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Show MOSTLY HISTORICAL. When a soiled dove is suddenly oonverted, she, . j : . especially if the conversion is not sincere, is liable j I to overwork the business. There is nothing that 1 she likes so well as to assail one of her sex , 1 against whom there has never been a word. There are soiled doves among men as well as among J women; there are soiled doves among newspa- 1 pers as well as among men and women. There j is a striking example right in this cits When , the Salt Lake Tribune begins to hurl the epithets epi-thets of "Church Organ" and "Churoh Slave" at a ,1 contemporary, people wonder as to the genuine- B ness of the Tribune conversion, as to the oleanli- B 1 noss of its- skirts. The methods through whiok HB j Mr. Kearns reached the senatorship of the United H 1 States are well understood and need not be dis- HR cussed. But we may say that he had seen the IB i work of the Tributve for many years and noticed Kgt j its earnest struggle to make of Utah an Ameri- jtft can state in the full significance of the word. He B had seen the church, or the church chiefs, which HB is the same thing, finally surrender and had read H their promise that henceforth they would give B their people freedom; that never again sLould H there be sought any control over either their free- B j dom of political thought or their freedom of po- B i litical action. They were to be free to ospouse H j whatever political belief they might choose to B espouse and vote for whom they pleased without B dictation from any source until "he who lias a B right to rule shall come." B Mr, Kearns fcnaw when those chiefs began to B recede from that position, and to once more usurp B th,e rtahf; tp rule the people; he saw, too, that the B Tribune cried Out against this and was fighting B almost singly the unequal battle for the right. Did B ha have one word of encouragement for the paper B which so long and unselfishly had tried to make B Utah an American State? Not at all. Rather, he B went to the same chiefs and negotiated the terms B to insure him the senatorship. B A little later ho bought the Tribune and S though a scurvy hireling, sent word to the Mor- B .rojan, people tha their "persecution" had at last B ceased that henceforth there would be no words B but love words In the Tribune, and that its first B mission would be to try and help elect Apostle B Sraoot to the Senate. B Then, as Senator, Mr. Kearns assumed the roll B of dictator of Utah politics. When he took snuff B In Washington, the Tribune in Salt Lake sneezed B from garret to basement. B A year ago he dictated a ticket for city officers, jB many of the nominees were first-class men, but B Goodwin's Weekly opposed them because the B taint of Kaarn's dictation was upon them; opposed H tham with suoh ability as it could command, up to H convention day. The ticket triumplied and then H thsdurnjil,gave the nominees its earnest support m up to aleotlon day, heoause It was the regular Re- B publican ticket and was a better ticket than the B f opposition nominated. But all the time we were m j ranking1 that fight, maiding it through a sense of Hh duty and in direct opposition to the wishes of J many dear friends, the Tribune had not for us B one word of recognition, commendation or appre- M I elation. The opinionated knave and fool in charge I could not bend enough to see that we were fighting fight-ing its battle, it having broken all its weapons in fc the skirmish prior to the convention. 1 H This year Apostle Smoot assumed precisely the m same role as Senator Kearns did last year, except H that what Kearns did was for Kearns' sake, what H j Smoot did was ostensibly for Christ's sakt ! As Kearns won last year, Smoot won this, and then this journal, as an honest Republican journal that for the party is willing, if it cannot get just ! what it wants, to take what it can get, turned to B the support of the regularly nominated Republican BB ticket. Now, the lieutenants of Senator Kearns 1 lead in a movement to inaug urate a new party LW in Utah; they do it almost on the eve of election day. We would know that the movement had Senator Sen-ator Kearn's approval without his saying so, for we all know that neither Col. Nelson nor Mr. Llpp-man Llpp-man would have been there taking a leading part without his approval. When we reflect how much those gentlemen know of the situation, how they must have realized that they could not make any break in the close column of Democratic votes, the only conclusion that can be drawn is, that to break his fall, Senator Kearns wants to see the Republican ticket defeated; or, when he sprung the movement, he hoped that it would bring the church to time and save again to him the senatorship. We should not have wasted all this space except ex-cept that the Tribune, having changed its skirts and so suddenly bloomed out a reformer, at once takes a deep interest in Goodwin's Weekly and charges that It Is a church organ, and, being In the business of buying and selling offices and not ahle to conceive of a newspaper being run on the square, instantly concluded and advertises the conclusion that the We'dy must have been bought For once we will stoop down to answer that. Goodwin's Weekly takes subscriptions of ?2.00 per year, it publishes advertisements at regular rates but it has never yet sold an opinion and wo have a secret opinion that Senator Kearns has not money enough- to buy its opinion. He could easily eas-ily buy the journal and all that it possesses, but not Its opinions. This is a humiliating matter to discuss but it is necessary for once. One matter more: The Tribune has had no words for the editor-in-chief of this paper for a long time, save words of abuse, until within a week, it grew loving all at once and was sure that the old-time Liberal had left Utah rather than to edit a "Church" organ. The truth is quickly told; certain gentlemen have sought for years past to induce him to remove to Montana. Several weeks ago a cry came down for him to go and help during the campaign. It was before the Republican convention met. He went as a duty to his friends and a duty to the Republican Re-publican cause, in a doubtful, but real American state. In the meantime this journal has done nothing that he does not approve. |