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Show 4 RU TRUTH views for him upon the public Issues of the day, couched in language so elaborate and flowery that the senator did not know the meaning of half the words the printed statements contained. Any one who is well enough acquainted with Tom Kearns to have listened for half an hour to his conversation among a group of his intimates, and who has marked the meagre ness of his vocabulary and the crudity of his ideas and expressions knows that this statement is absolutely true. It docs ppt even admit of argument. Then Kearns, not satisfied to come gradually and honestly into public recognition, unhesitatingly and unblush-ingl- y took to himself alone the credit for everything that was done by the AVliy did Sunalnr Kearns development of their brains has kept s of their tbrcugii ngi-ntand in pace with the expansion waists, the breadth of their views has many apprals to the bond .,f tlie b.. 7 u increased faster than their egotism and mo:i church for instroclir.ua to to SUp,mrt .T pomposity. If this could be truthfully Mormon people 241 sun (Kearns) for one more term in the J" said of Tom Kearns, his political would not now be disappearing into ate? Why, after these frantic endless night. John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager. anneal, But Kearns has done some other .were met with the answer that th Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake City, consid- church leaders would take Utah, as second-clas- s matter, under Act no part i! things that entitle him to the of Congress of March 3, 1879. He has of Utah. the political contest, did he tone eration of the voters of to the Tribunes news and criteria Terms of Subscription. used his high position in an effort col 32.00 ONE TEAR (In advance) build up a personal machine inside umiis change in a single night, 1.00 SIX MONTHS (In advance) .Wtj 75 THREE MONTHS (In advance) the Republican party ranks, but his the clearly apparent Intention of Postmasters sending subscriptions to work was too coarse and the attempt by threats and force ivhat the TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of subHe has failure. senator had been unable to obtain l has been a miserable scription prico as commission. s his pleas? little country paper subsidized every If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for, the publication that could ba bought either with .gold Why was there no need f()r an should be notified by letter two weeks or by promises of iuflucnce and patron- "American party during the entire or more before the term expires. government for Utah or any western age, but in so doing he has so com- summer, when Kearns had a large Discontinuances. Remember that the publisher must be no- state, no matter who had set in pletely overstepped the bounds of de- force of paid workers going up and tified by letter when a subscriber wishes motion the machinery or commanded cency that his journals, utterances are down the state trying in vain to create his paper stopped; all arrears must be the influence. Bills and appropria- taken for just what they really are: and awaken public sentiment in favor paid in full. matter at so much a of, his return to the senate? Requests of subscribers to have ' their tions secured by Utahs representatives Paid advertising paper mailed to a new adress, to secure in the lower house, and so announced column. He has tried to bluff, threatWhy, at this time, did dozens of the attention, must mention former as well as present address. through the columns of the Associated en, coerce and cajole intelligent voters little country papers of Utah print Address all communications to TRUTH Press, were in Washington specials into following the bidding of his men many columns of fulsome praise and PURLISIIINfc COMPANY, Salt Lake to the Tribune heralded in flaring of straw, but they have taken a sober eulogy of Kearns, all of which were City, Utah. headlines as due to the untiring ef- 'second thought and decided to be free prepared in Joe Lippmans private offorts of Senator Kearns. With the men and" women. He has made at- fice? And while the senator was feaof these measures Kearns had no tacks, both covert and open, upon the rfully waiting to see what the effect more to do than did some half-clapresident cf the United States, the woull be, why did the Tribune say not warm-hearte- d in of a tribe When Tom Kearns and his little co- ruler a f.ingle word concerning church inPatigonia. Next great, broad-mindeterie of advisers (?) came to the deci- Kearns rewarded with government Roosevelt, whose shoes he is not wor- fluence in Utah politics? sion that they would defeat the Repub- places 89m e of his friends who de- thy to clean, hut their only effect has Why did this great, horrid monster lican party in Utah, or die politically livered the goods when he was in a been to cause him to stand revealed in of church influence spring, magiin the attempt, it must bo that the tight place, and had to have the votes. his true light before the people of clike, into full life and power, grown black Kpiiit of revenge had dispos- That was all right so far as the indi- Utah. only after it was clearly evident that a sessed the senior senator of the very viduals drawing the salaries were conAnd now, having failed, by every majority of the sensible men and wsmall amount of judgment with which cerned, but we do not see that such other underhanded way whiph he or omen of Utah demanded that the suhe is naturally endowed. Let us ana- deeds weigh heavily when placed in his henchmen could conceive of, to ccessor of Tom Kearns in the senate be lyze the case and see what grounds the scales that measure public ser- foist himself uren the Republican not Tom Kearns? the owner of the Silver King had for vices. Finally, the senior senator pre- party for another term, Kearns has Strange, strange, indeed! his course of conduct: sented and had approved a few pen- lifted the dagger cf open revolt against .First of all, Tom Kearns came into sion claims. Hundreds of similar the party that was duped into giving There is danger to the state and the possession of a United States senator-shi-p claims are secured by other senators him ail undeserved recognition. He community in electing a split ticket, because of his great wealth. No and representatives at every session has assumed the of this the result of leadership scratching ballots. Of sane man or woman who knows an of congress, but so far as the record American party, with the sole and course, it is possible that men of oppiota abcut Utah politics doubts this. shows, not another member of either only purpose of smiting the hand from osite parties may work harmoniously No one except the paid writers on the the house or senate has ever looked which ho has fed. His name and that during an administration, but the staff of Senator Kearns newspapers! upon this kind of work as a of the party he has fathered will go chances are much against it. has ever attempted to deny this. No task, the accomplishment of down in history as the basest example 111 nine circs out of ten the men om can. truthfully say that Torn which entitles the doer to an unfading of i.olitical ingratitude and treachery are Ki arus, prior to his election as a sen- wreath and a statue in the that the annals of the country afford. who are nominated on one ticket a unit in pulling together for the best ator has ever been noted for his ser- Hall of Fame. Thus ends the record vices to the Republican party, that in of Kearns public services. good of the public. In the same pr. any way, shape or form he had ever Now look upon the other side of To read the wild utterances of the oportion men of perhaps equal ability who are members and been reckoned with as a factor In the jtlio shield: Kearns has never made Tribune concerning the high devotion of equal honesty antagonistic political organizations, politics of the state. Every one knows a speech on the floor of the senate. lie to principle exemplified by the adherwill in their efforts to fail that Irid it not been for the vast could not do it if he knew that his life ents of the American party and the serve the citizens. amount of money that Kearns had at depended on it. He has never shown wonderful and peculiar sacrcdness of It is better, therefore, to vote your his disposal, the most obscure officer of that executive and administrative abil- the cause which they represent, one ticket straight and let the party that any ward Republican club would have ity that belongs to d weld- would naturally conclude, if ho did not wins bear the burden of the blame or tood an equal show of being a United ers of legislation and public opinion. know the cause and the animus of the n. ceive the praise of a successful coStates senator from Utah. Ever since. his business interests have movement, that in case the Ameri- nduct of affairs. Second When Kearns did secure grown so that he has been entitled to can the party fails in its purpose, the Every citizen who has at heart the senatorship, lie had the one chance be called a man of affairs, Kearns has whole state cf Utah will speedily go to welfare of the stale will accomplish of his life to show the people of the depended solely upon the brains of paid wreck, ruin and disgrace. But these much toward that end by voting the stale the material he was made of, to workers. Thb people of Utah know big bubbles of hot fill Republic in ticket from top to bottomdm oust rate what .he could do.; Now tbb?. They feared when ho was elected the co unins of Tomair that daily Keanus Amcn-Vii- s jtc pitolk-- m parly. either from read the record and let us Ree.wlathe tlipt his lujridicap of ignorance and infibec-:n:nizcJ" has are easily punctured vr lor)! stotf has accomplishedintjoiuil, He bought a' news- experience would prove fatal .to his y. a few plain and 'incontrovertible, rvdch to be yith nothing to proud 'that ,public. care, and their fears have.bccn facts. Let Us paper and see: bo ashamed of. It came into power sheet from a ropluablo journal into more ha justi fled. were 'Why .did Tom Kearns. when he firpt .when the finances of the country most contemptible, cringing; Kearns has shown himself absolutely purchased the Tribune, promise that at. their lowest ebb; it has brought hypocritical personal organ that lias unable. to grow up to his opportunities. nothing in the nature of attacks upon prosperity lo business interests of ever been published in the state.- Day Ho is still in mind, when thought and ideals the Mormon people or religion should every class. It. came into power nflor day ho caused this pdper to print the same that be was when he swung ever appear in that pa per 7 th l land was filled with soup houses column after column of gush so a l in Uk depths of the Silver King. Why did the Tribune. when .loo 'amj whole .armies of idle men were o that hundreds of subscribers It is.no (I'scrodit to a man to have Lippnnn first assigned its, management., lucessity and cold, if v ho had taken the paper for years ragged hungry, risen, by his own, unaided efforts from conditio1155 use every-pMidfc js transformed industrial dk-g.tod" and quickly stopped iho lo lin.vt opportunity to one of honor; to pour 6;1 on thn troubled position waters and l there Is work at good wages for tJicJr papers. He hired men with a gift rrrcc ?w.I influence. The . greatest of the' c.cry mail who is willing to labor. fc r flinging English ta write inter- - 9?,. ktutcoiiiCn LaW done "so. But' .tli'c tljrov bouquets ' the 'leaders ' Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company. Western Newspaper Union Building, South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. -- m-os- t d d, world-movin- g life-size- d to-uui- te broad-minde- - t - of-ha- 3 speedily-transforme- the-basest,- - - liau-seitin- g bc-r.?n- ?c -- u -- .T, - , i Mormon chuVch? in-ti- . . "'The of the Republican |