The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-11
Has Bricks Thrown by His News
paper at Colonel Roosevelt,
and Says He Enjoys 1t.
BAD TASTE SHOWN in
EXPOSING TED'S ILL-MANNERS
Apostles Senator Still Smarting
Under Uncle Jesse's
Provo Speech.
BY MAC.

M0St people Will De surprised W seo
Smoot shying bricks into tho Roose-
welt camp, but those who understand
the local situation expect nothing diff
ferent
The only use that the leaders of the
Mormon church have for GENTLE Is
to tie up with him under one preteXt
or another exhaust his energy and
manhood IN their welfare, and when
they have branded and humiliated him,
cast him aside for some one who can
render more immediate service. NO
man ever served another, who was nn-
worthy that service, more faithfully
and with greater injury TO himself,
than did Roosevelt serve Smoot. And
now that Mr.. Roosevelt is no longer
the dispenser of patronage, Smoot
goes out of his way to point out the
strenuous one S mistakes and offenses.
The latest attack Of the Smoot
Mouth on Roosevelt was nm edI-
torial in its Saturday impression on
the Hamilton club affair. 1t is Il very
good editorial. too. and from the stand
point of civic dcccncy, II IS very much
to the point.
But it comes in bad taste for Sen
ator Smoot, through his newspaper, to
adversely criticisc Theodore Roosevelt
for anything. Roosevelt has truckled
to Smoot. lie accepted entertainment
in which he touched elbows with the
chief criminal of this intermountaln
country. He has sustained Smoot,
knowing that Smoot was hand-in-glove
with many who have even defied the
senate Of The United States. More
than any other man, Roosevelt folsted
Smoot upon this country, and without
Roosevelt s support. Smoot would
never have been In position to become
a tool of Aldrich and others
Now, however, Smoot has denounced
the Hamilton club committee as
craveus" and "cowards' for the
reason they acted on the imperious in
sistencc OF Colonel Roosevelt 10 with
draw the invitation extended to
United States senator who is mem
Der of the club. because, forsooth,
some men are said to have purchased
the support of Democratic legislators
in order to further the interests Of
Mr.. borimer S campaign,
it was a cowardly thing 10 do, hut
the man who made towards and
cravcns of the members of that com
mittee was none other than Senator
Smoot's staunchest friend. Had not
Roosevelt demanded that the members
such a level that their act Is unspeak-
able, considered in the light of far
play and honest treatment, they would
now have the respect of the country,
instead of its contempt.
But 1T wasn't up to Senator Smoot S
to Join IN pointing out the
Elk President IS bad manners.
Smoot, Sutherland, Callistcr and
others, who speak through the g Hem
orrhage.' find themselves "in bad -
lican party Callistcr wanted Pin
cbot's scalp because, being sheep man
whose bands ravish the plains of Wyo-
ming, it is TO his interest to have
state control where he can make graz
ing deals with officials who owe their
election TO the hierarchy which he so
faithfully serves. But Roosevelt is
friend OF 'Pinchot' s and TO be anti
necessarily means TO be anti
Roosevelt
Bcvpridge. Doliver, Cummings,
Bristow. La Toilette and others OPP
posed Aldrichism and Cannonism rs
to the welfare of this country.
Smoot, Sutherland and Howell voted
for tho series Of measures
by the champions of the pro
tectcd manufacturers of New England,
But Beveridge and others were de-
uounced by Smoot' IS newspaper as
Now comes Roosevelt espousing the
same cause that Bcvcridge, La Toilette |
and others have espoused, which puts
him precisely, III the estimate of
Smoot's newspaper, in the same atti- |
5ude as were the insurgept senator's |
He, too, is traitor. lie, too, should |
be read out of tho party.
In fact. it is stated that Smoot |
ylories in his newspaper IS attitude, and !
ndorses it in toto.
Thus is the fate of every man who
serves such political scamps and ad,
1enturcrs rs the lengthy, unworthy
,ne from the Garden City.
Mr., Roosevelt can no longer con-
claim that he is an apostle of
'air-play. His treatment of Senator
Iorimer (who is not on trial. but mere.
Y accused) is not such as is credita BILE
% any one whose slogan is fairplay
Ind honesty. Roosevelt merely voiced
he sentiments of Lorimer's IS political
He tried and convicted Lori
ner and pilloried him Mt time espe-
ially prejudicial to Lorimer's cause.
No fair man will do such thing. But
Roosevelt IS critics in this event should
lot be those who have used him to
erve them in discreditable work.
Two years ago. Uncle Jesse Knight,
n n speech at Provo, made it very clear
hat Senator Smoot had got his start
II life by compelling employees to trade
t certain store where Smoot got a
al1e.off Of ten per cent of tho amount
f the purchase. Uncle Jesse did not
tate what he had heard but what he
new. This statement was made by
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