Show DEAL WIT rUE cnURCD Authorities Said to Have Ordered the Election I of Thomas Kearnsto the United r r States Senate f 1 > J It Is Positively Charged That as a Part of the Trade by Which Salt air and the Railroad Running to the Resort Is to Become the Property of the New Los Angeles Company Church Officials Are to Promote the Election of One of Its Directors o Tomorrow nights Republican caucus may or it may not decide 0 the Senatorial question The tim e and nature of the s depends 0 de-pends upon the attitude of the m embers with regard to the latest Q aspect of the controversy i It Is charged positively upo n the authority of men whose knowledge of tho facts cannot be questioned that the Mormon Q church or at least the highest authorities therein have ordered tho g J election of Thomas Kearns Whether or not the order can be carried Ci O car-ried into effect remains to be see n It Is a significant fact that many 0 of the Republican MormOn mem hers have been called to the church f q ollces for a purpose which ma y have Included the giving of instructions 8 o in-structions as to how they shoul d vote In the Senatorship but theo the-o nature of those instructions J If f they were given has not been betrayed I ql be-trayed On the other hand there are members oCthe Priesthood Q 0 who say that beyond a doubt the word has gone out that the 0 election of Kearns Is desired by the majority of the First Presidency Q e RAILROADS ARE IN IT Q Of course the existence of church Influence in behalf of any Q candidate signifies a considerati on The consideration In the case e of Kearns has been exposed an d Is easily traceable In the course 0 Q of recent events It Is known that Apostle Reed Smoot and I C Thomas Kearns are both directors In the projected San Pedro Los iii 0 Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad company The promoters of this j I I a organization including Senator C lark of Montana and R C Ierens O 6 of Missouri both prominent In o pposlng political parties met in Salt 0 Lake shortly after the November election At that time an organization 0 organ-ization was effected In which Sm oot Kearns and W McCornck 4 G became resident directors Apos tie Reed Smoot was then prominently ci promi-nently mentioned a candidat e for the Senatorship and in certain e 0 cer-tain quarters his election was predicted At the time Thomas 1 Kearns was not a Senatorial can dldate Shortly after the Salt e e Lake meeting Smoot and Kearn s departed for the East ostensibly I e on business connected with the n ew railroad company I SMOOT OUT KEARNS IN I i Now comes the salient facU Apostle Smoot represented the 61 church in negotiations the sale to the railroad company of the e o Saltnlr beach propertYand the Un e of road thereto known as the Salt Lake and Los Angeles The comp any Kerens and Clark agreed to S 0 buy the property but demande d as a bonus or consideration i Zi which will not be named In the deed that they be permitted to l select a United tatcg Senator from their own directorate The j G church was acompflsli his election The > roposition Vas evidently i 0 satisfactory to Smoot who retu rned to Salt Lake and published a t i o letter withdrawing from tho Senatorial race and coincIdentally 8 e Thomas Kearns returned announced himself as an active candidate o candi-date employed a manager and said that he would have headquarters c In his Offices 8 Q It Is said that the way had b con paved for him by letters from 0 e Senator Clark who Isa Democrat and R C Kerens who is a Republican e fb Re-publican national demanding from the church that Q the electln of Kearns to the Senatorshlp be Included in the property transaction with the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake com CIo CI-o pany of which he Kearns is a director e nincr11 PTflPJTCVS1 A nn TON A 1 A Salt Lake Republican charged the First Presidency with the 8 0 t facts as above stated Including reference to the written demands of II Q Clark and Kerens and received a practical admission that the statements Si 1 state-ments were true but a denial was entered by the dignitaries that II G the Influence was to be used e 1 Now as to the surface Indica tions that the church Is keeping Its i S t contract with the railroad prom oters During the Senatorial campaign S 6 1 cam-paign two or three high In auth orIty In the church have been using S 0 their personal Influence In behal f of other candidates For some S e < reason hot publicly explained they have been called off The S ci settlement upon Kearns as the hosen candidate of the railroad In 5 < D tcrest is charged to the Influence of Apostle Reed Smoot as an ci apostle In the quorum and out of it Apostle Smoot when pressed by S I O a friend for an explanation as to whether he had withdrawn from e i the Senatorial race or not in favor of any other candidate replied S O n that he had and that his withdrawal was In the Interest of Kearns 5 The first definite indication of the Smoot Influence among the S S members of the Legislature was I n the vote of Bishop Gardner of ell n Utah county In the caucus The McCornlck camp had reason to believe it C be-lieve that Gardner belonged to lt i but after complimenting Apostle S G Smoot with his vote he went Into t he Kearna column and stayed there S TWO CAMPS AGAINST KEARNS O The gist of this story was public > property yesterday and food for S 1 lively gossip developed that Arthur Brown had heard of it the 8 0 day before l and had called at th e church offices to his own dlssatis S I 1 faction It likewise developed that W S McCornlck secured an tED t-ED audience with President Snow yesterday and It was reported his iii 1 O headquarters that the Interview was satisfactory An additional StD S-tD was the fact that th e McCornlck and Brown forces were I Q bent upon the defeat of Kearns and one of the active and prlncl O 6 pal workers In the Brown camp a aid that he had been present at a 61 O conference of Brown and his sup porters in which the determination m prevailed that the church influc nco must be broken and Kearnse C9 defeated at the expense of the B ron support going over to Mc Sat S-at Cornicle 9 6 A significant tone of the stre et talk was the evident anger of the 0 C young Mormon clement and the expressed determination to thwart S the sale of the Senatorshlp to th e Los Angeles railroad promoters 0 1 3 I G 0 0 Q Ge 0 t 8 f ee S CI S G e t2t G CI 0 3 5 e S S Ge e 03 |