Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-02
THOMAS KEARNS
AS AN ORATOR.
Ogden Standard EditOrially EuIO'
gizcs the Magnificent Effort
OF Tuesday.
RETIRES AMID BOUQUETS.
lie Is Rung OF the Political Stage
Amid 1hund.rOus Applause
Cruel Satire.

ogden Standards The versatile,
soon-to-be. ex-senator from Utah, has
continually, since he became United
States SENATOR surprised the country
and even his most intimate friends by
the exhibition Of some, hitherto, latent
talent and the uncoycring Of some
great rest.ye power
This paper, always friendly to Sena-
tor koarns, has Insisted that his fame
as statesman would rest upon his
capacity for work I'm the departments
at Washington I'm the interests Of his
constituents; others less friendly have
asserted that his fame was manufac-
tured by the serylle reporters and press
agents. who have come under the mag
netic(O Influence of the great bonanza
king while stIll others, with less rev.
ercnce for the exalted Office of United
States Senator and less respect for
ltah's great statesman who has so
ably filled that office, asserted that his
fame rested alone upon the homage
u1ii hv 'heidizod bell boys and mig
GER walters into whose not unwilling
hands the generous tips Of the Utah
statesman somehow found their way
The most ardent admlrer however Of
the distinguished Utahn never suspect
ed, until yesterday, that he was a great
orator entitled 20 rank with Patrick
Henry, Daniel Webster. Rufus Choate
Henry Clay and other silver tongued
orators OF the golden age of the
republic or that he was able TO fully
and fairly eclipse all modern senator's
by the elegance OF his dlction the
never ending succession Of hs periods
and the dery pathos OF his nvective
So Feb, 2S, 1908, Is day long to be
remembered IN the history OF this
country, for on that day one whom the
average citizen OF his own state had
regarded hitherto as only an unlettered
mine boss. gained for himself a name
among the truly great orators not
alone Of America, but Of the world.
wiped ont whatever odlum attached to
his having designated Alaska as an ISL
and, and conquered by the command
ing force OF his intellect alone the ad-
mlration Of the nation and inspired
awe and wonder even here among the
Latter-day Saints
Cavilers and detractors viii now arise
TO reyile and oritlcise this new ora
tOrical meteor-eyen while we write the
tongue OF Islander is busily wagging and
pens dipped In the gall Of envy arc
trying TO defaCe the monument he has
bulded to his eloquence. one cayiler
asserts that his defense OF the late
President Snow was far-fetched nasty
and uncalled for, nasmuch as his own
paper the Tribune was the only papor
IN al Of Utah which ever made Nargcs
OF a corrupt bargain with the lurch
by Whlcn Thomas kearps becau sena-
tor This critic does not understand
the situation, nor yet does he compre-
bend he magnanimity, the sensitive
reatness, nor che dellCacy Of feeling
that actuated the great statesman from
Utah IN this matter--it was entirely
q labor Of love he sought to form
the tribute Of a grateful heart, an im-
FASHIONED outburst OF n mighty soul
1t is true that here In Utah, whore the
late President Snow was so well known
and so generally loved and respected
this tribute to his memory was hardly
needed, but Senator kcarns wanted 10
show to the people Of the great United
States that he could be generous and
fair TO a Mormon" even If that Nor
mon We're dead,
Another mean spirited and low.dowr
| detractor was heard to remark that
| Senator Kearns style closely resembled
| that of another great and good Utahn
| Ex)-Senator f. j. Cannon. Perish the
ator Kearns Is a constant reader Of his
| own newspapers. nor that he is a great
| admlrer of the Tribune editor. Neither
| do we doubt that, unconsciously in the
very teryor and frenzy OF his passionate
| Oratory he may have used some oil
| Editor Cannou's expression, but the
| elegant and classic diction, the impas'
stoned and feryid eloquence, the lofty
and sonorous logic. the easy yet grace
| full cllmaxes--all-all belong 10 Utah's
| great and lately (alas too lately, dis
covered orator ana statesman Thomas
Kearns To him they belong. They
| have made him famous, His fame Il
secure lie Is rung or the political
stage amid a shower Of bouquets and
| thunderous applause, and our only re,
| gret Is that he must now resign him.
| self to the philosophy OF a less dis.
| tlngulshed but by no means to-be-de.
| spised, orator, John j, ingalls,, and cal
| himself statesman out OF n job"
A friend anXlOusly inquiries what ef
| feet this great effort will have upor
| the Mormon question" and IN reply
and to quiet his apprehenslons, we hes
leave 20 suggest that perhaps The
| Church viii continue to do business a
Brigham street despite the opposition
| OF the senator We do not believe tha
| President Smith VIII vary the usua
| methods Of his business or religious
| life or that he win abdlcate his hlgl
| position because Senator Kcarns is dis
! pleased with him.
| Joseph +. Smith has a very stroni
| viii himself and IS not likely 10 ylelt
| much TO the determined opposition evei
Of 50 great a man as senator Kearns
| We predict, therefore that the Churcl
| will iugi lou along In the old WaV AM
| while, no doubt, everybody connecte,
with II viii feel some regret that Sen
ator Kearns Is not pleased with tn
| present management Of that body ye
the order OF such management coul,
| bardlv hn pntsnruaJ ttsttka,tt Y.,t,f,.Nt.,,