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Show Doin's Politically. When a reporter called at Republican headquarters head-quarters a day or two since in search of news, he was politely informed that there was no news there for Goodwin's Weekly. Now this was a little bit churlish; it was in bad taste, too, because it but confirmed the charge that politics in this State, so far as the Republican annex is concerned, are run as a sole corporation all in the interest of a small syndicate, and all run with the same apparent ap-parent thought that was ascribed to a great financier finan-cier in the East some years ago: "The public be d d." Now those headquarters after all belong to the public. The news does not belong to Mr. IChristensen and one inferior clerk, both of whom are there because there is a small campaign fund, and because without the fund neither of them would like to give up their valuable time for a cause. There is nothing more offensive or humiliating hu-miliating than the exhibition of a disposition which is generally ascribed to the second mate aboard ship, an obsequious, poor wretch before his superiors, ready at all times to crawl to them, but who meets the sailors with a belaying pin and language stormy. Our belief is that that institution needs Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly more than Goodwin's Weekly needs it. It is a little matter any way, and does not deserve the notice we have given it. The great political events of the week have been the nomination of Judge King for Congress and Colonel Judge Dick Young for the Supreme bench. We say the great events, but the punctuation punctua-tion points in the big story were made by Judge Powers, ex-Senator Cannon and Senator Rawlins. Judge Powers's speech was a little jerky, because I when he delivered it he did not know but in spite of himself he might receive the nomination, in which event he would have had to make 100 speeches between now and election day, and he did not want to exhaust his repertoire. He made a good speech, however, and showed the assimilative qualities of his politcal digestion by swallowing every blamed thing in the party, even the endorsement endorse-ment of Senator Rawlins. By the way, it will hardly do for Dick Young and Frank Cannon and Joe Rawlins to go out stumping in the same wigwam from the same stand at the same time, because imagine Rawlins and Cannon denouncing those "fiendish, bloodthirsty blood-thirsty soldiers, creatures of the trust, who for years have been busy in slaughtering innocent Filipinos," and then think of what ground Dick would have to stand upon when he came up to explain that he was one of those bloody soldiers himself; that he killed just as many Filipinos as he could, and had but one regret, that for every one killed there had not been ten or a million for that matter. But looking ahead of all this to the election, then one realizes what a joke politics in Utah are, any way, because as it looks now, it will not suit the powers here to have a Democratic Senator unless un-less he can be from one of the first families. It will not do to elect both a Judge and a Congressman Congress-man from one ticket and so public opinion is al- ready crystallizing into the belief that Judge King fl on election day will be disciplined for his growls B at the authorities in the past, and that Judge Mc- Carty must look to his walls that they be cxceding strong, lest the soldier from the Philippines, he fl being a scion of the royal line, gets away with B the Judgeship, and the public opinion so swiftly B crystal ing that way, makes clear what a Punch B and July show this queer political mixup in H Utah is. B The ex-Senator in his stirring speech only B wanted two things to satisfy his political yearn- B ings. One was the absolute consecration of all fl tne Democracy to the needs of the people. The other was in the platform a declaration that the rights our forefathers gave us are still ours and by the name of the Great Eternal we will keep and hold them. Now that last makes one think of the old saw: "You must catch your hare before you eat it," because a great majority in Utah have never had those rights, because they have not had the courage to rise above their superstitious fears and claim them. Can Frank Cannon raise them up? If wo thought he could we would have his picture at the head of the columns of this little journal every morning as the great evangel come to regenerate, redeem and disenthrall his own people. But suppose sup-pose he undertakes that work and suppose that he gets a summons from headquarters and when on reaching there it is told him by the proper person, that he is a little off, that he must do so and so for "thus saith the Lord," what will Frank do? Maybe it will be expected that the platform adopted at Provo will have a little review in this column. Why should it? A gentleman was once talking to the late Col. Robert Ingersoll and the genial Colonel was giving his views as to this life and the life to come when the gentleman said, "Col. Ingersoll, admit that all you say is true, that the Bible is but some legends preserved and tlnough ages held, in the eyes of man, sacred. Suppose Sup-pose we accept that and toss it all aside, what have you got to offer us? You lead us up on Pisgah, show us through the mists what seems to bo the promised land, but where is the trail that we can go down and find it in all your reasoning, your logic and eloquence?" In the same way grant that all the wickedness charged to the Republican party par-ty and platform adopted at Provo is true, what is the nature of the promised land the Democracy holds out? One thinks involuntarily and instinc tively of the perfect state which the Democratic triumph of 1892 secured for this country. It is easy enough to rant at trusts. Was there any gentleman in that Provo convention who would not combine with another gentleman if thereby he thought he could make money a little faster than in the ordinary way? Then suppose all those trusts are smashed and the tariff is relegated to the rear. What then? All the speakers and the platform labor to impress the fact upon this astonished as-tonished world that the Democracy was chiefly created and continued to benefit the masses. Now, with all done that the platform demands, what sort of a pitiable fix would the masses be in? The promised land might be in sight, but it would be so far away that the youngest toiler would despair de-spair of ever reaching it by that trail. We wonder if Judge King ever read Don Juan, "A little still he strove and much repented, And whispering I will ne'er consent, consented." The Judge should remember, however, who in the long run got the worst of it. Is it not a bit cheeky for one of the sanguinary, brutalized soldiers of the army of the United States fresh from the massacre of those liberty-loving liberty-loving Tagals of Luzon to come here and get himself him-self nominated for a place on the Supreme bench of peaceable old Utah. In the old days butchers were never permitted to sit as jurors on a case where human life was in jeopardy, but the peace-loving peace-loving Democracy hero nominated a unrepentant Philippine butcher for Justice of the Supreme court. Suppose him elected. Will not those too-timid too-timid Quaker-minded Justices, Baskin and Bartch, take to the woods? Let us see. With Wells Governor, Kearns and Smoot Senators, King or Howell in Congress, Young a Justice of the Supremo court and four-fifths four-fifths of the other public officers of the State Mormons, Mor-mons, who is it that says that the old People's party is disbanded? And still the Gentiles pay GO per cent of the taxes. Senator Rawlins tells Iioav the trusts haye supplied sup-plied attorneys to hold the portfolios m the Cabinet Cabi-net and how nearly all Republican Senators owe their places to the trusts. Considering the ser-ice ser-ice rendered, about the toughest monopoly we knew of is the Salt Lake street car company. Did not that company some five or bix years ago give up a trusted attorney to furnish Utah with a United States Senator? One reads how in Utah the conventions meet and resolve with all the fury of partisans and says to himself, "Utah is safe; where the people are so wrought up, they must be both intelligent and patriotic." Then the same one laughs or weeps according to his nature to learn that Mr. Reed Smoot went to Millard county the Sunday before the convention; by his apostolic authority called a meeting; that a great light; came upon such of the ZZ w?. I;B priesthoood as were present, and when the con- r tff'ifl'fl ference was over every mother's son of them went my IB out and at once became enthusiastic heelers to It IB whoop up the cause of the apostle for the Sena- ' i'fl torship and to secure only Smoot delegates to the l jfl State convention. 'g t , fl 119 Hon. Frank Cannon has been a Senator of the ' & fl United States. That should cause him to main- ' W fl tain his dignity and never forget his own self- S' ' ,fl respect. The good God gave him a bright mind j i fl that should make it unnecessary for him to ever '$ fl stoop to the ways of the demagogue. He should N i fl not wail for the lost liberties of the cut-throat iii'lfl Filipinos. He should leave that to Mr. Bryan and J lit ,1 to Mr. Rawlins, for they can look distressed with- i fl out much effort. Frank never can adjust his i Mi fl countenance in a way to mako people believe that M I fl he cares a continental for the troaoheious Tagals . i? fl and Mores who have been assassinating our sol- ' K J fl diers. ; fl J (fl Judge Powers simulated a great horror of the j jfl spectacle of the Utah Legislature electing the Sen- j fl ator two years ago. The Judge has a retentive , s jfl memory; why did he not picture what happened , lM four years ago? He might have copied Mark An- fiH tony and said: "'Then I and you and all of us fell gifl down, and bloody treason flourished over us.' Or 1 f 1 he might have gone further back and drawn a pic- iVfl turo of what happened in a former Legislature. Is'fl the struggle, the long wait until in the final game j "f,fl of freeze out Senator Rawlins won. Or does the j rl'-fl Judge think it dangerous to have too long mem- H $ fl ories? , - J ifl j f A cheerful soul is that of Senator Rawlins. 'Tis j, fl a joy for him to advertise the fact that one ship 3 jfl bound for the Philippines carries away four thou- 1 , fl sand coffins. He does not enlarge upon the fact; f ftllfl he merely stated it with the hope and intention i$H that it will carry with 'it the impression that the 'ijrH climate of the Philippines, the climate and the k Mrfli war, make the islands a new Golgotha. The truth f ?fl is the islands are more healthful than our own ? fl Southern States, but an epidemic of cholera has f jifl been raging there for some months and 40 per cent a ' fl of those stricken with cholera die. This is true in f ffetfl the Philippines as well as In the United States t fl and Europe. Now had Mr. Rawlins been a live ' yfl Senator, he would long ago have favored sending ' ! fl to the Philippines an old-fashioned sawmill; with i fl that in operation every dead Filipino might have fl been supplied with a mahogany or rose wood over- 1 t''fl coat. 1 ,, l fl ' f. fl In Nevada the Republicans last week nomi- fjjfl nated Hon. A. C. Cleveland for Governor, to run Jlf fl against Hon. John Sparks. That ought to be a 1JLH jolly fight. Two very sterling men are they. Two ftflfl very high-minded men are they, and two most ! jfj''fl earnest citizens are they, and if in this campaign j f fl in that State anything unclean is brought into it iiifl this year, It will not be by either candidate for !$' Governor. ifl Whichever wins, Nevada will be sure of a good -Ijrfl Governor for its next term. At the mention of JJH Cleveland "all the burial places of forty years of 'igfrfl memory give up their dead." The old times come I fl fl back and some rather stirring scenes. It was in V 'fifl '66 that the Republicans had a convention in Ne- lfl vada. There was a contesting delegation down Hffl from Storey county, the big county of the State, i P; fl down thirty-six strong, and the two delegations M fl from that county were given seats on opposite ffifl sides of the hall. The rest of the State delegates , nf fl were between the two, and it looked very stormy. Jfflffl One rather notorious gentleman stood leaning j $ii$fl against the speaker's desk, his profile to the con- ilffc'fl vention, quietly picking his teeth with a fifteen- ! Ifff fl inch bowie-knife. When things grew exceedingly 11$ fl warm, the writer of this whispered to A. C. Cleve- , fflffl land, asking him in case things became Jflfl really interesting what he would do. Cleve hfilfl land answered: "Some one dropped a der- 'llfffl ringer in my coat pocket as I came in, but he was 1$ ffl in too much of a hurry to tell me which way to ill H fl shoot." Cleve has the gun still. They do not do Ifrffl that way any more in Nevada. They have grown ffi fl tame and respectable in these latter years, bu t i m fl some memories of the old sterling men that held fflffl the deck and kept the old ship from missing stays Nflfl in the tumultuous seas of early Nevada politics 4iWfl come back now and then and make hearts grow hfllfl soft at the recollection. The fight will turn in Ne- Jjf fl vada on the way the old silver party men vote. g $j The Democratic platform babbles silver still, but f yjliH Mr. Sparks was never a silver man. 'Mr. Cleve- 1h land was always a silver man up to the time when ffflftfljjW by a series of accidents the great argument in iBmil favor of silver, the need of more money, was taken Hflflfl away. Nevada is going to advance immensely in flHB the next three or four years. Its population will Kflfl probably double. It is good to think that no mat- Bfl ter how the election may go, tho State will have. mWS a splendid Governor. , PPfflH la |