Show IlAT THEY OPPOSE The Kearns crowd I Is not complaining complain complain- complain complain- ing InS the church Is In politics politics- but because the church Is not In poll poll- tics for fol them When the legislative e ticket was nominated nom flora which later elected Reed Smoot to the United States senate there was waa wasa a contest In the Republican conven en tion lion The legislative tickets were presented pre pro seated One Ono was In favor of or the candidates candidates can can- who were pledged to the support support support sup sup- port of or Reed Heed Smoot The other othel waa was opposed 1 to thu election of oC Reed Smoot Tom Kearns and Joe and Ben Den Hey Heywood He wood and Tom Pitt and a lot loto lotof lotof o of other men now active In what Is called the American party part were ore the supporters of the tho same mc ticket Thc They were able to 10 secure the nomination o othe otho of tho the legislative ticket of or their choice Reed Smoot was wat at that time ah ab apostle of or the Mormon Monnon church These facts must never or be forgotten Tom Kearns h la Is toda today fighting Reed Smoot on the tho pretended score core that an apostle of the thc Mormon church can cannot cannot cannot not be loyal to the tho United 1 States Yet Yo Reed Smoot was an un apostle of or the Mormon church chulch when Tom Kearns Kearn and his hla friends which friends which friends are arc still with him secured him secured the nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion of or the Smoot ticket in the Republican Re Rt publican state convention I ITom Tom Kearns had been a senator if f I lh the United States He Hc had been us- us a. a r 5 It rIto s In securing that position by I of or the Mormon 1 church Ho Ito could coul not nol have been nominated he lie could COUIl not ha have hae been elected If it the tho then president of oC th the Mormon ormon church had hadnot hadnot hadnot not supported him tIm and caused his de desire desire do- do sire for COl the Kearns election to 10 bo ho known to his people There was waa church chulch dictation and Tom Torn Kearns was as the beneficiary beneC of H It He made so bad a representative of Utah that there was no reason for returning him There Thero wa was every reason rea rca son against It II Furthermore when It came mc time for fOl hi his election rc a new president of the Mormon church chuich ha had 1 arisen That now new president Joseph JosephF F Smith had aha always s 's opposed ed the In Interference Interference interference In- In of oC hl his church In politics When Tom Torn Kearns was as assisted h by tho thu first C presidency six years ears before it had been over the opposition of Joseph JosephF F F. Smith then Ihen an apostle And Joseph Jo Jo- seph eph F F. Smith when Tom Ton Kearns Kearn came me cameto cameto to him with a plea a assistance In his campaign to return to the senate absolutely refused to lo take any hand handIn In the contest He Hc did not nol believe the Mormon church or any other church i should dictate the politics of oC Its com communicants lIe He had always opposed It it and Intended to remain unalterable In his resolve Tom Kearns could neither bu buy him nor bully him Into dictating a Kearns election re-election to tho the senate An And 1 the result was as that the state of or Utah Ulah left free flee to lo express Its choice did not elect re-elect Tom Kearns There Is where the tight fight against the Mormon church ChUICh be began an It Is Impossible to conceive anything anything any any- thing more disgracefully corrupt than the Kearns course was in that In Instance instance In in- stance or more Inconsistent than It has been since Ince The open and known beneficiary of or church dictation tho the I abject seeker for fol church dictation the second time ho he has fought the church with tho the bitterness of a guerilla Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the theer er very reason renson that It will hll not do the thing he now condemns The Thc world at largo large may not know these things Utah people do know them They know that Ke was elected by church Influence They Thy know that the church refused to help him a second time an and that It went out of or politics never to return They know that ho begged belled for it It plead for forIt It it ft threatened for it ft and then ho he de devoted devoted de- de voted himself to a 0 campaign Intended for Cor Its destruction Tho The Kearns crowd Is not nol nn angry ry because because be be- cause tho the Mormon church is In poll poll- tics but angry because It I Is not In politics for them |