Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-01


permanently secured"
The people of Salt Lake will re-
member that a resolution OF similar
character was introduced in the MIN
listerial association of Salt Lake CITY,
Sept. 81, 1908, and will also note that
| it was not introduced by the
preachers as citizens, but as minis
tiers of the gospel or servants OF COD.
On the Sunday before election in
Philadelphia political services were
held in over forty churches, and Mr.
lGibboney, the candidate for district
attorney, rushed from one church to
another and appealed to the Worship
pers there to vote for him. But in
spite of church interference, the citi-
zens Democratic fusion ticket was
defeated by the regular Republicans.
Suppose that on the Sunday before
our last election in Salt Lake City
some Mormon in any one of the
ward meeting houses in Salt Lake
City had as a citizen of Salt Lake re-
quested all the people of his congre-
CATION to vote the Republican ticket
in Salt Lake, the Tribune would have
given up the whole front page and
the whole editorial page to Mormon
church influence" and cited this one
case as it's only evidence. 1t would
also have flashed the news to every
paper in the United States that the
domineering hierarch was forcing all
Mormons to vote the Republican
ticket, and the Ministerial association
would have jumped to their feet,
waved their hats and said Amen"
Why so many good citizens of Salt
Lake are led around by Tom Kearns
with the Amerikearns ring in their
noses seems to be past finding out.
The revenge and hypocricy of Kearns'
Iparty has been Haunted so boldly and
brazenly in the eyes of Salt Lallers
that it seems to me blind man could
see it. After the banquet at the
Raleigh hotel, Washington, D. c., that
Kearns gave Joseph F.. Smith, Fran
els M. Lyman and Hyrum M. Smith,
after they had testified at the Smoot
Investigation and told of their polyg-
amous relations, Kearns begged Pres
lident Smith to use his influence to
Ielect him to second term in the sen.
ate. The Tribune just before that
time was patting the Mormons on the
back. In one of it's editorials it said:
Let the old Mormons keep their plu-
raj wives; they are not hurting any
one" 1t also printed long interview
of Representative Sutherland, in
which he said it was much better to
let polygamy die natural death rath.
er than to stir it up, as the Mormons
were not performing any new plural
marriages. But when the Mormon
church would not get into politics
and help Kearns or anyone else to Of
flee, Kearns and his Tribune were like
a hyena at bay. They snapped
snarled and bit all who came within
their reach. The insincerity of the
Tribune along moral lines in trying to
shield Sheets, Swenson, the saloons
and the denizens of Commercial street
is known to all, and when it finds a
, Mormon that has gone wrong it adj
vertises him to the world as a speci
men of Utah and the Mormon church
and the Ministerial association joins
in with it and says "Hallelujah!"
little circumstance of the Tri
bune's and the preachers hypocrisy
came to my notice at Brigham City. A
man of family of Salt Lake City took
a young girl to Brigham City to be
come mother, and there the mar
) passed himself off as a returned Nor
mon missionary. Two days before
/, the girl was seventeen she became 6
mother. Someone wrote the Tribune
that a child was born of new Nor