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Show CHAPTER II THO¥J!S KEARNS AND REED SMOOT The Election of Thomas Kearns In November, 1900, in spite William Jennings Bryan in 1896, elected overwhelming Utah voted for 44,611.1 close margin of 47,073 to tively of the In vote McKinley by given to the compara addition, utah voters Republican legislature. a During this election newspaper editors in Salt Lake City wrote of a "deal" between Chairman Mark Hanna of tlie Republican national committee and President Lorenzo Snow of the Mormon Church. The terms of such that in a deal were never specified, but it was change for favorable Republican Congressional explosive polygamy issue, Utah would the the Republicans through secretary of the use during been the the summer of Perry S. Heath, City 1899, and it and was spoken he who to the Church Pre was said to have intermediary. prominently for the 13, 1900, says of the 1900 election several names were mention senatorship left vacant by the inaction of the Democrats two years earlier. ber be "deli ver ed" into the hands of Republican national committee and close political ally Immediately after ed ex treatment of the still of Church influence. of Mark Hanna, had visited Salt Lake sident conjectured The Salt Lake Tribune of the contest for the seat: -25- Tuesday, Novem |
