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Show ffatrs ToltttcaU A QUEER DESERTION. The American or Gentile movement meteorical-ly meteorical-ly shot through the local ether and then undra-nvatically undra-nvatically subsided. The reason for the sudden demise is quite plain. The embryotic organization organiza-tion was deserted at the critical moment by the very people who were responsible for its inception. incep-tion. There can be little doubt that the Gentiles were led into this step through the influence of the controlling power of the Tribune, ostentatiously ostentatious-ly represented at the meetings of the protestants by the Tribune . veteran, Colonel . William Nelson. Suddenly orders were countermanded countermand-ed from headquarters, and the Tribune thereupon ignominiously and abjectly receded from Its attitude of virulent advocacy of the cause to one of apologetic negation of the movement. Thereby the third bluff of Mr. Kearns to cajole ca-jole the church into a second commission of the iniquity of sending him to the senate was defeated. defeat-ed. When the Tribune treacherously deserted the cause, the question among the people who had been misled into supporting the movement was not whether or not Mr. Kearns started the insurrection, insur-rection, but why he had so suddenly abandoned it. The solution is easy. Mr. Kearns learned through his lieutenants that his hand had been exposed and that of the people who had been worked into the scheme of organizing a Gentile party there were five Republicans to one Democrat. Demo-crat. As the whole plan was merely intended to forge a weapon for Mr. Kearns to be used to influence in-fluence the church and as Mr. Kearns' political future depends upon his carrying Salt Lake county this fall, it was quite apparent that the venture was proving hazardous to the Shifty's interests. Hence the sudden baclt-peddling of the Tribune and the Indignation and chagrin of the consoles I tious Gentiles who had been duped by the H otor's plot. H One Rudyard Kipling says something about I the ways of a man with a maid being simple and I tame compared with the ways of a man with a I horse when racing or selling that same. ur H Kearns' ways with the (jhurch are also enigma. I tical. He can be extremely hostile when the I church refuses to accede to his demands for po- I litical prestige, but. he can be the most urbane I and cordial miner on the hemisphere when he is I successfully negotiating with that same church I for a United States senatorship. |