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Show THE SENATOR'S DYING SONG. I Some weeks ago Truth nnnUD(1c) that beforo his term ended, Senaiw ! Kearns would make the effort oi n lifo in a speech denouncing the w"' mons nnd that tho speech was 1 n-being n-being written. Truth was wen formed, because on Tuesday "Senator Kearns, dignified. standing alono in a delegation which sww havo been concert" read fr om careiu ly prepared and wide spaced script, seven newspaper columns I truck prepared by Ex-Senator F. J. Son now editor of the Tribune. C ft was the political death song of the Jr. who for four years has entleav-S entleav-S to run the Republican politics of Utoh and has been sat upon. There are two animate members of creation fhit sins death songs; the Indian and Sp swam To class Kearns with the atter would be saying ho Is a bird, ami he Is not. To array him among the former is equivalent to declaring him a savage, and we would rather other people would say that, no matter mat-ter what wo think. The song was unlike the- harmony of the dying bird or Indian In this that it was lengthy. The swan's chant before dissolution is short and the Indian In-dian confines himself to as few words as possible. Neither Is the swan's song or the Indian's wail typewritten) Both extemporize as they go. It was the same old story we have heard and are hearing that Kearns told and even If this paper had space for it all it would not be reprinted. That it made the hit the Tribune do-scribes do-scribes wo know is not true. The Associated As-sociated Press and the special correspondent corres-pondent of the News declare there was no unusual sensation sensa-tion in the senate, except that several senators thought It was n H ill-timed. The Kearns organ declares a H Smoot attempted to get the iloor for n H a reply, but we take that assertion 1- cum grano salus, and will await the e IK Record, which will give us the abso-n abso-n mmm facti 0ur own j,,(lsment, after H reading the report is, that Senator r- Bj Smoot did not care to reply. 0 Of course the speech was prepared 1 ami in type here before It was de-i de-i llvercd. It was "on the hook" as "time r jH copy" in both the Tribune and the ') H Herald for two nights previous to pub-I pub-I H Mention. Editorial comments on the t SI reading were prepared days before It I eJ originally written, read and re written ; Kg by the editor of the Tribune ere he mm dictated to the stenographer, editorial wM matter calling attention to it as a ! fW classic. Because it was 1m-vMt 1m-vMt possible for him right off the bat j JH to concoct a sentence like this one: IK "It was a solemn moment one of Mi those great epochal Instants In a peo-fj peo-fj pie's history when destiny seems H hanging by a thread." jfl Well, Kearns has had his say. To- H day at high noon lie ceases to be a M senator. From henceforth ho is as nothing politically. We welcome him homo to the ranks of private citizen- ship and hopo he will be as private as possible. |