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Show TRUTH. How commendable, patriotic and Not a bit of it The people know him too well to be deceived and are j American! satisfied to vote according to their I, ' Issued Weekly by political convictions. Am the American party, Truth Publishing Company. I, Tom Kearns. Western Newspaper Union Ruilding, 241 which in remain more days is, i am all of It South West Temple Street, Only six Luke Salt City. he voters of the state may decide how Thats worth considering. These You bet! John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager. hey will cast their ballots. About all the others, ast days and hours of a national cam' Including Frank Cannon, Kntered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake Cuy, Utah, as second class matter, under Act ag j say aign are the days and hours when of Congress of March S, 1879. most is They are willing to calm and sober judgment Terms of Subscription. needed It is the time when you should Jump on the Mormons $2.00 ONE YEAR (In advance) 1.00 arguments pre- SIX MONTHS (In advance) weigh all the 75 THREE MONTHS (In advance) sented to you In the scale? of reason rp0 gee me Postmasters sending subscriptions to refuse to he governed I stirring up a storm and raising h- - 1 and steadfastly sub25 cent of TRUTH may retain per I About church influence. or guided by prejudice. scription price as commission. don t know what a mrble But All through this campaign there has If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for, the publicat'on been a persistent effort on the part They gave me should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. of the American speakers and when I humbled myself and pleaded their apology for a newspaper to split For a revelation Discontinuances. perpetuate my power. Remember that the publisher must be nothe Republican party by reviving dead tified by letter when a subscriber wishes senator. issues. his paper stopped; all arrears must be Is Kearns a great man, measured paid in full. that the i effort will now be him. or politi service, by public eloquence 1 their new have to politi-So subscribers I last dying hours of Kearns' Requests of cal generalship? paper mailed to a new address, toassecure decided Have filled ever wen cal child will be more than former attention, mnt to well He in the used known Mermens be as present address. wild cries and frenzied threats, with as a rough-hous- e fight We ask the voters of Utah to take Address all communications to TRUTH mining camps Tliey Lake Salt er. Later he COMPANY, gained considerable no- these utterances for what Must get off the earth. they just Utah. City, toriety as the central figure in some are: the I rvaporings of wrath because racy scandals. These got his picture Tom Kearns did not The newspapers and the Russian get a "cinch on into the papers and caused many to a second term in the senate. diplomats give Monsieur Delcasse, the know that he was able to pay damAll of these false, malicious charges French foreign minister, the credit for Suppose an honest, intelligent man, ages. But four months before he was Anglo-Rusia- n war. Its a total stranger to local political con- elected he was never ever dreamed of of incompetency, fraud and favoritism I r verting an 11 The only, thing a mistake. that are daily raked over the coals In r ditions, should drop into Salt Lake as a senatorial possibility. ' an averted the K. Ks. hot air furnace would never that today and 'seek to gather such inforWhy does this 'American party the mation as would enable him to form make such bitter attacks upon the have been heard of if Kearns had not I war, If it is averted, was been turned down by the voters of weakness of Russia, in a material way an unbiased estimate of this cam Mormon church? and also in the rightfulness of her paign. Some of the Mormons voted for Utah. The greatest of poets wrote: Hell I cause, principally the former. If he first encountered some of the Kearns and now he is angry because no fury like a woman scorned, I eia has more than she can cope with "American party leaders, say Joe they are unwilling to do so again. was before Kearns gave his I in the Japanese. The act of the that but LIppman or George Nye for Instance, Are the of the state of the depths to which rian admiral with his war ships in a summary of their statements would standing with this Kearns party? in his ignorant ambition could iig on a few English fishing smacks is read about like this: Very few of them. . The wisest am Rus-hiI In line with previous acts of the "Nearly all the Mormons, who are ablest Republicans of the state have stoop because the people have found I out and refuse to take him at his sians In attacking English merchant In the majority in Utah, and most of always been disgusted with his Httle false rhips and ships of other neutral the Gentiles are either stupid fools or tin god policy and have re I always powers in the hope of starting a world wicked hypocrites. Such of the peo- fused to form a part of his machine. I . war and that in the general mix-uple as are really intelligent and paIs It really true that the Mormon One of the strong points in the Rusgla would gave herself from the triotic belong to the "American par leaders tell their people how they K. K. organa tirade against the pres-- 1 jTnnminy of being whipped by little ty. Nearly everybody In Utah Is either must vote? ent county administration is a half-- lapan and be enabled to perpetuate the tool or the dupe of the Mormon Not now. In the years before Utah column howl about the injustice of Ler system of tyrannical government, leaders, who are the meanest men on had statehood and the hand of almos abatements of realty taxes. It makes I most wicked and most execrable in earth. every Gentile was raised against the the unqualified statement that no real-- 1 the world. "The Hon. Senator Thomas Kearns Mormons, they naturally stood to- ty tax should ever be abated, and I who is generously and condescending- gether in political affairs. When the pledges Its candidates, if elected, to I Thus far the Democratic party counteof his the ly lending light I people of Utah divided on party lines see that this policy is carried out. reems to consist entirely of statements nance and the use of his check book the Mormons proved Just as And so the Tribune crowd, the pa- - hi the negative. We have been told loyal as to the 'American' party, was once any other class of citizens. The s I polit- triotic (?), gang that what Parker will not do. if he is Pres-hawilling to permit the Republican party ical complexion of the state has a staked Its life, property and sac-I- j lent, and what the party will not do to use hi3 name as their senator, hut times shown same changes, but It has al- red honorV to the end that Utah's wel- - if it gets into power, and at the he wants the whole world to know tha ways been true that a majority of fare may be permanently injured, is t'me we have been given to under he is too great a man to stay in any Gentiles were on the winning ticket now willing to rob the poorest, most I ctand that Parker is: a good, strong party unless he can be a law unto Mormon voters have elected helpless widow in Salt Lake of her I yian, who will do something, hut not himself. In fact, there is no one else and loyal Gentiles vote for Mor- home! the things which Roosevelt has done. in history whose "untiring efforts mons, knowing that they are just as The Tribunes manager well knows I But Inasmuch as the things which have been so much talked about as good citizens as anybody else. that there are many aged persons In I Roosevelt and the Republican party those of Senator Kearns. Why, then, does Kearns make such this city who have no means of sup-- have done and propope to do in the "But the truth is that most of the serious charges the Mormon port save four or five dollars against per future cover a surprisingly butt people in Utah are too d ignorant to church? to month that they receive from the would be interesting it rround, appreciate our senators greatness He tried by every means within his county. Many of these old folks own I know what the evolutions of P and he has founded the 'American' power to get the leaders s of the church their humble little forbidden tern-tagecot-this outside would he small homes, for the of party purpose educating to take a1 hand in jthis campaign am that they acquired in theirltory. them up to his ideas of how to boss aid his candidacy. When they younger and more prosperous days. I a political machine. to do so he bolted the Republi The pitance these aged men and wo-After the seeker for the truth abou can ticket and The shriekings of the K. K. organ instructed the editor men receive from the county is hardly I rrow m0re strident as- the campaign Utah politics had had a little time to of his newspaper to attack the Mor- enough to buy the barest necessaries of draws to a close. It raises the cry ponder over these statements o: mons as hard as he knew how." of life, it is an absolute Impossibility I rottenness and boasts what its can facts (?) he would probably be so What does Kearns hope to gain by for them to save anything for taxes. I didates will do if the .voters will only deeply impressed that he would con this policy? But the K.;K. gang its candi- - Live them a chance. $Yet only a few elude to make a few additional in Nothing at. all. He Is simply an- dates. ,if elected to pledges sell the roof from Chort months ago the- - Tribune was quiries. xious to wreck the. Republican party over the heads of these 8uppose that the stranger then worthy indig-- 1 praising the able, wise and efficient Utah because be cannot rule It. ents, who, at the best, have only a few I administration questioned some non partisan "tndect of the Republican 'Win b succeed?". left an earth. officials TRUTH of local affairs, who had been here enough to understand existing conditions and who had no favors to seek at the hands of any party or faction. The conversation then would be along these lines: "What is this 'American party? A small body of men who are try-n- g to defeat the Republican party in Utah, well knowing that they have no show to elect the men that they have nominated. Who is the chief leader and sup- porter of the movement? Thomas Kearns. Who is he? An Irish miner who stumbled into an Immense fortune and whom the people of Utah foolishly made their , I so-eaU- ed i -- d; rm-ntio- - . . Anglo-Russia- n . Rns-hat- h on non-Mormo- ns fir-h- e, m self-valuatio- n. - p . self-sacrifici- ng -- non-Mormo- ns 1 -- re-fus- ed 1 - , -- mr 'county U I Mi 0 |