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Show The Gentile Agitation. Mourn, Mr. Smoot, at last unsmiling fate Has susurated you with one fell swoop; For while wrath senatorial storms the gate We too have executed one grand coup; Great Nelson, of the bittern-tinctured quill, And Walter Meeks, with medals on his breast, Have raised a clarion whoop that will not still And with wide, weighty baritones protest. For Thomas K. perked in his boughten seat Looked not with joy upon the lofty Reed; Said he: "I'll hasten Mr. Smoot's retreat I'll see If I can't make a bluff succeed; So Thomas used his frank and Nelson read The message with a heaving diaphragm; And forthwith urged all Gentiles to protest In strict accordance with the telegram. While the Gentiles are fomenting their indignation indigna-tion over misdoings of the Mormon leaders and bestrewing the theater of their wrath with fiery resolutions, it is almost possible to hear the saturnalian chuckle of T. Kearns behind the scenes. All this volume of smoke vapors from the pipe lighted by the senior senatbr, and Is intended in-tended to obscure something as politically vicious as the subject of the present upheaval is morally moral-ly vicious. The entire plan for a great local anti-Mormon display bears the ear-marks of having hav-ing been evolved at Washington and transmitted to the Tribune, where the campaign was opened, with the peerlees plumes of Colonel Nelson at the head of the insurgents. This harmonizes very well with Mr. Kearns' tactics ever since division came 'twlxt the souls of him and Smoot, just before the Provoite was elected. The scheme was to waylay the apostle in the interests of either David Keith or Perry Heath. In order to do that, Mr. Kearns prepared pre-pared to launch a magnificent bluff on the church. He gathered all the evidence possible about polygamous marriages and unlawful cohabitation, co-habitation, and armed with this bevy of ammunition ammuni-tion prepared to fusllade the church president until he acceded to the Senator's ambitions. He even went so far as to telegraph for John Henry Smith to join him- at Washington. The Apostle was there shown the artillery and informed that it would begin speaking if the church did not reverse re-verse its front and head off Smoot. That bluff did not work. The Tribune then started a weighty bombardment of the church, which was bluff number two. The idea was to terrify the church into acquiescence with his program. Had that been effective, Mr. Kearns was to dispense with Mr. Heath as manager of The Tribune, and place in control of the organ some faithful member of the flock, like Ben Rich. And now bluff number threB is being actively operated. "Pledge yourselves," Tom says in effect ef-fect to the church "to send me back to the Senate Sen-ate this fall, and I will use my influence for a favorable report in the Smoot case, give you the Tribune and put a quietus on this Gentilo organization." organ-ization." The majority of the Gentile who honestly joined forces in the movement seem to have been deceived by Iago Kearns. It is merely a foil which is operating as he anticipated, in diverting di-verting attention from one of the main Issues of the present investigation, the unlawful Intrusion Intru-sion of the Church in politics. That is a point upon which the shifty Senator shows great delicacy, deli-cacy, because there never was so flagrant an example ex-ample of church interference In politics as the plot which sent 'Mr. Kearns to the Senate. Therefore, as hereinbefore stated, while the atmosphere is being rent with exclamations of Gentile wrath, the gleeful chuckle of T. Kearns is wafted from behind the scenes. |