Show pIHE POLITICAL ARENA Grand Republican Scramble for Office Now On THE PARTY DEMORALIZED LEADERS TELEGRAPH TO TRUMBO TO RETURN AT ONCE I J JJave They Tgrnominiously Surrendered Surren-dered or Are the Warring Factions Fac-tions Simply Bidding for The Licrators Support Talk of a AouPartiKuit Judicial Ticket In This District Men Who AVoild Like to Ioa the Ermine Crunc Is Organizing Talk ofdissension among the Democrats Demo-crats Vaty compared with the Republicans Re-publicans they are as peaceful as a i boarding school out for a walk If he other site could only have an approach ap-proach to suih harjnony they would be overjoyed Already those who have the campaign of the other sided side-d charge are beginning to wonder how on earth they will ever be able to bring the warring factions together to-gether and get them to work in harmony har-mony At the outset it has been foand that party differences have only T > een accentuated by the developments f tile convention and that many of i13sj who had a passive hostility to 4ard one another which they would ink in the face of the common enemy en-emy are determined n every occasion occa-sion to knife one another and if necessary nec-essary to go against the good of > the party in doing so One of the Republican leaders very much higher up in the machine than the people might suppose w a s talking rather bluely yesterday Talk of jour differences he halo why you i dont kno what weve got to confront v con-front We are about tq organize and the party is all split to pieces The quarrels cannot be made up either Men refuse to serve with one another on committees or work alongside in any capacity If you go to one for < ounsel on some matter of party policy pol-icy the other becomes disgruntled t and refuses to have anything to do with the matterS More than that the Democrats can have no object in kicking about newspaper support Why we dont know what it is to have an organ The Tribune is determined to have some men in the offices on whom it tan depend for the 1r public patronage I ¼ It was driven out of the Liberal party because it could no longer control and then it came over to the Republicans Repub-licans in the firm belief that it could have everything Already we have been given constructive warning that unless we obey its behests it Will kick over the traces this fall and endeavor en-deavor to defeat the ticket Look at its editorial this morning It manufactured man-ufactured a letter from a friend in order to let us know that It is a Republican Re-publican paper but it is an independent indepen-dent Republican paper Of course we all know what that means It is 4 fr the Republican party so long as n e party belongs to the Tribune tthe the party should refuse to nalte the Vribunes candidates len it will take a high and mighty Viand It will make a great claim of independence and knife the ticket I tell you it would be a godsend to i us if we ony had as good newspaper support as The Herald is giving the Democrats You always find The Herald sticking up for the party You can put your hand upon it at anytime rime and depend on it But hang the Tribune Ye can never tell when it will get cranky and go off on a tangent tan-gent when it does of course we have to apologize and repudiate it We are without an organ While the Democrats have a good one Their kicking is all bosh There is a gicat deal of talk in political po-litical circles of a nonpartisan ju jiieial ticket in this district This does j piot come from the Democrats alone but from the best element of the Republican Re-publican members of the bar This early ii i the campaign the leaders liave been casting about for some suitable timber for the bench and right in the beginning have been met with an appalling condition The best timber by far is to be found in the Democratic ranks The luxuriant crop of Republican candidates who are already coming to the front with their oftrepeated claims on spoils are not of the best In fact they are somewhat inclined to disgust even the blindest partisan The proposition now is that the Democrats be given one of the judges while the Republicans 4 Republi-cans be given the other fewo Buc this scheme is likely to meet with but little success Utah politics ere very queer Probably no state In the union has seen such bitter polit Val fights as have been known here IB the last three years As a result Vke territory as afflicted with the worst kind of yellow dog politics b This is particuarly true of the Republican Repub-lican party All propositions for nonpartisan non-partisan elections that have been made in recent times have been turned turn-ed down by them with the utmost contempt There is little contention on their side that they have put up a very siiong class of men in the past In faot they are ready to acknowledge ac-knowledge that the Democrats have outclassed them on general principles But hey know that the mass of their voters especially in Salt Lake county have had party fealty absolutely ground into them The decent element is not in control The machine is controlled by the mst ardent and extreme politicians in the party It would be impossible for them to resist the appeals of the hungry officeholders who are after the ermine Therefore nonpartisan judicial ju-dicial elections in this county are practically an irridescent dream Republican judicial candidates are beaming so thick that a man can scarcely place his finger on a lawyer of a certain class without finding he harbors a suspicion thathe was cut out I for just such a job as this The best lawyers in the party are either reaching reach-ing for something higher than the district dis-trict bench or cannot afford to give upI their up-I practice to take the situation at feuch a small salary as has been pro Jltied for in the constitution The Strongest pressure has been brought ito bear on young George Sutherland The Democrats feel well towards him and would hall his acceptance with a sigh of relief because his election would save them from being afflicted with some ofjhe horde who are pushing push-ing to the front But Sutherland seems Inclined to push the ermine aside that is unless he should be offered of-fered the supreme judgeship when of course he would be very likely to at least take the matter under consideration consider-ation a a Frank B Stephens is mentioned for the place So is Hiram E Booth So too is John E Booth The two latter have given very decided notice that 4 they will not look at the thing They hardly think they want the work and icpor without the pay and in these aatfh times that of course is the tle slfWa i Stephens may and he may I not That all depends a dozen and one things Charles W MorseIs be I ing pushed withgreat energy He has been attorney for the Western Loan and Savings company for about five years and his enthusiastic champions claim for him that he has been in the territory long enough to be counted a wellknown citizen Rumor hath it that he was some sort of a country justice of the peace or something else of that kind in the east Some people have had a sneaking supicion for sometime some-time that he has a judicial mind and he has not made a half bad record as referee in some cases that have come before him Perhaps the most refreshing proposition proposi-tion has been borne on the sweet I mountain breeze that comes down Parleys Par-leys canyon It is whispered in the faintest and most delicate tones that I Wilson I Snyder of Park City has i tried on the judicial ermine regarded i himself long and patiently HI the j mirror and reached the conclusion I that it fits It was feared all along I that when Salt Lake county was tacked on to Summit and Tooele counties coun-ties or to put it more properly when I those counties were tacked on to Sale Lake that the Republican lawyers would demand part of the judicial patronage I pat-ronage The fear has been realized Snyder it is said intends to rouse the I political cohorts of Summit county and bring them down here with a mighty determination to secure a candidate after their own heart or do something rash Of course Mr Snyder will insist on his candidacy on these grounds alone It will not be for love of office I That is i not the nature of the man I He will act only from a deep sense of duty to Park City and Summit county i But still he is likely to be doomed to I disappointment There are enough hungry Republican lawyerpoliticians in Salt Lake city to swallow up a bench that would be ten times as great as the one proposed by the economical economi-cal constitutional convention What is more Salt Lake will have a lead pipe cinch on the district and all the I outside counties will be expected to So is to swell the Republican majority I Therefore Snyders vaulting ambition backed as it may be by countless miners I min-ers is doomed to bitter disappointment disappoint-ment I Not quite so refreshing but very i much so are the claims of Justice ot i j the Peace Harris These seems to be I some fatality in officeholding which j makes a man ever hanker for a greater I I and better office and that too often I without regard to his fitness for the position Harris has not been bad as a justice of the peace though he has not earned the most sybillant pean of praise from those members of the bar who have come in contact with him He has a pretty good general idea of the law and seems at times to be able to supply this to cases at hand But as it takes more than one swallow to make a summer so it takes more than one quality to make a judge Harris superior as he may be in some respects re-spects lacks the judicial mind If it were not for this slight defect and the fact that he is soured on humanity asa as-a general principle as well as some things of secondary importance he might be considered a very good man I to think about As it is the political grave is more likely to close over I his luxuriantly budding ambition But Harris is not the only one of the class of petty magistrates who are quoted as desiring to assume the greater great-er dignity and larger perquisites of the district bench In fact there are others Grant H Smith dispenser of stareyed justice strong lectures small fines and long sentences to bibulous individuals in-dividuals small boys soiled doves and the other vagrant classes brought to his attention is said to have the weevil of politics in his brain Judge Powers in his lecture on Wonderland said this weevil of politics is worse than the Colorado potato bug and the judge ought to know Smith has a great deal of ambition Likewise he has a great deal of dignity The combination would be perfectly subserved by elevation eleva-tion to the district bench But then he is a little inclined to be hasty and lacking In that wellbalanced mind so necessary in a judicial officer Stories I of tempered moments come floating from the sacred precincts of the police court and deter those who would press on this gallant dark horse More than that the old Liberal element will not readily forgive one who took part in breaking up their hold on the city They have it in for the police justice especially Harmel Pratt is another who has been suggested As a commissioner he has been very fair and has given perhaps per-haps as good satisfaction as any of his rivals of late years He has a strong backing among a certain element ele-ment of the machine However he is not the quick decisive man who is wanted on the bench But speaking of that it is becoming very apparent that the bench under statehood will I not be as good as it would have been had the convention given larger salaries I sal-aries to judicial officers Lawyers of the ability that would make them acceptable ac-ceptable to the bar and litigants are generally in receipt of larger salaries than they would get from the state Iore than that their practices are growing grow-ing These are disinclined to throw themselves into the political vortex with the knowledge that at best they can have but four years certainty and at the end of that time they are likely to be swept back into private life with their practice gone and a necessity of beginning all over again This is very likely to keep the judicial race in the hands of the lawyerpoliti cians and while there are many good men among them yet the ermine will stand in danger of being dragged in the dust Both parties are beginning to get their work into shape but there is a general desire for a short campaign this fall Politicians here understand that with good preparation it is a matter of no great difficulty to arouse the people in six weeks or two months time Money is not very plentiful except ex-cept around the mouth of Colonel Trumbos ba 1 and expenses must be kept down as far as possible However both parties are beginning their organization or-ganization preparations The Democrats Demo-crats in accordance with the determination deter-mination arrived at when the leaders met at conference time will begin organizing or-ganizing by precincts then by citi sand s-and counties and then for the territory terri-tory By the time the convention is held the party will be in admirable working order and the best or materials ma-terials will be put in the hands of the territorial chairman whoever he maybe may-be Charlie Crane is already preparing to make one of the best organizations his party has yet had His plan which he will not divulge is one over which he has been working for many years and it is apparently gotten up for the double purpose of shutting out the Democrats and the belligerent and highly troublesome element in his own party At present as chairman or tile territorial committee he is able to p this t-his plans to effect and what he is doing will be under the able direction of himself and Colonel Trumbo The Tribune crowd is likely to wake up some fine morning and find itself killed off The organization will be effective as well In primaries as in conventions and the campaign The first fight will come over the control of the campaign On this the fight will center Crane is determined to hold his present cinch on the machine and has behind him at present the ubiquitous ubiquit-ous colonel The Tribune crowd wants to oust him In a short time the bear pit will be very interesting a a aBut a-But interest after all will center In the legislative election involving as it docs the choice of United States z > senators The warring Republican factions will have a narticularly warm I time in this city Already wires are being be-ing laid not only for delegates to the conventions but for the election of II Republican candidates to the legislature legisla-ture and it is intimated ithat the ward bosses with whom the Republican I Repub-lican party is so richly endowed are not averse to fixing up trades and j further that this man Trumbo figures I in some way or other in every proposed I pro-posed deal S S J But the most startling information is the well authenticated report that I the Republican leaders on Wednesday or Thursday telegraphed to Colonel I Trumbo at San Francisco to return j home at once as his presence here was I i imperative for the good of the party 1 i Heaven help the party Ii I I I I i More than this it is said that the I i liberator will arrive today and will at once proceed to pour oil on the troubled waters |