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Show More Kje&rfw Deceptions, j H JVational Committee Misinformed !r IBroRen 'Resolutions County ! Infirmary Ajffair General Politics. H "There are two Republican tickets in Utah. They are uni ed on eleqtors, however, and Senator Sen-ator Kearns says he will carry the state for Roosevelt. There Is great difference Of opinion as to the extent to which the two Republican tickets will ajTfect the electoral vote, and on that account the state should b kept in the doubtful column until the votetf are oountecL" The above is from the pen Of Raymond, the political editor of the Chicago Tribune, one of the most fiifluentlal Republican mediums in the United Unit-ed States'. The boldness of such a despicable mis-assertion mis-assertion from Senator Kearns would make Gap-tain Gap-tain Kldd and his maratlme cutthroats look like a cluster of village preachers. Some of his be-llmboed be-llmboed political intrigues have been In the past looked upon with a certain degree of charity, but ruch hyperbolic distortions as this would be a little lit-tle too strong for the calloused palate of a Tarn-" many outlaw. Some time ago a letter from a national committeeman com-mitteeman to a prominent local Republican was reproduced in part in these columns, in which, Mr. Kearns was quoted as saying that "the law of Utah permits a person's na:re to appear more than once on a ballot, and gave me a diagram on the ballot, in which he showed that the Republican Republi-can electors' names appeared en , the American party's ballot, which Is a rart cf the ticket" The mendacity of this statement was so bewildering that many people who were formerly frjends, of the bolting senator professed grave doubts of Its authenticity, but his more recent utterances appearing ap-pearing in an eastern organ clearly confirm all. that has formerly been said of his political dlsln-genuousness. dlsln-genuousness. Outside of the great nerve force displayed by the senator from Park City, probably the feature of hi3 statement which will appeal most strongly to those who have been deluded into the American Ameri-can party movement Is that he appears to be ashamed to acknowledge kinship with them in the oast and designates them in bulk as Republicans. Mr. Hlles, who will now probably realize how he was covertly deceived into joining Mr. Kearns' Revenge Society, should bo particularly pleased, and the three or tour othei' Democrats who entered Into the alliance will now possibly have a well defined idea of how cunningly they wore deceived when they were mislead into joining join-ing the American party of Utah-We-LoveThee. "Senator Kearns says he will carry the state tor Roosevelt" Shades of Lincoln, the marvel cf it After conceiving a deliberate plot to defeat the Republican electors; after forming a party which is In almost overt alliance with the Democratic Dem-ocratic party in Utah; after using his organ for months as the medium of vilification of Republicans Republi-cans who refuse to bo traitors to the party of their convictions during a presidential year; after approving as "great' and patriotic service" an attack upon President Roosevelt, after converting con-verting Utah from a safe Republican state into a doubtful one, where, through his treachery and machinations the Democrats have every hope for success, unflinching and utterly unashamed, he blandly informs the Republican National Committee Com-mittee that ho, forsooth, will present this state as a ripe offering to Mr Roosevelt. If the annals of political Intrigue and bravado contain anything more mock heroic and blatant blat-ant than that, the lecord would form a remarkable theme for a farce comedy plot. And "they are united on electors, however," says Mr. Kearns, knowing that through his campaign of malice the . jH two parties are about as much united as the Rus- jH slang and Japs at Port Arthur. 11 Probably long years will wane and be con- jH sumed In the great vats of the yesteryears before Hl such a marvelous politician as Mr. Kearns ap- H pears again on the horizon; for that reason and 1H for no other it is rather sad that the votes of IbLI this year will constitute for him a blemished pollt- I jH ical obituary; and yet when the epitaph is in- jH scribed, "treachery" should be the word most H conspicuously engraved; treachery In the form of ll extending the hand of cordiality and a simulated H friendship to people for whom in his heart there jH was no sentiment save hatred. - H |
