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Show TRUTH. 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. IPestara Newspaper Union Bulldlae, 141 So. West Temple St., Belt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor sad Msntjer. and flagrant opposition to it. That was a body blow to the machine and machine politics in this state. That calamity to the machine men, bad as it was, was nothing compared to the disaster which has been threatening to come upon it next year, when Senator Kearns, their head, will come up for as senator. The present confusion in the political atmosphere is the direct rsult of the manipulation of the machine crowd in order, if possible, to avert the disaster which appears to be imminent. Senator Kearns was elected by Mormon church influence exercised on Mormon members of the legislature and by the direct use of money as bribes to the Gentile members in exchange for their votes. Since then times and conditions have changed. The Mormon church has a new president, who strongly disapproved of the election of Hearns, and of the means by which it was accomplished. He is a man of strong character, not to be swayed by influences which he does not believe to be right, and moreover, has shown a sincere desire to keep the church of which he is the head out of politics. The repeated appeals of Senator Kearns and his friends, both in and out of the state, to President Smith for political aid have been denied in the most positive manner. Failing to enlist the president of the church in their behalf, Kearns and his friends adopted the opposite plan, and since the late senatorial election they have been at re-electi- on Entered June 19,1903, at Salt Lake City, second-clas- s matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Utah, as TERMS OF HUlieCKlFTlON: ONE YEAR (In advance) 88.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Postmasters sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 25 per oent of subscription prloe as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subsoil bed for the puolicatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expiree. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Pub- lishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. THIS ISSUE OF TRUTH l& MORE THAN 4,000 COPIES. ADVERTISERS TAKE NOTICE. ; o The political situation in this city is in such a confused state that the great masses of the people who give only casual attention to public affairs are at a loss to understand it or the reason for it. The daily papers, by instructions of their owners, instead of enlightening the public are purposely and deliberately doing their utmost to increase the confusion and mistification which they have been the main cause in creating. A brief, accurate and unbiased statement of facts may be helpful to those who are groping in the dark. Soon after the crime of electing Senator Kearns to the United States senate was consummated, Mr. Kearns, realizing that he needed a personal organ or as many personal organs as possible to enable him and his underlings to retain the positions he and they had attained, and to fix their grasp on the politick of the state, bought the Salt Lake Tribune, established the Telegram, in reality an evening addition of the Tribune, formed an offensive and alliance with Senator defensive Clark of Montana the principal owner of the Herald, and subsidized a large proportion of the country press. By these means it looked as if the heel of Senator Kearns and his myrmidons was firmly fixed on the necks of the people and that his political machine thus built ... up, was paramount. The machine controlled practically the entire press of the state and a goodly proportion of the officers were, and still are, parts of the maMembers of the Republican party and the people generally, however, showed signs of revolt against their masters and the election last autumn showed most conclusively that the machine was out of order, for in the state election it was badly worsted, and in the election of a United States senator the members of the legislature not only Ignored the machine, but actually acted in direct first covertly, and later, openly attacking,- slandering and misrepresenting the Mormon church and the Mormon people in the hope of coercing the church into supporting Kearns when he comes up for The opposition to Kearns and his man. , . chine is very bitter both among Mormons, and Gentiles,, probably the latter are the more ardent in their de- nunciation of the man and his methods. They fear more for their political liberties in t case of the triumph of the machine than do the Mormons for any injury Kearns .and his unsavory chief lieutenant, Perry Heath, can work to the Mormon' church in the nation. The coming city election is important to the machine for the reason that if the heads of the many city' departments were machine men their influence, in the state election next year would be a powerful factor in favor of the senators plan to to the exalted position be he has not graced. The sentiment of the voters of the city, few will deny, ,, and as has is strongly been done time and again when there is any shady things to be accomplished, the cry of Mormon dictation and Mormon church, influence has been raised in order to obscure the real issue, and in this case to overawe the Mormons into supporting Kearns and thereby, by the influence and change of front of Kearns, legprevent possible islation at Washington and secure of the withdrawal the -- . I AT CONSOLIDATED WAGON & MACHINE CO. - re-elect- ed anti-Kearns- anti-Morm- October 1st to 7th COHITEO WAGON TO DELAY YOUR FURNITURE BUYING MACHINE COMPANY. GEORGE T. ODELL, St. ISO State Geneml Manager. fesSJa,..,.?p,eBt opposition started by Senator Kearns in Washington to Senator Smoot retaining his seat in the United States senate. As a matter of fact there are fewer indications of church influence in the present campaign than in almost any election since the division on party lines took place. The Tribune, the acknowledged Kearns organ. is more guarded in its attacks on Mormons than the evening sheet, which has been set apart by its owner, Kearns, to work up sentiment and by direct falsehoods and misrepresentations stir up a religious war when there is not the least The Kearns justification for it. morning organ pleads weakly for strict party politics, while his evening organ fairly howls for an independent movement. The interviews the Telegram has been dishing up to the pubnc for weeks are most cunningly devised affairs. The questions, of course, every newspaper man can see have been carefully prepared, with a view, not of giving the person interviewed a fair opportunity to express himself, but with the object of entrapping him and beguiling him into saying something which he never meant to say, and which the paper can ..amplify on and turn .against him. It is a despicable piece of business, but it only shows the kind of politics Perry Heath and the other carpet-bagger- s who have been hired by Senator Kearns to come here and stir up strife and confusion between those of different religious beliefs. The gauntlet has been thrown down and anti-Morm- Because weve gone through our best stock and marked down the prices. ... No need to dilate upon excellence of grades, you know them well enough for that. ... That theres no better youre assured. 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