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Show THE CITIZEN 8 i OBSERVATION PLANE : i j SlUIIUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIUIUHHIHIUUIUHUlllllllHniUlUIIIUIIIIlUinillllUIIHIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUUIUUIIIIIUUIUIUlHIUIUUIIIUIIUIIIUHUIIlllllUIIUIIIUIUIUIIUUUUlUin is, for example. Harden Bennion, the Bourbons Whet Knives For Senator King i Storms, tempests and hurricanes of harmony are sweeping the Democrats into confusion. This week a certain Mayor Francis of Ogden, one but lately known to fame, cast his hat into the ring for the gubernatorial nomination. While the assembled Democrats were watching the hat roll around the ring it exploded, for the mayor had deftly inserted a bomb under the crown. Mayor Francis formally announced his candidacy and said that he was taking this step at. the earnest solicitation of prominent Democrats, including Senator William H. King. After the Democrats, especially the candidates, had recovered from their astonishment they armed themselves and went in search of the junior senator, only to find that he had taken the last boat to Washington. Efforts to reach him by wireless were futile and the indignant patriots were forced to. content themselves with gnashing curses between their teeth. By what right, they .asked one another, did Senator King pick a protege for the nomination and one who wag only a reporter when the other candidates were working in the political mills to become deserving Democrats. i i On what meat hath this our Francis fed that he is grown so fat in his own conceit? the candidates in- quired. Is Senator King the nominating power, or is the convention? was f an-oth- er pertinent query. After careful inquiry the candidates report that Mayor Francis claims to ;be a Democrat and that he has so claimed for at least one consecutive 'year. Prior to that his political pretensions were zero. His hated rivals believe an investigation will show that if not a Forty- he was a Forty-eighte- r niner. Meantime i other pects to run on that truly Democratic platform, but because it is interesting, and we wish to be interesting even though it helps Democratic aspirants. A new figure in the field, one who does not claim the support of a senator or even the brother of a senator, is Judge S. W. Stewart, who served on the district bench for some years. . He is being favorably mentioned by many Democrats who are not themselves candidates. Utah s White Elephant Comes Back Home the public observed that arrangements for the reception in honor of Utahs candidate for president of these United States were slow in taking shape. We hear that the delay was due to unworthy jealousies. Governor Bamberger was about to be invited to head the reception committee when he was accused of saying that Parley P. Christensen was trying No doubt home-comin- g t to wreck the Democratic party. Several prominent bankers began elamoring for the honor and had to be rebuked. The leading business men of the town also crowded one another in an effort to get on the reception committee and in consequence all of them were told to confine their advertising to the newspapers. We understand that the biggest demonstration was to have been a reception on the front porch of the capi-toHarding has a modest porch at Marion; Cox has a fine colonial portico on his mansion at .Trails End, but it is only fitting that a candidate bigger than either of these should be allotted the biggest porch in the state. candidates speaking well of themselves. The committee on arrangements was in an awful quandary. It began its work zealously because it fancied that it had many factions to draw from for the personnel of the reception commit-tee-. It was about to invite a round dozen highbrow radicals when the in Chicago gave three sneers for Parley and adCommittee of partisan Leaguers, but at that very moment word was received that A. C. Townley, speaking for the Leaguers, had declared that Parley never had been a farmer and did not represent the untrammeled farmers of North Dakota and elsewhere. But, of course, there were the radical laborites. Some one asked in a wavering voice, What is a radical la- Scouts were sent out to find borite? a radical laborite and reported back that the only radical laborites they could find belonged to the I. W. W. At last the problem was solved. The committee could get up a big I. W, W. demonstration in honor of Parley P. 4 l. Evidently Mayor Francis thinks Inasthat this, is an editors year. much as an editor is certain to be president he thinks that he should do his best to make Utah safe for editors. But tried, true and willing Democrats, who do not know how to sling a mean pen, and dont care much for those who do, are vowing that they will make Utah unsafe for at least one editor. k secretary of state, who has seven relatives in his office. We mention the relatives not because Mr. Bennion ex- ments andthere.foreno fltcandidate-fo- r them. The grand idea struck his friends that they might invite all the owners of Ford machines, but it was pointed out that Henry Ford had been a rival candidate and had refused the nomination after it had been refused him. Finally someone suggested that they could not go wrong if they invited Non- Forty-eigh- t are journed. Then a prominent single taxer was asked to be chairman, but the single taxers Issued a screed declaring that There Parley was in favor of unearned incre Christensen, Farmer-Labo- r -- of - his friends - subjectr-but-one -- positively that the candidate hid dared that history would regard nine and Trotsky as amdng the gn est men of our time. But this shows what scandal-gers will resort to in their effort g assassinate reputations. They will tort a mans statements out oi semblance to that which he rs said.' What Parley said was: History will regard Lenine Trotzky as the greatest men ofj. time. Even a child can tell the differs: between the greatest and one of SI greatest. At that Parley is one of the big j presitt'Vf for men ever nominated v When last weighed he. tipped scales at 260 and his height was (Continued on Page 18.) candidate for president of the justly famous Unit- ed States. At this juncture one of the conferees produced a local newspaper in which Parley cut his last and only friends dead. Everyone else had repudiated Parley and now he repudiated his one remaining band of hope. In the letter he declared that the chairman of the Forty-eigh- t convention, swept away by enthusiasm, had said in his delirium that Parley P. had been one of the first defenders of the I. W. W. in Utah. Parley P. begged to state that it was a mistake, due to the fact that on several occasions he had defended enemy alien prisoners interned in the war prison camp. Of course the friends of Parley P. were still eager to arrange a reception in his honor, but they must first wire to find out who were left in his party. Naturally they wanted to invite some members of the party, but they did not know just whom the candidate represented. It was known from the beginning that Parley wras a large candidate of a small party, but now there is a great fear that while he remains as big as ever his party has sunk out of sight. The Democrats are disturbed. They are wondering whether Parley will put up a state ticket to deprive them of the well earned votes of all the radical elements represented at the Chicago conventions. Some are talking of fusion, but mostly the talk Is of confusion. No one seemed to know until the oth- er day what views Parley held on any A Home-Mad- Bread e Thats what our customers call it. WHY? Because it looks and tastes like the loaf that is properly made at home. I ROlfiML IffiSEADI We use just as much yeast in each loaf the same good flour (or better), milk and shortening. The result is a loaf really digestible, thoroughly fermented, and appetizing one that satisfies and saves. ? . ... 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