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Show t SENATOR KEARNS AND OTHERS. H H The Herald-Republican is beside itself with rage over the dis- 1 ( closures made by the Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune, as is well H known, is the most consistent Taft paper in Utah, but' on Friday j j that paper announced that the Federal bunch, having received word H m of an alarming nature from the East, was preparing to get on the j fence and drop over into the Roosevelt or Taft camp as further de- i velopments might prompt. Because the Tribune exposed the Fed- H eral bunch, the Herald-Republican has proceeded to read the M Tribune out of the Taft ranks. This is an old habit of that organ, m which has been reading prominent -people out of the Republican 1 . party for the past year or more. H This morning the Herald-Republican denounces former Senator m Thomas Kearns as a traitor to Taft and associates that gentleman M) with Wesley K. Walton of Salt Lake and Wm. Glasmann of Ogden in m the promoting of the Roosevelt campaign in Utah. Every one fa- m ( miliar with Utah politics knows that Thomas Kearns and Theodore m Roosevelt have been implacable enemies ever since Roosevelt aided H Smoot in the fight to retain his seat in the senate and that Kearns m is one of the most ardent Taft men in this state and, as owner of m the Salt Lake Tribune, has directed the policy of that paper in the M interest of his friend. When Taft was on his tour of the country m he sent a message to Kearns inviting the former senator to be his m guest in his journey through this state, and, Kearns responding, the H President and Kearns were inseparable during the President's0 stay H ' in uah- Notwithstanding this well-known fact, which in itself re- H futes the Herald-Republican charges, the organ of Hie Federal j bunch attempts to nullify the effect of the Tribune's expose by Hl accusing Kearns of secretly conspiring to aid Roosevelt H . Thc Herald-Republican denies that the Federal bunch is in l favor of an unmstructed delegation, and yet wherever the federal 1 officeholders were entrenchod, the delegates to the Provo conven- 1 tion were advised to avoid being instructed. t The publisher of the Standard certainly is not open to the Li -i - -' charge of oonspiring with Kearns, as tho Standard and Tribune havo been at variance on all important issueB in this campaign, The Standard has found tho Tribune to bo the most uncompromising Taft advocate in Utah, while this paper is recognized as tho most porsifltout supporter of Roosevelt in the intermountain country. Reading betweon thc lines of tho Herald-Republican editorial, we find evidence of a desiro on the part of tho men back of that paper to revive the American party in Salt Lake by driving Kearns out of thc Republican party. While the American party was in existence, the members of thc Federal bunch could appeal to strong influences to aid in their struggles for office, but of late the officeholders have been forced to stand on their own footing and mako their own. fights and their power has been waning. If they again could make thc American party a dreaded issuo, their political star might once more be In the ascendant. |