Show HISASIEIMSHIP I l Even Hats Crawl Out When a Vessel Goes Down I YOURS TO COMMANDS IDEAS Ito Who Fights and Runs Away May Live to r JTiRlib Another DayThe Gathering Storm To the Editor of TIlE HERALD There must have been some heavy snickering snick-ering as well as swearing as the rank and file of that army which marched through mud and slustf to secure 10000 presents for needy politicians and to perpetuate oflices for banished hacks read Mr Powers letter of resignation What a thing it was is and will bo Yours to command is the way it closes The whole story motive and secret of the letter is in these three words I am shocked Mr Powers must indeed be sick The late mental strain must have unnerved him L All the usual cunning of manoeuvre seems to have deserted this wily politician Of course it is well known that he goes not out of politics You could not hire hiinto quit not oven for twice 10000 He sees a band writing on tLo walls of the Wasatch and smells defeat irx the air He is getting on the fence preparatory to jumping towards to-wards that party that most surely promises victory Yours to command means that lie is in the market and will knock himself down to the highest bidder All you need do is to keep your eye on him to see some bold bareback riding in the political circus of Utah But the organ of thu federalandterrl torialomces party must be hot in the boxes of its running gaar the fellows who gave tone and money to the boodle party of alleged Liberalism must feel like kicking themselves and the Independent Workingmen Working-men must rejoico that they kicked out of the harness when they didas they read Powers letter The secret of the Liberal Lib-eral > success is out at last When Mr Powers took up tho worK the Liberal party was entirely unorganized 1 cant tell a lie papa 1 did it I made the Liberal Lib-eral party of Salt Lake and I organized the election1 How did be do itf Seven hundred men were assigned to duty in the various wards About two tbuts or the genuine antiMornioi vote inS in-S it Lakeiu September ISbJ was employed oflWall to work up that is to organize an < 1 ction of the socalled Liberal ticket in February 1SOO You can see now how it was that not only Salt Lake city but Salt Lake county and as Mr Gilson says three counties outside of Salt Lake county were made to contribute Liberal Lib-eral voters in that election The man I who did it with his little gal now resigns is yours to command He gets therewith there-with both feet The men who won J the tight were the presidents of wards captains of blocks captains of ten and th j officers of the clubs and marching companies That is what he says That is the truth for dont you see this mal it now getting in his revenge There were inonied men in the Liberal parts who would never again chip in for a 610000 gift to this wonderful organizer It has beer clear for months that the man from M o iigan had lest his grip To hide his design he preferred a resignation in the middle of a campaign knowing it could not bo accepted But now that all is over he can write a resignation that will not only resign but bury Seeing no longer chance to hope for preferment in the party that he claims to have organized to victory he writes this letter that will down it The election of February was won by the presidents of wards captains of blocks captains of tens and the officers of the club and marching companies Of course The truth is all the gush over the work ingmci who tramped through the mud for months without a cent had but one purpose pur-pose tc fool the voters There were nearly 10000 raised in Salt Lake to win that electi Seven hundred men wero employed em-ployed in the various wards The captains cap-tains and presidents get credit in this won erfll letter of resignation but not the Workingmen The captains the officers of the clubs and marching companies com-panies but not tho men who marched come in for thanks What does that mean 1 It means that the men who marched seeing themselves ignored i will drop this boodle party and march next time with the Independents Inde-pendents and when Mr Powers gets the Liberal party buried he will be found at tempting to ride to Washington on the back of some other party But doesnt Powers hammer his old backers There are business men having a little Mormon trade who in the recent election declined to vote as they had done That is a terrible give away That shows that the Lib rat party is hanging by the slender thread of officeholders who are forced to give down their milk to keep the mongrel politicalpriest family alive I Business men with Mormon trade will no longer be driven dragooned bossedabused blackguarded line either by Powers Pat or the hirelings Behold again these strange words We should smoke out the spies and traitors within our lines That is worst of all = I fancy I hear gnashing of teeth in the Liberal camp The very admission that there are spies and traitors among them coming as it does from the man who knows them all like a book is most significant signifi-cant Why spies and traitors if everything every-thing is lovely i It argues rot and approaching approach-ing dissolution That there ib even now something dead in the Liberal party is clear from the fact that the resigning organizer of the combine sees vultures that would pick the flesh from the dead and wounded I do not wonder he resigns Even rats know enough to d > Htt t a sinking ship He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day < Mr Powers has launched his dugout 011 the Jordan of Utah politics He bees the stornl gathering d intends that whoever drowns in the breaking break-ing up of the rotten raft of Liberalism he shall float and come again But the Mormon Mor-mon who would vote for him would steal endowment robes from the dead From Idaho lo Arizona let Utah say to this unconfirmed un-confirmed judge Never more be officer of mine PAll UTE |