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Show Some 'Politico from Weber. i 119 Yes, Willie boy, it all came out as everybody knew it would. The expected happened. The six representatives from Weber county all got places in the Smoot band wagon before the procession started, and they seemed mighty pleased with their front seats. Of course Allison wobbled a little at the post, but in the running he was crowding crowd-ing the swiftest Smoot adherent for the pole. There is nothing left to do up here but hop on behind and become part of the pageant. We all applaud the heroes who so firmly declared be fore election that they would never vote for an apostle for senator. They are the right stuff. They make the record of Bill look like a bishop's counsellor coun-sellor in a meeting of High Priests. Bill declared on his honor (who is that snickering?) that he would never vote for a millionaire. It is in order for him to say now that he wil never live in the house that Kearns built. But I am on a cut-off. The Weber bunch this time showed Bill how to play horse and play a winner at the same time. They took counsel in a lump and then staked out Mrs. Coulter to say that they supported the apostle because of "political policy." If there is any consolation in it the honorable bunch can solace themselves with the knowledge that every-hody every-hody expected them to play the church hand. Even Mrs. Coulter and the Hon. Amasa stetson Condon, especially Amasa. His particular mission in Salt Lake at this session of the legislature is to outpoint Bill in the matter of making a record. He has already al-ready done so. Bill has been eclipsed and his past wiped out. Doc has sunk farther out of sight than his faking competitor ever could, so for tin present Doc holds the belt.' iw t And also, Willie, history has been making. There is nothing which follows in the wake of pol itics so sure as" history. By the same token the fcfiO history made two years ago comes up smiling and I'lfO invites comparison. At that time Smoot could g ill have been senator as easily as at the present, but f JjlH he was a tyro in politics then. Now he is wise. , j jffl At that time T. Kearns gold-bricked him in an in- t t fSjjM terview with the eastern butt-in politicians after ) "H Perry Heath had fixed the butt-inskys. Now the If'tEfl Hon. Apostolic Senator can give Perry, Tom and "S.JlH the butt-inskys cards and spades and win out. II ii ill But there is the history to overcome. Tom prom- M Rfflfl ised to loan Utah .o Perry for this senatorship VrIM that promise was made to Mark and Perry. Be- Itjjffl ing long on promises, he also promised it to Reed ii'SI Smoot. This promise was made to President " '111 r M Snow. Then, as now, the butt-inskys sent word 'SiH to Utah what they would like done in the way of rfrlrliU making senators. Again we are reminded that I'KSfl politics is the forerunner of history. Reed Smoot ' I fl 1(1 got tarred with his own brush. M'llllB Willie, my bny, I am reminiscent tonight. A $HllI careful survey over the political area shows a m'IBm few soiled spots, but the horizon seems to clear f fjl'Jf fiB with the flight of time. The rap.id pace with 'INPJ1 which Utah got to the front in political kuavery j fSjfpH has told upon her, and there must be some check- ' jfl ing up done, or we are liable to fall into the po- ls!'fl litical mire. The air, two years ago, was full' of t Mmmm bug-house stories of deals and counter deals as to I 11'iiHfl the predestination of Utah politics. A champion- W Ifilfl ship game was being played. After a while Kearns pPffH got a new deck. He forgot to deal a hand to J If fljwjfl Brigham street. The result was appalling. Exit h 11199 Kearns and Heath from the game and the political m mWM stage. The only man in the limelight is Reed WiMml Smoot. From the wings comes the audible voice ! iSaJfrnllH !W"B Continued on page 9.) llt1 III S'ome 'Politics from &&eher Cont. of George Sutherland coaching, the new senator. sena-tor. Out of the back door goes Kearns. Enter by the front door George Sutherland. icfi to to That, apparently, is the game so far as it has been played. It remains to be seen whether Reed Smoot is all man. Tom Kearns has two years In which to play wet nurse to Reed and square things. In the event of Kearns' success, Sutherland Suther-land goes into the discard. In the event of his failure fail-ure it is up to Reed Smoot to hand Kearns a bunch. The beneficiary, by all the rules of politics, poli-tics, should be Sutherland If Smoot plays politics poli-tics as fair as he says he will, the state has nothing noth-ing to fear from his stewardship. If the game Is to be crooked, he will have a chance six years from now to join Kearns in the political oblivion he is destined to arrive at in January, 1905. |