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Show IOgdeiv Letter. Ogden, Utah, Aug. 29th. A new political brokerage firm has lately been launched upon the "Weber county waters. It is composed of L. W. Shurtliff, president of Weber stake of Zion, and A. B. Hayes, Esquire, of the 1 Ogden bar. From the personnel of the firm one J might be led to believe that they were prepared to j do business with either or both parties, as occasion 1 might require, as Judge Shurtliff has always been considered one of the wheel horses of the Demo- I cratic party, having publicly declared himself as j such under the reign of "Grover the Good," and then asserting (so it is said) that he "was bred a j Democrat, born a Democrat, raised a Democrat, t always was and always would be a Democrat," etc. ad nauseum. Hayes has no positive political convictions, con-victions, but is ready, willin' and waitin' to do the , bidding of his master- T. Kearns. "With such a j hitch-up we might conclude that the firm was pre- pared to "hawk" offices to the hungry of either ' I party, but it is said the leaders of the G. 0. P. have -, learned with some consternation that these two i eminent gentlemen have made a full slate for the Offift f1MS entire Republican ticket, naming all the candidates I JHtII '' and tue mnu wuo was lucky enouh to see it says Hlf a1 ' '' lat s (lute ingeniously constructed. I T'li r Bliji ! if I Of course, it will be expected that some of the Btjffifjf ! m I old-timers in the Republican party who were doing UX!i i w stunts while Shurtliff was the (almost continu- Hfj ; raj i ously) candidate of the Democratic party, and H8Hr US while Hayes was bushwhacking between the Frank flKgii' mi Cannon Democrats, Silver Republicans, Populists Hrajjjj I ! and Kearnsites will object to having slates made NlSjjj f for them by such a firm, but if they can be made llf$Hr ? ' to believe that it is the Lord's will, we have no KlU " 1 ' doubt that in time they may be leconciled. Hflinl I I 1 Iff r?i! jb f The auburn-locked, mild-mannered, verdant re- Iff la I porter of the Herald makes the astonishing state- IUfi! ! 51 ment that Chairman Dix's plan of holding pri- wi 1"! ' I i maries will redound to the interest of Kearns, lili'i 3 1 Smoot, etc., and dr.aws on his imagination for a i "yellow" paragraph or two about the "consterna- J, tion" it carried to the Sutherland camp, etc. "We . j ; have no doubt that the Herald reporter was the BBjfjjk I victim of some joker who has been giving him Mgjjwj 'ii j "tips" on the situation, but the "plan' of Chairman MBfiffi ' 1' I Dix is of no esI)ecial benefit or disadvantage to !$' ' M i either faction. Wkw ! 5 ' i r EsnM ; As to the motives of the senile old man in Hyjf : : , I ' making the call as he did having the ward and Eff i n fc district primaries elect the delegates directly to the Si ffi i $ State convention and cutting out entirely the H jsf ;.i county convention, the Lord only knows (and HI i '.',, he never tells on Dix). Why or who or what in- Hl m i i iluenced him? He is wishy washy as soft soap, jf k' i M , unstable as water his backbone is softer than a Hi i r f ft jelly fish. Somebody may have told him (he never IV j 1 1 t originates anything) that this was a good way to WmSi f ! I ij get himself talked about At any and all events Hi h I I? ' llls 1)lan lias not "distuned" anybody, or "con- Mi 'C't ffl j sternated" either the Sutherland, Wells, "old line" WMV r' 'I Is si or "new iine" or any other kind of Republicans.' Ml 1 1 1 1 I Jt maJ' ue a little awkward for the Weber county 1KB I' in 1 stalwarts to go about electing delegates in this Hrafiy Jt I wn) ' ut tuey "wil1 set there just the same." H Hf JlB f 1 A little instance of "yellow journalism" came under your correspondent's notice last week. The circulator ot Truth placarded Ogden billboards with a flaming poster, saying, "Read Truth; it has something to say about 'Bill.' " The boys were on the qui vive; the delayed train caused several of them to collapse entirely; but when the tardy Truth finally appeared with its weakly "hog wash" the universal disgust was thick enough to cut. Bill, it is said, actually smiled the only smile he has smole since Littlefield's journal branded him as an outcast and political leper. The query is, was Truth faking or did the proprietor "pie" some of "Jack's" phillipics? Come "Jack," the boys demand de-mand an explanation. |