Show CATHOLICS AND KEARNS AMERICANS TOGETHER IN POLITICS 1 It is current upon the and is believed by many thinking that the Roman Catholic church is behind Thomas Kearns so-called American party in their fight against the ke following are the circumstances and facts that lead to such F Kearns and the At about the time Kearns organized the so-called American iy he had an interview with the pope in the A Catholic interview with the pope must have a and Kearns' on with the pope was Kearns would tell the ipe anything to get his co-operation in his fight for revenge on the because Joseph P. Smith would not get into politics and hm Kearns to the United States Kearns undoubtedly told pope a regular Tribune that that no Catholic had any show as Joseph P. Smith was hierarch and dominated all 1 Aiding The pope listened to Kearns' tale of J. Kearns came home and opened up his campaign of 7 Catholic almost to a man joined the Kearns party in its unjust w unholy war on Utah and the Pat a greater benefit from the Kearns party than any other n- No opposition against him has been allowed to creep and two more came into the field in opposition to and after much bluster and by the Kearns Americans to the effect that Moran had and that Strange and Maguire had received the contract Je Third South we are told that Pat Moran and Strange work and that Pat is the real We were J on good authority that Strange and Maguire bought supplies a certain store here in Salt and by a mistake of a who let the cat out of the the bill was paid with Pat 's The Catholics have five newspapers in They are the the the Greek the Paper and the Intermountain All are Kearns and in one way or another are boosting for the Kearns teeth when The Tribune showed its pro-Catholic nal Gibbons visited Salt by comparing him to Joseph r. showing the good qualities of Cardinal Gibbons and the sup-bad The Tribune held them up qualities of President 1 Gibbons Cardinal an unfair and ignorant manner praised President It extolled the Catholics and condemned Catholic church or by Anything that occurs in the the Catholic papers enlarge and magnify the anything that is done in the Mormon churches is and grotesquely pictured by the Kearns pap the sixteenth century work is being done m the Catholic of also notice the week and the Kearns papers account S t h. d. cade Papers on the last Mormon conference more rapidly in Salt mke cou the Mormons and all of the orthodox ami Protestant churches com Every Italian and Bohemian tha has come to Salt Lake county by the thousands for the past five or fix years is a and their arc supporting the Kearns American Catholic Many of the teachers of our public schools are and by looking at the of our many of them kissed the blarney stone and regularly attend morning The men in the Kearns American city council are Mayor Bransford stands in with and a Catholic is seldom ever turned away from a job on our city While all Mormon firms arc by the Kearns Catholics are patronized and held in high the Catholic are in the minority here they have double the number of hospitals of any other they have two progressive they have the largest orphanage in the and gather in all the motherless they have the finest cathedral in the entire and are pushing their mission work more than any other Gentile Through Thomas Kearns they dominate all politics in Salt Lake and at the coming election they hope to extend it through the The Catholics are not backward or hypocritical in their demand for political In their canon law they openly proclaim that the Pope of whom they look to for their earthly is the head of the infallible that he is vicegerent of God and king above all kings and ruler of all When Kearns American Catholics secured their first victory in Salt Lak they proclaimed to the and it was published in many large eastern in a missionary that man of the hour in Utah is ex-Senator Thomas WHO ORGANIZED THE AMERICAN and to whom the credit of victory is Mr a popular citizen during his years of residence in the has become a If a biblical simile may be applied to so a thing as a political Utah Gentiles regard the former as a Moses who has delivered the people from Ami were it not for Kearns' native modesty he could have the of every Gentile in the stac as a personal The one great thing that more closely united the Catholics to the Kearns American ticket was the fact that Utah elected a Mormon apostle to the United and two years later turned out a Roman and with the help of other made that a nucleus upon which to build the Kearns American and in a surreptitious manner Kearns and his papers inveigled the the the Methodists and Protestant denominations into voting for and helping the Catholics by making them believe they were fighting the If the Mormon church is in politics it is sadly while the Catholics are united and are beating the Mormons to a How oh are the Republicans and the Demur-rats ging to fight over an old bone and let the Kearns American Catholics eat the porterhouse steak t If the Utah Independent is wrong or has receive incorrect information in the we shall he very glad to have am Catholic or anyone else furnish the proper information that it may h. duly |