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Show THE CONVENTION'S WORK. The Beveridge incident in Ogden on Thursday was unfortunate, but the blame rested on the Senator and his immediate friends who have adopted the fashion of late of assuming that when they want anything in a political way, the thing to do is to announce their desire without consulting consult-ing with any one. Senator Beveridge came here as though consigned to one man; none but a self-elected self-elected few were permitted to see him; there was the same bearing by the few toward the public that the boy assumed at a relative's funeral, when seeing another boy weeping he exclaimed: "What the are you crying about? This is no funeral of yours'" The same offensive and bulldozing spirit sought to crowd the Senator before the contention in the midst of the convention's proceedings pro-ceedings and got snubbed. It placed the Senator in nn awkward position, but that was all due to his willingness to do the bidding of the little clique who had him in charge, and to his own insistance that he should speak out of time. It put him in the position of saying in effect: "You sent for me and I have come, I am Senator Beveridge, Bev-eridge, and if you will suspend the business of our convention so that I can speak before the first train leaves I will oblige you, especially as my speech has already gone to the associated press journals and will be published tomorrow morning morn-ing anyway, but I cannot wait over a train for I am Senator Beveridge of Indiana." Still it was most unfortunate because the Senator Sena-tor will go away vexed and in his vexation will shamefully misjudge the people of this State. As to the result of the convention's nominations, nomina-tions, a surface look indicates that the chiefs hae determined to henceforth see that the offices of Governor, Senators and Representative are to he filled with Latter-day Saints. Some people v "fteio foolish enough on Thursday to believe that the lesult of the nominations was a triumph for Mr. Sutherland. We take it that it meant simply sim-ply the election of a Mormon to Congress and later the election of an apostle to the Senatorship. Probably that apostle will be Mr. Smoot, but it never would be him if four or five of the older apostles were not ineligible. It is hard for those ho in their youth lived their religion so thor-ugl thor-ugl ly to have to give away that great honor to Reei Smoot. The relief to Gentiles is that the chur- h is in the saddle alone and has cast off the machine that debauched the State two years ago. |