Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-31


What man wrote this challenge for
Honorable Thomas kearna2 | thought
TO myself Who was itY CRY from
the audience OF Frank Cannon'D
THAT was the absurd part OF IL, but 1
want TO say TO you that there Is some
thing deeper than the absurdity OF Il.
Why the men that did 1t either take
you 70 be idiots who viii not inyestl-
gate for yourselves, or they are
mighty weak-minded men themselves,
Let me read you part OF this, and |
believe there are great many pres
ent here tonight who were here last
Thursday evening and heard the Hon
orable George Sutherland make one %
the best speeches that was ever made
In this opera house. One of the
cleanest cut and one of the most
patriotic appeals to the honest non
Mormon people Of this community
that | ever expect TO hear. Now, you
know what he said, or you heard what
he said. Let me call your attention
to what this man said. He said, In
this same theater last Thursday night
your colleague. IN your presence, at
tempted 10 convince the public that
dead president OF your Church. the
venerable Lorenzo Snow, sold Unit
ed States senatorship, and that he was
the buyer OF that exalted seat
"What did Senator Sutherland say2
Five years ago the CHIEF editor re-
ferring TO the same Tribune, The
chief director Of It's policies, the chief
leader OF your party. and the man that
has been chiefly benefited, to the
Supplying astonishment Of nearly ey-
erybody in the state, was elected to
the senate of the United States. lt
was current repute that he owed his
election, in part at least, to the active
Interference of the then president Of
the Church. This charge was made IN
double loaded editorial Of the Salt
Lake Tribune. then In honest, and
therefore different hands So far as
know that charge has never been ser
iously disputed.
CHALLENGE BASED ON FALSE
Now, my friends, | want to say TO
you that this challenge, II it can he dig
nified by such aterm, first, is based upon
an absolutely willful falsehood, and
then he asks me TO come here and give
him part of the time tonight. or arrange
another meeting and discuss the lie that
he has put In his own mouth. What an
infamout thing! Where on earth are
writing FOR q newspaper to an intelll-
gent people. that would put words OF
this kind into a respectable citizens
mouth and then want somebody else to
discuss i'll
II want to now say to you that
Senator Sutherland never said what
Thomas Kearns has said he said, and
I want to say also to you that | know
President Snow never sold senator
ship to Senator Thomas Kearns, ana
that he will agree with me on this
point: there Is no controversy as far
as that Is concerned.
Now | want to say TO you that |
admire AN honest man, | admire
man who has convictions Of his own
and IL honest enough TO carry them
OUT while / despise a man who sails
under false cover and PLEADS TOT
people 10 follow him and then take
as a basis of argument false posi-
ton to ask the people to follow MN
II wish to call your attention to-
night to a few things that happened
In 1904. / want every nom Mormon
here or In the State Of Utah to judge
whether Thomas Kearns was sincere
I'm the position that he Is taking to-
day. Why, my friends, you all remem-
Der when President Smith was calieu
TO Washington TO testify before the
committee on privileges and elections
In my case. That was in the year 1904.
In 1905 Frank j. Cannon, or somebody
else, wrote an article that was TO pc
read by Senator Kearns In the senate
of the United States | want 10 cail
attention to the fact how shocked he
was in February 1905, when he read
the article written by somebody, | do
not know who, and that was February
1905. I believe-but let me go back to
the history of this thing and see wheth-
er he was so much shocked in the nrst
place.
| KEARNs TO PRESIDENT SMITH.
After President Smith had testi-
| fed before that committee, after Fran
els NJ. Lyman had testified before that
committee, after Hyrum NJ. Smith had
testified before that committee, the
Hon. Thomas kearns gave banquet
at the Raleigh hotel In honor of these
men: and he asked TO that banquet
some IS or 20 people who resided IN
Washington. They went there to the
banquet, and ! want TO say to you,
my friends, he then had no compunc-
ton In speaking Of President Smith as
q worthy citizen. Now that was IN
i
that after that banquet was over Hon.
Thomas Kearns took President Smith
to one side, and he wanted to talk
politics to him, and he wanted Presi-
dent Smith to support him for the
senate of the United States. and Pres
ident Smith told him that he wasn't
In politics. but that was not satisfac-
tory. He still continued pleading with
him for his assistance. And | wish
also TO say that the only way he got
rid OF him was to ask him why he
didn't take 1t up with George A.
Smith, When he came home he did
take It up with George A. Smith.
Now. you will remember, my
friends, when President Roosevelt
came here Kearns gave breakfast at
his house. and he issued an invitation
10 President Smith, President smith
went there. and II didn't seem to
worry Thomas 1T all. He was one
of his guests and he never said a word
about how Mortified he was or had