Show V. ELECTION RETROSPECT Our Political Prospect By S. A. Being in an appreciative frame of I take my pencil in hand to render unto the Independent a bunch of thanks for the verbal nosegay it was so kind as' to pass to me in the issue immediately following the late un-lamented In the midst of much repining and kicking most of it with abundant cause we manage to preserve a calm and dignified composure that the best behaved mule in my native and revered state of Missouri might It is a great thing to be able to refrain from flying above the earth when an election goes our and to keep from going to a mysterious presumably beneath when our hopes have gone You were good enough to credit me with having called the turn a good many times regarding our little political set-tos here in which being pretty close to the record will not be You also charge me up with inability to forecast our local struggle this although making bulls-eyes with reference to eastern This is also pretty straight this and particularly this part of would have puzzled a the which you attribute to the muddled condition of which is a good guess on your The campaign in Utah was certainly and then it was decidedly and unspeakably and the fervent hope hereby put forth that we may never have such As our state in comparison with every All the other commonwealths not even excepting tariff-bound Pennsylvania said in the most unmistakable tones through the silent ballots that the Payne-Aldrich monstrosity not only was not the tariff law ever enacted by but the that it was not what its sponsors promised a revision downward but a revision that as a protective its protection was for the grasping the unbridled monopolies and the ever-fattening all at the expense of the producers and consumers of the southern and western Could that great army of people who cast those amounting to four-fifths of the voters of the United all be in and our little Utah altogether in the For be it remembered or the greater portion of voted that the tariff law which caused the lution elsewhere throughout the land was a thing of although unable to make it a joy forever or for a great while No matter We failed to get into the band wagon this that's and as a in the next Congress our two well-meaning and well-appearing senators will sit in a senate containing an op-position while our lone congressman can huddle with the few dozen other stand-patters elected to the house and take such favors as a triumphant Democracy sees fit to While supporting in large measure the later policies of the Republican the writer has looked with re-gret upon its manifest tendency to- ward retrogressive and unjust econ- j It is a party of re- form and improvement in every other why not in This was the view taken by that greatest of Re- j publican James G. who felt so indignant over the Mc- K Kinley tariff bill as it came from the B hands of the author that he invaded L the committee room while the meas- L ure was being considered and forced into it a reciprocity clause amounting within certain restrictions to free James A. in one of his hoped the party would adopt such up-to-date and 5 Til equalizing commercial conditions as i would lead to ultimate free and 6 this brings us to a consideration of the present-day These be men e who have made that term one of honor rid instead of by success if by no other In only two con- tit instances did they fail in the recent one of these and the most being that of Bev- in Here we have a y man of such splendid attainments and so commanding a personality as are rarely met with in public or private but in this case it was a choice between a man who has all along been for a revenue basis tariff and one who has but lately taken it tT and they chose the But Bev- 6 is not killed he will be heard from The country needs' him and all of his las j Here is a forecast that anybody might make without fear of le 1 In the absence of the next president will come from his name may not be You remember in your political a few months at a time Sy when the Republicans were professed-ou ly confident beating Harmon the writer hereof the opinion that he would be elected v by a bigger majority than the Independent and a few Harmon's or was placed at what iTer proved to be around this making him an irresistible presidential candidate for the perhaps an invulnerable one before He is not so unpopular in east as was Bryan a and could undoubtedly cn hold up the big majorities just I in New York and New he could take Ohio away from ess a as easily as he took it away Look out for fer Utah can climb into th car of progress or be run over by e U r |