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Show IUslen feettep. 1 Ogden, Utah, May 30, 1902. , Anent the tumble which Col. Hayes took 1 from the bench at Nome, second district of j .Alaska, there is some history and more poli- j tics. The history has appeared in the con- L temporaneous press. Hayes was offered the H ' job Van Home got, but refused it: Next he H j; ! was. put at the head of the list of the Nome H ) j- applicants, and Cortelyou tipped him off to H the Associated "Press as a winner. 'Enter H ' politics, Senator Matthew Stanley Quay H ,- holding the strings for the Punch and Judy H ' 1 show. The prologue has discovered to us HB , 1 that the clerk of the court under the malo- H j ' ' dorous Noyes was and is a henchman of the Hi ' Pennsylvania senator. The job looks good H! j to the clerk and he passes the word to Matt. H The reader will please remember that Attor- Hj ,.! ney General Knox is also from Pennsyl- H vania. H vfc ft Tfi H i The astute Quay bears no ill-will to i Iayes;-however, he feels that the vindica- tion of the Clerk of Alaska district No. 2, H 'I depends upon the continuation of the clerk Hjl, iq office. So he asks Mr. Knox to hang the H Hayes appointment in a nice cool place un- H til he can find out how he stands with Mr. Hj & Hayes for one clerk, a native of Pennsyl- H' vania. Quay sends a representative to H I Ogden, who calls on Mr. Hayes and asks H that the Quay candidate be reinstated. Mr. H Hayes did not feel well that day, he was H j hungry for a piece of Kearns' pie, or some- H i. thing was wrong with fiis urim or thummim, H so4ie hand'e'd. the Quay messenger a bunch-. H "The cream is on the custard and the frost- H ( ihg- V on-the cake," he gaily twittered, H ! 'That clerkship shall not go to Pennsyl- Hl! j vania. Hh,' H , Politics is the capital of senators, the mer- H! !; chandise of-presidents; to the people it is H ' like the grace of God which passeth under- Hf ' standing; its ways are devious and its results H ; are sometimes appalling. ' H j , v "What! this to me," the Quay began, M h" ''Who is this captious Ogden man H ' j i That dares to blight my hppy day m i ) l 1 I'll make,him neither grass nor hay. H I ' I i ,l Call up the Knox: What Warder, Ho! B 'I'll By Wannamaker, Hayes must go." Hi. That brings us face to" face with this HJ proposition; If a president is desirous of a H K- nomination by the next Republican National jHjf Convention, which would look the better to B m him, the 64 votes of the great State of Penn- B lE sylvania, or the six votes from the great H 'w State of Utah? The answer to this question H'K will readily disclose why Judge Moore was Hi sent to Nome instead of Col. Hayes. IIH nP W ft Bam- Judge Albert John Weber, erroneously Qi called Andrew Jackson Weber, is authority dHH" for the statement that the Democratic party IHM of Weber county is absolutely harmonious. HEBE! He bases his remarkable statement on the fact that each faction wants the other fellow to nominate the ticket this fall. Even to a Democrat the situation is not without humor. hu-mor. The old line Democrats, with Hamer as chairman, are in the saddle, but with Cannon Can-non in the fight the insurgents will be there , with the goods. The old liners, like the American soldier, will have to fight the enemy in front and the insurgents behind. The real trouble, however, is the crying need of a newspaper. Major Littlefield, true to Cannon as the needle to the pole, is exceedingly exceed-ingly leary of the local Democracy. His paper is independent and there is no hope for another organ. Hence Weber's philosophy philos-ophy with its quaint humor. We had another striking example this week of the fact that Bill is out of the Standard. Stand-ard. When the mayor arrived home after a two weeks' absence, the Standard hailed his coming with a two column flash head and a highly colored, egotistic, braggadocio interview. inter-view. When ex-Senator Cannon arrived after a year's absence, the Standard gave him passing mention. After all, there is a good deal of truth in Major Littlefield's remark re-mark that the higher a monkey climbs the more he shows his tail. |