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Show Jm LOGAN LETTER. Logan, May 31: President Kerr's I hold on the state press is an easy problem since your oxposo of his tac- tics, and the people hero can readily see that with tho Tribune it Is a m case of church and tho Mormon hier- archy; with tho Herald politics; and I with tho News an attempt to show 1 that ho is tho finest ovor and that 1 tho collcgo would go to tho dogs if I ho were discharged. Further ho has tho Logan Journal because ho is a I Democrat, and it appears as though I ho has been successful in subsidizing I tho lessees pf tho Logan Republican 1 Fred Tumor and N. Ralph Moore. : Turner it will bo remembered is tho man with a political record. Ho was onco a Democrat, then a Republican, and now a Democrat again. Politically Politic-ally ho Is looked upon as tho Frank J. Cannon of Cache. Ho can get on more sides of a question than any man that ovor hit a trail; ho is a Judas Iscarlot of tho first water, and can bo ' handled for much less than thirty pieces of sliver. Moore is a tran-! tran-! clcnt who hit this country some two or threo years ago sockless and pen- j nlless. Ho is a warm friend of Rev. i Clemenson, who by tho way is Presl- ; dent Kerr's bosom friend and tho key- hole reporter of tho Salt Lake Trib-! Trib-! une. Fred Turner tho political notorious is again a Democrat I speak advls-j advls-j edly but before going further let mo I say that if Congressman Joseph Howell, How-ell, H. Bullen, Jr., Joseph Odell, W. H. Thaln, Thomas Smart et al. ovor did a disropufablo liolltical act it was when they permitted Fred Turner to got into tho councils of the Republican party. If ever there was a politician for rev-i rev-i onuo only, a being of selfishness ' through nnd through, a man without political honor and utterly void of principle, a polished schemer, and the most beautiful gold brick that ever was palmed off on an unsuspecting, unsus-pecting, honest, community it is this man Turner. J& JZ Now Turner has gono back to tho Democracy. Ho said ho would when ho turned his wonderfuK?) X-Rayson I tho disgruntled Democracy of Cache county, but it was not thought thon that ho could tell tho truth. Ho has evidently fooled tho community by bo-ing bo-ing truthful for once. Ho served two terms as sheriff at tho hands of the Democratic party, and was nominated for a third term. Tho flower of tho Democratic party would not follow the ring rule of which Turner was tho prettiest link savo perhaps President Presi-dent Kerr and revolted at tho polls, leaving him several hundred votes behind. be-hind. Ho saw his raco was run; ho saw tho declino and fall of Democracy Democ-racy in Cacho and quickly stopped into tho Republican party. In doing so, llko tho cheap wail of a dying rat, ho vented his spleen In a lengthy article castigating tho peoplo who revolted re-volted ngalnst him. Ho termed them "disgruntled Democrats," and to his faithful friends whom ho termed "Stralght-up Democrats," ho said "Grieve not, straight-up Democrats, that I am not with you, if I am not with you I will bo in hearing distance," dis-tance," etc. Two years ar . ho sought and received tho nomination for shor- Iiff on tho Republican ticket and made an aggressive, personal canvass, but met with a most crushing and humiliating humil-iating defeat. Tho honest, true, loyal citizens ho had belittled and maligned ma-ligned had left tho party of pretty theories and broken promises and had swelled tho ranks of tho grand old ; party of Lincoln, Grant, and McKIn- i ley. Their course was marked by con viction and principle, and when It : camo to solocltlng support from them , Turner was more than they could i stomach. He was credited with say- uhhf get through with them." On tho morn-ing morn-ing after election, on being asked if they were sick one of them replied: "Not so sick wo havo vomited." They had gono forwnrd In thought and action. It would bo stultification and contrary to American manhood to go backward by voting for Tumor, the Benedict Arnold. Their decision righteously prevailed, and Tumor's political career was a thing of tho past. Jt j There is nothing for hlni now In the Republican party, and ho has apparently appar-ently "kept within calling distance" and has returned to tho fold. President Presi-dent Kerr, one of tho "stralght-ups," has undoubtedly pressed tho button which called him back. As he is a man of many parties it is rumored that this stop is a short cut to the American party with his friends Moore and tho keyhole reporter. Bo that as It may, thoro is rejoicing in tho G. O. P. at his departure During his short stay with us ho has been a disturber, his hands always open, ready to receive, utterly opposed to giving, ready to stoop to any depths, even to tho sacrificing of faithful friends, to satisfy his selfish greed for tho loaves and fishes. As soon as his leaso on tho Logan Republican expires ex-pires his name and influenco will not bo as largo as tho minutest speck on tho surface of a pin head. Thoro Is thanks to tho Great Ruler that ho has gono, nnd multitudinous prayers that ho may never return. Tho meeting of tho board of trustees trus-tees In Salt Lake City was a sad thing for Presdent Kerr. It deprived him of having his favorite reporters F. J. Marshall, the muck artist of tho Logan Journal and N. E. CIomon?on of the Tribune on hand to roport tho meeting one at tho transom, tho other at tho keyhole. The Journal accuses Congressman Howell of attempting to drive a son of Cacho out of tho state. It takes as a sweet morsel tho attempt of tho egotistic ego-tistic president of tho college to drive two sons of Cacho out of tho state, both his equals, ono so far ahead of him educationally and otherwise that ho may never hope to reach him. Tho Logan papers aro making a great stand on President Kerr, while as a matter of fact ho has no support outsido of Iho Turner, Moore Clemenson, Clem-enson, Journal, A. C. , combination, savo perhaps two or three prominent men in tho Republican party. Ho. of course, has most of Tumor's "Stralght-ups," at tho same time thoro aro largo numbers of Democrats that havo no sympathy with him. Those that ho has aro from political reasons, of course. Kerr nnd his record beforo tho constitutional convention con-vention Is tho greatest menace tho collego has at tho prcsont timo. lie may try to explain away his attltudo at that time by saying It docs not apply ap-ply now, and In various othor ways but his answer to Mr. Thurman's question on page 1248 of tho record sweeps all his reasons away. Mr. Thurman Do I understand you that if a stato woro rich and nblo to bear it, you would favor a separation of those institutions? Mr. Kerr NO, SIR. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES would I favor a separation of theso Institutions. Every argument from an educntional point of view Is In favor of a union of all theso Institutions, and thoro can be, so far as I know, no argument ngalnst it. ONE WHO KNOWS. |