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Show You 3; No. 50. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 20, 1904. To the Republicans of Vtah For the past three years this paper has waged a constant war upon this man Tom Kearns, who obtained a seat in the United States senate by methods most questionable, and who has since filled it with about as much ability as a cow would a pulpit. It has been accused of having Kearnsphobia, and of being influenced aginst the man by motives of personal spite, when its sole and only reason has been that it wanted to see Utahs interest confided to abler hands than his. Personally. Kearns isnt a bad man as men of his kind go; he knows how, when some one prompts him. On the eve of the county conventions of your party which will nominate men to sit in the senate and the house of representatives of the coming session of the legistature, let Truth, After all ask you a few questions. that has been said and done; after all that has been printed by the subsidized press of this state and by the personal organs of Kearns here in Salt Lake City; after reading all the rot and slush that has been jointed about him here at home, is there one of you who can honestly say there is another state in the union who would send Tom Kearns to the senate? If Tom Kearns were a poor man, with no dividend paying stocks bringing him in immense sums yearly, is there a mothers son of you who would seriously think of mentioning him for the place? If he was to be elected at the hands of the people, instead of by a state legislature, and had to make a personal canvass of the voters of Utah, how far along toward success do you suppose he would get? Divest ithe man of his money, and the glitter of it that has blinded your Ores, and bought writes up in the country papers; stand him up alongside a dozen men in your own counties who have ability sufficient to .enable them to represent you successfully in your own state legislature and tell us which one of' all the men who has been elected from your municipality is his intellectual inferior? Call the roll of the leading men of your town, tell us which one is lesser in greatness than Tom Kearns. With men of ability in every leading city and town in Utah to select from; men whose 'intellectual faculties and natural endowments are such as to enable them to ' speak act and think intelligently; men who would be proud to represent Utah in the highest . law making body of the land, do you not think the interest of this commonwealth would be in better hands if you were to select one of the many, and leave this hard headed, thick headed, medicore minded individual at home? As this paper has stated, the time is fast approaching when Utah will need a friend at Washington. She will be bitterly assailed by men who have the ability to weave wreaths of flowers out of language and who can also manufacture crowns of thorns from words. They will spare not this state and her people, but will lash both with a whip of scorpions. They will be able men, those who do this, and everything they say on the floor of the senate will be repeated through the newspapers to the people of the nation, and by them read. Many will be the wrong impressions formed as a result of the speeches which will be made at that time, because forsooth, there will be no man there to answer them; no gifted, speaker, with confidence in himself, who can rise and set poor Utah right Do you want this state to suffer more than it has suffered because she has no champion to enter the list in her defense? Are you willing to be branded with the infamous mark of shame by those who do not understand your conditions here, because the man you have sent to represent you cannot refute, any slanders against you? Or will you say that no longer will you send ignorant silence to plead your cause? Because of the recent disclosures in Washington; through the false conceptions of eastern people; by reason of the misrepresentations of an unfriendly press, this state has been covered with odium, and instead of standing in the group of sisters, the peer of any, she sits apart with downcast eyes and drooping head, ashamed to look the others in the face. Mutely she has looked in the direction of Tom Kearns for help, but he, untutored in the use of those weapons with which the Almighty endows the intelligent, sits passive, not daring and at the same time not willing to break a lance or run a course with the poorest of those who have assailed. his home and his people. You may say he has done much for Utah. What, in the name of God? You answer he has secured Johnny Axton a chaplaincy in the army; that he got Van Horne a place in Egypt; that he has fixed Hayes with a position in the department of justice; that he has had this mans pay raised and that ones duties made lighter. Is this all you demand at the hands of a man you send to represent you, that he pay off at government expense the Price: debts of gratitude he owns to the meu who helped elect him? Do you not know that states are measured by the men they send to Washington ? That the glory of is reflected in the simple face and the mighty mind of George Frisbie Hoar and the eminent personality of Henry Cabot Lodge? That Maine is regarded as being one of the most intellectual of all states because year after year she has returned Hale and Frye? That the briskness and businesslike sagacity of the inhabitants of Ohio have been exemplified because Foraker and Hanna represented her in the senate? That because Missouri kept Cockrell and Vest in harness all through the years, Missouri obtained rank at the seat of government? That Illinois profited by having Shelby M. Cullom at the capital, and that Iowa owes a large part of her greatness to the fact that William M. Allison has stood up and fought her battles among the master minds of this 'nation. Do you know that our neighbor, Colorado, honors herself when she elects such a man as Teller? That the Old Dominion stands true to her traditions of purity of government and intention when she calls John M. Daniel to talk for her in debate? But why go on further? Tis too much to ask that we relate all the names on that illustrious roll, but before we stop, let us ask you if there is one state who has a senator who can be compared with Tom Kearns because of lack of every eminent quality represented in the great ones we have alluded to? You say he can entertain. Aye, but what an entertainment Wine, viands, roast beef, blueflsh. The hotel proprietor furnishes that. Can he entertain any one with any of those things that go to make life better? Can he sit down and reason on any great problem of government? Has he the ability to discuss intelligently any of the many grave questions that affect the people? Do you suppose that the coiner of the term Filiponles, or the discoverer of the beautiful island of Alaska, floatin so majestically on the bosom of the Arctic sea could attract the attention of any of those who lead in the affairs of the republic to the extent that he could influence their opinions toward your own state in a matter of vital interest? Answer these questions, you who are flocking to the money-staine- d standard of Kearns. Let Truth warn you at this point of something that is going to happen. You say you are Republicans. Very good. Your party has a grand record for having contained and still containing within its ranks, great men. It had a Lincoln and a Sumner; it had a Stanton and a Thad Stevens; it had a Garfield and a Blaine; it has contained millions of upright citizens whose only thought has been for the best good of this Union; and its history is a record as glorious as that of Mas-sachuste- es dirt-soile- d, -- Cunts 5 any organization that ever existed on earth. Nor are all the good and the true out of it; there still remain those who want to see it go on and on, growing better and brighter all of the time, until it reaches a stage of perfection, the highest that can be attained on earth. There are many of those here in Utah. They constitute the great body of the organization; they are its heart; its life blood. They arc proof this testing against the man with every energy that honest, true men can use. Will you heed their protests, or will you keep right on in your venal, sordid way, endeavoring to send Kearns back to Washington for another term? If you do, and this Is no threat, for Truth makes no threats, it simply states what it believes to be a fact; if you do, then just as sure as the sun rises on Utah on the morning of November 8, and sets in the evening, the Republican party of this state is defeated and a Democratic administration will take charge of the affairs of this commonwealth. Truth knows the sentiment of the people of this state; it has its finger on the public pulse and speaks with a knowledge of what is going on. Laugh at it, decry it; abuse it; it) talks straight, and time will justify it. The history of the last election in Salt Lake City will be repeated. Try it, you fellows- who want Kearns; try it. re-electi- on - -- . LOCAL POLITICS The Republican contest for the gubernatorial nomination is still the center of attraction in the politcafarena. Truth has taken the position from the beginning that the governorship had nothing to do with the senatorial ambitions of any candidate, and should not. It has not seen any good reason to change that position. The defeat of Mr; Cutler would be a negative Kearns victory, for the reason that Mr. Cutler is the pronounced candidate, while Wells and Hammond are neither for or against Without any senatorial candidate. the result of the primaries in Salt Lake county, which come too late for this issue of the paper, Truth believes that Governor Wells is in the lead for the nomination. During the past ten days his prospects have vastly improved. Against Wells it is persistently stated that he is in league with Kearns. This we do not believe, and the fact that s there are many Implacable men on the side of the governor is corroboration of the view taken by Truth. The contest has been, up to date, very bitter, but with all the bitterness there is not a man who does not. admit, in fact, who does not say, that Wells has been a wise and a good anti-Kear- anti-Kearn- ns |