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Show THE TRIBUNE BOLT AGAIN. Senator Kearns evidently thinks he knows what 'he is about. Possibly he does, but The Republican Repub-lican believes he is making a mistake. In bolting bolt-ing 'the Republican State ticket, The Tribune, Mr. Kearns' paper, can have but one object in ew to force, if possible, his return to the Senate. The senior Senator evidently believes there is an undue un-due combination against him, and by his fig t on Smoot, against the Church ahd the State ticket, he hopes to force that influence into a more favorable fav-orable attitude Mr. Kearns has plenty of money, a certain following and in his disappointment and determination may be able to kick up such a row as to accomplish his point, if indeed there is a co -bination against him. It is said that Mr. Kearns Is fletermined to rip Utah wide open, that Goodwin Good-win is to go hack to The Tribune's editorial staff, that the Smoot case is to be reopened with a vigor that has not characterized It heretofore, that this state is to be subjected to such an upheaval as will set all others in the shade, unless Mr. Kearns is given the assurance that ho will have a square deal in the selection of legislative candidates. Whether Mr. Kearns and The Tribune can accomplish accom-plish ail this is a matter of conjecture, of course, but if 'tis true that the main stipulation of Mr. should buy The Tribune and stop its fight against the Mormon people, then it is not unreasonable to suppose that The Tribune cpuld at least becone very obnoxious at this time if its owners deemed It desirable. Granting for the sake of argument that Mr. Kearns's paper can do all it Is now intimated will be done, could this not be done to bette advantage ad-vantage after election than before? By making the fight before election The Tribune endangers the Slate ticket, endangers the election of a Republican Re-publican Congressman, and injures the national ticket to which it claims to be loyal. And what do the Tribune and Mr. Kearns gain by this? Absolutely nothing but the contempt. of the loyal 4 Republicans of this State. No one loves or appreciates appre-ciates a bolter and by letting his personal grievance griev-ance jeopardize In oven a small way the success of the Republican state and national ticket, Mr. Koaras drives from him those who would be his Iriends. The Leislnture will select Mr Kearns's successor. suc-cessor. Why do not Mr. Kearns and The Tribune Tri-bune join in the fight to elect Republicans to that legislature, and then if he is still satisfied that there is an undue combination against him let him turn his batteries loose. If there is an influence which can give. Mr. Kearns today what he asks, ,m then there is an influence that can give him what he asks after election Why ask It now, and being refused, promulgate a fight that make's him a despicable de-spicable bolter and makes possible, if not probable, prob-able, the fruitlessness of the endeavors of thousands thou-sands of honest Republicans in the State o" Utah. Senator Kearn's persistency in this fi 1 1 at the preent time is the mistake of his life. Logan (Utah) Republican, September 10, 1904 |