Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-04-01
,o,moNs SHOULD DO THEIR
mo" PART.

III roferred to the course OF the
NI% malcontents in bringing trou
lllpun or the state and pursuing poll
Die uPT was seriously imperiling the
cy vial prosperity of the people and
ma'oiitd that the non-Mormons OF
I pltah who do not approve OF the pol
~ 80" If the Kearns wreckers shouio
N! ont in condemnation of theil
sped" EVERY good citizen will agree
WIZ a tho News in it's criticism of the
WIZ who under the guise OF working
nc" principle. are seeking to crafty
lUi malice and hatred for the peo
wv" af the state which retired Thomas
pc woorne 70 private life. But there will
ho mite a difference OF opinion re
Snocting its implied criticism OF the
nppn.Mormons who do not make them
noIroe nrominent in their opposition
90 the nolicy of the Tribune crowd.
Truth reioices with the News in the
u,orious fact that Thomas Kearns is
no longer senator of Utah, but 1t can
not refrain from saying that but little
Of the glory belongs to the News for
tho accomplishment of so desirable a
result. During nearly all the four
Years that Kearns misrepresented
Utah in the senate the News was alb
solutev silent in relation to facts
which we're open and notorious in the
disgraceful career of the ex-senator
When the decent and self-respecting
neople of Utah resolved to work to
the end to remove the blot upon the
reputation of Utah they received no
aid from the News and when it came
to be an understood fact that it was
quietly an apologist for Thomas
Kearns. the surprise and wonder
ment of the non-Mormon opponents
of Kearns gradually increased to dis
gust and the conviction was forced
upon them that if Kearns was to be
defeated for reelection it must be
without the aid of the News. The
fact that the News was the church
organ only increased the won
der because it long ago be-
came known to Mormons as well as
non.Mormons that Kearns was secret
y working not only to injure promin.
ent Mormons as well as non-Mormons
but also to force the church to prom
ise him reelection. 1t was not until
Kearns came out into the open in his
fight upon the church and it's leaders
that the News showed any interest
in the defeat of Kearns, and then only
in its local columns and only indirect
y. When reporter of the paper in
his report of the Republican legisla
tive caucus said that Mr.. Sutherland
had been nominated to occupy the seat
so unworthily filled by Kearns the
News editorally jumped all over him
and, not satisfied with one disclaim
er Tor three days was engeged in print
ing editorial disclaimers of any pur
pose to reflect upon Kearns and sale
'hat the reporters words were un
called for and were not justified The
hon-Mormons of Utah believe the re
porter was right when he wrote thai
the seat occupied by Thomas Kearns
was unworthily filled and that the
news demeaned itself in it's frantic
euitorlal attempts to apologize for pub
IlShihg so well known a truth. 1t was
not until Kearns from his seat on the
noor OF the senate denounced the ed
.'or OF the News did there
appear in the editorial col
umhs OF the News a denunciation o.
.ne career and ambitions of a mar
"no' raise to every sense of honor
aseu MS position as a senator to in
lure me state which he represented
10 malign the charaotar of ite naonl.