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Show NO GOOD SHOWING. ! uf course the Tribune circulates the rumoi that a bargain has bean struck, that If Utah can be made to give her electoral vote to Roosevelt i and Fairbanks, Apostle Smoot will he permitted to retain his seat in the Senate. Do people realizo what that implies? It is nothing leas than that the Senate Committee on Elections and Privl leges, sitting as a solemn court, make3 bargain , in advance of a decision, what the decision shall ' be. It further implicates the Senate of the United Unit-ed States, the highest tribunal on earth, as being a, party to a political trade. Such a rumor is directly di-rectly calculated to cause thoughtless men to conclude con-clude that there is neither honor nor justice in the tribunals of our country where the highest causes are tried. It is altogether infamous. But if that high court could beinfluenced by human passions, what certain men in Utah are doing now would have its effect. It has a Repub-lican Repub-lican majority. Should the present excitement result in giving the electoral Vote to Parker and Davis, thereby electing them President and Vice President, should it further result in sending a Democrat to the Senate from Utah, it might cause that body, when the petition for expulsion of Apostle Apos-tle Smoot is again presented, to quote the old legal maxim, that petitioners to courts must come with clean hands, for it is a clear case that the urgency for the revolt against church rule has been quite as accute many times before. It was so when Moses Thatcher was disgraced, when B. H. Roberts was honored and rewarded for his apostacy from real American citizenship; when the struggle was made to defeat M. H. Walker as school trustee; when Thomas Kearns was elect-I elect-I ed Senator; when Apostle Smoot was making his I certain campaign to insure the election of a leg- D islature of slaves which would in turn elect him I to the senate. 1 " The occasions have been numberlates, why then was this business sprung on the eve of a most i important election? "What was the real motive I behind it all? Was it anything except a willing- ness on the part of Senator Kearns to take ad-H ad-H vantage of public excitement and through it as a balm to his disappointment, permit him to gratify I his spite? 1 It is a bad showing to lay before the senate of I the United States, bad because of its fitter cause- 1 lessness. Who would have been wronged by a two months' delay? In how much better form oould the whole case have been presented by thus waiting. In what- position does it place the Tribune? It is notorious that since the Tribune's purchase three years ago, no matter who the manager may I have ostensibly been, the real dictation has been by a single man. That at first by the promise that there would be no more protests against church influence, the former work of the Tribune has been well nigh neutralized and 1,500 Mormon subscribers obtained, especially on the promise that the first work of the paper was to assist the church influence in the election of an apostle Smoot to the Senate; that this subserviency to the church was kept up for nearly three years until finally "the sole director of the Tribune was defeated de-feated in his ambition and then he, all at once, became a furious reformer who could not wait a minute before showing his righteous anger and his suddenly awakening patriotism over the usurpations usur-pations of the church. It was done, too, just on the eve of an election which will determine whether wheth-er an unknown quantity, practically, backed and engineered by the trlclcyesUand most- unscrupulous unscrupu-lous manipulators in the Union, shall be President, Presi-dent, or whether the scholar, author, man of affairs, af-fairs, soldier and tried statesman shall be given his righteous reward. The story will not b good j reading by the Republican majority in the Senate of thfr United States. |