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Show BX FRANK. O, Reed, thou dost protest too much. Thou art young Reed, and art not without ambition. Youth is the loveliest of all gifts, an honest ambition is most commendable. But, O, Reed, do not seek to deceive the people! It may be ingenuous to say, "True Senator Kearns was my honored guest at dinner; incidentally I mentioned, after the small hot bird had been disposed of end the large cold bottle was in evidence, that I proposed pro-posed to be a candidate for the Senate, but really it was but an unpremeditated and very little thing, and should not be magnified." magni-fied." Such talk may be ingenuous but not ingenious, because it fools no one, deceives no one, and it causes some people to smile. Why not be frank and say something like this: "Two years ago I had an ambition to be a United States Senator. The First Presidency approved of my candidacy. We all thought it would be good to have an Apostle in the Senate. Those better qualified quali-fied than myself in the apostolic quorum unfortunately had disqualifications which might have closed the door of the Senate against them. This was what caused even John Henry to approve of my candidature. Things were progressing all right, when suddenly sud-denly I was summoned East no matter by whom. There I was made to see that by suspending my ambition for a couple of years, my church could be benefitted in a most substantial way. All the people know how anxious our late President Snow was to see the debt of the church entirely liquidated. I did then my apostolic duty. I suspended my ambition; I secured the substantial benefit for my church. But now I am free. My ambition has returned. I am in the field with the approval of my superiors, and this 'time I feel that I will be sure to win unless, in some other guise, another substantial benefit to the church is offered. That is all I fear; for my church, besides its Celestial Kingdom, has a Kingdom here on earth which looks sharply after the main chance, and my chiefs know that a gentile endorsement endorse-ment of them and their ways counts for more in the Senate of the United States than even my endorsement would, and when they can get that and with it an expression in most substantial form of love and affection, the last one of them is willing to make sacrifices to obtain it. What worries me most is they are willing to sacrifice me. You all know that a bequest made with no consideration except love and affection as a husband's gift to his wife in law carries complete title, hence there is one disquieting disquiet-ing cloud in my sky. But if that does not expand and fill the whole heavens as election elec-tion time draws near, I shall be a candidate in fact with an almost dead certainty of-winning, of-winning, and I want the people to understand under-stand it because it may induce certain gentlemen gen-tlemen to be candidates for the legislature who will run withont any hope of making a stake by being elected; it may induce other would-be candidates to refrain from expending expend-ing money on a hope which, however sweet it may seem to their lips,.will be sure to turn to Dead Sea apples if they ever bite at it." |