Show MISSING THE 11 g ISSUE We Ve find the following In hi an nn e editorial edi edl- l- l of or tho Tribune yesterday mornIng morning morn- morn Ing lug an and reproduce It In or order that our own friends s mo may see how grievously certain persons in Utah Utah perhaps perhaps In other parts of or the are country arc missIng miss miss- before thet the the- Ing the Iho issue that is no now t people If IC you are arc a Republican In ht your r national affiliations can you rou reconcile your national party devotion with adherence adherence ad ml- to The word is employed as a 3 term of oC reproach Its use uso Is Ism t m meant to be lie insolent to Invoke ol e ridi ridi- ridicule L' L cule cute to Invest est with offe offensiveness For FOI Forthe the purposes of argument one mn may pass over the purposed lack of or decorum decorum deco deco- eco eco- rum and nd take e up the thought which the Tribune so 80 badly expresses expresseR Senator Smoot Is n not the Republican can party of or Utah and he lie never Ol has claimed to be he Th The Republican party of Utah Ulah is bigger than Is Air Mr Smoot or than any other ono one man man or or hundred hun hun- tired dred red men Air Mr Smoot ns as a factor or 01 Influence in the control of or the party part In this state slate Is by no means the Is Is- Is sue Those accept the representations y of or the Tribune are being l ai t wrongly directed But tho the Republican can party of Utah Is for Senator j r Smoot t S Smoot noot in hi the he present fight that has Ii tt been e mado up upon n lm him bd before before r tip lP den el en- en theU true a o t t ts lie eJected to the office ce of senator an and 1 the he the party part here is a unit unit and and all the people should be in be-in in insisting that he r hold h hold l that seat to the end of his hit term anti No and hold It without dispute char dhar charge k e a properly Invalidating his title lille rj tt has lias lel yet been heen brought against him d. d nn and 1 none n none ne will be brought There Them is isa isa l a n certain clamor against him carefully careful careful- z J ly and expensively cultivated b by the Tribune nIi ah 1 expressing Itself In In Intimidating in- in d demands that he lie be bl thrown I out of the senate because h he Is a member of or th tho Mormon church And his party stands stand's firm on the ground that he ho be treated with fairness and justice that the e Charges against t him t 4 r bo be heard and thA caSe case determined and disposed 1 of or according to the law of the lime th land Jand an and no nul In compliance r with all any noisy i clan by uninformed Conned Jt fanatics no matter they thoy y may mayr II live veO r J- J As to who shall be honored with witha a I the support of or the party in later camY campaigns campaigns cam cam- Y as to whoso influence nce shall t t to what dominate the thc organization as M Y Issues tho next battle shall t turn him rn upon tia Jf all all theSe there are beside the he t. t question There I is only ono one phase of oC oft t- t I 1 the thc case Into inlo which the Interests ts of or i Senator Smoot enter and that Is l al r he lie be supported In Il his title It was was given lo to him b by the lie legislature of oC his This i state stale formally and under ever every rule fr 1 of law Jaw touching his eligibility his hits rf fitness a and d his deserving And An 1 it m ma i tho the duty duly of or the party party and and of every a other citizen of t tho o state to state to give him himi i f- f all possible lid lidIn aid In ht maintaining that w I i place lace I 1 r t l Iteli Republicans art uro by hy by no t means mean's alono alone i ny In in this position Men en of oC all parties t rt who Can rise above the tho narrow narro narrow considerations cont cont con con- t l t o of partisanship and realize rr the seriousness orthe issue are arc at ono one in the contention that the thc tight light i against Senator Smoot Is wrong The They J i. know also that it is a harm to the tho o. o c state of or Utah that that thai It Is personally unjust un un- L just to the man himself elf that it fl lessens les ens his Influence and effectiveness and 1098 1095 BO so unfairly that tho the light fight on him him n has coSt cost the state slab an immeasurable immens- immens r j arable umble sum um In Hl cents and that the harm hann of or t l extend exten 1 far fal Into Inlo the future J But If IC Senator Smoot as an exponent expos expos- lt f cut ent of or the Republican can cant t arty of oC Utah really fealty call were tho the issue Issue which which Ich he is not not Republicans and all other good people would 1 refuse to follow the thc lea lead 1 I of or the Tribune because that paper has sought this issue solely in order to give Tom Kearns th time the dominance of or ortho tho the Republican party parly in hi this st state te The They alone have labored to mako make the tho Issue Senator Smoot or 01 Ton Tom Kearns Even on that issue the Tribune would woul 1 fall fail This state slate tried Tom Ton Kearns once and does doea do not nol want him again All of his great outlay all of or his adr adi ad- ad r i mulled power all of or his boasted wealth an and 1 all of or his willingness to use uso usa these for the of his plots are I In vain ain If It were were were-as as ho has tried to m make le It It-an It an issue between him and the ellior senator from Crom Utah ho would still bo ho beaten heaten by the people as he Is b beIng badly beaten benten now But that Is not and can not be bo mn made a i the Iho issue The one question so o Caras far Car faras faras as Senator Smoot Is concerned Is Shall a n man chosen tp office by b this state stale be deprived o of his rights without without without with with- out 10 law or 01 justice That Is II the one I Issue sue before the people so far as tho the senator Is concerned concerned concerned con con- anti and It will be hi decided decided- on that thai one ground alone If Senator Smoot should lose If IC ho he should bo be excluded nay excluded nay even If IC he hp were expelled or If H a unanimous vote vole of or the senate should close his Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington career forever Core Tom Toni Kearns could coul 1 not control the Iho Republican party part of or Utah Ulah Not for Cor an hour Ills JUs traitorous traitor traitor- ous fight agaInst Utah llah has been heen use use- less Big Dig as was wa the bid he made for Cor control costly cosily as was his option he ho has hns thrown It awa away For whenever whenever when when- ever er It conies comes to a choice of or Tom TomI I Kearns earns or of an any other man man no no matter who who Toni Tom Kearns will lose Jose |