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Show Vol. 3; No. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 10. Schemes Went Wrong; Others Hatching nent Gentiles who disapproved their methods, they got beautifully left Kearns, although badly worsed, has not given up the fight for the senator-shi- p next year. He is still keeping up his warfare on the Mormons, and particularly on Reed Smoot, to compass Mr. Smoots, expulsion from the United States Senate, while he is outwardly deploring the fight on Smoot and assuring people that he cannot control his personal press organs, the Tribune, Telegram and Herald, his agents are using every effort in their power to make things warm for Smoot, for the sole purpose of coercing the Mormon church into supporting Kearns for the senatorship a year hence. The Mormons were bully boys as long as they gave their support to Kearns, but now it is altogether different. The people have gotten out a pamphlet setting out the reasons why Smoot should not be allowed to keep his seat in the senate. Among other thing, it contains ah abstract of the proceedings of the court in the famous naturalization cases in which Judge Anderson in 1889 refused to naturalize aliens of the Mormon faith on the ground that Mormons believed in things which unfitted them to become loyal citizens of the United States, in fact that faithfulness to their religion was a bar to fealty to the United States government. The pamphlet, of course, does not state that Judge Andersons ruling was set aside by other judges and afterwards ignored by Judge Anderson himself. The object of the investigation at that time was to aid in the passage of a measure pending in congres for the disfranchisement of all Mormons. The pamphlet is called an investigation of the secret doctrines and practices of the Mormon church. It was published In Salt Lake under the auspices of the Kearns supporters and Is copyrighted Several months ago Truth published the schemes which the Kearns men were then hatching to obtain control of the city. It gave the names of those who were in the plot. It told of the secret meetings held for the purn pose of organizing an party within the lines of the Republican party. Progressive Republicans, At those fellows called themselves. the time many people thought Truths statements were only newspaper talk without foundation in fact. That was a mistake. Truth was on the inside and gave out accurate and reliable information.- - Subsequent events have amply proved tne correctness of everything this paper said in that regard. The actions of the Republican convention which was, by the packing of primaries and the bribery of delegates, dominated by the Kearns machine, showed that Truth made no mistake in months before placing the persons who found places on the ticket as Kearns creatures. The work of the convention was the result of a studied and well-lai- d plan, but the best laid plans often go wrong. In this case the election sent all the plans to the winds. The fact is, the machine crowd overdid the thing. .Kearns and his prompter, Heath, found that, owing to their duplicity in the Smoot matter, they were at outs with the Mormons and in a position where their only hope was to appeal to the rabid sentiment They and their agents, aided by the Tribune and Telegram, worked up, this feeling, especially among recent comers to the city to such an extent that they could not control it in the convention. Joe LIpp-maand the wiser ones of the push saw they were going too far, but things had gone beyond their control and not only the Mormon candidates for office, but Gentiles inclined to be fair as between Mormons and Gentiles were shut out. The Kearns leaders would have been satisfied with the mayor and a majority of the city council. After the mayoralty nomination had been made, Joe Lippman and Mayor Thompson induced Swenson to withdraw for from the race treasurer Mr. return and in Swenson an is receive to appointment in Mr. Knoxs bank very soon. Thats how the nomination of Mr. MacKnight came about. It was a sop to the Mormons, but as standing as a Mormon is somewhat In doubt, the bate was wasted. Lippman thought it would be good politics to allow Jenkins to be nominated for auditor, but the convention was beyond control and made the fatal blunder of carrying out the original programme to the end. Kearns and his friends raised the Mormon question without any cause and purely for selfish purposes. By the aid of the promi anti-Mormo- -- anti-Smo- so-call- ed anti-Morm- on n . Mac-knigh- ts ot by H. G. McMillen. o DEFEAT $ HIM AT . THE PRIMARIES. - The independent Republicans of this city and state are viewing the result of the recent election with a degree of complacent pride, which may be pardonable, in the light of all the circumstances surrounding the affair. Truth is bound to remind them, however, that the battle has only begun. They have scotched the snake, but it is by no means dead. The battle to be fought next year must be fought at the primaries and in the conventions; not at the polls. Because next year the ticket will contain the names of the presidential electors, the legislative nominees, the state officers and the county officers and what was regarded this year as a patriotic act, will next be viewed as Price 14, 1903. party disloyalty. To bolt a legislative ticket and thereby endanger the chances for returning a Republican to the United States senate 'would be a sin unpardonable from a partisan standpoint. Ergo, if the men desire to defeat Kearns the battle will have to be won before election day or not at all. At this time, with the exception of Truth and a few, a very few, of the papers published outside the state capital, Kearns has control of. the press of Utah. . He owns and directs the policies of a morning and an evening daily and has such a commanding influence with the organ that it cannot be depended upon to enlighten the voters of the state as to the real condition of things. Without throwing flowers at ourselves, we wish to state that until Truth took up the fight against this man Kearns, and showed to the people what an overrated person he was. there was not a newspaper In all Utah that dared allude to him as he should have been alluded to. His own organs, and many of those that have since occasionally shown him up as he should be shown up, were filled with fulsome praise of his presumed actions and mighty influence. Truth tore down the flimsy veil which concealed the real Kearns from public gaze and let in the light. Truth will continue to let people know the exact statesman. status .of this But at the same time we advise the Republicans of Utah that beginning right now, the Tribune and the Telegram will stop at nothing in order to magnify his name and his deeds. It is safe to say tht whatever Senator Smoot or Congressman Howell does will be appropriated to the credit of Kearns, as was the case with plenty of good work done by former Senator Rawlins and former Congressman Sutherland. It behooves the Republicans of this state, if they do not want this man returned for a complete term of six years, to begin their work of organization and education at once. There isnt a minute to lose. With the influence that money can exert, he can accomplish wonders. He has Bill Glasmann and. his Standard under complete control. There are a dozen country papers whose influence he can obtain. He has the Park City Record for him heart and soul, tooth and toe nail. It behooves the opposition to the machine to commence right now getting a move on itself. We repeat, the battle to be fought against Kearns must be fought out at the primaries and in the conventions. There is the place to get action against him. Unless it is fought out there the only remedy left to apply will be to turn this state over politically and return Utah to the Democratic column. This would not suit Republicans, although it would please the Democrats. But we are now looking at the situation from a Republican standpoint. Kearns already boasts that he has Weber coun anti-machin- quasi-Democrat- self-praise- d ic e 5 Cents ty in his grasp; that lie controls Summit county and that all ho wants is Salt Lake .county. The question is: Will the Republicans let him have it? If the Kearns opposition unites in a concert of effort to defeat him at the primaries and the conventions it can defeat him with ease. But there will have to be complete unity and a fair field with no favors for any one opposed to him. After he is down and out of it the best man can win. But so long as he is in the field the balance must make common cause against him, for unless they do they might just as well go away back and sit down. Wo arc conceding this much, not to the personal abilities of this man Kearns, but to those who manage his campaigns. They have money to spend and will spend it. In the city election they could not buy votes of the people, but in honest the the next election, the candidates nominated at the conventions will no doubt receive the party vote and there is the situation. Kearns must be defeated at the primaries and in the conventions or lie will not be defeated at all, for the days of miracles are ro-ce- nt . past o A WORD TO U. S. MARSHAL HEY-WOO- D. And now a word with you, Mr. Ben Heywood. You are the United States marshal for the district of Utah. You are supposed to represent the dignity of the greatest and best government on earth. To assure the people that you and other Federal officeholders will carefully consider the dignity of the great offices held by you and them, and to prevent just such chaps as you seem to be from degrading your offices to the level of ward politicians, there is a law down at Washington which forbids a Federal officeholder irom being an offensive partisan. It seems necessary, Mr. Heywood, to inform you of that fact, for the conduct of both yourself and others during the recent political contests in this city argue that none of you knew of such a law, or else that you have bade it a bold defiance. It is unnecessary, Mr. Heywood, to go into details concerning the part taken by you in that contest, for you know, and every one else knows, about it. But on last Saturday, November 7, in one of the business houses on West Second South street, you so far forgot about the dignity of your office, and the respect in which a number of our people hold, or heretofore have held you, that you spoke in a loud, angry and boisterous manner, in the presence of strangers, in relation to the defeat of the recent Perry Heath-Bruc- e Johnson-Tor- n Kearns city ticket, and said that the Republican party has now got rid of a thousand s of b s, meaning the members of your party whose sense of decency revolted against the political mess you had helped prepare for them to swallow, |