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Show o HOW KEARNS DID UP HEYBURN. About tho middle of December tho Salt Lake morning papers had big headlines declaring how Senator Koarns had worsted Senator Heyburn of Idaho in a wordy combat over the Philippines bill. The other day a leading eastern senator chanced to pick up tho Tribune having an account of the proceedings. Ho looked at it in a puzzled way, glanced hastily at the body of tho article, then re-read the headings, which were In fulsome praise of Kearns. "Cheap, cheap, indeed," in-deed," ho remarked in a tone heard by a dozen people. "Why, Senator Heyburn Hey-burn made a rubber ball of the senator sen-ator from Utah that day. The Utah man didn't amount to anything in tho hands of Idaho's junior senator. Judge Heyburn came pretty close to gaining his point, too, and the only reason he didn't was that the committee report was the other way." And tho sonator put tho paper down with evident disgust dis-gust at Its mendacity. And now look out, for Senator Kearns gave It out cold In Salt Lake City recently that he will make another an-other great speech in the senate against Senator Smoot when the investigating in-vestigating committee's report comes up. The speech Is now being written for him and the senator will proceed to try to learn it by heart, so that he can deliver it with proper oratorical effect. On previous occasions, when ho undertook to deliver addresses, he had the misfortune to forget large and Important portions of tho speeches as written for him, but for this great occasion oc-casion ho will be unusually diligent in committing It to memory. Tho burden of It will be that ho Is the representative representa-tive of the Gentiles of Utah, and of the good women who think Mr. Smoot should be ousted. He will denounce church Influence in politics, and will toll the senato that for devotion to tho cause and in order to bo free and untrammelled un-trammelled ho immolated himself on tho altar of principle and brushed aside his ambition to bo re-elected sonator from Utah. He will also tell how easily ho could have been reelected re-elected If he could only havo silenced his sensitive conscience and withheld his protest against tho church influence influ-ence which ho sought for himself so diligently but failed to obtain. Ho will then soar to the greatest oratorical heights and declare that ho has consecrated conse-crated his life, property and sacred honor to the noble task of fighting Mormons. Look out, for it will be a great occasion for the nation. Webster, Web-ster, Calhoun, and all the rest of them will by comparison with Kearns shrivel up Into the merest pigmies. o |