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Show A FOOLISH DISPATCH. On Monday morning last the Tribune had a long dispatch from Washington which stated that two years ago Apostle Smoot had an interview with Chairman Payne of the Republican Executive Committee, ex-Chairman Hanna, and R. C. Kerens of St. Louis, in which the apostle was advised that it would not be good for him to be a candidate for I Senator. One would think that the Tribune would H be a little shy about publishing dispatches of that If kind, for long ago a little bird brought the facts n touching that interview. Mr. Smoot was a pro. nounced candidate. It is understood that at that time Mr. R. C. Kerens was negotiating with the H then President of the dominant Church of tih H to secure the place for Mr. Thomas Kearns of If this city. The negotiations were favorable, but U the apostle was half inclined not to stand out of f the way unless positively ordered to, and Presl. dent Snow did not wish to make that order. When the matters of finance were arranged, Mr. Kerens went East, and shortly afterward the Apostle Avas invited East for a conference. The details of the meeting are not public, but the final outcome of it was that the Apostle waived his candidacy for two years, and made a close alliance with the t Honorable Thomas Kearns a church and ma. chine combine, which included the purchase of the two morning papers, a hard thing to throw ' down in Utah. But the then President of the I Church was called home, and his successor, while 1 1 ready to carry out the principal political bargains ( of his predecessor, was not inclined to ratify a i compact in which his predecessor was not a prin. I cipal, hence the machine part was ignored in the r r conventions this year. Smoot legislators were H nominated and elected and after election the H Apostle could not see his way clear to promise his H support to our junior Senator two years hence. 11 Hence the heart-burning. So when Ed Loose went 11 East to interview the President, in the interest I! 0f his friend, the Apostle, it was natural for our II junior Senator to take him to the White House, l introduce him and to overhear the conversation there, then to accidentally steer Loose against B Hanna and get an expression from him and then H to cause a dispatch to he flashed West that both the President and the Ohio Senator thought it most inexpedient for Mr. Smoot to be a candidate. Which only shows that our junior Senator is looking look-ing to his own fences with the purpose of barb-airing barb-airing any weak places in them, and, incidentally incidental-ly to head off any mavericks which might attempt to poach upon his preserves. But some bad advisers were listened to when the Monday's dispatch was prepared for Mr. Haynes to send West. Again the lugging in of the statement that President Pres-ident Cleveland opposed Apostle Moses Thatcher and defeated him, was in bad taste, because at the time Mr. Thatcher was not an Apostle and was, apparently, making a gallant fight to Americanize Utah. The memory of it all Is vastly fresher to thousands of people here than it is to our junior Senator, hence the sending of the dispatch shows a lack of forethought which is inexplicable. The whole dispatch was a mistake. |