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Show -42with and respect in the fall of ers of machine the awe 1902. in Republican that there was factions. The Kearns forces at least the in the reorganization junior Senator One October 10, on major for in his seat in March, opposed Kearns. the split between the two beaten in this convention The incumbent political future. in the Kearns camp was the death 17, 1901, the day of the sale of the as was named President of the Church. political popularity not was nearly own as and Reed Smoot. right, had opposed Utah's Sutherland, to the idea of an a a of his in past, He had been own. 1900, and Liberal, and apostle-senator. be strong-minded Smoot and Kearns in the representative Sutherland had been 1901. so it had been with President Snow. reported to have senatorial ambitions prinCiple apparent was addition, Kearns worried about the growing closeness elected to Congress in Smith George Sutherland was open Republican party. concern On October great with President and an decidedly were Kearns was well aware that his Republican of beginning Tribune, President Joseph F. Smith tween "the two lead 1901 of Kearns' former friend and alleged supporter, Presi dent Lorenzo Snow. In as state convention of 1902 it of the state cause they campaigned as utah.28 to wonder for his began men of Smoot and Kearns speaks politics" At the of the Smoot operation he took his was Even more, opposed however, he bullish, aggressive, and rough political habits of Thomas 29 Between the election of the and the selection of a senator in legislature in November, 1902, January, 1903, Reed Smoot became com- |
