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! 8 TRUTH. I 1 1 TRUTM I'i Issued Wookly by Truth Publishing Company. I Wcstorn News)Bior Union HnlldliiK, 211 i Sotilh Wet Toiiiplo Street, I Salt Lnlto City. I John W. Hughes,Edltor and Manager I Kuterod Juno ID, 1901, utSnlt Lukd City, Utuli I, iiRBocoiid-olnMinnttor uudor uot of ConroH of March :i, 1870' II Terms of Subscription, ONE YKAU In iiilvauao) Si.m SIX MONTHS (In iiilvuiico) 1 (X) I THltBli MONTHS (In mlviuico) 73 jj Postinnstorssniidiiib'snbsorlptloiis to TltU I'll ifl muy rcitnin 2li per eont of minor, ption prlco 'I ! as commission. 3j ij ' Iftlio paper Is not doslrud lieyond tlm dtito I ' 8itbserlhod for, tlio ptibllciitlon bIioiiIiI Iio Inotllloil by lottor two woolen or mora boforo tho torm oxplres. Discontinuances. Ilomombor tliuttlio publisher must bo noti fied by loltor wlion n subscriber wishes lit s paper stopped ; ad urrours must be paid in full. HoquestH of subsorlbars to luivo tliolr paper mulled to n now address, to seciiro iittou tion, must niuiitlou former us well as pres ent uddrei.8. Address all comuiuiilcationstoTKUTH PUII MalUNG COMPANY. SaltLaltoOlty, Ulali. I ill 41 snsst-" I ! h Richard C. Korons of Missouri was 1 jj not elected to represent that state in I il B tho United States senate, which shows 'I' tho wisdom of tho Missouri legislature. I , jvf Kerens has scarcely any greater right I j ii to bo senator from Missouri than his HI k political twin brother, Thomas Kearns, III has to 1)0 senator from Utah. IBJ1 Tho weakness of tho Tribuno was HI I very forcibly illustrated by tho fact HI that notwithstanding tho long relent- Iless and extremely bitter fight it nub mado on George Sutlierland iio re ceived in tho senatorial caucus tho voto of every Republican mombor oi tho legislature, Gentile and Mormon, J k for United States senator. Tho Trib- H f uno's assertions that tho church, iHlf through Senator Smoot, controls such I! members of tho legislature as Gcorgo Hl n Lawronco, Sam G. Park, C. S. Kinney, HI I t Harry Joseph, William McCrea, M. J. HI .' Daily, Rudolph Kuchlcr and others is Hlf, too absurd to bo bellovod by anybody. I e' i J? " Tho Real Estate exchange nnd tho HI v, i j business nion of Salt Lake City gen ii.?' k orally should make a determined HJI' movo in tho direction of doing somo HI thing to ndvcrtlso Salt Lako City and HJi -; Utah, and to rcmovo tho slanderous Hi I t and utterly falso impression that has HJ' , been mado on tho country generally Hbi . by tho prose'eution in tho Smoot case. Hl: . That thing has dono Utah an Incstlm HJI $ nblo amount of injury. A lecturer or HI I ' two like John P. Meakin, who would Hlli " go out and toll tho truth about Utali HJ; would bo a most effective way of let HI I ting tho world know what Utah really Hi I ls HJn M Tho Tribuno protests too much Hjilj j, when it in effect says thero is not H8R ; ', money enough in tho world to buy mnt olther It or its opinions. This kind HJ E; of talk from a papor that, since It Hi r passed into tho hands of its present Hgl owners, has novcr expressed an lion Hat n est opinion on nny subject, is too lit Hjfflff a torly too too. It decidedly protests MHt too much. As to tho b.ieet being for HH salo, if it is, it might as well not bo, HH for nobody on earth or heavon wants H 'i it. There aro no buyers for It In tho HH? other place, because tho denlzons of Ht thoso sulphurous regions already havo HE full control of It. Bf i SENATORIAL MUD SLINGERS. E ! The scurrilous and utterly false ar- HH ticlo which appeared a few days ago ffl ?j in. tho Washington Evening SUr to the HP i effect that Mrs. Sutherland, 'ifo of 1 1 ox-Congressman Georgo Sutherland, and now practically tho only candi date for tho United States senato from Utah, was a daughter of John D. Lee, who was executed for participation in tho Mountain Meadow massacro, was Inspired by tho senatorial sorehead candidates for tho United States son atorship. Tho Washington Star for sonio time has to some extent been a mouthpiece for Senator Kearns, tho papor having been imposed upon by writers and correspondents employed by Kearns, who has moved this por tion of tho earth and mnybe a portion of liades, hoping to secure his re-election. Slnco Judge Bartch became a candl dato for senatorial honors, it Is a fact that ho has been "snooping around," trying to find out and give publicity to anything detrimental to Mr. Sutner land's candidacy. Judge Bartch, standing on his high morality platform, thought that as Mr. Sutherland was now a senatorial candldato leading him (Bartch) by miles, tho public should bo informed of nny shortcomings of Mr. Suther land. Tho judge Importuned a load ing lawyer In tho city to reduco to writing somo rumor about Mr. Suther land, so that tho judge might carry it east nnd uso it in his Pennsylvania campaign against Mr. Suther land. The lawyer refused to oxecuto tho writing, but It Is well known that Bartch used every thing ho could think of against Suther land In both his local and eastern cam paigns. Tho idea of a senatorial candldato in Utah trying to bring pressure from outsldo sources on tho legislature of his state Is not only reprehensible, but silly and stupid and justly calculated to create resentment in tho minds of tho people of tho state, and tho mem bers of tho legislature. What right has any senator or any resident of any other stato or tho president of tho United States himself to dictate to or ndviso tho legislators of any stato as to who they will chooso to represent their stato in tho senato? It's a piece of gross impertinence which ought to bo resented. But what can be expected from sycophants? They believe in sycophancy and havo no comprehen sion of real independence. A Gontilo, an antl-Morman, who will secretly trot to tho church offices for years and years seeking ecclesiastical Influence in favor of his political or judicial aspirations, to such an extent that tho churchmen thanked God when ho had secured an ofllco so that they would bo rid of him for a while, is not a man to bo admired. But reverting to tho John D. Leo minor. Mrs. Sutherland Is no relatlvo of John D. Lee, not In tho remotest degree. Her father Is of tho old and well-known Leo family of Virginia, and is now nlivo and well, residing in Ten nessee. Tho candidacy of Judge Bartch for tho United States senato is so ill ad vised and so hopeless, in view of all the circumstances, that It Is a matter of wonder that the judge entered upon It nt all. Tho contest for tho placo has been waged for two years between Senator Kearns and Georgo Suther land, and tho latter won overwhelm ingly. Tho people, when they voted for members of tho legislature, and who woro elected, thoroughly under stood that Mr. Sutherland was to bo sonator if his party won. They voted for Mr. Sutherland just as much as they voted for President Roosevelt in voting for tho Republican Presiden tial electors. It would bo a breach of faith for tho legislature to elect any one but Mr. Sutherland aa much as it would bo for tho presidential electors to cast their votes for nnyono other than Mr. Roosevelt. Judge Bartch know this very well and must havo known tint his candidacy was hope less. It has been suggested with a good show of reason, that Judge Bartcu did not expect to win, but that ' t tho event of Senator Smoot losing ,11k. seat, his candidacy now would placo him in the front of the lino of those who might wish to step into Senator Smoot's shoes That is about tho only reasonable explanation of Judge Bartch's candidacy at this time. It Is not, however, a very satisfactory explanation, either, because there is and has been ever since Utah hail any senntors a very definite understand ing that one of the senators would bo a Gentllo and the other a Mormon. In tho remote contingency that Senator Smoot is ousted, his successor would be a Mormon, which would shut out Judge Bartch, and beyond question Heher M. Wells would be the leading and the logical man for tho placo. o HOW KEARNS DID UP HEYBURN. About tho middle of December tho Salt Lake morning papers had big headlines declaring how Senator Kearns had worsted Senator Heyburn of Idaho in a wordy combat over the Philippines bill. Tho other day a leading eastern senator chanced to pick up tho Tribune having an account of tho proceedings. Ho looked at it in a puzzled way, glanced hastily at tho body of tho article, then re-read tho headings, which were In fulsome praise of Kearns. "Cheap, cheap, in deed," ho remarked in a tone heard by a dozen people. "Why, Senator Hey burn made a rubber ball of the sen ator from Utah that day. Tho Utah man didn't amount to anything in tho hands of Idaho's junior senator. Judge Heyburn came pretty close to gaining his point, too, and the only reason he didn't was that the committee report was tho other way." And tho sonator put tho paper down with evident dis gust at Its mendacity. And now look out, for Sonator Kearns gave It out cold in Salt Lake City recently that he will make an other great speech in the senate against Senator Smoot when tho in vestigating committee's report comes up. The speech Is now being written for him and tho senator will proceed to try to learn it by heart, so that ho can deliver it with proper oratorical effect. On previous occasions, when he undertook to deliver addresses, he had the misfortune to forget large and Important portions of tho speeches as written for him, but for this great oc casion ho will be unusually diligent in committing it to memory. Tho burden of it will be that ho Is tho representa tive of tho Gentiles of Utah, and of the good women who think Mr. Smoot should be ousted. He will denounce church Influence in politics, and will toll tho senato that for devotion to tho cause and In order to bo free and un trammelled ho immolated himself on tho altar of principle and brushed aside his ambition to bo re-elected sonator from Utah. He will also tell how easily ho could havo been re elected if he could only havo silenced his sensitive conscience and withheld his protest against tho church Influ ence which ho sought for himself so diligently but failed to obtain. Ho will then soar to tho greatest oratorical heights and declare that ho has conse crated his life, property and sacred honor to tho noblo task of fighting Mormons. Look out, for it will be a great occasion for the nation. Web ster, Calhoun, and all tho rest of thorn will by comparison with Kearns shrivel up into tho merest pigmies. o MITCHELL OF OREGON. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon, who has been indicted in the federal courts for fraud against tho United States government, has somo other chapters in his life's history that have been hidden and darkly gathering force, while he was reaping wealth, forensic honors and position in tho world. These go back to his early days when ho was a struggling school teacher and then lawyer in the Httlo town of Butler in western Pennsyl vania. Thero he closed the first epi sode when in I860 he went out to tho now world of California. In Butler ho was known as John Mitchell w. M '' ple-tho latter his mother's I.S,p" Ii name-which ho doffed whS, ? If donned tho new country. Thesp ,, It came out in 1873 when ho wa iCtl II , pelled to defend himself against no?' MM paper atacks during his candidacvT' II tho United States senate HI3 L?r II for tho change was that at the t.m! II ho sought only obscurity an to ? II forever separated from minlea,n? II memories of tho past. Other (H1 II i that ho had had money "loufe3 II well as domestic tangles In tho? M i ho glossed over by the declaration that II ho had left property in tho hands o II ' his former law partner in tJ"?..0' II Colonel John M. Thompson, to coS II them But at that point the forsaken II wife had something to say, and III U said it through a Pittsburg ipa! I She was a poor girl, as HlnnlP. B Mitchell was a poor man, and but flf H teen when ho led her astray prior tn H 18G0. After a child was born he mar. rlod her at tho somewhat urgent re H quest of her father. They lived hap- plly for a year or so, and then the H husband's love grew cold In an at- H tachment for a woman who appears in H the records of the case only as "Man- H J." When ho went away and "Mary D J." disappeared at tho same time the papers 'round about called it' an H elopement. Ho took with him his eld- M est child, Jessie, whom the mother has Mj never sinco seen or heard of. Then Km the wlfo was induced by Colonel Thompson to apply for a divorce. Five l hundred dollars were offered for the (H freedom of her husband and sho ac- cepted it, taking up afterward the U hard road of domestic service for the H support of her remaining children and HJ assuming her maiden name of Sadie H Hoon. H In the meantime the man prospered, B grew rich and honored in the west. M About tho time of his getting to Fort- H land the movement was on foot to es- Mm tablish a "Pacific Coast Republic." Mitchell, far-seeing, espoused the side B of the government, took the stump Hi against tho movement, and largly Hi through his eloquence the secession- Hj ists were defeated. His reward was a Hi seat in tho state senate. From then Hj on honors camo to him often and with Hj lavish hand. Ho married, according to Hj tho chronicles, Mattle E. Prlco In H 1862. What became of "Mary J." is H a mystery. Ho went to the United HJ States senate in 1873. Ho was nom- H inated by the Republican caucus In H 1882 for re-election to tho United B States senate but was defeated by a n "bolt." Ho was again nominated by the Republican caucus in 1897, but H. twenty-eight members of tho house re- Hj fused to take tho oath of offlce and H defeated his election by breaking the MM quorum. The seat remained vacant Hj two years. In 1901 ho had more trou- Hj bio and was elected after fifty-three H ballots. H It was during tho period that sue- HE ceeded tho election of 1885 that the pn Mitchells roso to their greatest social m heights. They went to Washington mm with their beautiful daughter, who w queened it in tho diplomatic set of tne tho capital and was very popular, in February, 1892, she was married to tne Due do La Rochefoucauld, son of one of the most aristocratic houses of ow France. It was a love match and tnere ; has never been a breath of scanoai m in her household, nt least, for ane m comports herself with great dlgnw and Is much thought of in smart JWJ H Is. When they woro married sho -dm H known tho Due fully six years. ' Thougn h ho had proposed early In their J H quaintance the paternal fortune, w h not yet big enough to afford a o m sufficiently ample to re-gl Id a mica house. Six years later when he nr n newed his suit it was r0-Jt II west had then yielded of its wealtn. Town Topics. I Denmark's Exports of Honey. I Denmark exports 2,500,000 pounds of honey a year. 1' Hi