Show J SENTIMENT NO NOW 5 it A ALL FOR SMOOT E J i Senators Senator's Exposure of Kearns c. c t i f. Opens Eyes of Many People i. i t i TRIBUNE IS NOT BELIEVED 1 Baseless s Assaults s. on Character of Much Maligned Statesman No So Longer Find Credence j r Senator Reed Smoots Smoot's exposure of or Tom Toni Kearns and hi his villainous crew that are arc trying to ruin Utah because became the they cant can't rule had hall a remarkable ef- ef ef effect Following the speech to the tho magnificent rung mag i audience at the Salt L. I Lake e ef f theatre thousands read in yesterdays yesterday's s t papers an account of oC It a description of oC the splendid ovation given him and there was a great change of oC opinion f If current gossip on tho the streets discussions discussions discus discus- on the political rialto and personal personal per per- confidences count for tor anything There was a change e In the complexion complexion com corn of oC the situation as it affects Reed Heed Smoot Not only are nrc thousands of ot persons convinced that ho he has been placed before the public In an nn altogether alto alto- gether gethel wrong light politically but the they are arc certain that his personal character has been maligned and that his attitude toward the thc nation has been assailed without l Cl cause e. e What did you ou think of or Senator r Smoots Smoot's sido Ido of the tho story ston was asked ed scores of or persons on Salt Lake streets yesterday I I didn't know he had a side until I heard him last night was the re re- re ply I 1 know now that he has and z n. n between Ke Reams Kearns and Smoot dont don't give 1 me I Kearns earns Change Chall c of Opinion 3 l The wave of oC opinion that swept over Salt Lake showed to what damaging extent a newspaper can go goIn In In maligning the character of a public public pub pub- lic servant The people had been led t to believe that Senator Smoot was vas the greatest menace to the state of oC Utah I and the greatest enem enemy to the United States tates that this western country has hasa J a ever produced From the poisoned pulp it In III the tho Tribune the tho readers of oC that p paper per who read no other had been led to believe that there was no defense of ot and absolutely absolute no excuse for the existence of one Reed Smoot t. t Ills His story of oC the animus behind the attacks upon him his plain statement state state- t I ment of or the facts connected with Tom Torn Kearns Reams and ond his exposure of ot the repeated repeat repeat- ed attempts that person has made to grasp an any or all Influence to give him h power and seat In the United States q- q senate enate started the wave of or opinion I 7 1 c that has swept aside tho the deceptions and has hn placed him before the public In a a. new light t t I Wont Won't Stand for earn The public will not stand for tor Tom Torn i Kearns and his methods The Tho Tribune V fild and aul the party part leaders 14 c a k pt him In the background In on one breath tho the leaders of reform have said Mid that there would be an party palt If It there were no rio and In the other othel they the have i asked for tor his mone money and spent it like a lot Jot of oC drunken en sailors Not a single officeholder under the present city administration would be beholding beholding holding office toda today If It It were Tom Torn Kearns There would be be no George Sheets at the head of ot a 1 rotten police pollee department there would be bo no grafting city treasurer no Incompetent officials handling the money or tho the business of the taxpayer T There ere would be no and there would be beno 0 no riO general of oC the character charac charac- ter tel of Utah's men and women When Then the people understand that Itis it itIs Is Kearns who is the American l party that It Is Kearns who pays pas the ther freight to satisfy his own personal J r- r desires that It is Ig Kearns who Is re responsible re- re J. J for tor the unrest and that it Is about Kearns that scores of disI disgruntled dis dis- I politicians are arc rallying merely merely merey mere mere- ly y to serve personal ends endS then then there is nothing that can stop a change of opinion nothing that can prevent a I public awakening |