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Show DAILY 4 UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. 9 UTAH STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY, M..Y 9, 390.. SILENCE. AN OMINOUS Last week the Salt Lake Herald printed a special dispatch from Washington stating that FRANK J. CANNON EDITOR. yOUil important to Utah had failed of passage through the senate, in the closing hours of the session, because of the showing made in the Smoot case. According to the dispatch a prominent senator, a member of the steering committee, advised both of the Utah senators why the bill could not be permitted to pass. The statement was of the most startling significance to Utah. Nothing else of equal moment has leen suggested from Washington as a possible result of the pending investigation. If the Herald correspondent made a statement of fact, the people of this state are being punished in general because of testimony given i n Washington, and before the committee has fairly entered upon its investigation. It is not surprising that the dispatch evoked comment in Utah; and it is only natural that the a bill A FEW DIFFICULTIES. Republican leaders have been in grave con-sultati- on with the president concerning the forthcoming campaign. Three important questions have been under consideration the presidential nominee having been already selected and the campaign fund having already been assured. Those three questions arc: Who shall be nominated for the vicepresidency to be the big tail to a little kite? 1. What shall the platform say? Who shall be selected for chairman? There is much difficulty in getting a satisThe factory answer to the first question. nominee for the second place on the ticket should be a great man, sound, conservative, experienced, popular. Herein lies the trouble. No great man is willing to lie used as a ballast for the unmanageable and untrustworthy Roosevelt craft. When the proposition was made to Joe Cannon, the speaker of the house, he just snorted. It would be a somewhat reckless man who would renew the suggestion. Imagine a stateman like Joseph G. Cannon, with nearly half a century of public service to his credit stepping down from the high and powerful place of speakership to run in second place on the Roosevelt ticket! There must have been a glut in the blue vitriol market when your Uncle Joe got through expressing bis strenuous Sangamon sentiments on the subject. And then there is Senator Fairbanks good presidential timber for the Republican party; he cannot afford to blast his whole career just at the time of its greatest promise. And dazzlingly able John C. Spooner; his friends would never consent while the president is in his present robust health. The situation is an anxious one. Who shall it be? Roosevelt wants to run with a great man; but no great man wants to run with Roosevelt. Then as to the platform, the president Some wants it to be "concise and precise. of the leaders insist that the tariff shall be made the important issue "whether the Democrats choose' to discuss it or not; but the old Roosevelt record and the many Republican differences on this question make it about as hard to handle as a greased pig. The platform dare not say that the party will fight the trusts to a finish, and it dare not say that the party will foster and protect them; it dare not say that the party favors eventual for the Filipinos and it dare not say that the party will continue the present driftAs a way of ing and policy. the the situation, meeting Republican New York Sun offers the following first draft of a platform: "Whereas Theodore Roosevelt is the national Republican party; be it Resolved, That we emphatically indorse 2. 3. people should have expected an explicit denial, if the Heralds account was untrue. Both Senator Kearns and Senator Smoot have returned; both have given lengthy statements to the newspapers. Neither one of them has clearly contradicted and neither one has confirmed the dispatch. Delicacy toward his colleague might have prompted the senior senator to abstain from comment on the story; but delicacy toward his constituents should have directed Senator Smoot to brand the statement as a falsehood if it were false and to endorse it as the truth if it were true. The silence of both senators is ominous. Persistent silence on the part of the junior senator would seem to lack something of the duty which he owes and the usual courtesy which he pays to the people of his 'state. Was the Herald story true? Assurdly, Senator Smoot, the people of Utah have a right to know. SOME GOOD NEWS. It It would would for real the issue; Rooseveltism, represent with the partys subordination thereto, is on trial before the people. And finally comes the question of a chairman for the campaign. He must be at once an associate of the trusts in order to get their money and a man of the people in order to get their votes. He must be strong enough to run the campaign and yet weak enough to let Roosevelt run him. He is, so far, in such successful concealment that it may be necessary to offer a reward for his discovery. From Republican sources comes the statement that if Parker shall be nominated by the Democratic convention at St. Louis the wealthy men of New York will support his campaign with a fund of five million dollars. This should be authentic news, for the Republican machine keeps mighty close track of the political money of this country. It should also be good news, for running a e while the enemy has campaign on eighteen million dollars to spend is adisheart-enin- g jaw-bon- Idaho insists Ben Richs home county that he shall go as a delegate to the Republi- Send him, by all can national convention. means. We would give a good deal to hear his speech when the plank is proposed for the platform. P. S. We wonder if the Democratic plank will be in the same language. If so, the boys who go from Utah to St. Louis might borrow some of Bens orthodox ideas. anti-Morm- on With a Vassar girl throwing a base ball nearly 200 feet, and with womens organizations in Kalamazoo cleaning the main streets and engaging to keep them clean (if the untidy men wont litter them), last week marked And in the meantime, with these three two significant advances in the strenuosity of yawning questions in the path of their own the gentler sex. If this movement continues party many Republican papers persist in de- for fifty years at its present rate ofprogress, the voting most of their attention to the supposed world will be in an Amazonian age. difficulties which confront the Democracy. Democratic difficulties indeed! The party Both sides in the Coulter controversy are might be saddled with thrice its present bur- still firing guns; and the reports of dens and still it would not be carrying as much the conflict gatling are as contradictory as if the comdead and dangerous weight as is Rooseveltism batants were named Nel Denoki and Coulter-offskalone for the Republicans. y. f- - The HIS WATERING ?r VETVT) STOCK. CL08ING QUOTATIONS OF PERSONAL NEW YORK STOCKS pointers! burnished by the Ogden Brokerage 2482 Washington Co. 2406 Ave., Phono 215. F. F. Fisk of Price la In the city. Monday, Will McAllister la In town for a few Copper ...... daya. AtcnUon com S. P. Miles of Butte waa In the city Atchison phi Week of Hay 2 May 9. . Washington Ave. Norfolk A West BOB KENYON Ontario A West. . 214 114J Song Illustrator, Presenting My Dear Pennsylvania Sy Smelter com 49J4 Louisville AN... .1W Old Home." VI1 Jersey Smelter pfd Vat, Missouri Pacific.. yesterday. Alton com Reading from Is H. down Jones Attorney 221 Baltimore A Ohio. 7Sf Rock Island WARD A KLARE 4 Southern Pacific.. 47 Brooklyn Brigham City. Canadian PSC....117 St Paul 1274 Comedy 8 ketch Artioto. William Maas of Pocatello Is In the Met. Traction. ;. . .W8 Sngar Chea. A Ohio WJ Southern Fy com. 2Uj 22 Rio Grande com Texas city for a few days, DAW80N A FARREL. 305 Tennessee Coal... 85fc home Cod. Gas Gas j A. J. Warner has returned Union Pacific Si. People's African Opera. 10 Erie Steel com from a visit to California. S5 Illinois Central... UWM Steel pfd - C. R. cutIs In from the 14'J Western Union ... Manhattan Broughton DE VON SISTERS Kansas A Texas... m Wabash pfd off for a few daya New York Cent. . .115 Hight-Claa- s Song and Dance Artists. Wl H. Carter and wife are visiting CHICAGO GRAIN AND PORK. Lake. the Salt from In, city July Delivery. MOVING PICTURES. W. H. Phllbrlck of the power plant MU Oats 88U A Tragic Elopement. Wheat at American Fails Is In the city. 11.07 . . job. According to the Republican story, this fund of five million is to be used in carrying Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Indiana. Well, Boys in the Democratic trenches, if all this is true and if Parker is to be nominated, you might as well begin shouting right now and picking out your offices. With a campaign fund of five million dollars to be expended in the four states named the party cinch. has a lead-pip- e It is a pity to take .Col. Hayess place and affirm Theodore Roosevelt. from him; but it is the fortune of war. We believe implicitly and unqualifiedly in away Speak up, you Ogden Democratic lawyers Theodore Roosevelt. Whatever Theodore Roosevelt thinks, Who wants to be solicitor of internal revenue; says, does or wants is right. salary $4,000 a year? "Roosevelt and Stir Em Up! Now and Forever; One and Inseparable! in That would avoid all doubts. be at once "concise and precise. asrv JJkA - Republican press has' quit calling John C. Brown, a bright Ogden boy, is It is waiting to see president of the student body Bryan a demagogue. of the U. of U. whether he will bolt his party if so, it will The choice does as much honor to the organizacall him an intelligent patriot. tion as to the young mans birth-plac- e. l I Rasmussen returned yesterday from a business trip to Rock Sprlnga Mrs. A. F. Conklin and Miss Dove Klebam of Salt Lake are Ogden visitors. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anderson of Union. Ida., are visiting friends In O. D. town. Dr. and Mrs. Cross of Plalnsvilla Kansas, are at the Healy House for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Mitchell of West cut-of- f, are Side, on the Ogden-Lucl- n In the city. . Dr. O. W. Baker and family arrived home yesterday from the Pacific coast, where they have been on a two weeks pleasure trip. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Raymond returned yesterday afternoon from an extended California visit g Mrs. S. Feeney and Miss Carrie of Cache Junction are visiting friends in the city. Alex Touponce has gone Into Idaho on mining and cattle business. He win be on the range for several days. merJohn Anderson, a chant of Union, Idaho, waa a visitor with his friends, the Messrs. Scowcroft, on Saturday. ' J. H. Turner, representing David O. Evans of St Louis, a former member of the Oregon sharpshooter volunteers, Is In the city. Andrew Kerr has returned home from Germany where he has been on a mission for the Mormon church for months. He says the past thirty-on- e he had a delightful time while abroad. Attorney R. S. Farnsworth was in Salt Lake on Saturday and was granted sixty days further time In the suit of Munsey against Davidson. Judge Baskin of the supreme court made the Corn Pork 48jJ nbl Money on call 1 10 CENTS depend on onr commlssluns, not our customers losses, for our profits. 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