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Show TO WHOM BELONGS THE CREDITP Unw nrranted Attempt to Rob Kearns for Kawltns's Benefit. Robbery or tho attempted robbry of the credit Justly due n public sonant, for honest and erficltnt scrtlce lo a constituency Is more despicable thin the burglary of money helongliiR to any laboilng man Chaiacter and reputation reputa-tion gained by a olllgent public repre-sentatltc repre-sentatltc ore something more dear to him than the ordinary fruits of labor. The effort of the morning Democratic organ cslcrday to take from Senator Kearns the credit for what he has done In Washington In the way of legislation nnd Federal fat or for Utah and her people, nnd to ttansfei It to tho Democratic! Senator who misrepresents misrepre-sents Ltah nnd does nothing for the htate or her people, would be humorous humor-ous If It were not done In a contemptuous contemptu-ous spirit, and with the usual Demo-ctatlc Demo-ctatlc demagogic purpose Htery well-informed well-informed render In I'tah knows that t-onator Keurns in the short time he has been In Washington has nccom-pllshed nccom-pllshed more for Utah and her people than all who hate preceded him in the ofllce while his Democratic colleague has spent his time In nnking speeches against our soldiers In the Philippines IIOt.B BOUI. AND TIMU 1 Oil I TAH Whiteter else mat be salel of Henntor Ken rim It cannot b truthfull snld that he Is nr has been unmindful if his con stlluents Blnco he hns been a represen-tatlte represen-tatlte of the people of t tab ot Washington Washing-ton he has detnted his entire tlmo lo his constituents and the record he his made ot the national rapltal Is the cejual of monj of the oldest and most lnfluentm Senators and the superior of not a few heuator Kearns belongs to that class of publl. serwents who di things for their coiutltuents and mike their work tell more by results than bj Idle taporlngs In the hills of Congress He Is a commltlee com-mltlee worker hi the true sense of the term, and whllo It cannot lie gainsaid that his tolcn Is seldom heurd on the forum of tho people his work Is now and has been potent III the framing of the countrj s legislation nud ctenthlus that appertains to Plnh s adltincemeilt FOR UTAH 3 bOLDiriW Henator Kearns s first work In Washington Wash-ington In fact the one that lallel the attention of the Hemic to him and his Bbllltj, wns when he succeeded In hating the Inw renting to' the reorganisation of tho armt changed anel so amendeet as to bo possible to appoint u I tun mm This was MnJor F A t.runt who made such a gnllnnt record with the I tail battery In lhe Ifte war. The law which was all but romi leted, mnde Major nrdlita appointment ap-pointment Impossible because nf uli age limit and further becaui-e ho hid neter serted In the tolunteer nrm In tho de Pirimcnt from which It was i ossible to secure se-cure him an nppotntmeut in the regular annj Henator Kearns succeeded In biting bit-ing the In changed In the" eleventh hour, and after making It possible tor Major Grant to recite an appointment, secured the position for him Surely I tub has not firi,otten the appointments ap-pointments Henator Kearns secured for several of Ltah a s 111 In the regular srm Thero ore nines Kimball Mar getts nnd Hard, all I'tah bitten hois Ftnha quota was one but through the Influence of Henator Kearns It was quadrupled quad-rupled IMPROVING OUU POSTAL BHRVlCIl Senator Kearns has done more during his brief mh cut In the Senate to secure lecognttlon for the postnl arfalrs of I'tah than all of his predecessors Through his efforts salaries hite been Increased additional help securid and mo tern ma chlnerv Instnlled Ho his established pent offices cham,ed stir routes for the benefit of the people, mid In a hunetrel different wuts helpe 1 the poitofflco employes em-ployes of tho Htute There Is not nn office In the Htute that has not received some benefit through his exertions It was duo to Senator Keirnss efforts that Provo received a free delivers ser-tlce ser-tlce when she dl 1 and It was through his Individual efforts th-it the clerk hire there was mnterliill) lm reused and after the department had made Its rccimmendntlon In favor of the former figure Increases hate been bj him s . ur o for rl rk hire liborers have been apiolnted in post-ufflcrs post-ufflcrs throughout the Mate PhNHIONH FOR VETKRVNS With a devotion second onlj to that lo his famll Henator Kiarus has lookeel e'ler the Interests of the old solller When he entered officii! life at Waahlng-lul, Waahlng-lul, 11 aav iui the Mltcinent that vvnit-ever vvnit-ever else mkht nrr. st his attention nothing noth-ing e. uld Interfere vvlm his purpose to help those vvl-ei had glvrn the best they hid that the t nlon might be presence! His work before the Pension office speaks for Itself itnt the record of pensions granted nnl Increased compares fivor-nbly fivor-nbly with an one In either brunch of 1 ongress In this connection one of the uotewnrthv things accomplished was In having the cliargo of desertion removed from the record of lemile Hhort ll clllsen nf I lah For sears this old sol-liter sol-liter has been stlgm itlzed as a deserter ind fruitless efforts were made to dear bis record of tho gross Injustlee Why elldn t the Democratic Senator accompllih this' TIIK t 1M Mt ni'SIIRVATION' When Henn r Kearns found that tho Secretin of the Interior was ah mt to gram a lease for certain viliuhle Ian la embraced In lhe I Intuh r sen ill Ion he lioinptl) s cure.! nn esioppnl through 11 resolution whl.h be succeeded In hating the Henate pass This icsoluilnn called on Ihe herretarv of tho Interior to fir ward ull pnieri in lonnectlon with the case to the Senate which elelased action until he could rrame a hill throwing the reservation niin to settlement ts a ion dlllon preceeleit and necessary 10 this hu recurcd on apprnprlillnn of linnon to pay lhe Indians and now roceedlngs are well under wov looking to the opening of the reservation which will glJc the Mate of 1 tah thousands of acres of tal usble land IMPHOtLMKN'T OF I OUT DOCOIAS It wns due to his efforts before Ihe select se-lect board of arms officers that a re om-mendutlou om-mendutlou was secured from lhe Hecre tin of ttar raising Fort tiougljs to a regimental b i.U giving to I t ih all the benefits ,1 1 ruing therefrom Including tast and tnluible Improvements ut the Till. inniOATION LAH While Henet.r Keirns does not . I dm to be resp . isll le for the action or the President In his ftorts tn secure the tn. suso uf lhe Irrigation bill It la netirthi -less 11 miltei f record Hint It w 11 he who first t ilkecl with the Preslleni upon this Important subject and pointed out to him the muilfuld blessings In some scheme of Irru, nlon for the aril i.nlii of the Wei 1 his was In the 1 rst month of I resident Roosevelt s a Imli Is limine and lhe President at thul llmi pr untied Hunt r Kesrns to give liu matter hl dw mention and lid i In to under;i in,! 11 short lime urt mur. that he had cle. I led to ton mine nil lhe passage of 1 hill in his annual imagine 1 . longress H niiior Kemiis libird cir lestlj fir Hi. 1 isange of this bill tn 1 ,n gnus All if 1 hli was rcpnrn 1 at tho Urn. In m. Tribune, Washington ,1, patches, an I no 1 tali Dcmo.rat illsput.d III II t, PUKB DF.I ll.u llellevlng 1 tun had lieen shamcruiu abandoned in her imstul ricllliies met realising tin . In. ntlonul linperimir ,r postofflics Heiiiii.r Krarns during his official III. has been able to si. 11 1 " location of 111. in nw ofrires In the Hi nc as has b. in slate 1. und has se ur 1 11, establishment of 1 number or I mi ,, t ,,,. rural frei d. livers rrfutes Th ie ,, some few 01 the e pending now l.m in v have been Isvuiabls reimrled anil will b 11 operation In 1 sh irt time rhr ugh the unichlners which uperntes Hi. s 1 ind free delivers roul.s the fsrm. r Is 1111 In touch as 11 wer. with the su.h.l ui 1 10 lltleal and business world One r the first things H. natur Kearns .11 1 was to secure ut his own expense and . Ir 1! 11 lists to aP pain of i'tah urging ih. .,,, pis to com hi 1 e in petitions to the d . n. menl to s urc for Iheinstlns Hi. hi ., tags of un up to late postal sirvl n, went befnr Hie I ostmaster (I. mr 11 ml ubtatnid In in him the promls. 11.11 if I'tah coul I show one hundred in 1,1 rural rou.s he would grant th. ni 11 Thu fiiiineirs .f Fioh have rei 1, . thank 8. iiuior K irus for the Inter, si h. has taken In tl ir affairs Iunv 1 ln, he has g n. Inn his own pocket Hi.i ,), farmer could b. suiiplled with ih nun ,1, which the i.overnnieiii did not dlstrliuie grutls Child 1 In Ihe pub II. h m am familiar with . u 11 ,r Kearns f r 11 vui through Ids gen roilty that evers n .HI school tn 1 tah was suiplled ut his i 1 XMiise vvllh Un latest limps and iIhii mints 1 f th. 1 nil.. I Unites UTAH III l OUM.F.D .SAriONALl bcllaloi Kearns was Instrument il h hstlug I tnh tak 11 from thi 111111011 d bank .llsirl. t of I'lilfnrnli nnl llnkinc the Htate wllh V e milng making iln iw Htil.S u ells rl.l 1 nd he had Mi V . lll.be e f Hilt 1 k llpl llllled i , i bink rxamlner f r the new dlsiri c s nirK in i hn se ure I the e nl u ti i i gum l fir Ih Htute In v r is i I I minimi , among Oiem bring thai cf Mr W O an Home ns Judge of the first Install e nt I. ilrn Cgspt 1 he nt emi t of a Democrat to purloin alt the credit for securing the Irrigation law was first made bv Congressman New lands of Nevada whose friends contend thnt President Poosevclt and a Hi publl cim Catlnet and Senate deserve no credit Whatever |