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Show POLITICAL OBITUARIES. r Senator Kearns is receiving some attention of late in the eastern press in the way of obltu ary notices of his early retirement from theTsen ate. James B. Marrow, In the Plaindealer, gives some attention to him and Senator Dietrich who is also retiring, apparently coupling the names because, as he says, "One moved out of Nebraska and the other moved in." It is not known that there Is any subtle allusion In this sentence "He had an Irish talent," he says, "for lofty and picturesque speech So Keai'ns was brought out for the office of senator and he took to the stump to show his own quality and patriotism patri-otism in the matter. He upheld the Republican policy of expansion and illustrated his argument by pointing to Alaska, which he called 'an island basking like a jewel on the bosom of the Arctic sea.' The Democrats ridiculed his eloquence and his geography, denying that Alaska was an island and that it had the appearance of a jewel However, How-ever, he was elected and now he leaves Wash Ington because he and the Mormons have not always been enabled to agree. Although but forty three years old, it is probable that his political po-litical career is closed. "Money, sdvefal millions of it, not money spent but the prestige of its possession caused Kearns to come to congress. But money can do no more than that for any American. It can bring him here but it cannot establish him. Clark, the man of copper, with millions of frohn Morgan's hundreds, is of no influence whatever in legislation legisla-tion or in the policies of his own party. "A young man, George Sutherland, not yet forty-three, of English birth, a Salt Lake lawyer, bearded, spectacled, and a grandfather, will take Kearns' place." |