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Show I That Unclean Triumvirate Truth docs not bcllcvo In personal abuse nor In attacking private indi-vlduals, indi-vlduals, but when a pack of black-' black-' guards and blacklegs set themselves up as leaders of the people, when they vllllfy and nbuso anybody and every-body every-body who won't bow the knee to them, when they deliberately, wantonly and maliciously, through the newspapers thoy control, slander the city, the state and tho people, injure business and retard progress. Truth bollcvcs tho public should bo informed of tho characters of the men wno are doing ( those things. There is no political t party question in this thing. Truth has nothing against anyone becauso i. ho belongs to this party or that party ( and the fact that tho Trlbuno and its ( owner, manager and editor aro tho j leaders of a particular party has noth- i ing to do with tho strictures Truth Is laying upon thom. There aro good, t conscioncious people In tho "Amorl- j can" party and othors who aro sym- pathlzors with it in a moro or less do- gree. But none of them- approve of tho methods of tho Trlbuno and tho triumvirate in working great and lr- (, reparable injury to tho stato in g scourging a wholo community for tho i gratification of personal spite born of f disappointment. What good thing can r a political party accomplish with such r, leaders as Kearns, Cannon, ct al.? t If there is any need for an "Amori- r, can" party here, at least half way do- j( cent pcoplo should bo at tho head of l) it, people whoso aim is to promoto tho c wolfaro of tho state, not to Injure- It. s Truth has no uso for knockers. It- if will combat thom to tho end. i Tho unsavory and unprincipled fl I triumvorato, composed of an Irish a "Mick," a renogado Jew and a reno- a gado Mormon, who for many months p have been scourging this city and 1 h stato keep up their dastardly work from day to day in the columns of tho iij Trlbuno and Its two snti iltes, tho Hcr- H n' aid and Telegram. Thoy have sot i, themselves up as dictators and to 1 sf gratify their baso spites havo inflict- H v' cd incalculable Injury on tho business H Interests of Salt Lake in particular H J and tho state In general. This un- H , clean combination or moral lepers H c which has set itself up as censor of H public morals and everything else, Is 1 composed of about as Immoral and unprincipled a gang as could be found in tho nation. Ex-Senators Cannon and Kearns aro notoriously and openly open-ly unclean. Tim third member of tho triumvirate is sly, foxy and crafty. Ho works in tho dark. His ways nro devious nnd hard to Unci out, but they can nnd havo been found out. Tho triumvirate, ns Henry Water-son Water-son would say, is "liko a'thlof preaching preach-ing honesty, a prostitute lecturing cm virtuo" and tho so-called "American" party is In the position of "flagging a political gut wagon thnt drives through tho red light district of tho city." Tho picture is not a pleasing one, but it is true to tho facts. Ex-Senator Thomas Kearns, tho head of the triumvirate of knockers, made his first appearance In this stato as a fugltlvo from- justice. Ho killed a man In Nebraska and fled to escape tho vongcanco of tho law. Ho changed his namo to Thomas Williams Wil-liams and in Park City worked in tho mines and was known under that namo for years. A lucky stroke of tho pick resulted In the great Silver King mine and made Thomas Kearns, alias Williams, rich. Tho lnpso of timo nnd tho inlluenco of money enabled him to fix things with tho minions or tho law and ho was enabled to resume Ills proper namo without fear of tho hangman's noose. This porhnps gavo him tho idea that anything nnd every thing could bo accomplished by tho uso of money. Honesty, good deeds and an upright life woro with him considered con-sidered valueless assets. Ho lived such a lifo as would havo mado any man without tho potent Inlluenco of money a reproach in tho community. Ho got Into many tight places, but his money so far has always saved him. Ono of tho most disgraceful affairs af-fairs which becamo public by tho notion no-tion at law brought' against him by a young girl named Eula Wray, who charged that ho had debauched her and was tho father of her child. Tho details of this affair aro known to most pc -lo in Salt Lake. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing his known bad character his money enabled him to bo olected United States senator, although ho had not tho smallest qualilicatlon for thnt olllco, densely Ignorant, uncouth, with nil tho arrogance of a nonvoau rlche. Ills courso In tho senato for tho four year term for which ho was elected was us everybody knows, marked by gross Incompetency, astounding as-tounding duplicity and immorality perhaps only equalled by that of ox-Senator ox-Senator Cannon, nnothor nioinbor of tho triumvlrato which assumes to control the destinies of this stnto. His reputation in tho national capital is no belter than it is at home. Here In Salt Lnko ho has brutally insulted young girls in his olllco, and n dependent, depend-ent, above tho rank of a servant in his household, had to lleo from his residence resi-dence and seek shelter from friends to preserve her virtue. These aro facts, and Truth can glvo names and dates. This Is tho man that tho deluded ladles of tho Persby-terian Persby-terian church gavo a swell ro-coption ro-coption nnd hailed as tho defender of tho purity of tho American homo. Tom Kearns, Frank Cannon, Fred Dubois ns defenders of tho purity of tho home! ! ! Onco upon a timo a rich man dwelt In a big house which ho called "tho castle." In tho castlo woro mon servants ser-vants nnd women servants. Ono of the women servnnts was young and fair to look upon. Tho master lusted after her and accomplished tho desire of his heart. Whon tho woman's shnmo could no longer bo hidden something had to bo done. Tho rich man was very rich. Ho procured a poor man to mnko tho womnn IiIb wife; ho furnished a houso for tho pair; ho set them up In business. It cost tho rich man $8,000 to do all this. Thoso things occurred less thnn a year ago hero in Salt Lako. |