smoot

Updated: May 21, 2025

I hope that you are not going to be found warring against the Lord's anointed." "Mat," I replied, "you have already pointed out that Apostle Smoot appears in politics only as an American citizen. For the purposes of this fight and to avoid the consequences that you fear I'll regard him as a politician merely, and fight him as such."

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

Senator Smoot retained his seat. During recent years the Church has been growing both at home and abroad. Property is being acquired in many parts of the world, and mission houses are being erected. Carthage Jail, in Illinois, the farm containing the birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and a large part of the Temple grounds at Independence, Missouri, have been purchased by the Church.

Nephi Anderson - A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Smith runs, or at least hires, the man who runs the factory. That does not make him an authority on the Constitution of the United States, nor on the effects \of the Fordney tariff. Mr. Smoot runs the Republican party in the State of Utah. That in itself does not prove he is the best man to consult about taxation.

Walter Lippmann - Public Opinion

President Roosevelt's opposition to Apostle Smoot, for whatever reason, changed to favor. The character and impulses of the President were of a sort to make him peculiarly susceptible to an appeal for help on the part of the Mormons. He had lived in the West. He knew something of the hardships attendant upon conquering the waste places.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

A Lieutenant Smoot, one of the ferry pilots who had flown up one of the Nieuports, sought to ease the pain caused by his own lowly calling by taunting Tex Yancey an extremely dangerous pastime, for Tex had a ready tongue. "When you buckoes have washed out these planes," he said, "the Old Man will see the error of his way and send us up to do the real flying.

Covington Clarke - Aces Up

Moreover, the band operated in politics as a religious organization, and the constitution of the United States protects a man in his right of religious freedom! While these disclosures of the Smoot investigation were shocking the sentiment of the whole nation, the Prophets carried on the conspiracy of their defense with all the boldness of defiant guilt.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

Congress must not alone cleanse itself of Smoot; it must go forward to methods that shall save the politics of the country from a least of Mormon interference, and the aroused womanhood of the land should compel Congress to this work. He who would hold his house above his head must mind repairs, and the word is quite as true when spoken of a country. Alfred Henry Lewis. New York City,

John Doyle Lee - The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite

The charge that Smoot, as an apostle of the Church, had been responsible for polygamous cohabitation was as easily disposed of, by the minority report.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

Of course, throughout the campaign that followed, the Church's newspapers and many of its political workers kept protesting publicly that the election of the Republican legislative ticket did not mean the election of Apostle Smoot to the Senate.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

For it seems that, after the result of the election was known, Lincoln visited a friend, Coleman Smoot, and said: "Did you vote for me?" "I did," replied Smoot. "Then," said Lincoln, "you must lend me two hundred dollars!" This seemed a peculiar sequitur, for ordinary political logic would have made any money that was to pass between voter and candidate move the other way.

John Torrey Morse - Abraham Lincoln, Volume I