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Show THE WITHDRAWAL OF KEARNS. Statecraft has received a stunning blow. Honorably Hon-orably Thomas Kearns has definitely announced that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself as United States Senator from Utah. Utah consequently con-sequently faces the greatest crisis of its history. And yet under these conditions, the ironical world moves on as of yore; the birds stih whisper vespers ves-pers amid the reddening leaves of autumn; the Stars and the aged sun gleam with the same ir-radlant ir-radlant luster; smiles glimmer on the faces of prattling innocents whos6 feeble intellects have not yet grasped the full scope of the calamity which has befallen us; and Little men of little soul Rise up to buy and sell again. Some of the details which led our Thomas to this doleful and crushing ultimatum are still withheld with-held from us, but we take it for granted that a terrible injustice has been done to the scholarly Park Cityite. Some of the aforesaid injustice has to do with a little trip to the east, from which the Senator returned a day or two before the recent re-cent convention which nominated Mr. Cutler for Governor. Something wont askew during the tr.p, E scoriae fire burned in the orbs of the Senator Kien he returned. The Denver papers at the time Ked that Mr. Kearns was there to -solicit the aid Beftain influential Coloradoans to assist him in Wm campaign for re-election. It would appear that Jrchey cruelly and heartlessly refused their assistance. It is rumored that Senator Kearns wanted some- 5 thing more to usurp the position of national com- Cw ! mitteeman from Utah, for instance, and to possi- I bly be given the distribution of the national committee com-mittee funds in Utah. In this, too, it would appear ap-pear that the husky Park Cityite fell in the ruck. So Thomas returned to our peaceful vales surcharged sur-charged with a mighty embargo of wrath. A day later Mr. Smoot's candidate for Governor Gover-nor was nominated, and Senator Kearns, still in the flaming hiatus of his mad indignation, ordered that the Tribune bolt the ticket. All that means but one thing that Kearns during his trip Bast had played his last card, and failing to receive the support" and recognition he solicited, knew j that his chance to be returned to the senate had sunk between the nether pastures and the deep sea. , A few days before that the Tribune had been friendly to Mr. Cutler and silent regarding the political activity of Senator Smoot, which was patent to everyone. Manager Lippman had even gone so far as to personally Inform Mr. Cutler and some of his political associates that he would support him if he were nominated for Governor. 1 Mr. Lippman appeared to be in good faith when he made this announcement, as he had done absolutely abso-lutely nothing in the interest of either Governor Wells or Secretary Hammond in their campaign for the Governorship. The change in the Tribune's policy came with the return of Senator Kearns and its subsequent . acrobatics are eloquent of the fact that during that I trip Senator Kearns was defeated in his plans and heard read the death sentence of his senatorial i ambitions. |