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Show Vol 1, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE No. 39. Political Melange. As day follows day the question Who will we nominate for congress? dis- becomes more and more seriously cussed by the leading Republicans. It is almost, if not quite, certain that stances. Some people interpret this action on his part as being indicative of a desire to again become a candidate for the senate in the event that the legislature is Democratic. But in that event it looks as if he might have to reckon with Rawlins, who, notwithstanding all that has been said of him by the Republican press, is quite firmly to enter the he does he will not permit his name to go before for tie convention for a Laying entrenched in the hearts of the party. the lower house of congress. all the confusion which will be caused Although he has said nothing as yet one in the plans of the party leaders relati- way or the other, Judge Powers is belooked to by many as a candidate. ng to the senatorship, this action on ing Box If Elder, the first county on the the part of Mr. Sutherland will, if car- roll, nominates him, he will carry the ried out, raise the prettiest kind of a convention by storm. The party is in once more and straits needs a Moses. will ' ruction: To begin with, the party has Powers taken the helm beWilJudge have to reckon with Glasmann. fore when the storm clouds lowered, and liam has some pretty Btiff evidence in they want him again. This time they the shape of documents which will en- would be willing to give him this nomititle him to consideration, and unless nation: . That is one evidence of the trouble of Democracy. he is well treated he will use them to deep ft- ft his own advantage and his opponents Returning to the United States According to all the disadvantage. Frank J. Cannon is in Utah ethics of party politics; in the light of what has happened in the past, Bill is once again, and he too has not lost all And Bill is not ambition. Neither have his friends the logical candidate. to he reckoned with lightly, either. Although he has been He carried Ogden, when he was elected des3rtedhim. He absent for a long time and has not figMayor, over a strong candidate. will have much to do in shaping up mat- ured as extensively in public print as ters, not alone in Weber county, but has his former friend and fellow bolter adjoining counties. Let those laugh at from the National convention of 1896 Bill who will, he will come to the con- Mr. Kearns still Frank is likely to vention fixed for a fight. To give Han- be there with the the at goods son the postoffice him where, time, and may give Joe a run proper for his places under the presidents order, he dare not the situation So, sizing up money. mingle in political matters, and side- from a Democratic standpoint, that tracks him effectually. Judge Booth, has no advantage over its comof Provo, cannot get in the fight, Dan party in the business of. untangling, petitor Harrington will not cut any dangerous itself. figure unless his boom assumes greater ft ft proportions than it now has, James Truth is informed that the announcedoes not seem to be working for the nomination. Who then will be the ment by Reed Smoot of his candidacy nominee if not Glasmann? for the United States senate has caused ft a number of friends of Judge Booth, of Now as a matter of .fact many Republ- Provo, to become disgruntled, and is icans do not like Bill. The Salisbury also told that the feeling extends to crowd do not favor him a little bit.- The Judge Booth himself. It appears Judge of the Sorrowful Figure, who Booth had taken himself seriously for Knight and induced many to believe, broke his lance beyond repair, when he congress if not in direct language, actions his by sold The Tribune, would fairly writhe that he would be a candidate. But in impotent rage if Glasmann should Utah county cannot expect to furnish a land the nomination. In fact it is senator and a representative, and as go down before the thought by many this act would drive the lesser must be sidetracked. will Booth Pat into the Democratic party. Arthur greater, ft ft Brown does not love Glasmann too any well, else he would have nominated him Up to this time candidates for the at the last convention, as Bills friends nomination for justice of the peace for I)romi8ed to do, but backed out Salt Lake City precinct do not seem to at the last moment, and by so doing in- be bobbing up as lively a might have curred the Ogden mans opposition for been expected. the senate. In view of the ft ft conditions, me congressional matter from a ReJohn T. Axton, according to inside publican standpoint is decidedly mixed. advices, is slated for an appointment in ft ft Nor are the Democrats the government service soon. The Her-al- 4 off. better any says he could have had a temporary Judge King has declared he will not place some time fcgo, but preferred to fun for congress under any circum wait until a life job came along. George Sutherland is going race for the senate, and if . sena-torshi- p, . - De-vi- - ne 7, 1902. Piuce Jack Smith has formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff by inserting a paid notice in one of the morning papers, ft ft Joe Hyde is quite likely to be a candidate for the lower house on the Democratic ticket this fall. ft ft Close students of national politics will not overlook the significance of the recent action, of the Democratic congressional committee in deciding to make the tariff and trusts the main issue in the campaign of this year. By this action William J. Bryans paramount issue of 16 to 1 is relegated to the junk pile, and it is a safe prediction that it will never again be heard of in a national Democratic platform. But this action of the congressional committee has a still greater significance than this. By deciding to make the fight for control of the next house of representatives on the issue of tariff and the trusts, the Democratic leaders have decided to go right, back to the platform of 1892, and to eliminate as far as possible all that has transpired since. In other words the effort is to be made to get back to a safe and conservative Democratic platform and cut out the platforms of 1896 and 1900 upon which Mr. Bryan appealed to the country with such disastrous results to his party. ft ft Additional proof that this is to be the program is supplied in the information that a set of resolutions is to be prepared by the congressional committee to be submitted to a caucus of the Democratic members of congress. But one interpretation can be given to this move. These resolutions are intended to supercede the Kansas City platform of 1900 as the expression of the partys principles. In this way the endorsement of William J. Bryan as the party leader; of 16 to 1 as the dominant issue; and of the fusion with Populists and silver Republicans are to be discarded cut off as so many barnacles. This set of resolutions that is to play such an important part in the reorganization of the Democracy is to be prepared by seven distinguished Democrats,. Five of these have already been chosen. They are Representative Griggs, the te; chairman of the congressional T. Ben Cable, the chairman of the executive committee; former Attorney General Harmon; former Secretary of State Richard Olney, and Edward M. Shepard of New York. It will not escape notice that while two of these men were in President Clevelands cabinet and Cable was his western campaign manager in 1892, W. J. Bryan and nis lieutenants are totally missing from the list. ft ft While all this has been going on among the reorganizers Mr. Bryan has not been idle, and his latest move bears - . com-mit- . 5 Cents out the statement made recently in these columns, that he purposes to rule or ruin the Democratic party. On his return from Cuba a few days since had a close and lengthy conference with Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, who may now be classed as a Socialist, although his strength has in the past been drawn from the Democratic party. The coalition between Bryan and Johnson means that the Populists, Silver Republicans, Socialists and those Democrats who are still infatuated with' Bryan are to be consolidated into a party with Bryan and Johnson as the leaders. Power will be placed in the hands of these men in this way to prevent for all time the election of a Democrat t the presidency unless the Democracy is willing to acknowledge Bryan as master. Mr-Bry- ft ft an - But aside from this duel going on between Bryan and the Reorganizers, there is a more pressing problem presented to the Democrats of Utah. What do they propose to do with Joseph L. Rawlins ? Will they have the courage to stand by their senator. and endorse his bitter attack upon the policy of the Administration in the Philippines? Will they stand by their principle of electing senators by a direct vote of the people, and put Jos- eph L. Rawlins up, as their candidate ? Will they challenge the Republicans of Utah, to a. debate of the Philippine question with the knowledge that they will lose every soldier vote and the vote of every friend of every soldier in the commonwealth? Will they do this, or will they run away from the issue thus presented and leave Senator Rawlins to work out his own salvation with his constitutents ? If the Democrats of Utah attempt to escape the discussion of the Philippine question) through what avenue can they hope to escape ? Will they dare attack, the Republican policy of protection, and make an open fight on the sugar industry, the wool industry, and the lead industry ? The silver issue Is just a9 dead in Utah as if is anywhere else on earth. In 1896 Bryan carried this state by 51,000 majority on that issue. In 1900 he lost the state by 3,000 on the same issue. It would be difficult to bury any issue anywhere much deeper than that. ft ft Silver being dead beyond resurrection as an issue, and the Phillippines and the tariff being the only other national issue in sight, it would seem that the Democrats of Utah have but a sorry choice. They stand a splendid chance of being impaled for years to come, no matter which horn of the dilemma they take. If they discuss the Philippine policy, of the Administration and hold up Senator Rawlins radical position they will be driven to defeat by the friends of expansion. If they, make an assault upon protection they will' be |