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Show Vol 1, - - SALT No. 35. LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 10, 1902. Political Melange. belongs the credit which for of settling the police muddle, disthe past four months has been a The senator took grace $o the city. hold of the matter last Friday night and, metaphorically speaking, stepped in and boxed the ears of the mayor and the city council for the foolery they had kept up bo long. With the exercise of the smallesthit of diplomacy on the part of the mayor the thing could have been arranged months ago, but the mayor wouldnt play politics. original idea was that Detective Sheets should succeed Hilton as Chief. That plan was evolved last October, but the members of the council did not like Sheets as chief. The mayor became stubborn, and so did the eight members of the council who ran against which proved him. It was a dead-loc- k hurtful to the city generally and to the Republican party In particular. The To Senator Kearns and are very desirous that he be restored to his former position on the force. The matter was discussed in the caucus before the. settlement was reached, and it was practically decided that none of the three who were let out, Sheets, Brown and Janney, would be put back. Oddly enough there was more opposition by members of the council to Sheets and Brown than to Janney. 5 Cents and peoples. It takes time to bring Heber Cutler has been urged to accept about new conditions for the period be nomination for the upper house, but when nations shall be born in a day has Air. Cutler emphatically declined. Ed Jenkins will probably be a candidate not yet arrived. Much has been ac- for the lower house. complished in the right direction durft ft ing the last ten years and much more Chairman Callister of the Republican will be done in the next decade. There state committee will soon, will be no retrogation. The march ie under the rules resign very being barred as a will be onward, not backward. Those federal officer from taking an active who advocate a return to former ways part in politics. It is very probable are enemies to the commonwealth. that Mr. Callister will be succeeded as True, things exist which should not be, chairman by George M. Cannon. ft ft but those things are gradually passing Kelly of Fillmore j who was, away and tue time is not far distant the way, a member of the last legiswhen the line which divided Mormon by and Gentile will be entirely obliterated. lature, was in the city during the week and a caller on Senator Kearns The conservative and thinking portion at the frequent latters headquarters. of the old Liberal party frown upon the ft ft The business proposed movement. Benner X. Smith is being carefully men of the community, both Gentiles and Mormons, dont, approve of it and groomed by William P. OMeara for the wont stand for it. It would stop proimportant office of state senator from gress, retard the development of the this a popular young state, keep out eastern capital and man,county. Bennertois the statement of and, according work harm to everybody. Capitalists his is sponsor, making great progress wont put their money in a community in his candidacy. He expects to win which is torn bv internicene quarrels and settlers and homeseekers avoid it. the nomination hands down and canter Gentiles who profess to be afraid of to victory on election day without any Mormon domination are very short trouble. ft ft sighted. Even if the Mormon people and the Mormon church were deterMajor Richard W. Young is home mined to run everything their own way again from an extended trip east, and they couldnt do it. There is no evi- now his boom for the Democratic nomdence that they have any idea of at- ination for supreme judge may be extempting it, but even suppose they pected to grow in proportions of a did the policy would be suicidal. noticeable nature. The past three or four years have witft ft nessed a large influx of Gentiles to the As might have been expected, Chief state. In the largest cities and in the a in Gentiles are the Paul was no sooner in office than he mining camps ' the railroad With building, majority. began the work of reforming the force development of the oil industry, the inthe correction of some of the evils creasing activity in the mines and the by influx of settlers which will take place which have been tolerated. In future in the next five or six years the Gentiles officers will not stop to talk with citiwill be in a majority in the state. This zens on business. They will talk of Mormon domination is all a walk except their beats continually, not hault-ingfbugaboo. resting conversations with ft ft fellow officers when they chance to Now that the police muddle is settled meet upon their beats. All of which and out of the way, it is expected Mayor is wholesome. The men take kindly to the new rule Thompson will make changes which too. As one of the veterans expressed were contemplated in some of the mu- himself: The old man intends to have nicipal departments and that a successor discipline; something this department will be appointed to Chairman Dooly of has needed for a long time. The new the board of public works. It is high rule is a good one and should have time Mr. Doolys resignation was ac- been enforced long ago. No one finds cepted. fault As to our condition, with it. any ft ft I feel a great deal safer now than I W. J. Lynch is the latest man to be did. I rest assured that my position is mentioned in connection with the Re- safe so long as I do my duty. When a man ceases to do as he is told and does publican nomination for the county not obey orders he deserves to go. Billy is a very popurecordership. WASHINGTON LETTER. lar young man and would make a good race. He has served the public,in the Truth Bureau, 41144 X Street, i capacity of county assessor three terms f By Speolal Marconi graph. and was a careful, upright, painstaking . official who gaye every satisfaction, Washington, D. C., May 9. Nothing ft ft doing. .Tom still absent. Second in Smoot of Reed the Friends It has been suggested that if William precinct of this city are casting around McGee of Ogden looked like the picfor a candidate for the state senate who ture in Wednesdays Tribune, (he veris favorably disposed to Mr. Smoots dict of the coroners jury exonerating candidacy for the United States senate. his slayer was eminently correct. Ex-May- or ft ft Chief Hiltons resignation was unqualified, and in tendering it he made friends. It was the wisest course he could have adopted. Truth was perHiltons most trenchent haps critic, but it was without malice or ill will. It is a fact long admitted by Mr. Hiltons best friends that he was in- -' competent for the position which he occupied. All are not gifted alike, and there doubtless are many walks in life in which Mr. Hilton would be successful. Truth hopes that he will find a situation as it affected the Republicans place suitable and that he will meet was becoming very serious, and the with abundant success. bosses of the party realized that someft ft thing had to be done, and that very The unseemly rows in the city counquickly. Both sides to the quarrel made concessions. The mayor men- cil and the police situation gave tioned three names, any of whom he rise to numerous expressions to the was willing to appoint Peter Condie, effect that we are on the eve of a return Sam Barlow and Captain Paul. Condie declined absolutely. Barlow could not to the old Mormon and be confirmed, on the ground of his lack fight and there are those who openly of experience in that line, and Paul advocate a reorganization of the old was unanimously agreed upon, and a In addition there is better selection could not nave been Liberal party. made. He made a splendid record great dissatisfaction among others with when he held the position before. . He the administration on a purely partisan knows how to handle men and is a strict basis. Many prominent Republicans disciplinarian. His appointment gives criticize the doings of the party as a party very general satisfaction to the public, and Republicans realize that the prosft ft ect of the party winning next fall is That the quarrel which has now come eing seriously endangered. They say Demoto an end was a Gentile and Mormon there are worse things than active hitherto and success cratic many fight there is no doubt. It is said, on Republicans have expressed their degood authority, that the original plan, termination to stay way from their which waB primaries, and conventions next approved by some members partyand to either abstain from going to fall of the city council, was that George the polls or to silently cast their ballots Sheets should be appointed chief and for the Democratic candidates, from all that he would discharge thirteen Mor- of which the Democrats are deriving mon members of the force and fill their much comfort. ft ft places with Gentile Republicans. That the intention was to Those who dream of reviving the the force there is no doubt. reorganize The Liberal party are extremists, reactioncan insurgent members of theRepublicouncil ists and m the stand poor interpreters of the signs they took to keep Chief ciuton at the head of the of the times. The old fight and the old department old not do so because bitternesses cannot and will not be rethey particularly wanted Hilton indeed they didnt want newed. There is no necessity for it. jr.imbut in order to prevent men being During the past ten years very, satisoischarged on account of their religious been made and or political beliefs it was for factory progress has necessary hem to use Hilton, and they gained former animosities are dying out. Those or to understood that who expected that the old conditions pw aulwill not discharge any of the in a day, that the present members of the force on account could be changed er retoffin or politics, and that animosities and prejudices of years mcieney will be the sole criterion. would disappear immediately are poor still poorer ft ft judges of human nature and The friends of Detective Sheets were interpreters of the history of nations Mr-Thompso- ex-Chi- ef non-Morm- on - Price or v . d . |