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Show ife ' P ! fj Trying to Land Itohertj. H )fj Cutler Hand f cappers Iff! ' ' 'Return of Teery. I 1 ylj 'f A strenuous effort is being made by some ot Bff , j the leaders of the unterrified to induce B. H. Bf ' Roberts to become a candidate for the Demo- Kj. cratic nomination for Governor. Each day's mail K brings to Mr. Roberts scores of letters from di- IB! j I vers portions of the state importuning him in a Kp ' n similar strain. H ', This widespread clamor tor Mr Roberts, it f ' is presumed, is based on the fact that he is so pre- Bi eminently fitted to make the race on the anti- Ek - polygamy plank in the Democratic platform. Sen- mhl ! ator Dubois' views on the pro-Roberts agitation B1' i 'j have not yet been heliographed to Zion, but he is Kp not credited with having urged the boom in -favor Hflj ! ' of the father of the celebrated twins. That the Bji ' Democrats are sincere In their campaign for the B !ij extermination of polygamy is amply demonstrated Hf ' by their enthusiasm for Mr. Roberts as the cham- Bf pion of the cause. H Mr. Roberts has not yet conoluded to forage B in the gubernatorial pasture, and his decision is K awaited at the headquarters of the Young Men's nl Democratic Club with keen anxiety. B When Senator Smoot first grasped J. C. Cutler Ki out of a sepulchral and apparently permanent oh- B scurity and with perennial self-adolation made Hi him his personal candidate for the governorship, B there was a great excitation and a flurry among HrN , the politicians who believed that with the Provo Btf j'gj, apostolic support there was no ohance to defeat B; li1 the manager of tho North Main street tailoring B :'f;; establishment. B But there has since come a change in the B views of political workers, who on calmer reflec- B (ion realize that the lofty senator from Provo is B not necessarily politically omnipotent, and that B the success of Mr. Cutler would mean the ln- B spallation of a personal state machine for Mr. B Smoot, with the handsome features of tho heav B i ' enly twins, Callister and Anderson, leering over B the switchboard. B That is a prospective fate wnich the indopend- B ent members of the party purpose to combat Bj fiercely. They find it difficult to determine why B a political machine manipulated by Senator B j Kearns would be less satisfactory than similar B j I mechanism dominated by Senator Smoot, aidod IB and abetted by Cnllister and Anderson. B Tlie llgnt of the -faction which opposes the B , senior Senator is no more bitter than the fac- B tional warfare which has bene waged for many B months against the vaunted and obnoxious lead- B ership of Callister and Anderson. The virulence B of the opposition to them was amply demon- B strated in the last municipal campaign, when B' j W. P. James was defeated for the mayoralty nomi- B j nation, a defeat which was due primarily and es- B ' i sentially to the fact that Callister and Anderson H, '' were the sponsors for Mr. James' .candidacy. B 'l They have been politically loyal only to a fav- B 'i ored clique, all Mormons, among whom it is their ambition to confine the political preferment of tho Republican party. It is easy enough to establish es-tablish evidences of this, but no more is needed than their treacherous abandonment of D. II. Wenger, when the judge was a candidate for a judicial nomination. Both were politically indebted in-debted to Judge Wenger, whom they placed at the head of the James movement, while shielding themselves behind a whispered advocaoy of his cause. Notwithstanding all their facile promises, at the convention they deserted Mr. Wenger, and devoted all their energies toward the nomination of one of their own ecclesiastical coterie, Judge Tanner, who was fortunately defeated. Their intimate connection with and leadership leader-ship of the Cutler campaign will be one of the severest handicaps under which the manager of the tailoring establishment will be forced to labor, la-bor, and many people who were at first favorably disposed toward the tailor are now openly opposing op-posing him as a rebuke to the Twins. The election elec-tion of a tool for Governor, with Callister and Anderson as the premiers of the state administration, adminis-tration, is a menace to which the Republicans, of this county in particular, will not succumb without a struggle. As managers for Mr. Cutler they are already actively proselyting among tho Saints in the outsido counties, and Mr. Cutler has been induced to open a politioal barrel, tho proceeds pro-ceeds of which are being used by hired political workers in the distant counties. That is the method by which they expect to enthrone themselves. them-selves. When similar tactics are resorted to by Kearns it is called debauchery and tho corrupt cor-rupt use of money to secure delegates to the convention, con-vention, but in the case of Cutler, it is merely "defraying legitimate expenses of the campaign." No candidates can carry this county with Callister Cal-lister and Anderson as his campaigners, with a background of BIfel Tower Smoot, and it is safe to predict that whatever Mr. Cutler's showing may be on tho outside, he will present a meager front here. A vote for Cutler In the convention will be a voto for misused ecclesiastical influences and the Heavenly Twins. |
