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Show THE GOATS. The Deseret News described the caucus In which Mr. Hull was nominated speaker of the House in these words: "There was no all-night session last night, at the Republican caucus for the speakership of the House, although it was a hot one while it lasted. In caucuses, like in horse races, the favorites do not always win, and very frequently a dark horse carries off the prize. So it was last night when Thomas Hull of Salt Lake county found he had almost a walkover and captured the nomination as speaker of the House, and he didn t have to strain himself to get there, either. He won on the first ballot and the vote stood: Thomas Hull of Salt Lake County, 20; W. H. Barratt of Beaver County, Coun-ty, 10, and Dr. A. S. Condon of Weber County, 9; D. R. Anderson of Cache County was not present pres-ent when the vote was taken. "All day long the friends of Doctor Condon, whose headquarters were at the Cullen, and Mr. Barratt, who held forth at the Windsor, were or seemed to be, equally confident that their candidate can-didate had almost a sure thing. Mr. Hull, who had no headquarters and was apparently last In the race, came out first." Is it not strange that Mr. Hull had no headquarters head-quarters and still came out first? It has been thoroughly well known for four weeks past, that both Mr. Allison and Mr. Hull would be elected with a whoop. That Mr. Allison, a Sutherland man, would not oppoge the election of Mr. Smoot and that In consideration of that, Mr. Smoot's friends would all support Mr. Sutherland two years hence. The editor of the News has known this for weeks, hence the substance of the above extract merely emphasizes the fact that Utah politics Is but a roaring farce at best The fact that such an arrangement has been made accounts ac-counts for the Sutherland dispatch to the News on Monday night, last, In which, after weighing the situation, he gave his sympathies to Mr. Smoot. Of course, he has a special interest In turning his sympathies that way, for he wants, and expects, the help of Mr. Smoot and all his friends two years hence. Thus we see that his sympathy for Mr. Smoot is, when boiled down, merely sympathy for himself. him-self. The struggle for the Speakership of the House was all the more comical, when every member, except the candidates, knew that the cards were stacked against those candidates. Or did they, also, know it and to give the business an American Ameri-can look, consent to go In and play the role of dupes? In Tennessee, a backwoods clergyman once took his text from the parable of the sheep and goats and preached a rousing sermon. After describing de-scribing all the beautitudes awaiting the sheep, he ,j mvi,, i uv;iv dcul uiuoe uuu au.ni: ft'llit fftB' "Mr. Preacher, rather than see the game stop, I'll fir IB lS! be the goats." Rather than see the game stop '1!hB' did Condon, Barratt and Anderson assume to be i'lll'JvB1 goats? 1 ,1'M iH a K t" JB1 |