Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-01
his DYING VAIL,

SO Senator Thomas Kearns has made
his maiden and his dying speech In one
epasmodic effort just before HIS po-
lltlcal decoase, which will occur March
4, 1905 AS reported by the Associated
Press, It reads like a rehash OF recent
editorials In the paper which he con-
trolls lie read the article prepared
for him with some force, having doubt
less rehearsed II many times. There
Is no need 20 so over the points which
the writer endeavored 70 put forth, as
they have been met times without num-
Der. We may perhaps, touch on one
or two assertions which the dying poll
,iclan repeated and they viii suffice.
lie said.
1.-THE friends and mouthpieoes OF some
OF the present leaders have been base
enough to charge that l bought the
senatorship from Lorenzo Snow, Presl-
dent OF their own Church, Here and
now | denounoe the calumny against
that old man whose unsought and un-
bought favor came to me In that con-
test That | ever paid one dollar OF
money or asked him TO influence legls-
lators Of his faith, Is as cruel q false
hood ns ever came from human lips. So
FAR as J am concerned, he held his
power with clean hands. and | would
protect the memory Of this dead man
against all the abuse and mlsrepre-
sentation which might be heaped upon
him by those who were his adherents
during life, but who now attack his
fame. IN order that they may pay tho
greater Difference TO the present king"
The impudenoe OF Thomas Kearns, In
attempting to create the impression
that the calumny against President To-
renzo Snow came from the friends
and mouthpleces OF some Of the pres
ent leaders" or from chose who were
his adherents during life" Is only
equalled by his wilful and malignant
falsehood lie knows as well as any
human being ON earth that the libel
against President Snow came first from
the Salt Lake Tribune, and that It has
been continually repeated by a former
scribe on that paper who probably be-
lieves in its truth lie knows that
his expressed intention was at the
time, to prosecute the paper that ut
tered Il, and that It has never been
either believed or charged by the lad
herents" of proaident Snow, or by the
supporters Of the present President Of
the Church, or by the "mouthpieces OF
the present leaders, but that the in
famous untruth came from anti-"Mor-
mon sources He knows, too, that
he went back on his promise to proceed
against the Tribune, and that he has
never lifted his voice or authorized any
publication TO rofute that which he
now denounces as calumny, Just as he
Is about to drop down into his political
grave, The lnfamy with which he has
thus covered himself win stick to his
name whenever It Is mentioned, II Il
should ever again obtain any publi-
city.
Critical readers Of the diatribes
against the leaders OF the Church, OF
which the Kearns speech Is but diluted
plagiarism, viii notice that an the
charges Of domination in political az
fairs are devoid OF proof and Of even
the slightest evidence. They are mere
ly natulent Nominations, No instances
OF such Interference are cited or eases
Of compusiou named They are but
false and baseless accuslngs. ana are
manufactured as excuses for the de.
feat of the political failures who re.
peat them. But they serve the pur.
pose Of the Mormon" -haters, which {,
TO lnname the popular mind against
the Church.
While ON the subject OF the influence
said 10 be welded by the Church lead
ers In political affairs, we win say with
out fear OF successful dispute that Their
Is no man Twins who tried harder q
more repeatedly, TO get the car ana In
nuence 90 the President of the Nor
mon" Church In order 20 reach polltIca
office, and to gain his recollection TO IN
United States Senate than this sam
Thomas Kenrns. Personally, by his ON
mlsaries, by Mormon" friends and b.
other means, he has used persuasion
caIoery threats, menaces and WORT
ments for that purpose, but wlthou
avail, and In the last throes Of his hrlc
political career he has simply carrie
out his threat and imprecaton agaIns
the Mormon Church, II he failed q
his purpose,
There could scarcely be anythin
meaner or more contemplate than tn
desperate effort made, in the Unite
states Senate, by the iliterate an
purse-proud individual TO throw dir
and oboquy upon the people Of III
state that honored him, IN mistake
moment by electing him 20 a posltio
for which he has proved himself totan
untitled and unworthy 1t was his las