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Show -260- (c) of a That the down fall of the party due to its was advocacy segregated, licensed vice district in Salt Lake City. There is assume some truth to each of these generalizations, that the American disappointment on movement for the undertaken the anyone else in grew simply as result of a spleen of Thomas Kearns is incorrect. part organization of persons who by Party were an but to The and early independent political party was supporting Kearns not interested in or particular, but in what they declared from the beginning, politics the elimination of the influence of the Mormon Church in the and economic affairs of utah. The Joseph F. Smithis with Kearns. lican testimony They in the Smoot August, 1904, did he turn interest in new a paper and the that the prestige of a Kearns turned to the It not his organization nor Party," the "Kearns to use From all visible evidence, however, Kearns had control of the E. B. happy were it for his had he directed its Crowd," and even no From the wonder own benefit. organization. was a news for his sup called the the "Amerikearns there never was organization. Republican influential an Senatorship it is Throughout its history the American Party "Kearns Repub to those who had earlier shown United States original idea, way connected after the state organizers of the independent movement port. was only With control of political party. no final break with the occurred before Kearnsi convention of in case were and the evidence shows that Party, to President meetings in Utah resulting from reaction party." time when Thomas beginning such men Critchlow, Parley L. Williams, Samuel NcDowall and probably as even |
