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Show Vol. 3; SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 13, 1904. No. 23.' Produce That Letter. A few days before the legislature, a right to it, as an indispensable part s and his Heath were the instigators of this fight against Reed Smoot and the Mormon church for reasons well known to the public, to force the church to support their candidacies. Truth predicts that Senator Kearns will have all the investigation he wants before this matter Is ended. He has started a fire that he cannot control, has given the public a thirsty inquisitiveness that he cannot quench. Statute-of-Limitation- of the record in this investigation. Truth believes in the rights of a sovereign state, and is opposed to church influence or any other power Interfering with and robbing the people of their rights. Now, here is a man who has declared that he does not care o what candidate has the support of a LOCAL POLITICS. majority of the legislature for United States senator, or who the people Republicans of Utah who have been may favor; that he will fix the matter the Tribune and the Telegram reading up another way when he gats to the last two or three months That he tried to do so during Washington. a decisive change in the noted have Smoot. Truth, when referring to the is absolutely beyond question, as this letter before, stated that it bore on letter and Kearns purported interview policy of the papers with respect to thei then pending senatorial election at with ' the of the United the president. During the time that president Senator Kearns was successful in which Messrs. Smoot, George Sutherl- States shows. landing a few offices for the men who and, Perry Heath and others were J & assisted him in securing the exalted prospective candidates. It asked, for wants Truth this letter pro- office of United States senator, both Now, the priestly influence of the president duced and the contents made public. papers were fulsome in their praise of against some candidates and in favor If there are persons or in the Roosevelt. So thick did parties of another candidate. Just fancy United they spread in high or low official the States, naubecame that of people dope the Hanna, the foremost leader or who been have position, getting come over But a has seated. change great Republican party, in his own trying to get this mysterious influence the spirit of both editors, if the slush name and in the name of his colmeans of threats, promises, or any writers are to be dignified by such of the National committee by ' leagues ether consideration, their names titles. Now Hanna is the man; in begging church influence from the should be made public, and the wrong- fact, he has been for tho past three president of the Mormon church! Yet doers be held up to public exercation. or four months, and is likely to conit was done. is wrong for the tinue until all hope of nominating him Truth holds if that it This letter is absorbingly interestto use Mcrmon church its influence in ing to the whole country, and especial- the election of a United States senator, vanishes, when both sheets will grovel in the dirt, and, metaphorically, lick ly to the editors and politicians. It is it is a men for wrong doubly greater the boots of the man they now have the' keystone to the arch of alleged of official or national posirepute no use for. 'church influence in Utah politics, tionhigh or in to to endeavor coerce, coax, It will be remembered that somo which the Smoot investigation is exof time ago the air began to officer chief other the any way get bring us pected to demolish. It will take only the church to use that influence. If to rumors the effect that Hanna was a few minutes to make the importance influence church of the offense using likely to become a candidate for the and certainty of this clear. From the of the nomination. The wishes of Wall has been what committed, Washington dispatches Truth gleans of high national street were rehabilitated as genuine that the Smoot investigation will be- greater crime of men commission of reports from day to day until finally the compelling gin in Washington on March 1, and repute to the gain their own ends? the Ohio senator began to suspect that the Leilich charges are to be If offense, offending tool has been used, that he was it sure and certain. Of abandoned, while the main accusation thethe American public wants to know course he did not come out In the open will be church Influence in church matare the offending manipulators. and make a genuine American, stand-u- p who ters. Truth has insisted, and still inbe hidden. . fight, but had his warfare conductsists, that the investigation be thor- Let nothing ed by. such guerrillas as Heath and ough, so that no guilty person may Rathbone from the pole brush d afescape. Let it not be a Truth assures the senate committee of Indiana, and from hoop behind the counfair. Tell the American public not in advance that this letter will make was offices. Kearns trust ters of the only when this mysterious influence mighty interesting reading. And, furHanna not in that discovering was used, but who catered for or dewe promise the committee that was long ther, for laurels. Why should looking manded it, and who tried to or did re- if Senator Mark Hanna, Senator as Hanna directs votes he when he be, ceive the benefits of it. Bring out all Heath, and does as Hanna suggests? So Kearns, the facts and dont overlook this and St. Louis Kerens be placed upon Kearns became a Hanna man and is the witness stand in regard to the It is Kearns who suggests to the influence used in the election of Sena- yet of this state that an unThis letter was to be shown to Presi- tor Kearns there will be doings in these Republicans instructed delegation be sent to Chident Smith, but not to be given-hiUnited States. The constitution of cago, in order that the convention for keeps, and its purpose was to side- this state declares that no church shall may be a deliberative body; in order track Reed Smoot in the interest of dominate the state. It also declares that the delegates may select another Heath. Senator that the state shall not dominate any man, in the event that Roosevelt does Kearns is said to have made the re- church. What about the forbidden not prove to be strong enough to meet mark, when it was stated in his hear- domination by men of high national the then situation. ing,. that the majority of the Utah repute in an endeavor to force MorJ S legislature was for Reed Smoot for mon church officials to perform an inNow, right here is a place to stick senator, that he did not ask any bet-- hibited action? If a man be compelled ter chance two years from now than to commit an offense, is not the per- a pin. At home and. at Washington, a certain man in this state (Perry S. son who compels such commission to whenever anything Appears in the Heath) has against Reed Smoot, and be held as the real offender? All that Tribune, or the Telegram, that does ..to wait till he .(Kearns) got to Wash- Truth asks, gentlemen who are con- not suit some one, no matter which ington. He got to Washington, and re- ducting this examination, is that you faction, Kearns contends that he' can turned with, the letter. Now Truth proceed to the end in a direct, frank, not control Perry Heath; that Perry asks that. Senator .Kearns be placed manly way, and not slip off into some is responsible. Why, he told that on the witness stand in the Smoot in- cross-roaHew to the line, let the story to the Mormons here until it grew threadbare and started to grow vestigation, and that he be questioned chips fall as they may. This letter sita whisker. Whenever the two papers in regard to this letter and be made to will let In a flood of light on the produce the same. The senate has a uation. Truth always has held, and have started in roasting the brethren Hght to it; the American public has does now hold, that Senator Kearns and Kearns has been mildly re which elected Reed Smoot to the United States senate, met, Senator Kearns arrived home from the scene of his untiring efforts on behalf of his constituents. As stated in Truth, about that time Senator Kearns was the bearer of a letter to President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church. The senator presented the letter, which he said was dictated by President Roosevelt, signed by Senator Marcus A. Hanna, and would fix . ; one-side- Statute-of-Limitatio- ns Statute-of-Limitatio- ns , d. Prick 5 Cunts proached for permllting it, he has hidden behind tho cold smile of his publisher, and, pointing his linger at Perry, has said: You can't say I done it; it was him." Lots of men liavo been evidence hanged on circumstantial where the facts, as demonstrated by the conditions surrounding the commission of the act, were not one-haso apparent as they are in this instance. If the Republicans of Utah will but let their minds go back through the columns of Tribune editorials that liavo been printed during the last half year, they will ascertain that tho change of sentiment In tho policy of both it and its evening satellite began just about the time when the llanna boom first began to mako its appearance as a genuino article. Then it was that both papers began a campaign of boosting for Hanna and began to adversely criticise the policies of the president. In the case of the selection of Leonard in tho Wood to be a major-gcnbrno great stretch army it will requite of memory to recall what course the Tribune pursued In relation to the fight made upon Wood by Hanna, which fight, by tho way, was aided and abetted by Rathbone, Major convicted and tho unsavory Rathbone, Cuban postal thief, it is easily recalled that the Tribune roasted" tho president for his action in appointing Wood to be major general. It was a bitter criticism, too, and could be construed in no other way than an endorsement for Hanna, because In addition to holding the chief magistrate of this nation up to contempt and accusing him of favoritism, it applauded the magnificent action of Hanna in the confirmation; holding it up in the senate until Rathbone had a chance to serve Hannas ends by throwing a few bricks. lf so-call- ed al op-losi- & ng S Since then the two papers have, from time to time, printed stuff about Hanna, having no other design than to keep tho Ohio mans name before the people of Utah to the exclusion of the president, and it has no doubt been noted that small praise has been accorded Roosevelt for any action taken or word expressed since the studied booming of Hanna began. The last bit of gross adulation in Hanna's behalf appeared last Saturday, February G, when the Tribune printed an editorial concerning the illness of Hanna. In said editorial appeared the Senator Hanna is beyond following: our foremost American citiquestion zen the most universally respected, the most forceful and influential of men in public or private life. The assertion is enough to cause ones nerves to vibrate when tho names of other great men are considered. It is admitted that he is a man of considerable Influence, but along side a dozen others who might be selected from the Republican party, not mentioning Roosevelt, he stands in about the same relative position to that dozen as Kearns does to Senator Frye, the president pro tern of the senate. But this statement was printed, |