Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1904-10-14
THE PURPOSE.

NOW uhIuTHl IL iOOkeu 10 see Il
great headline of "Victory in the
Air" in the Herald the morning
after the nominations were made by
the American partyH The reason
was direct. "This is great for US, it
viii draw ten votes from the Repub-
lican party. where it will draw one
from ours"
And this is just what was planned
by the man who really started the
movement. And we believe that
while his purpose was to defeat the
Utah Republican State ticket. his
secret hope was to likewise defeat the
Utah electoral ticket and turn the
State over to Parker and Davis
electors.
Had it not been so, he surely
could have waited brief two months
before sounding the war cry. His
purpose was to smash things and
then to see if from the ruins he
could not come up on top of the re-
turning wave.
We have right to judge a public
mans motives by his past public
acts. What has there been in the
career of Senatar Kearns to show
that he was worried over church
rule or apostolic influence until his
own ambition received jolt, his
own pride woundH
What is there to show that he
was ever worried about the insidious
undermining of free institutions by
this ecclesiastical power here in
Utah, until he could no longer WELD
it for his own personal interest?
What respect did he ever mani
fest for its purity until he was per-
sonally disappointedP
When he first purchased the
Tribune why did he not lift up the
standard of free Americanism and
and call for volunteersP There was
lust as much occasion for it then as
now. Had he done so then, men
would have believed in the integrity
of his purposes and the result would
have been that he would have had
following on the merits of his in
tsntions which would in a little
while have brought peace to Utah
and such honors to him as he never
thought of obtaining except through
purchase.
But to go into a contest and when
beaten to assume a stand on prin-
ciples which he never before in his
life appealed to, and to do it just
when a presidential election was on
the decision of which can but be of
the momentous importance to Utah,
makes the conclusion just, that his
motives from the first have been
purely selfish.
Had he been a true Republican,
had he believed in the politics and
principles of the Republican party,
his thought would have been this:
"We do not want repetition of '93
and '94 and '95; we do not want to
see protection taken away or threat
ened; we do not want to see pro-
gress stopped, the burdens of the
poor made heavier; we do not want
to see our laboring hosts in Utah
lose their wages; we will go on and
win this great national election, and
then make our call to the free men
of Utah to come out and make their
solemn protest against what is
wrong in the state"
That would have been the honest,
manly, the putriotic thing to o.but
the truth is he was but thinking of
himself and his own schemes and to
carry them through he did not care
how many suffered. And say what
he may the purpose down beneath
it all SO far as he is concerned, is
merely to substitute boss rule for
church rule.
No man can read his history from
the time he first become Senator
down to date and reach any other
Observation-Disclosures Weekly.
That naughty boy Charley Van