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Show Hi1'! Ogden Letter. HI '1 1 ' , hi ' i HI M j Ogden, August 1st. BST v 0ur ran(lom reference to the feeling agin "Third Bi J jl ' Termers" set all kinds of bees and birds buzzing DS'U "II 1 among candidates, office-holders and sich. Dave Bf'l'P - Mattson has had himself measured (at the cob- Hr. ft! P ,: biers), and declares on oath that Charlie Hollings- HiilJvfl worth's shoes are '"just a perfect lit." Joe Bailey H9jr says that while the present Sheriff's overcoat is HhJIjJ ' 4 all too small for him, that he has consulted a tailor I Mf who tells him he can rip it ur and let out the 1 I seams. There are no less than three (and more to H 'Jijik follow), who look longingly at Assessor John Gib- j son's saddle-bags. While four legal lights have H "l V s handed down opinions with the past twenty-four B iCl'" hours highly commendatory of Mr. George Hal-B Hal-B Hf It ' verson's legislative ability. And not a few "sub-H "sub-H ' ' stantial citizens" have been overheard to remark H 'i'v i upon the amount of time Billy Wilson and Lyman HpL L V i S. Keen are compelled to devote to private busi- l ?'! ' H,,; Llflk P'!' ' It is amusing to hear the lamentation of the flf,4 modern (Weber county court house) Jeremiahs. I ,Hj, V One would almost think to hear them that a life 'Jj'vj, f lease on an offlce these times is all too short. jtKJjj' Charlie Hollingsworth is reported to have said ,T ' that while Dave Mattson might get along well jjj i enough with the duties of Clerk and Auditor, yet ;4$a it would be wellnigh impossible for him with his f, -.jji ' youth and inexperience to instruct the County L jjjm Commissioners in all their duties, appoint all the jP u !j ; L road supervisors and registration agents, and do BfcfP i tue thousand and one outside jobs that fall to him Hfufi j! f I' by virtue of his office. Well, it may be so, but it I P a P might not be impossible to nominate and elect ,( 11 Commissioners who have sense enough to perform ; ' I the duties of their own offlce. Of course, it is a H . ''fj"11 long chance, but it might be done. . 4I v J(l The discovery, by himself, of David Mattson p' j i as a likely candidate for County Clerk was accom-1 accom-1 & panied by considerable glee around the Standard mi' ! Wj ! office and in other remote corners where the pie-Rk' pie-Rk' t1! hunting Kearns men congregate. The announce-Wn announce-Wn i If' ment of this rival t0 Charlie Hollingstworth came Mi,' I 1 11 as a surprise; it was first regarded as a josh; then HfVf 1 1 the boys looked serious; and finally it reached the Lj'l''f il BtaSe when the other fellow becomes apprehen-UWt apprehen-UWt tt sive. Mattson is lumbering his way into the good 111 t graces of the people at a rapid rate, and if Hol-Hfjj, Hol-Hfjj, JJ'1' HngswortU is not up and hustling he may be ap-H ap-H " j J f plying to the big Swede for a deputyship about Hi A i" January 1, 1903, i! iff j r ( 1 J Billy Wilson says: "Hoot, man, we twa term- Ujj, jl I ers will rin agen or we'll all gwa down thegither, 1 j de ye min?" J H Charlie Lane says if Jim Kimball is only in it" j I shape he is safe and on easy street. At A' And that is the game which the parvenue i h ) Kearns and the apostolic candidate are attempting j ji 4 to work upon a God-fearing people. They realize Hfllf ;Ll iW ' that the men of Utah are no longer asleep. The HS' j j H time for slipping into the Legislature in order to H i i "get what there is in it" by juggling with the so- ! 1 1 ) P called will of God is over. The opportunity of the 1 H , I bribe-giver and bribe-taker has passed. The j j , chance for buying a Senatorship for an immoral, I ' ignorant, silver-lined upstart is gone forever, j r ' And so also is gone the time and chance when one IHEj, Ijlrjf political demagogue can deal and bargain in Sen- Hb jjll r atorships for the political benefit of another. HI flipii1 Whether the attempt is made in the name of the iEniffliifi Almighty or the church, there is that something in Hntraiii the heart of every honest man which cries out HH9fj against a deal or job, and the result will be that HflHl 1 the vulgar mine-owner and the pins fraud who fflHHj ( buncoed the Lord's annointed two years ago will be handed the warmest package that ever shaped from the wrath of an outraged people. We come to bury Bill, not to praise him. We realize the uncertainty of life, the frailty of human hu-man nature, the impossibility of perfection here; but candor to the corpse and a rugged self-respect compels us to say that Bill's political demise was happy for the party that ignomineous as was his end, yet the treachery by which he was slain was commendable. Bill returned from the Legislature Legis-lature in high glee, the future was rosy, no cloud on his political horizon, a "tripartite agreement" had been formed. Kearns-Smoot-Glasmann these three the two former in the Senate, the last in the House; Kearns was to furnish the money, Smoot the brains, and Glasmann (well, Bill privately pri-vately confessed that he was to furnish the character char-acter for veracity). If Bill had been stricken by the friends of Arthur Ar-thur Brown whom he so basely betrayed; if the "hot bunch" had been handed him by Heber Thomas, whose throat he so brutally cut, that he (Bill) might be Mayor; if the "gang" who do the party work had combined to wreak vengeance upon him for failure to keep faith, there would yet have been some honor in his death; some (little) hope of his resurrection. But to die like a dog by the knife thrust of his master (T. K.) ; to be stabbed in tho back (by his friends); to be literally "hoisted by his own petard" is a fitting finale to a long careei of duplicity, treachery, black-mailing, and mendacity. men-dacity. So fell Bill; so prone lies his corpse. So may he lie, as he lied in life. Let no ruthless (political) hand hereafter disturb his repose. |