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Show lF Remcirihle "Reply National Committee Opposed to 'Bolters. Jb Feeling Against Dubois. County Tolitics. The organ for the Righting of the Wrongs of Thomas Kearns produces quite a remarkable document doc-ument in its reply to the address of the Republican Repub-lican State Committee to the Republicans of the State, published as an advertisement in a paper which the Tribune highly disapproves. When the paper bolted the Republican ticket the morning after the convention, this same committee com-mittee solioited, in the interests of harmony,, har-mony,, an Interview with Senator Kearns. and Manager Lippman. The senator was morose and waspish and peevish over supposed sup-posed wrongs; Manager Lippman was brazenly insolent. At the conclusion of the session, the gulf between the Tribune and the committee was wider than ever. The paper says now that Senator Kearns was not complaining. It is true that before the convention con-vention he was not issuing any complaints, as he imagined the night before the convention that he had secured, through Mr. Parkinson, some church influence which would defeat Mr. Cutler on the day following. When the Parkinson "church influence" proved to be visionary, the Tribune made the conspicuous and unmistakable complaint of bolting the ticket The committee offered to make any reasonable concession to the warlike senator and his voicy manager, but both were intractable, and nothing the committee proposed, -In its desire for a reconciliation recon-ciliation without dishonor, would pacify them in the least. The reason for this attitude of aggression and defiance was that the American party plummet I had already been cast invitations for the private 1 Gentile conclave for the formation of a bolting party were Issued later, with the cbnsent and knowledge and very likely under the direction of Manager Lippman. This the manager denies, and claims Kearns was not the real organizer of the party, but he fails to explain why the staunch-est staunch-est of his henchmen, J. P. Darmer, sent out the in-I in-I vitations, if it were not purely a Tribune move; how it happened that two-thirds of the organizers were of the Kearns contingent and that the leading lead-ing spirits in the revolt were the manager himself, David Keith and Colonel Nelson, neither of whom would speak above a whisper without receiving a signal from the senior Senator. The Tribune tries to fortify its claim of not guilty by announcing that Senator Kearns was not personally present at that or the subsequent meeting. That is quite true, and it is also true that the Senator has never announced over his signature that he has withdrawn from the sena-j sena-j torial race, although five local reporters attempted j to secure such a statement. The astute Senator was wise enough not to do anything boldly committal. com-mittal. He walked out of the Republican party without closing the door behind him, so that ho could make a quick dash back into the fold at but L a nod from the church signifying that ho would again receive the "Influence" against which his organ is vociferating. Even at this belated day, the Tribune would desert the American party like a craven, If he could secure the concessions he has within a few weeks attempted to bargain for from Bast Brigham street. Th paper makes the announcement that "it Is firmly and fervently supporting the Republican national ticket." Such a statement is purely reckless or an exhibition of the Tribune's peculiar sense of humor. The ticket of the new American party, of which it is the organ, will not contain the names of any of the Presidential Electors, and th paper says to Its followers that with such of them as wish to vote for Democratic Electors it "has no quarrel." Consequently the paper Is supporting sup-porting Parker and Davis just as "firmly and fer-venltly" fer-venltly" as it is supporting Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Fair-banks. Besides, the Tribune knows that the absence ab-sence of the names of Presidential Electors on the American ticket will result in the loss of hundreds hun-dreds of votes that would have been cast for Roosevelt and Fairbanks had Mr. Lippman and Mr. Kearns refrained from forming their bolting party just before a Presidential election. All the Tribune's apologies and simporings do not conceal the fact that it has lost under the present pres-ent management whatever of dignity and prestige may have remained to it after the ill-starred, managerial efforts of Mr. Heath. |