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Show THE CITIZEN 8 Senator Williams In Volcanic Role ..Mm.M....MMmuMmimiuHiiiMuiuiuwiiiiMmiiMUiiuBiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiMiiiHHiMiHmiMimmMiiimwHiiimiinimiinji 0BSE1VATI0N PLAN Issue In Campaign teaches any political lesson it is that the man with a machine can beat the man on foot or even the mail on horseback. local primary Several leisurely pedestrians strolled into the city campaign late and unBocks dertook to compete with twelve cylinder Democratic machine, repainted and geared high, and with name and number changed. True, Lamar Nelson used hn airplane one afternoon, but that apparently isnt a political machine. . The Darmer machine did not use a It carried a silent muffler cut-oumotor and made little noise in its comings and goings, but it was in the home stretch, well up, when the dash for the goal began. At first it looked as if the Parley White steamer might cross the line first, but half way up the stretch it had engine trouble and slowed down, permitting the Darmer speedster to pass it and land just behind Bocks camouflaged Democratic t. , racer. Evidently the Democrats rallied to the slogan of party winch Bock and his backers deftly put out months ago. They pictured the Republicans as forn ever gathering plums and tried to make it appear that the city primaries and elections, non-partisa- Instead of being really were engineered in the interest of G. 0. P. candidates. Whether there was any truth in the charge is not germane to the Bock candidacy. The point is that the Democrats became torridly wrought up by this appeal to their partisanship and went to non-partisa- Some surprise was entertain ed that he should have obtained a higher vote than that accorded Bock, r but Herman Green is some when he makes up his mind to it. He took votes wherever he could find them and he knew long before the primary that nearly everybody was willing to help him. He tapped all the machines as he went along and, without half trying, secured the support of the Greater Salt Lake League. The fine art of making friends without making enemies is one of the subtlest gifts of politicians and statesmen and far be it from us to say that Herman Green is not noth a politician and a statesman, in addition to being a scholar and a gentleman. The voters seemed to take the League with reservations. The League put forward an admirable candidate, While but was late in the field. eager to give its candidate efficient support it could not perfect a genuine Green. Bock Becomes Partisan TF the rPHE other n, vote-gette- organization on the very eve of the primary. As for C. Lamar Nelson, the young army flyer who made such a bold and dashing appearance in the race, he It was polled a noteworthy vote. neither a sad nor inglorious day for him. He took a high ethical position as becomes one accustomed to commune with the upper ether and made a reputation for himself that promises to keep him before the public eye. In the commissionership race Otto E. Ashbridge, who was favored by labor, was second to Green. It was he day Senator Williams got mad at the Irish and figuratively speaking, raved and tore his hair and cursed the eternal lie that the Irish had won the revolutionary war. Then a gentleman named OBrien, historiographer or something of the New York public library, sent him a photographic copy of a British generals report to the London war office, during the revolution, in which the commander stated that about 45 per centr we have forgotten the exact percentage of Washingtons soldiers were Irish and that the Irish in the British army had the bad habit of deserting to the rebels whenever they found the opportunity. Out this way we did not hear much of what the flame-spoutin- g Missis-sippia- n said in denunciation of the Irish, but eastern papers supply us with liberal excerpts from his speech and accompany the excerpts with comments calculated to irritate that grand old Democratic party. Those comments are to the effect that the Irish are being lashed out of the Dem- violently from the earth's surfacd. Then somebody with a Me prefix to his name formulated a similar gentle expression of the hearts desire. Senator Williams got the idea that the Irish Ulster excluded wanted to assassinate him for demanding the ratification of the League without, reservations. In his rage the senator recalled that another Celt had written a letter twitting him with the alleged fact that the Irish had whipped the south in the civil war. It was not a fact, he said, because the Irish had fought on whichever side of the line they hapWithout caring to inpened to be. vite letters of assassination we dare to opine that the senator was right in that statement It just happened that most of the Irish were north of the Mason and Dixon line. But that which stuck nettles into the senators raw flesh, was the "eternal pretense of the Irish that as he phrased it, they had done everything everywhere, at every time, which, as all of us will admit, is what the society reporter would call an elabor- ocratic party by Senator Williams and other angry statesmen and into the friendly arms of the Republican party. ate program. It was too much for the senator, and he cried out in his fury, It is part of the braggart nature of the Irish. The senator is Senator Williams was altogether unable to control his temper because somebody with an 0 prefix to his name sent him a letter expressing a very proud of himself and his own ancestry and by way of proving that the Irish are braggarts he proceeds to brag about us English, Welsh and desire to remove him more A or less (Continued on Page 9.) AMERIC n N More Than a Theatre A Salt Lake Institution. who opposed a radical labor ticket, Sunday and Monday arguing that to put one in the field would raise a class issue. A conser- the polls determined that at least one Democrat should survive the consuming fires of the preliminary test. vative himself, he entered the race KENNETHAnd HARLAN supported not only by organized labor, but by many others who believed In When and where Bock became a Democrat is unknown, but for this occasion he was a Democrat, machine-madand the Bock machine, oiled and fueled by municipal contractors, kept as steadily at steam a work as if it were that it was unfortunate for the business men to raise an issue which la- e, roller. In fact, when the camouflage was removed it turned out to be a veritable steamer roller and under it ;were flattened several of the gentlemanly candidates who had made the race afoot. The high man in the contest for bor had wisely refused to raise. Harry Joseph made a splendid race. Early returns indicated that he would be one of the four survivors of the primary, but there, came a strange slump and, late in the evening, his friends were surprised to see that he had been passed by both Burton and Hewlett. And now for the election. Inas- commissionership was none other than that redoubtable and able muni- - much as Bock chose to make a partisan race perhaps the Republicans vif cipal chieftain, Commissioner Herman accept his challenge in the final. The Trembling Hour picture hot with the passionate striving of youth to grasp revenge for injustice next, grim with the payment of the debt due for overstepping the law then hugely tragic with an inexplicable crime suddenly fastened on the returned soldier-her- o whose regeneration until now had seemed accomplished. THERE ARE NOT MANY PLAYS WITH THE TERRIFIC INTENSITY OF THE TREMBLING HOUR." 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