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Show mi i " -. i . i, . L , j 'H KjBCLtrw9 Misrepresentations ffl JVo Electors on American TicKet lob&ersf Letter V Jl Cannon's Visits V General 'Politics. 'fl The political plumage of Honorable T. Kearns has been badly ruffled of late, and apparently realizing that his late Revenge Society movement move-ment was the biggest mistake in a political career bestrewn with blunders, he is in the East pouring into the ears of the National Committee a fallacious falla-cious tale regarding the objects of the American party and its bearing upon the electoral ticket. A letter has been received by a prominent Republican Re-publican leadier of this city from a member of the National Republican Executive Committee, which shows the full scope of his misrepresentations. misrepresenta-tions. The letter is a rep.y to a letter from Salt Lake, setting forth this true animus and aims of the American party and its hostility to the Republican Repub-lican ticket, and refers to a conversation between the National Committeeman and Mr. T. Kearns. The part of the letter politically incriminating incriminat-ing Mr. Kearns follows: "He (Kearns) advised me, however, that the law of Utah permits a person's name to appear more than once on the ballot, and gave me a diagram dia-gram of the ballot, in which he showeA that the Republican electors' names appeared on the American party's ticket, which is a part of the ballot. This being i the case, I cannot think that the Senator Kearns' movement in any way endangers endan-gers the electoral ticket, a though I do not make this statement because I am in any way in sympathy sym-pathy with his effort, as I believe you have given the correct reason why he is proceeding along the lines of the present occasion." The 'effrontery of that deception is almost staggering. stag-gering. It stamps Mr. T. Kearns as the most brazen political impostor that ever wont out from Utah. It would seem that he was not content with a verbal misrepresentation of his perfidy toward President Roosevelt, but produced a blue print to add force to his blatant falsification. Mr. Kearns, by his statement to the national committeeman, com-mitteeman, has placed himself in a position where no apologies may be made for him; even the tenacious te-nacious Colonel Nelson womd quail at the thought of a defense; and Frank J. Cannon, the probable oditor of the bolting organ, would tax his facile pen to find any words which would condone such a dishonorable statement. As the ticket of the American party has already al-ready been filed, and as the names of presidential presiden-tial electors are notoriously absent from it, one would question Mr. Kearns' sanity to announce that he made his representations to the committeeman commit-teeman under a misapprehension As Mr Kearns knows It would be Impossible to place the name of electors at the head of the bolting ticket, since the American party has gathered lecrults fiom both of the great parties, albeit with a vast preponderance prepon-derance of Republicans. So there is no other alternative al-ternative than to class Mr. Kearns as either a knave or a fool. It was probably with the intention of giving some color to his false statement to this national committeeman that the names of the presidential electors wore placed in the columns of the bolting bolt-ing organ at the head of the American party ticket. It was either that or an eleventh hour repentance, as a partial propitiation for former felly Viewed in the-WOTt charitable light, the names of Roosevelt electors were placed there with intent to deceive. The Tribune knows that this year, through its volleyings against the Mormons, Mor-mons, there will be a strong vote among Gentile Republican women who never voted before, and the intention is to deceive them into the belief that they will be voting for Roosevelt electors lH when they place a cross under the Revenge So- ill ciety emblem. In that way, as the intriguing ! Senator knows, hundreds of votes which would fH otherwise have been cast for the. Republican lH presidential electors will be thrown away. Another strong indictment against Senator jH Kearns is the fact that his own organ, while the 'lH Senator is 'exploiting a far different version, ad- , H mits that presidential electors must be voted for iH under the Republican or Democratic emblems. It iH would appear that the wires must have become iH entangled between the shifty Senator and Ghoey jflPj Lippman when the conflicting versions were be- aSI ing launched In Salt Lake and Washington. It ! JH is really a sad thing that Mr. Kearns should stand IH accused by the mouths of his own cringing ! jjl journalistic menials. "H The history of politics pioves beyond equlvoca- ! tion that when a ballot requires insertions and iH scratching, the average voter assists In the de- 1 H feat of the very persons for whom ho wishes to jH express a preference. That Is precisely what H this bob-tailed American ballot will do. if for- H sooth sufficient people can bo deluded Into vot- j Ing for It and thereby carrying out the designs of f H the originators of this Society of Revenge and I H Malice. Republican women who vote for the 1 ( fl first time this year should be forewarned before fl they enter the voting booth. They cannot afford H to take any chances on losing their ballots and , , , H thereby fulfilling the designs of political roguery. . ' iH Their only safety, if they desire to administer a j H rebuff to political tricksters and to register their .( ! ballots In favor of Roosevelt and Fairbanks, Is to 'M vote the Republican ticket entire. L i ' M |