Show OBEDIENCE OR OR TIlE THE BLUDGEON S i J When l waxed strong ho started to convert the world worM to his rc- rc n and he offered to th the the- various peoples whom he ha visited Just one of II I two things things the the Koran or the sword I i It they did not accept Ifs Its gospel he hc slew dew thorn them For a time Ume most of them declared themselves converted But Dut 0 t and his followers came cune r across neross' peoples here and amI there who did not like Uke the Koran and did not fear I the sword And Ard at the limits of their realms the advance of ot the dictator 1 stopped topped 2 Tom Torn Kearns has copied so much of or orthe the method metho o of that e earlier He offers your choice Declare De Declare De IDe- S clare dare allegiance to the American part party party par par- t ty or be assailed In the Tribune Obedience or or the tho blu bludgeon geon That Is the gospel of r this new Mo Mo- I That Is the alternative th tive offered b by this later Turk It has proved effective with some men mon Now and then he encounters S t b Ono One O who can not be driven Some SomeI Someone I o one orie e who Is not afraid of him and who la Is not won to love for the new party And Anil there thera Is hi a refusal to bow the S knee a a. refusal to kiss hiss the Koran oran a nOi l al 1 to Indorse orSe what the so called Arm Ani Ican AriKi-Ican rican Ican party has has' done b by wa way of ot inn King a record Heber M. M Wells ells Is one ono of ot these After nine years of or official life In which Tom rom Kearns knew as much of 4 his goings goins-a out an and his comings In as did Jid any other man In Utah after atter In- In I dur ln Governor Wells for another S term after two y yeura urs of Mr Wells Wells' J private life Ufe ha has half set lie seal of commendable com corn l conduct upon a It lon long record of r uprightness In high station station Torn Tom k Kearns begins his hh abuse Mr Veils Wells has declined to align himself with the tle American party and antI ho he must be bc crushed To the effecting of ot that S nothing will be too wicked You mn may 01 I S li i. i I 1 i V ii rt t. 4 I i. i look for tor nn on even madder assault on Former Governor Wells Veils that tha has gone one before Not ot that the man assailed has done anything new The Tho Kearns nUa attack k is bas based d on tho the former governors governor's ors or's record record record rec rec- ord while In office All of that time he was acceptable to Kearns The stamp of or approval was as placed on his record In toto tote It Is too late now for Torn Tom Kearns Kearn to lay against Hebel M. M Wells Veils an any charge har e for 01 or acts or policy during any of the time he was the states state's chief executive And since Inco that time there Is certainly certain certain- ly nothing against ag which any accusation accusation tion on may be lIo brought There Is Js not a aman aman aman man In all Salt Lake Lale City with a n higher high high- er standing among the people whose judgment ment Is desired than Is Jt Governor Wells This good opinion re rests ts on his record as a public official and on his bearing a as a a. private citizen He lie Is out of politics now He lie Is h In private business He lie Is simply exercising exer- exer the right of every citizen It doesn't please him to leave the Republican Re Re- publican party and he has said so Whereupon he Is subjected to the tho blows of the bludgeon Arthur AIthur I. I Li I. Thomas was so well approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved by Toni Kearns learns that ho he was named for Cor the office of ot po postmaster while Kearns was In the senate lIe He has hns done dono nothing since to Cairl fairly forfeIt forfeit for for- feit felt that regard regard except except that ho he will not abandon the Republican party part to follow Collow Torn Tom Kearns Kearn Into the American party And there Is the tho bludgeon for Cor him True It Is clumsy and Its handling handling hand hand- ling reflects the discredit of coarse coarse- ae as well velI as the Infamy of badness ss But flut It Is obedience or 01 tho the bludgeon bludgeon- al and aid d Postmaster Thomas rhomas has been lIen given en ln the bludgeon geon Th There Thare re Is Dr Beatty Beally respected by er c. cry c honest man and woman who knows him hith loved b thousands rated high b by his professional brethren But Rut Buthe Buthe Ruthe he has not Ilot seen seon fit it to leave ve tho Republican Re Re- publican laItY parly and go uproariously In Into Into Into In- In to the American party part And he gets tile me bludgeon too This case ense seems peculiarly It objectionable Dr Beatty DeaU j is not a politician He Is a physician He lie troubles no mans man's schemes H He lie makes no slates nor breaks them He simply bellev believe f In his party Jart simply respects the man at the head of It H and declines to to abandon It It Is not fair that he should hould be forced to a choice of of obedience obedience to lo Tom Torn I Kearns earns or 01 the thc bludgeon There are others There are more men who have been Republicans In Inthe Inthe the past and whose allegiance has hac been heen demanded b by Tom Kearns The They ma may expect to find themselves branded brand brand- cd ed with all the Infamy of pirates any morning of the tho world But permit us to remark we do not believe bellevo It will at t Tom rum anything The displeasure of oC Kearns Is becoming a aLaJ LaJ badge c of ot honor And men will rather wear It U than Alt sit at h h Jeet feet and drink the cup of or his own mad Intoxication |