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Show Facta1 Concerning "American" Tarty Voters bvtll Rebtif(e the Soreheads V X5he Duty of Republicans, The din and shout and the turmoil of the present pres-ent campaign are now over. It is now time fpr the electors of the state to give sober consideration to the vital issues upon which the voters will render ren-der their verdiot next Tuesday. In Utah, political conditions are extraordinary, made so by the projection into the campaign of what is known as the American party. The leaders lead-ers of that society have made remarkable claims and remarkable accusations, and the most important import-ant thing for Utah voters to decide this year is whether or not the promoters of that malodorous movement shall prevail. If the cause is a just one,- the promoters of the party should be sustained; sus-tained; but If it is made clear that the organization organiza-tion is a medium of acrimony and a weapon forged for the defeat of the Republican party because the people of Utah and the Mormon leaders rejected re-jected the overtures of Thomas Kearns for ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical support, the party should, by a vote which should prove humiliating and unequivocal, be driven back to the dishonored jungle from whence it came bellowing and braying. A few facts regarding that society are worthy of deliberation before intelligent citizens cast their ballots on next Tuesday. Thomas Kearns was the originator of the American Amer-ican party. Mr. Kearns repeatedly solicited Church influence influ-ence in his campaign for re-election for the United States Senate before he ordered the Tribune to violently attack the Mormon leaders. The American party was ostensibly formed in order to combat Church influence, while in reality its object was to defeat the Republican party because be-cause Its members repudiated Mr. Kearns jmd placed an emphatic veto upon his aspirations to return to the Senatorial seat which he had obtained ob-tained from the Church. : The Tribune went Into open revolt against the Republican ticket, ostensibly because John C. Cutler Cut-ler was nominated for the Governorship. In reality real-ity the bolt was occasioned by the fact that certain cer-tain minions of Mr. Koarns failed of nQininatton on tlie Legislative ticket in some of the Southern counties. Several weeks before the Republican state convention, con-vention, two gentlemen who waited on Senator Kearns in the intereits of Secretary Hammond's candidacy for the Governorship, were Informed by Mr. Kearns that he would support for Governor whomsoever the Church leaders desired, and that he would receive his tip on this subject from a certain cer-tain Mormon apostle. On the night of the Republican state conven-tipn, conven-tipn, Joseph Lippman announced to a Gentile Republican Re-publican nominee, that the Tribune would not support the Republican ticket Two weeks later, at his instigation and that of Mr. Kearns, the American party was formed, in order to give some dignity and prestige to the bolt of the Tribune Tri-bune a bolt which was occasioned purely by the fact that Mr. Kearns forsaw that he had no chance fqr re-eleotion to the United States Senate. The American party was not formed to combat Church Influence. It was organized solely to combat com-bat the people who refused to deliver the many-times many-times solioited Church influence to Mr. Kearns. The originators of the American party organized organ-ized that society to defeat the Republican electoral, elec-toral, state and county tlaketa. It was done,.flrst, &4 & matter of spite against President Roosevelt, wlio had ignored Senator Kearns, and secondly, as l retaliation against Senator moot, who had assisted as-sisted in the Senator's obliteration as a Senatorial P$ilbility. The Tribune is in league with the Democratic party. During tho past few weeks almost. dally conferences have occurred between Senator Frank J. Cannon, leader of the American movement, and State Chairman Simon Bamberger, and -"National Committeeman' "D. H. Peery of the Democratic party. The Democratic National Commlt.ee is extending extend-ing encouragement to the American party of Utah, which they consider, as does Mr. Kearns, the best possible medium for the defeat of the Republican electoral ticket. Ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon joined the American party, not because of opposition opposi-tion to Church influence, which he has always coveted and of which he has been a beneficiary, but under the direction of his friend, Mr. Sheehan of the National Democratic Committee. . The most venomous munitions of the American Ameri-can party are directed against Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Cannon, at an American party meeting, accused President Roosevelt of entering into a dishonorable dis-honorable bargain with the Church leaders for the delivery of Utah to the Republicans. The Tribune Tri-bune editorially praised this attack, which was referred re-ferred to in its columns as "great and patriotic service." The organ of the American party Is uselng every endeavor to defeat the Republican electoral and state tickets in Idaho. Numerous articles have appeared In Its columns commending the campaign of Senator Dubois and condemning the Republican leaders in Idaho in their efforts on behalf be-half of the Roosevelt electors. The American party's organ has repeatedly attacked at-tacked John C. Cutler and Joseph Howell, the Republicans Re-publicans nominees for Governor and Congressman, Congress-man, showing that the real object of the party Is to elect James H. Moyle and O. W. Powers. The Republican National Committed is investigating investi-gating a charge that the Tribune is not really owned by Mr. Kearns and his associates. Information Infor-mation has been received from reliable sources that the major portion of the purchase price of the Tribune was provided from funds supplied by ,Mark Hanna, at that time chairman of the Republican Re-publican National Committee and an intimate friend of Mr. Perry Heath, who was installed as manager of the paper when the transfer was made It is said that the organ of the American party is edited by Frank J. Cannon, a Democratic leader, who is one of tho strongest advocates in the state of the election of Parker and Davis, and who, with Mr. Peery, really represents the National Democratic Demo-cratic Committee in this state. Tho American party pleads for votes on the ground that its nominees are opposed to Church control of the public schools, a palpable deception decep-tion in view of the fact that 80 per cent of the teachers in the public schools are Gentiles, and that the Mormon Church, through Legislative on-aotment, on-aotment, could noAv be In complete control of the public schools If the Church leaders had any such sinister motive. The leaders of tho American party know that they have no chance to elect their ticket in this county. Still they are defaming the Republican county commlsisoners on the silliest and most flimsy of accusations, for no other reason than to assist in the election of the Democratic county ticket. While contending that control pf the public sohools was one of the main objects of the formation forma-tion of the American partr, its nominee for State Superintendent of Publio' Instruction is Mr. Frank Chrlstensen of Weber, who acknowledged that he j U n dovout Mormon, a believer in revelation" ana that he can foresee no possibility of forsaking his fl belief in Mormon teachings. "jH The party leaders olalm that they desire to ex- 9 terminate polygamy in Utah. And yet one of its iH nominees for the State Legislature is a polygamist, IH the only one on either of the tickets, and the 'iH party has taken no step3 toward his removal from j IH the ticket, notwithstanding the fact that he was jH a polygamist has bean publicly exposed. jH Thomas Kearns, the acknowledged "head of H the American party," has represented to the Na- "'H tional Committee, that the names of tho American H party electors appear at the head of the American H party ticket. This is not only a direct and con- p H temptible misrepresentation, but amounts to a ; Hj repudiation of all Democrats who have been be- ' H gulled Into joining the eociety. j H The leaders of the American party are practlc- H ally all paid henchmen of Senator Kearns, many 11 of whom acknowledge that their sole aim is to ,H wreck the Republican party. H The success of the conspiracy of the American H party means Democratic ascendency in Utah, a ' H Democratic Congressman and a Democratic Sena- j H tor, some such distinguished gentleman, for in- ! H stance, as Mr. F. S. Richards, attorney of the Mor- j H mon Church, or Mr. J. L. Rawlins, the Tillman of t H Utah politics. rH k.-vKjmBMmiiHnMH3nnuiniinMnnmmHiniBainnmmaBM(MMB. I lHllllfl |
