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Show ;t Selectman Hardy Makes a Birr Sensa-C Sensa-C tion in Political Circles. He .Reaves the liberals to Join the Republican Party Iu an Inter-..view Inter-..view He Says I'tah Would Ite ' Bankrupted by Free TrarteO. W. .Powers Also Kesijns a Liberal Chairmanship. -What He Saj-s. vt Th6 resignation of Selectman Harvey Hartty is the sensation of the day in politi- j cal circles. It is felt to have a deep significance as the act of one of the most prominent members of ttiu Liberal party at a time when great chafes are going on in territorial politics. The Republican leaders are jubilant and asser that Mr. Hardy's resignation means thatyhis active support will be given here after to the party of protection, and that hundreds of voters will quickly follow him out ft the Liberal ranks. T!ti board refused to accept the reslgna-tiori reslgna-tiori Bartch and Butters voting "no" and Cahon "yes." Mf. Hardy submitted to an interview che'fully and gives the following reasons for lis action: 'My reason, first, for resigning is that -at the lime I was nominated I was doing a good business in real estate, brokerage, etc. I was making several thousand dollars a year. When I took the office it became necessary for me to sacrifice my private interests for the "good of the county. This meant twelve ta .fourteen hours out of every twenty-four to be devoted to public work. Not only during business hours, but at home during the evening, and even late at night, I have bet;n called upon in connection with the woik of my office. As a result I have lost nearly all my private business and seen it go to other places. I therefore felt that personal per-sonal and family interests demanded that 1 should resign and attend to my private affairs." "What political significance has your resignation, Mr. Hardy ?" the reporter asked. 'I Was born a Kentucky Democrat. I was a Democrat until I came to Utah, twenty. sevSa years"ago..- When I came here I found that the great majority of the Mormon people peo-ple were Democrats and in active sympathy with the Southern side of the rebellion. That was exactly what changed my politics. I was a union man, and as the Republican party stood for the union, and so stood I. As for the Liberal party, I was one of its earliest members. It had from me all that I had to give for what I considered to be a cause dear to Americans. I have fought for it faithfully in the past and have nothing j unpleasant to say about it now. My life in j Salt Lake City for the past twenty-seven years has been an open book. Everybody knows where I have stood. In tendering my resignation to the court today I remarked re-marked that when I affiliated with any other 'party it would be with the Republicans." "Why should Utah be Republican?', "My personal reason would be this, I am largely interested in mining. Without protection pro-tection to the lead and silver interests the interests of Utah w ould greatly suffer. The two greatest industries of this intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country are wool and lead. Admit Mexican Mex-ican silver and lead ores free of duty, and foreign wool free of duty, and you bankrupt this whole intermouutain country. Free trade means carrying us back twenty-seven years ago when all we had to trade in was mules, horses aud carrots. And the only market for that kind of merchandise was what the gold aud silver miners of Nevada made for us. I don't want to see this condi- tton return." |