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Show TRUTH. 2 " mi. 1 ! I retary. He is courteous, bright, diligent and a worker. With proper support from the rest of the committee and the candidates they should win ness only exists in the minds of the the fight. Tribune people. It is reported on good authority that The senatorial ticket is particularly even E. B. Critchlow, a K. K. ringleader, said that the regular Republistrong. George N. Lawrence has been can ticket was good enough for in several former legislatures. His him. county Ut abilities and his principles are so well known that to enlarge on them would The management of the K. K. party, be superfluous. bunch, or whatever it is Sam Park of the old, stable and re- aggregation, to make liable jewelry house of Boyd Park, is entitled to be called, is going one of the sterling men of the city, an effort to get the ticket on the offiwho has the full confidence of the cial ballot twice. That is to say they community. will try to put both sets of electors on H. Love in has been several Stephen the ballot and the names of the other legislatures. He is independent, able and conscientious and a prominent candidates under each. It is not bebusiness man. A stronger trio would lieved this can be done, as no political be hard to find. Even the 'Tribune, party has the right to nominate the with its predetermination to find fault same set of candidates twice. If an can say nothing against them.' The nominees for the lower house are attempt is made to try to do this, the of state will be appealed to strong men, many of whom have al- secretary ready earned their spurs. Thomas to prevent it, and in the event of his Hull, C. S. Kinney, A. V. Anderson and declination, then legal proceedings will be started to stop the movement. others belong in that class. . Of course the plan is an obvious one. It is an intent to deceive voters. A If the K. K.s were actuated not by Democrat noting the name of Altan B. revenge but by principle, it seems to Parker at the head of the ticket, or a the ordinary mind that they are taking Republican seeing the namt of Theoat the head of a ticket the best means to defeat the object dore Roosevelt deceived into voting for the be which they say they have started out might K. K. candidates. There is likely to to accomplish, viz., to eliminate the be a nice little scrap over the matter. Mormon church from politics. By de- It is stated that the K. K.s are going feating the Republican ticket they to make an effort to endorse a lot of would defeat some of the strongest the candidates on both tickets, and A Superb Legislative Ticket. The county and legislative tickets nominated by the. 8alt Lake county convention on Thursday and Friday are so 'good that even the brazen faced Tribune attacks them with temerity. The personnel of the tickets fairly and squarely cuts the. ground from under the feet of the Tribune and its K. K. party. The county ticket has thirty candidates, of whom nineteen are Gentiles and eleven are Mormons, a clear Gentile majority of eight. The state ticket is evenly divided as to Mormon and Gentile. This fact alone gives the lie direct to the Tribunes claim of . Mormon domination, church influence and all the rest of it ' . d J . Take the personnel of the Gentiles on the tickets. They do not belong to that class of whom Senator Kearns is the leader. That is the class to nuckle to the Mormons for favors, who like Kearns crawl on their belly and offer to lick the shoes' of the Mormon church .high ecclesiastics in order to obtain favors from them. Kearns diJ his level best to obtain church influence for his to the senate. He approached the head of the Mormon church on all fours time and again in his quest for it. He bit the dust and wallowed in the mire before the throne, like a pigtailed Chinaman does in the presence of a Mandarin. He went further. He offered to buy for money the influence, when he couldnt get it by wallowing in the dust before the Mormon church leaders. He plotted and schemed and deceived and brought all the outside influence he couid get on. President Smith, including that of his .twin brother. Senator Clark, the.debaucher of the state of Montana. He failed to get the influence he sought and then in a spirit of revenge he raised the cry of church influence, .assumed high principle as he calls it and seeks revenge because he failed to get that influence. re-electi- The Tribune's faith in human credulity must be great when it tells us that such Gentile nominees of the county convention as Samuel Park, George N. Lawrence, D. Miller, Parley P. Christensen, W. O. Carbis, I. M. Fisher, C. S. Kinney, William M. C. B. Diehl, W. F. Hills and others truckled to the Mormon church and bowed their necks to the yoke in order to be nominated. The.Tfibu and the public. generally" know that are more opposed to than any in the K. K. party. The leader and most of the K. Ks as a matter of fact are opposed to it only when they are not the beneficiaries of on the it The most of theto Mormons influence church are ticket opposed also. They are sick and tired of the whole business and want to be done with it. We fancy that any church man who presumed to dictate in political matters to J. U. Eldredge, Jr., Stephen H. Love, C. F. Emery or Thos. Hull would receive a very decided - . . without a struggle. Between Steve Lynch and L. H. Young there does not seem to be much difference at this writing. These two gentlemen are striving for the treasurership. In the matter of the clerkship there are four candidates, C. M. Jackson, Albert Seare, Perley Hill and H. V. Meloy. The relative strength of these candidates cannot now be determined, but when it comes to a race it is believed that the choice will fall on either Jackson or Seare.- For the surveyor-shithere are three candidates: A. H. Rock of East Jordan, Charles S. Wilkes and Edward Nissen of this city. The county delegates will likely be in favor of Rock. - 1 ' . J The fight for sheriff is getting interesting. There are five candidates. John B. Cummock, John Holley, John F. Howells, Arthur F. Cummings, and Joseph Barlow. Holley and Barlow are from the Third precinct; Cummings is from the county, Howells is from the county and Cummock is from the Fourth precinct. The scrap is getting very warm. Not the least of the contests is that for the commissionership for which Hugh Watson of the Second precinct, Stephen Hays of the First, W. J. Horne of Granger, C. L. Miller of Murray and Nicol Hood of Sugar are the candidates. It has been conceded that one of these will go to the city and one to the county and there is where there is going to be a lot of trouble and no man knoweth who will win. Hays is endorsed by Bingham and adjacent precincts and stands a good show for the place. The balance of the boys are in trouble. 1 I have no use for a man who cares more for the defeat of a member of his party who belongs to another faction than he does for the defeat of the common enemy the Democrats. Theodore Roosevelt. p J It is reported on what appears to be very good authority that the Herald gang is fixing up a slate. The management is making dire threats against several of the candidates for nomination and is talking about bolting the ticket if certain men are nominated. It is not believed there will be any attention paid to these threats, for the temper of the party has not been materially improved by the conduct of the paper for, the past four or five years. Many Democrats there be who say that if the Herald does not give the ticket any better support than it has for the past four years it will not make any difference. It is believed that Knox carried the office at the last election. Me-Cre- a, ecclesi-asticis- m Bet-bac- k. J The Tribune wants to make out that there is much soreness resulting from the county convention. It's all pure fiction. Some defeated candidates were disappointed. No one ever heard of a political convention without disappointments, but there is not a person whose' name was single brought before the convention who is not now working for the success of the ticket from top to bottom. The sore-. Hon. R. N. Baskin is a candidate for ,thAtPt senate at the coming Democratic convention in this sense that there seems to be a universal demand . ( Judger Powers is liable to receive feat more Gentiles than Mormons. By the support of the mass convention. turning the legislature over to the Others have been selected for endorseDemocrats they would do the exact re- ment, all of which is annoying several verse by electing a larger proportion well known gentlemen. It is stated of Mormons than sGentiles, thus defeats that, the probabilities are the aggreing themselves. Again, suppose the gation will not nominate a county Democrats have a majority in the leg- ticket. Ge2uie22!-4-Ataie4TauKfluld,?Jfl- at islature, it means the election of a Democratic senator and if Senator Smoot, by any chance, should lose his seat, it means two Democratic senators. Great heads these Republican K. K.s have. , The Republican county committee met on Saturday evening and organized and began active work today. The committee was particularly happy in its determination to retain . J. TJ. Eldredge, Jr., as chairman and Horace H. Smith as secretary. Mr. Eldredge is an old warhorse in campaigning. He, in one capacity or another, has been through eight or nine political His methods are thorcampaigns. ough, his judgment good and his capacity for hard work is great. Mr.Smith is an ideal young man for see- that he be nominated. The are against him and for that reason it looks as if he would slate-make- rs be nominated by acclamation. The corporations are against Baskin, as they are against several men whose names have been suggested for legislative honors, and the delegates are beginning to find out what is being J In so far as the entire ticket is con- done with the result that there is liable to be something doing. cerned, it is difficult to predict who & will be the Democratic nominees at Hon. Frank J. Cannon, who has been the convention Thursday, with a few ill in New York City, with an attack of exceptions. It looks now as if Henry acute gastritis, has recovered suffC. Lund would be nominated for coun- iciently to be able to be out and will ty attorney and G. B. Blakely for be home again in a few days. Jt J county auditor without any struggle. Ben Johnson is a candidate for city Tht race for county recorder lies between Orson P. Rumel and John Holt, justice of the peace on the Democratic and the friends of both men are con- ticket and has a large following who fident that their candidates will win. are working for him. The same is true of the assessorship, j & where Barney Quinn and Joseph Pitt Sam Allen and Ben Guiver are canare the candidates. Pitt has a follow- didates for constable on the Demoing that contends there is nothing do- cratic ticket. ing except Pitt, while Barneys conJ & asstrenuous in are' tingent equally Tomorrow the Democrats will have serting that he will land the place a grand barbecue at the Salt Palace. . , |