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Show H THE PURPOSE. K How natural it looked to see a great headline HH of "Victory in the Air" In the Herald the morning Hi after the nominations were made by the American HB party? The reason was direct. "This is great for HH us, it will draw ten votes from the Republican flp party, where it will draw one from ours " B5 And this is just what was planned by the man Bj who really started the movement And we be- BH Have that while his purpose was to defeat the Utah HR Republican State tioket, his secret hope was to BsBS likewise defeat the Utah electoral ticket and turn the state over to Parker and Davis electors. Had it not been so, he surely could ha- waited a brief tpvo months bjjfore soundjng; the yar ory. He purpose was to smash things and then to see if llrom tihe ruins he could not come up.on tpp of the, returning wave. We have a right to judge a public man's motives mo-tives by his past public acta. What has there been in the career of Senator Kearns to show that he was, over worried over church rule or apostolic influence until his own ambition received a jolt, his own pride a wound? What is thftrotr show ,that he was aver worried about the insidious undermining of free institutions by this ecclesiastical power here in Utah, until he could no longer wield it for his own personal interest? What respect did he over show the American ballot, what anxiety did he ever manifest for its purity until he was-personally disappointed? When ha first purchased the Tribune, why did not he lift up the standard of free Americanism and ottU for yolunteers? There was just as much occasion for ifthen as now. Had he done so then, men would have believed in the integrity of his purposes and the result would have been that he would have had a following on the merits of his intentions in-tentions which would in a little while have brought peace to Utah and such honors to him as he never thought of obtaining excepjt through purchase- But to go into a contest and when beaten to assume as-sume a stand on principles which he never before in his life appealed to, and to do it just when a presidential election was on4 the deoision of which can but be of. the most momentous importance to Utah, makes the conclusion just, that his motives from the first have been purely selfish. Had he been a true Republican, had he believed be-lieved in the politics and principles of the Republican Repub-lican party, his thought would have been this: "We do not want a repetition of '93 and '94 and 95; we do not want to see protection taken away or threatened; we do not want to see. progjgess stopped, the burdens of the poor made heavier we do not want to see our laboring hosts in Utah lose their wages; we will go on and win this great national election, and then make our call to the free men of Utah to come out and make their solemn protest against what is wrong in the state." That would have been the honest, manly, the patriotic thing to do, but the truth is he was but thinking of himself and his own schemes and to parry them through he did not care how many suffered And say what he may the purpose down beneath it all so far as he is concerned, is merely to substitute boss rule for church rule. No man can read his history from the time he first became Senator down to date, and reach any other conclusion. |
