Show S S AN AN APOSTLE OF INSINCERITY When Tom Kearns started his fight f against the Mormons it was because 0 be he could not force the president of the theS S Mormon church Joseph Joseph F. F Smith to toS tomake tomake S make the Mormon organization dictate dieS dictate dic die S tate in the politics of or Utah S At the tho first Tom expected to control control con con- S both senators and the tIle co gress- gress nan an 31 from ro U. U Utah He had c o ose oe e o of theSS the tib SS S hp ac and planned l ec to settle tetto theother the tho other on one of his friends a Kc He c was was wag r S 5 I I not sure whether it was to be Dave Dae Keith or Perry H Heath We dont don't know yet whether it Is Js Perry or Dave Da said one of tho the Kearns henchmen hench bench henchmen men while hUc directing t the tle e fight Poor Perry thought l hS was as certain to be United States senator a senator a sort of carpetbagger car car- senator But he lIe need have no nb regrets now for he probably ne never had a look in Tom had without doubt doub preferred Keith to perr Perry While the case caso against Senator Senate Smoot was was' on but while Tom was vas still In the senate and believing belle he could secure his own return he entertained entertained enter enter- tamed President Joseph Smith at the tho Kearns home In Salt SnIt Lake And while the Reed Smoot case was on trial trial trial- after President Joseph F. F Smith had testified In that case Tom case Tom gave a I I Ithe banquet in President Smiths Smith's honor In Inthe Inthe the Hotel Ralo Raleigh g l at Washington and brought all tho the public men he could secure He was wan trying tring to get the Mormons to interfere In politics To that end he tried to get Senator Clark of W Wyoming to persuade President President President dent Smith to get into politics and insure insure in in- sure suro the re-election re of Kearns To I that end he ho threw cold water on the organized newly American party movement move move- ment because he had not yet Jet lost host hope that he could dictate to the ilie Mormons and save s his own bacon He had b bj by that tIme given gi up hope o of controlling the two t from Utah He and Kerens Kerena of Missouri l had fooled foole Mark Hanna Into demanding that the Mormon formon leaders get into politics but had bad seen the hopelessness of that en- en He had given up trying to save sae either Perry Heath or Dave I Keith and was digging tooth and nail for the saving raving of Tom Kearns He complains virtuously about the polygamous cult but It was after President Joseph Smith had bad given his Ills testimony in Washington that Tom Kearns to President gave gae a n banquet Smith It was wae after afler that testimony that Tom gave ga the banquet and proposed to buy Perry Pern- Heath out of the Tribune Tribune- which had haa been very bitter blUer against the Mormons buy him out and give e the Mormons l a an interest in inthe the sheet give them an interest st in th the sheet and let Jet either of two men to o be nam named d by the Mormon leaders eader censor the Tribune ever every da day so that nothing not desired by the Mormons should get Int into it its pages censor its pages and censor it t by br either an apostle of ot the Mormon lormon chur church h or 01 another Mormon then thea being daily accused used b by the Tribune Trib Trib- une une titie ot ot now l polygamy Tom Tom Kearns saw saw ho he co prevent pre pro vent the election of Reed Smoot although although al al- aI- aI though he be tried to beat him after acter pretending pretending pre pre- tending to support him And then he lie tried to keep his hia o own n Seeing that threatened because he could not get the Mormon l leaders into politics for him he lie offered to throw down every Gentile in Utah to buy the tho Tribune and let the Mormons Normans censor censor censor cen cen- sor it S T Traitor t to every friend foe to every virtue hypocrite in ill every drop rop of blood the man makes a a. a monumental joke of himself pretending to oppose any phase of Mormonism on principle |