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Show H At tho very best tho "American" H party is an ephemeral thing. It cer- H talnly can have no pride of ancestry H with Tom Kcarns as its father and Re- H vengo as its mother. It can liavo less H hope of posterity than tho mule. Sup- H pose that it succeeds in carrying Salt H Lake county at tho election next H: Tuesday, (tho supposition is a viola- H tlon of common slnso) but supposes it H does, what then? It is still nothing H in national politics and a cipher in na- H tlonal affairs. Two years hence there H will bo a national election. A pres- H ident for tho United States will bo H elected. In that momentus and nli H Important events whero will the H Kearns-Amcrican party stand? Will Hi it have any standing anywhere? Will H thero be an inch of soil on tho wliolo H earth on which It can plant Itself and H exclaim that its foot is on Its native H heath and its name is Kcarns? H The, republicans, tho democrats, tho M socialists, tho laborites, which com- B pose tho heterogeneous mass of the H "American" party, will of necessity H disintegrate and, attracted by their H various political lodcstoncs, fly M to tholr various parties. Whore H then will bo tho Kearns H party? Even If the party had been H established on what its founder calls H "high principles" it could not survive M Founded on falsehood, hate and ro- M vengo composed to a large extent of m "grafters," disappointed aspirants for M office and time-servers, cemented to- M gether by tho cohesion of official M plunder what can becomo of it? Any B fool can answer. It will go down to, H In Its case, kind oblivion. If it falls m to curry . this election, its descent 1 into Letho's'jflood will bo Uw sooner 1.1 and tho Ignomy of its founders and promoters tho less. This is tho last lntcrnlcenc light In Utah. Whether It terminates en Tuesday Tues-day of two years hence It is tho final and henceforth wo shall have peace. Neighbors and friends and relatives will no longer war against each other. Wo shall have peace, and bo as the rest of tho nation. o |