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Show Maneuver & of Kje&rn "Legion." j it ' t , ,' , . ikdpttbljdcifi Confident Certain 'Repartee The 'Democratic Func- , tion General Tolitics. ' The Gentiles who have allied themselves with the present American party movement find themselves them-selves in a position peculiarly paradoxical. IHvery day they are confronted with the accusation accusa-tion that the party to which they are giving their suppo'rt was started by Mr. T. Kearns and Mr. J. Lippman for the purpose of placing a revengeful lance in the political corporeality of Senator Smcot and to wreck the Republican party in this state. 'The' average member of the American party-does party-does ndt deny this In fact, he is quite willing to admit the Impeachment. At the same time they state !in palliation for their alliance with the Revenge Re-venge Society that the American party has outgrown out-grown 'both Ml Lippman and Mr. Kearns, that those affluent statesmen have been left in the ruck, a it were, and have ceased to be factors in the .tflpheavy movement. That lpoks like a very fragile and impotent defense. de-fense. . It amounts to an admission that however ' ' "j ' base the motives or the conspirators were in starting start-ing jjiis. movement they (the Gentiles) are willing to abide by the o'rlgipal edicts of this galaxy of political rogues. Mr. Kearns and his agents sat in darksome conclave and evolved a plot for the , wreckage of the Republican party in Utah, because I of chagrin and disappointment over a well-deaervod defeat, and enlisted the sympathies of numerous Gentiles who were ready to protest with vigor against unwarranted encroachments of the church in tfie political field. At the time these same Gen-tile Gen-tile Wore not aware that spite and hatred and baflled hope were behind Mr. Kearns' clamor for a battle against church, b'ut that has now been conspicuously con-spicuously and unequivocally established, and there is now left no fragment of excuse for these same Gentiles to carry out this vindictive plot, even if they have outgrown the petty instigators of the conspiracy. The repudiation of Thomas Kearns and Joseph Lippman is not sufficient. Gentiles who confess and avow the political perfidy of the pair should go farther, and repudiate the whole nefarious scheme which was evolved for the downfall of the Republican party in this state and the victory of Parker and Davis electors. No flower of fragrance can bloom on a plant which was diseased at the roots by the contagious fingers of Senator Kearns; no party fostered in the soil of hatred and revenge can ever 'h Ope to be lasting last-ing or beneficial. If the present movement is to be permanent, and if there is a strong belief that such a society is needed, the present party, with its pre-natal infection, in-fection, should be cast aside and a new organization organiza-tion formulated on a decent basis. It appears idle to loyal Republicans for Gentiles Gen-tiles to say that they deprecate the sinister object of Kearns and -Lippman in starting the society, while at the same time, however faultless their own niotives may be, they are in reality carrying out the designs of the conspirators. Conservative Republicans believe the better plan should be to repudiate the party and its primary promoters, and later, if necessary, formulate a new and honest organisation, after the issues of the present state and presidential campaign shall have been decided. |