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Show " J Tribune Ready to fiod The "American" party in Salt Lake City is soon to be left without a newspaper news-paper organ; that is, if the Tribune owners carry out their present design, de-sign, which no doubt they will, in part, at least. The part that may be regarded as settled upon is the desertion de-sertion of the "American" party by the Tribune. You members of the "American" party who lay claim to a fair amount n of decency, Truth gives you this tip, , that you may get in out of the wet before being thoroughly soaked. You know that in the past Truth's tips have been absolutely on the square, and this one is perfectly in line. Wc will give a few reasons and facts, some of which you arc unacquainted unac-quainted with, and others you may readily recognize as within your own recent observation. The Tribune will, in the near future, fu-ture, if, indeed it has not already done so before this paper comes from the printer's hands, make a proposition to leaders of the Mormon church j tending toward peace. If the propo sition is accepted, that paper will cease abruptly its campaign of slander sland-er and abuse. This may seem a startling start-ling statement, in view of the depths to which the sheet has descended; but the statement rests upon substan-' substan-' , tial facts. The Tribune will not ask the church i to do much; in fact, all it wants is an excuse to flop over into the republican 1 ranks. It is looking for an easy spot to alight upon, and if possible to claim that the Tribune has accomplished its mission of reform. You know that Frank Cannon ' , marched the Tribune shoulder to shoulder with the democratic party, 'j and even under its protecting aegis But its owners now realize that all i " the prestige the Tribune ever won was when it was the representative x in this state of the republican party ., M - nationally; therefore they want to get ' ' it hack there. Frank Cannon has not done any writing on the Tribune for , months, and is not likely ever to I write for it again. He is a physical 1 wreck, and is out of the state; it is 1 said he is in a sanitarium! in Wiscon- l sin. Old Grouch Nelson ir not equal .J to the occasion of editing a newspaper; news-paper; in fact, like his twin fossilifcr-ous fossilifcr-ous relic, Goodwin, he is very much a by-gone. The readers of Truth will recognize readily some further reasons why the Tribune wants peace. They may recall the statement that Kearns intends in-tends to leave Utah, and take up his residence in California, his wife having hav-ing decided to remain there. It may also be understood that of late Kearns and Keith have lost a large number of their financial friends; Willard Snyder, Frank Knox, Mayor Thompson, Thomp-son, Gus Holmes and Jack Lynch have parted company with the unsavory unsav-ory pair. There are others, and the breach is wide. The Silver King mine, too, is merged mer-ged with the Hcinzc interests in this State, and a large s'melter is to be built. Hcinzc doubtless will assume control of the new concern, placing Kearns and Keith on the retired list. Kearns has not much of an income since the bottom fell out of the original orig-inal Silver King mine, and cannot afford af-ford to run the Tribune long at a loss, lie knows that his paper is in a bad condition, and cannot survive long unless un-less it changes front. The "American" "Ameri-can" party is on the rocks, and cannot can-not possibly last more than another campaign, even with the support of the Tribune. Tom doesn't want his paper to go down with the "American" party. He wants to save something for him-t self out of the wreck. He can see now where the Tribune has drifted to. He sees that Cannon, being a democrat demo-crat and some harder things as well, took it clear out of the republican ranks and committed it to democratic policies. Through it, President Roosevelt and leading United States Senators- were assailed, and called traitors, bribetakers, and almost everything vile. The few subscribers which the Tribune has left are mainly main-ly of the republican faith, and cannot be switched into the democrat.c rjnks. A presidential campaign will be on shortly, and the Tribune will ,'dc forced to take sides between the national parties. The place it occu-pied occu-pied for more than a score of years, as mouthpiece of the national republican repub-lican party for this intcrmountain region, re-gion, is now fdlcd by the Intcrmountain Intcrmoun-tain Republican. The Tribune cannot get in line to advantage without making mak-ing peace with Senators Smioot and Sutherland and Republican National Committeeman, Col. Ed. Loose. Kearns has been forced at last to recognize the situation as it is today. That is why he wants to flop the Tribune Trib-une to where it may have a chance to do him some good. And so he puts the "American" party "up against it," because of his own dire necessity. Will the leaders of the Mormon church purchase peace by accepting the Tribune's proposition? They can have it modified about as they please, if they will only grant the Tribune enough concessions to "save its face." Truth does not pretend to know what those leaders will do; indeed, they may not have concluded for themselves. them-selves. But it docs know the substance sub-stance and aim of the Tribune's intended in-tended first proposition as a basis on which to stop the fight, and therefore notifies readers what is afoot. |