ct on pain of being held to be "trators
to their church, If Morris is snuffed
out. let him be snuffcd out; but if so,
his light can hardly be kindled to serve
a cause alien to his mind and antapo-
nlstlc to his purposes, as the present
declaration of the church Republican
party on the liquor question certainly
must be this year