Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-07

| moneyed consideration. sold the Office
OF United states Senator 20 the sue
| cessful candidate. This has been re-
| peated until there are probably several
| persons at home, ana many others
| abroad who have been led TO believe
| there IL some color OF fact In It, enough
perhaps 10 give excuse for the absurd
| accusation
THE libel against the Mormon Pres
| idcnt Is utterly false and baseiess.
There has been no bargain, or moneyed
consideration, or Offer. or agreement,
or hint. or suggestion OF the Kind, that
would lead to the idea that such an ar
| rangement had been entered into or
even mentioned. This denial reaches
To every person, party committee and
politician here and elsewhere,
THE same dcnla applies TO the In
situation that the alleged bargain was
entered into for the purpose OF securing
or preventing legislation or measures
OF any Kind affecting the Mormon
Church, also to any other purported
consideration Of any kind shape or fea.
ture. Tho story has not been support
ed by the slightest shred Of evidence,
and might have been passed by ana
treated with the contempt It deserves
but for the echo II received IN the Unit
ed states Senate and through the Assoc
clated Press"
This Is only one OF the repeated de-
mails that were made az the time when
the charges werc published The work
OF the paper IN which they appeared
was intended to nhame the public nina
IN the East That has been It's policy
except at brief intervals. down TO the
present dnte Senator Kearns agreed
then to proceed against the Tribune for
libel IN the place Of President Snow
who was urged by a number OF his as
sociates to prosecute his traducers. It
was fully expected that case would
be made, but Kearns did not carry out
his agreement. He did, however, make
a statement, which appeared In a WASH
ngton dispatch TO the New York
Herald, ana that was wired to the Des-
efet News, as may be seen from the
annexed editorial which appeared in
the Deseret Evening News OF Feb. %,
1901:
"a special to the Deseret News from
New York today states that the Herald
Of that city prints Washington as
patch this morning announcing that
Senator Thomas Kearns gives an en-
phatic denial to the report previously
published by the New York Herald, that
he had bought or offered to buy Salt
afr from the Mormon Church. He
denounces II ag rehash Of an old
story started In this city without any
foundation IN fact, and declares II to De
entirely untrue.
"Of course there IS no well-lnformed
and sensible person here who places
any credence in the sensational ana
llbelous canard. The motives that
prompted it's fabrication and the mall
Ice that saturated its utterances, are
pretty thoroughly understood ana ap,
preciated. The source from which II
emanated was enough to condemn II In
the eyes Of Utah people, and we should
not have noticed the matter now. when
II Is as dead as a smoked herring, but
for the mention OF Il by as prominent
n journal as the New York Herald. ana
the response by the United States Sem
ator who has been llbelled by the paper
that started the story"
But this was not the only refutatlon
OF the SANDER, for, on the matter
reaching the ears OF Senator w. A.
Clark, who was understood to be the
certain stakeholder OF the San Pedro
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad
who had bonded the saltair pavilion
and railroad" etc, he furnished 10 the
Associated Press the annexed state
ment, which appeared In the local pa
pers and was published In the Deseret
Evening News of January 20, 1901:
Butte, Mont. Jan 2s.--United States
Senator w a. Clark today denied en-
phatcally the existence of the alleged
deal by which it was charged that he
and r. c. Kerens had secured the sup
port Of the Mormon Church for
Senator Kearns Of Utah, In return for
the purchase from the Church OF the
Saltair Beach property and the road
leading to It by the projectors OF the
new road between Salt Lake and Los
Angeles
~ positively deny there was any such
bargain. There never were any nego-
tations between myself or the new
road and the Mormon Church or any
one else regarding the election OF
Kearns or anybody else to the Senatei
nor were there any negotiations be-
tween myself or the road and the
Church for the purchase Of the Saltair
property and its line of road nor has
there been any purchase"
After these published statements,
what Is to be thought of a creature
whose soul Is STEPPED in such malice
and spleen and acrid bitterness that,
when unable 20 manufacture new darts
Of venom dipped IN gall, he viii resur.
rect these old and mouldy libels where
with TO attack both the honorable Nv
Ing and the sacred dead, Ordinarily
he is left to his own miserable devices,
as too lmpotent to provoke the
slightest attention, Reference Is made
now as to this matter solely because II
was revived IN the Senate of the United
states IN a manner TO reflect discredit
upon Innocent persons, under cover OF
doing justice to one Individual II was
an act as mean and contemplate as
that OF the original falslAer and was
IN keeping with the entire high-sound-
| ing but scurrlous and yindlctlve har-
! rnngue.
The whole Infamous story about the
sale OF the Senatorshlp is without
/ either truth or probability, and we one,
more brand It with the only letters thai
express It's character. It is a wicked
and contemplate LIE.