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Show mU James to he Probable Nominee. ' it; . H J A Kjearns Itile to Uhrotov hxit Meager Support to Odell. 15he WeeKJjr's Forecast. HI 1 1 ' Odell feeKj flid From Mormon Btshops- . H;i: i n I HfPH HM ! .A ifce; Facts For 'Voters. Hi 'I! y V Lifi Mr. W. F. James should be nominated for H. ji mayor: Ho ' i i H jT ' I Because he is unallied with any political fac- B ) M tipn; could not he swayed by church influence Bjl' !!: ' and would give an honest and independent admin- jh ! j istration. Lj, Because he is thoroughly familiar with the Mjlj needs of the municipality through intimate study B 1 1 of the water problem and other questions lnvolv- B f, ing the welfare of the municipality. "B Bp ( M Because by his ofllcial record in the past he Bji i has proved himself to be irreproachable as a B - - servant of the people and a man of keen and ma- 1 '' j ture judgment. Hm ; "Bj i t Because Mr. James has the requisite amount Vl j of time to devote to the interests of the city. He B is a man of independent income and no pressing B i business affairs would demand his attention when B J the needs of the municipality required the able Bj ! hand and presence of the chief executive. The B jj, i mistake in the selection of most of the men at the B j j head of the city government in the past has been Bfj that the duties of that important office have with B '! I them been subsidiary to their private business af- B ii f j fairs, and as a result a thoroughly competent and B j- t searching supervision of the various departments H, of the city government has never obtained. HP Ml H ! Si m i j Mr. Odell should not be nominated: Kf Because he has never demonstrated that he E " has any acquaintance with the practical affairs 1 of the municipality. HH jj K , Because, being unfamiliar "with politics, he B i ? would be the natural dupe of scheming politicians B$ '" and factional machines. HI lM Because his candidacy is being advocated by B M Senator Kearns, who is making a strenuous en- Bf ? i deavor to have his corrupt political machine su- mh ( m. preme in this city; consequently he would be con- Vj Hi' trolled, in a measure, at least, by that moneyed B 111 political manipulator. Bjj h )ft; 'j Because he is manager of the company of which Hj Is, fe. President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon cfiurch H i, I ' is president, and by reason of his position would H I be forced to bend to the influence of the Mormon Hl l ' I leader. Hp l ,), Because he is a director of the Utah Home Tele- BR 1 p phone company, which enjoys a franchise under HI I J ' the municipality, and for that reason is disquali- H 1 ! J fled frqm holding a municipal office. H$ ' f Because his other business interests would ab- HJ ) m Jorlt) nIs attention an(1 he would have but a small H lH fragment of time to devote to the important af- Hj;9 fairs" of this growing city. hI ':M"tM Bl, lfJ Mr. Knox should not bd nominated: Bf 'llil - - Because ho, with Mr. "Odell as second choice, f ! 1 .is t6ecandidate of Senator-Kearns. Hl fflm Because, like . Mr. Odell, he would have but H$ i ' 'meaKer tIme devote to the varied interests of Hlf fll the municipality. H! M Because his candidacy is not sincere, but mere- HI M ly a subterfuge of Senator Kearns to prevent Gen- Hj tiles from supporting the candidate who would HSpff represent all the people and hold himself aloof Hi! I I from any personal machine, HlJff H 'i -nmm,mMammm ; THE REAL ISSUE. By the political battle, on next Monday night the voters of this municipality will decide w,hether or not the political destinies of the city are Co be dominated by Hon. T. Kearns, or whether his nefarious ne-farious machine is to be crushed by the independent independ-ent voters. By decisively defeating Perpetual Candidate Odell and Mr. Frank Knox for the office of Mayor of this city, the voters will administer a withering rebuke to the man who debased the office of United States Senator by securing the position by purchase. If the citizens favor Hon. W. F. James, the candidate can-didate of the independent Republicans, it will be equivalent to a proclammation from the people of Salt Lake that they are in favor of a chief executive execu-tive of the city who will be independent both of the domination of a church or the soiled fingers of a machine manipulator. In the Mayoralty contest there is no other issue is-sue involved. The Kearns people have temporarily caused a belated inflation of the Odell boom by practically withdrawing from the Knox camp, as was predicted pre-dicted in these columns a week ago. They have also occasioned some little fluctuation toward the implement man by the insidious whisper that Mr. James is the church candidate. This last impression impres-sion they have' sought to create chiefly through the silly drivel from the bleating evening organ of Senator Kearns. vS J 5 Gentiles are not now and have not been deceived de-ceived by the representations of the personal organ or-gan of the senior Senator. Mr. James has lived in the municipality for over thirty years, and there has been no act of his career during that period which would indicate that there was even the remotest re-motest alliance between him and the leaders of the Mormon church. This cannot be said of Mr. George T. Odell, Mr. Kearns' original second choice for Mayor, whom they have the blatant effrontery to launch as the Gentile candidate. Mr. Odell is manager of the company of which Joseph F. Smith is president, and if elected would be compelled, by virtue of his position, to yield to the wishes of the president of the Mormon church. If there is a question of Mormon influence being used, who do Gentiles believe could be most readily read-ily reached by the Mormon leaders, and in whose hands do they prefer to leave the affairs of the municipality? If it were true that Mr. James is the candidate candi-date of the church for Mayor, how will the supporters sup-porters "of Mr. Odell account "for the fact that his chief sponcers and firmest adherents are Apostle Heber J. Grant, the warmest church friend of Senator Sen-ator Kearns; Rulon S. "Wells and J. Golden Kimball, Kim-ball, both members of the first seven presidents of seventies, the highest quorum next to the apos-" ties, and Bishop H. B, Clawson, who is generally regarded . as ...the political spokesman, of .the church. All these men are i working industriously among th.ebrethren on he-, he-, half of the .Utah Home Telepjiqne" company candidate, can-didate, and still the puerile effort to decry James as the church candidate goes on unabated. ( fcx The fact is that Senator Kearns is merely attempting at-tempting to move the Knox support to Odell in compliance with the compact he made with the apostolic triumvirate, exposed a week ago in these columns. The effect has been that some of Kearns' staunchest supporter's are now working in the' overheated Headquarters of Mr. Odell among them W. Wantlaiid, the bosom friend and lieutenant of Manager Lippman of the Knox campaign, and Charley Rookledge, Mr. Knox' candidate can-didate for City Treasurer two years ago. Mr. Wantland spends the major portion 6f his time telephoning from the implement manager's headquarters head-quarters to young Mormons and Informing them that their old leaders are now with Odell. A similar, sim-ilar, office is performed by George Sheets, whose fealty to Kearns is too deep-dyed to be questioned. He has been set apart to induce people known to be favorable to James to visit the Odell headquarters head-quarters on the representation that many James supporters have flocked to Odell's support. The object of this is to create suspicion among the ranks of the oposition, but the effort has not resulted in any defection from the James army. W fc5 Mr. Kearns, partially replying to the exposure in these columns of his abortive flirtation with the Mormon apostles, stated through his evening satellite that he was not interested in the coming com-ing municipal struggle. Mr. Knox was made to state that he had by no means retired. The aim was to retain the support of a number of friends of Mr. Knox, who upon his withdrawal, would rally to the support of the independent candidate, by leading them to believe that Mr. Knox still had a chance for the nomination, when it is apparent ap-parent to every close observer of political affairs that the contest is between Mr. James and the candidate of church authorities and the Home Telephone company, Mr. Odell. 3 tj The Perpetual Candidate is resorting to some rather unique tactics to gather the support he appears ap-pears to be desperately in need of. He informs the young Mormons, through that wily diplomat, Bishop Clawson, that it is the desire of the church authorities that he should be elected mayor. On the other hand, the electrified voter is informed by Viking Lawson that the church does not control con-trol Odell, but that Odell controls the church, or words to that effect. He observes that eastern stockholders in the Consolidated Implement company com-pany would rather remove President Smith from the company than be relieved of Odell's managerial manage-rial control a sad and dilapidated argument among people who know that the prestige of the president's name and interest is one of the most valued assets of the institution. It will also be remembered that the Viking, before Kearns 'entered 'en-tered into the apostolic compact, was one of the most ardent supporters of Knox. v5 (5 w I i possible that Bishop Clawson's antagonism to "W. F. 'James has any connection with the fact that in 1892 Vlr. James, representing the national Republican committee, forced the bishop and another an-other distinguished gentleman, not now a resident of the State, to make an accounting of the "funds secured in Utah for the national campaign? It is to be hoped that the guileless ecclesiastic would " not harbor animosity during such an extended De-riod."""We De-riod."""We would suggest that flie bishop explain that mysterious affair to the young M6rm6n Republicans Re-publicans with whom he is campaigning in the Interests of the telephone candidate. t5 && In the Councilmanic contest there will be a sharp contest between the Kearns forces and the opposition. The independents are confident of securing a majority in nearly all the precincts. |