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Show A QUERY FOR JOE LIPPMAN. Now, Foxy Joe, you . aro at outs with tho Tribune. Of course you aro not a loser, financially, though Tom Kearns may bo . about ?1G,250 short bocauso of tho rupture between you. Why aro you at outs? Is It because, when Tom Kearns remarked to you, "President, Roosevelt Roose-velt can go plumb to h 1!" that you found It necessary to abandon tho Tribune gang In order to grasp at tho last straw to savo your" head as a Federal officer? You know all along that tho light on which tho formation and campaign cam-paign of tho "American" party aro based had only two elements, to-wlt: to-wlt: (I) Furious J. Cannon's hatred of Josoph F. Smith because the latter prevented tho aforesaid Furious J. from "skinning" tho Mormon church out of quarter of a million dollars on tho church bonds Issue; and (2) Tom Kearns' Insatiate appetite for rovongo on Joseph F. Smith because tho latter refused to use hfs church position' to Induce Mormon legislators to return tho aforesaid Kearns to the United States Senate. Your adherj enco to tho Kearns cause was merely for a cash consideration Kearns prcK vldlng tho cash. But now that Furl ous J. has "put your noso out of Joint," and has full swing over, Kearns' program, where aro you at?. What party will you go to? gj You mado a specific agreement with tho Department of Justice to publish a certain apology for tho Tri-J buno's vile and unlawful attack! on Land Commissioner Richards. Kearns refused to allow Its publico Hon. You had no alternatlvo but to pretend to break or break with! Kearns by retiring from, tho Tribune triumvirate, of whom, bad as you are"? you aro yet on tho sldo nearest that1 which is called decent. You know why you consented to publish that apology. You wero hold-' Ing a Federal appointment, given to' you as a Republican, and unless you mado It you would havo been removed. re-moved. You aro out of tho American party, by your action of severing your relations rela-tions with Tom Kearns, If you really havo severed them. Now, here Is our query, Joe; Aro you going to lino up with tho ltopubllcan party, whore your official position ns U. S. District Attorney places you, or aro you going to hang on to tho tall of tho "American" party and thus ratify Tom Kearns' refusal to' publish that apology, which you gavo your solemn word of honor Would bo published in tho Trlbuno? Tom Kearns and Furious J. havo got you coming, Joe, and tho Department Depart-ment of Justice has got you going, Joe. Surely, "tho way of tho trans-gressor trans-gressor Is hard." p It Is well known you had either to resign as United States district attorney at-torney or havo tho Trlbuno make retractions re-tractions for its libelous attacks on Land Commissioner Richards. The Tribune has refused, to retract after you had promised tho attorney general gen-eral to do so. You say you havo resigned re-signed tho management of tho Tribune, Tri-bune, and you hope by this action to retain your Federal position. Tho attack on Mr. Richards was made deliberately de-liberately and with your full knowledge. knowl-edge. A makeshift, a foxy Joe makeshift, make-shift, should not bo allowed to savo your official head. |