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Show Kea.rns' Hired Workers. Already Working For Knox Odell in th.e Woods. ( FRANK KNOX. Kearns Candidates: 3 j G. T. Odell. Anti-Kearns Candidate: W. F. JAMES. Unless something unforeseen happens to disarrange dis-arrange the present skirmish lines for the city convention, the delegates will go there prepared to fight in one or the other of the columns indicated. The relative strength of the candidates at present pres-ent is about as indicated In the capitalization. Since Mr. Lippman, the efficient aide-de-camp of Senator Kearns, definitely decided th'at Mr. Knox should be the bearer of the Silver King banner ban-ner for the Mayoralty, there has been notable activity ac-tivity in the camp of the men who are bent at the shrine of Senatorial lucre. Ward healers have been turned loose in the various precincts like the incensed canines of war; mazouma has been in evidence for the first time during the campaign, and the hirelings have made the air sizzle with loud vociferations of "Knox." (5 t5 t The campaign is being worked very adroitly, as might be anticipated when a battle Is waged under the deft leadership of Joe Lippman. In order to disguise the fact that Mr. Knox is the candidate of Mr. Kearns, and that the people who most voicily advocate him and induced him to enter the Mayoralty handicap, are all lieutenants of the senior Senator, Mr. Lippman will not be the ostensible manager of the banker's campaign. No, indeed. Hon. Gus Holmes will be the nominal nom-inal leader of the Knox forces. This is an old ruse of Mr. Lippman's, and is reminiscent of the time when, in the campaign of six years ago, when there was a glowing prospect of Republican defeat, de-feat, he refused the chairmanship of the Repub-' Repub-' lican city committee and placed Morris L. Evans to bear the brunt of the battle and such humiliation humilia-tion as pertains to foregone defeat. At the same time Mr. Lippman in reality managed the campaign cam-paign as a member of the executive committee, and when grim-faced defeat enwrapped the battered remnant of the Republican guard, Mr. Evans went into dry dock for repairs and Mr. Lippman lost none of his prestige as a political leader. Is it possible that his present use of Gus Holmes is based on a premonition of coming defeat, as In the former Instance? 5 t& & The policy of the Kearns lieutenants of alternately alter-nately pushing Mr. Knox and Mr. Odell has resulted re-sulted in giving them an alternate sun bath and a cold shower. The icy waters are just at present pres-ent coursing down the form of Mr. Odell. Both Mr. Odell and his great original manager now admit ad-mit that his chances of winning the Mayoralty are extremely fragile. Their only hope now is that Knox prove the weaker of the two in the convention, con-vention, so that Kearns will be forced to support his second choice. Their idea now is to exploit Mr. Odell as an independent, since Kearns has decided upon Knox as his first choice. The fact that this policy would bo resorted to to wipe from Odell the Kearns stigma has already been predicted predict-ed in these columns, and not even a political kindergartener kin-dergartener could be deceived by it. v w (V Mr. Odell places great confidence in the anticipated an-ticipated support of Mr. DenlR C. Elchnor, chairman chair-man of the city committee, chairman of the county committee and district attorney. Every one knows what that means. Apparently the implement imple-ment manager does not know Denis very well, or he would be cognizant of the fact that Mr. Eichnor never makes an open fight for anyone, but retains always a serene station on the platform plat-form of immovable neutrality; he would know that Mr. Eichnor has never been known to throw any votes to any candidate for any office except that of district attorney. Denis is too old in politics pol-itics to change now. He will occupy his noncommittal non-committal post upon a pinnacle above the smoke snd tumult of the strife, and when the time comes when it is necessary to lariat votes for the renomination as district attorney, he will grace fully descend and inform each of the candidates that he is his friend and brother. He is the only living human successful political chameleon. He is like a stork in the political waters; when he gets tired of standing on one foot he gracefully shifts the burden to the other. v tv i&R The managers of the Knox campaign are confident con-fident of carrying the Fifth and Fourth precincts, and possibly the First, and will do so if the persuasive per-suasive eloquence of money and the employment of a small army of political workers can be depended de-pended upon. Honorable Bruco Johnson of Commercial Com-mercial street will be depended upon, with the aid of his dusky myrmidons and others not so dark, to safely handle the Fifty-second precinct for the banker. In the Fifty-first, Councilman Davis, assisted as-sisted by Billy Edwards of the Sheriff's office, will do stalwart service. And farther east, in district 44, Hon. Fred Loufbourow and Hon. George Sheets will be expected to swoop down invincibly upon the enemies of Knox. "Up in the Fourth the Kearns people can see nothing but the radiant hues of coming victory. In that section the Knox Interests will be handled, with the aid of the hired men, by none other than Brother Joseph Lippman and Hon. Frank Hlnes, superintendent of waterworks. Major Myton will also be on the ground to aid and abet these Kearns chieftians. Down in the First there should be no doubt of a sweeping Knox triumph, for it is there that Viking Lawson, president of the Young Men's Republican club, will thresh out all of the anti-Kearns anti-Kearns chaff. His efforts will be bolstered up by the strong arm of Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson, who lately spent his ten days' vacation in a mis- guided effort to work up a Knox sentiment. Councilman W. E. Vigus, who is now in the j employ of Kearns, will be expected to wipe the ( platter clean down in the Second precinct. He I will be ably assisted by Mr. J. J. Meyers, who j wishes to be City Auditor, and one Earl Ripley. And speaking of Mr. Ripley, who is an employe of the waterworks department, he has spent much time of late inspecting water taps in the Twenty-third Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth districts. This, however, does not keep him half so busy as does the strenuous strenu-ous work he is performing in that part of the Second, precinct to work in Knox delegations at the coming primaries. & & All of this feverish work on the part of the Kearnsites is being closely watched by the independents, inde-pendents, who propose to defeat all the Kearns schemes with W. F. James as the standard bearer. The independent Republicans, while not indulging indulg-ing in half the clamoring of the Knox adherents, are effecting a thorough organization, and are confident of breaking the ranks of the Kearnsites without tho ante-primary distribution of money among the workers. The sentiment in favor of Mr. W. F. James for Mayor Is growing so perceptibly per-ceptibly that even Mr. Odell has intimated that he desires an early convention, as ho is fearful of the increasing strength displayed by the James following. A recent interview appeared in the Kearns' evening organ, in -which Knox, in slug headlines, was loudly lauded as the best available timber for Mayor. That was to be expected. Is it not passing strange that Mr. Kearns refrains from praising any of his candidates In his subservient morning organ? This is probably due to the fact that Mr. Kearns knows, as Qvery one else does, that any laudation of a candidate in those columns col-umns would result in his immediate political interment. in-terment. t tjt It may be stated without any nervous tremors or fear of indignant denial that Mr. Kearns will wish Hon. J. S. Daveler to retain his position in the city council. This desire of the senior Senator Sen-ator does not appear to accord with the wishes of the voting public. Mr. Daveler has done nothing noth-ing during his encumbency ot the office which should entitle him to reinstatement in the city council at the close of his present term. Mr. Daveler's chief equipment appears to be an all-powerful all-powerful baritone voice, the reverbations of which have always been laden either with sterilized gon-eralisms gon-eralisms or vindictive abuse", and both he and his voice are disagreeable and distasteful to the conservative con-servative citizens of the municipality. |