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Show Ogdeiv Letter. I Within a week we have had the two conven-I conven-I tions, the winners and the losers have been noin-I noin-I lnated, and now comes the battle royal. There I is not much question here as to the outcome I the Lord takes care of His own, you know and I the instructions this year to vote the Republican I Legislative ticket will carry all the G. 0. P. nom-I nom-I inees to victory. So far as the county ticket is I eoacjerned, the Republicans are entitled to win. I All the Republican race horses Chambers, Hol-I Hol-I Uugsworth, Ellis, Wilson and others are on the I ticket, and they could hot lose where the people I have a chance to vote for them. The Democrats I have a first-class ticket in the field, but it will I receive only Democratic support, and in this I campaign that is useless. I The Republicans are slated to win and that is I why they made so much fuss oyer their conven-I conven-I lion. The fight for the Clerkship nomination was I billed as the star attraction, and it would have I been had not Hollingsworth had a walk-away. I The inside facts of that particular trouble show I that the certainties in politics are about as un-I un-I certain as the uncertainties. The Kearns push I had smuggled up behind Matson, in the hope of I claiming all his supporters as Kearns people, and the Kearns papers had picked Matson to win. So jar as Senatorial, journalistic, financial and other Influences went, Matson had all the best of it. But there was a little matter that they had not hgured on, and which T. Kearns is not now figuring figur-ing onthey had not consulted the people. The fight went merrily along, with the anti-Kearns anti-Kearns crowd back of Hollingsworth. Hayes, District Dis-trict Attorney, was tiie Matson manager, and Howell, Municipal Judge, was the vice-manager. This pair of fat offlcefiolders practically served notice on the party that they had taken charge and the Kearns candidate must cut the watermelon. water-melon. The result was something frightful. Bill had groomed Hayes and Howell as the new bosses as opposed to Hanson and Murphy, and they proceeded pro-ceeded to do the Croker act. Hanson and Murphy took counsel of Bishop Wade and he advised a magic brew cooked with the hot-air of the new bosses. Wade spoke by the card, as the result showed. Hollingsworth had a cinch and the new bosses lasted about as long as it took the dear things to get badly whipped. In the Clerkship fight, it is only just to Hollingsworth Hol-lingsworth to say that he made his own canvass, ana won out. Of course, he had the old-time bosses and the people as allies, but the real fine work was done by Charley himself, and it assayed as-sayed as fine as they make it. Even Bill recognized recog-nized Charley's political acumen, by dubbing him the new boss, after Bill's pair of rag-babies, Hayes and Howell, had been frost-bitten. Talking of bosses, it is interesting to note that when the smoke has cleared away Hanson and Murphy are generally seen directing affairs, and it is safe to say they get about all they go after. In the latest skirmish they picked out the people they wanted and the convention ratified the choice, just the same as if Hayes and Howell had never been heard of. Away and beyond the immediate result, so far as the local situation is concerned, the defeat of the Kearns program shows how infinitesimal is the influence of Tom and how little respect is paid to the Senator's wishes. In the Republican convention and the afterclap, the silver king Senator Sen-ator did not get a call. No Kearns man received a nomination of any kind. The committee is anti-Kearns and the moral effect is anti-Kearns. The Senator, by proxy, went up against it and came away badly bumped. There were some rare political happenings in that convention. Some one played the hand with the capacity of a master. mas-ter. The only avowed Smoot man, H. H. Thomas, failed to get a much coveted nomination for the Legislature. Those who did get nominated have heretofore been Sutherland men. If they are for Smoot, it will be a rush to the band-wagon. The Legislative ticket is good enough, considering consid-ering the uses that Utah legislators are put to. There is Mrs. Coulter, by odds the best man on the ticket; Dr. Condon, vacillating and sentimental sentimen-tal (he was nominated largely because Bill was booked to drop dead if Condon won); old Uncle Archie McFarland, who was put on the ticket because the Kearns and Smoot people had said he must not be nominated; John C. Child, who became known to fame because he lived in a corner of county that had to have something, so they had Child; for State Senator, staunch Bishop McKay, who came from Sutherlandshire, Scotland, Scot-land, and who still likes the name; he was the pick of the lot and his election is a foregone conclusion; con-clusion; he will vote for some one else if Sutherland Suth-erland dies! The reorganization of the party, by the selection selec-tion of a new chairman and executive committee, commit-tee, shows clearer than anything else who is shaping party affairs. The chairman and campaign cam-paign committee are anti-Kearns to a man, and it is said Sutherland can get closer to the chairman, chair-man, if he wants to, than any one else, besides Hanson. But that is not for publication. Agee is a way-up Repupllcan, and, if he plays with the Hanson crowd, he certainly has not lost sight of the political importance of being with a winner. By the way, Wade is now a party boss. He has been attacked by Bill enough to have become one long ago, but he bided his time, and is now a leader in the party that Bill tried but failed to both rule and ruin. On Wednesday the Democrats held their get-together get-together pow-wow and listened to Frank Cannon In his new role of "Lost in Salt Lake." Frank still has the capacity of stirring up the dry bones, but his grand-stand plays savor too much of the dramatic to cut much Ice in Weber. Besides, he lives here. And then he has bucked the political game from every party standpoint, and his highly-spiced highly-spiced declamations fail to fool even the Democrats. Demo-crats. The ticket nominated ranks high in the personnel, but there are only enough Democrats left to make a Oecent cortege, and so the candidates candi-dates will have to go to a funeral instead of the pie-counter. Too bad fc fh poor fellows. But they are only doing it t N patriotic, and they have no business being D. -its, anyway. This is not a Democratic year, xae Lord's will be done. |