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Show TolHical Vietv Toinf. Political affairs have been rather lethargic during the Week, with the Kearns ranks presenting pre-senting a badly battered front and Mr. Odell's mayoralty airship in rather badly crippled form. The fifteen sages who have conducted the affairs of the city with such marvelous ability during the past two years have been too busy preparing for their junket into Idaho next Saturday to pay I muck attention to local politics. Among those who are well seeped in political lore, the nomination of Mr. W. F. James for mayor may-or is how practically conceded, although the fragile fra-gile army who are supporting Mr. Odell are making mak-ing frantic effort to recover the ground he has visibly lost. A Republican who stands high in the councils coun-cils of the party stated yesterday that Mr. Odell had no chance whatever to secure the nomination, and that if Mr. James did not receive it some other oth-er equally representative and unallied citizen would! "The kind of man we want," said he, "is one who has the time and inclination to give to the important ofllco of mayor the attention it de-l de-l mands. Mr. Odell could not do this; Mr. James I could. Mr. James through long experience and 8 study is thoroughly familiar with the needs of the city, the development of its waterworks -system aiul kindred subjects' of importance; this cannot be said of Mr. Odell. I think the city has suffered long enough through the neglect of the chief executives, who have either been too busy to attend to municipal affairs or have lacked the necessary ability and Inclination to do so." The statement in these columns that the Heavenly Heav-enly Twins were being duped by the Kearns lieutenants lieu-tenants in their semi-support of Odell has caused these astute manipulators to pause and ponder, and it-has been observed that their Odell leanings have undergone a distinct chill during the past week. The fact is that Callister and Anderson are not nearly such powerful factors as they once were, and some of their erstwhile lieutenants, lieuten-ants, who are strongly with the independent movement, are prepared to make things very uncomfortable un-comfortable for the Twins unless they either drop Odell or any other man with Kearns leanings, lean-ings, or assume an attitude of neutrality, in harmony har-mony with the position of their chieftain, Hon-Reed Hon-Reed Smoot. The Kearns people are fighting desperately des-perately against the booming sentiment in favor of Mr. James, and among the uninitiated are basing their oposition on the ground that Mr. James was brought out as mayoralty timber by the Heavenly Twins. This ruse will prove a bogus bo-gus petard, in view of the fact that the Twins themselves state that they originally launched Odell for the place. & v That Mr. Odell is now seriously worried regarding re-garding his campaign for mayor, regarding which he was so confident a few weeks ago, is shown by the fact that he is now personally soliciting support among his friends, and has announced his intention of visiting the city and county building build-ing within the next few days with a view to sizing up the situation. He has also enlisted the services ser-vices 'of a number of Democrats, who are buzzing buz-zing Odell into every ear, and of course the active ac-tive campaigning in his behalf of his co-directors in the "Utah Home Telephone company continues with unabated vigor. These maneuvers are watched with unalloyed joy by the politicians who have watched the sad straits into which the mismanaged Odell campaign has been permitted per-mitted to drift. Mr. Openshaw of the Third is now an active candidate for the city treasurership, a circumstance circum-stance which is causing sleepless nights in the Kessler and Frank Matthews wigwams. If they can not down this ghost at the Third precinct feast, they realize that their chance of occupying the city recordership chair is about as dismal as Mr. T. Kearns' prospect of returning to the senate sen-ate when the present term of the erudite statesman states-man expires. During the present lull in local politics, Mr. A. F. Lawson has been busy circulating among the powers that be in an effort to secure sufficient support to reopen the case against Postmaster Thomas, which everyone has supposed Mr. T. Kearns had given up as futile. He is a very difficult diffi-cult man to keep socloistered, Is Mr. T. Kearns. c t JX Mr. J. J. Thomas will not accompany his fellow fel-low statesmen on the councilmanic junket into Idaho. It is stated among people not very friendly1 friend-ly1 to the councilman from the First that he considers con-siders his chances for re-election to the council in too precarious a condition to permit of his absence at this stage of the municpal campaign. W fc The Young Men's Republican club has arranged ar-ranged for a celebration at the Salt Palace on the 27th of the present month. The club is a flourishing flour-ishing organization, and the success df the yearly outings of the club in the past is assurance of a very pleasant foregathering at the coming excursion. excur-sion. There will bo large displays in the way of races and other athletics, with probably a few brief orations from leading Republicans. Jt J wt It now appears that the Domocrats of Ogden are going to havo an organ. The Utah State Journal, which now blooms ont weekly, will be uxpunded Into n dally and Frank J. Cannon will bo tho editor. ' |