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Show THE CITIZEN 8 ! OBSERVATION PLANE s filHIIIHIIUlinUIIIIIHIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIimillllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIHHIHIIIIIIIIIimNIIIIIHIMIIilllinilHHIHIIIIIIIinilllllHUIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIMUim Democratic Harmony Promotes Feuds 9 9 . 'T'HE Democrats are going about daring one another to be After the get-togeth- er harmo-niou- s. meet- ings at the Newhouse hotel and the Hotel Utah last Saturday afternoon and evening the two factions announced that the feud which had been raging ever since C. C. Richards displaced W. R. Wallace as state chairman was at an end and that thereafter Democrats would be harAt these meetings the monious. Democratic chieftains drank deep of a beverage called harmony, but a chemical analysis discloses that it of 1 per contained less than one-hal-f cent of harmony, the rest being some kind of fighting liquor. For seven hours the Democrats raged at one another, calling names, making mean, innuendoes and low-dow- n allusions and hurling darksome threats. faction held a matinee meeting at the Newhouse hotel, seventeen counties being represented, and declared C. C. Richards the duly elected state chairman of the Democratic party. A practically complete organization was effected and the Richards-Olsobattalions marched to the Hotel Utah at 7:45 p. m. and took possession of the room reserved for the meeting called by R. B. Thurman in support of the legal fiction that Mr. Wallace was still chairman. Mr. Richards took the chair and held it throughout the engagement, although the enemys artillery got the range early in the The Richards-Olso- n n evening. The net result of the meeting was that an armistice was arranged to keep the two factions from bloodshed until such time as the state convention is held. This has not prevented some gory single combats between the faction chiefs and their more bellicose supporters. While the casualties have been light the threats have been terrific and if each faction does what it threatens the Democratic bed pelt will be thoroughly fore the Republicans can even take sun-drie- the field. The terms of the armistice give Mathonihah Thomas the privilege of calling himself state chairman up to the time of the state convention. He was selected as pacificator because he is in the oil business. Confidentially, however, it may be stated that he has not yet struck oil and does not expect to prior to the assembling of the convention. There is not the slightst doubt that the Democratic waters will continue to be troubled and will run red with carnage. The feud started because W. R. Wallace was accused of belonging to a ring which arrogated to itself the right to dispense all patronage, power, pelf and office. Moreover, Mr. Wallace long had yearned to don the toga and become the spokesman of the less common people in the halls of the United States senate. One of his later rivals was, and is, C. L. Olson, of the Bolshevik wing of the Democratic party. The Olsonites are said to look upon thosfe who hae wi Wallace bled as royalists, aristocrats, d capitalists and bourgeoisie. The appellation is terribly defamatory when used by a Bolshevik, but as the Wallacites do not know its full meaning it sounds rather weak. The fact that Olson also yearned to be senator was not the worst of it. C. C. Richards went about yearning to be governor. These twain reckoned that if they joined the two last-name- yearns they could get results. The merest tyro in politics can im- agine how much harmony exists with all the chieftains vieing with one another for office. The backers of Richards declare that he is to be the next governor of Utah and they asseverate with equal enthusiasm and positiveness than W. R. Wallace will continue to shine as a dignified pri- vate citizen. As a citizen Mr. Wallace is greatly admired among the Richards-Olson faction. For sheer citizenry, they say, he is not to be excelled. and that James H. Moyle, assistant secretary of the treasury, used his high prestige to get his son, Henry, named assist, ant U. S. district attorney and hfs son, Walter, well placed in the U. S. attorney generals office in Washington, and that - i John E. Clark, county clerk, has employed his two sons, a brother-in-law- , a niece and one other relative in his office, and that County Commissioner Hughes has three relatives in his department, and that B. H. Roberts has secured a place for one son in the secretary of statell office and a place for another son in Aiding the Richards faction were the Kings Will and Sam. Will being in Washington, it fell to Sam to carry out the family feud against Wallace and Thurman to complete satiety of vengeance. Thurmans name has long been written in heavy black in the book of Kings. The Kings were out to get him and consequently they supported the Richards rebels in every the county attorneys office. Of course, some of this comment is spiteful, but it shows just how harmonious the Democrats are. And it cannot be gainsayed that it also proves the charge that the Democrats move. have made fair. unveils before our shocked gaze a scene of horrid DemThe terms which ocratic chaos. Democrats are using harmonious toward one another are not fit to be repeated in polite Republican society. Also the Democrats are telling little things about one another. For example, there is much talk about the way Democratic officials have of making politics a family affair. Far be it from us to join in this chorus of hatred, but they do say that All of which W "JOSEPH WWWWWWW a family office-holdin- g af- Foes Of Moyle Hold Secret Confab Moyle, the chronic office-seeke- r, slogan of an agwhich has organization gressive banded together to keep the assistant secretary of the treasury out of the senatorial scramble. members of this About twenty-fiv- e harmony club met in the Kearns building last Tuesday evening to sing (Continued on Page 18.) is the Matt Thomas, state prohibition enforcement officer, took his brother, David, out of the U. S. marshals of mWW W harmonious W W W W W V W W W" J.UAYNFt I. mT WIS t That veteran Democratic candidate, James Moyle, is watchfully waiting. His yearn for the senatorship is said to be more robust than at any time in his life, but he will not enter the contest unless the Democrats really In a come together in harmony. sense, however, he holds a strong position. He is aloof from the battle of the factions and merely smelleth the carnage from afar. After all the other aspirants have trampled one another to death he can appear on the field of battle and upraise his kingly standard. But, of course, Mr. Moyle hopes that no harm will come to any of his rivals. It was not solely to get the scalp of W. R. Wallace that the Richards faction went on the warpath. They were fice and made him his chief deputy zealously, even ferociously, determined to appropriate the scalp of R. B. Thurman, the secretary. That was why, at the Newhouse hotel meeting, Attorney Burton Musser was named secretary, so that there might be no lingering doubt in the minds of, the Wallacites that they were doomed. During the Hotel Utah engagement Richards and Thurman hurled gas bombs at one another until the atmosphere was so thick that only a politician could inhale it and survive. 15 1 rr.iTALrtuo.? I 3914 WHEN YOUR NEIGHBORS CALL, ARE YOU PROUD OF YOUR WALLS? 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