Show THE POLITICAL PIPE AH hough election Is nearly six weelts away the atmosphere fairly vibrates with political argument Atevery street corner cor-ner In front of every hotel and In almost every office one may hear the buzr of gas sit and the discussion of candidates Tho situation IB one of groping uncertainty Tho people who make administrations and make and unmake cundldatiB I are much like a t swarm of been us It tentics from lil i hive darling hither and thither and WIlI It la I wondering vaguely ere I host tow to-w I 1 C The on ° Idea that t stands out conspicuously conspicu-ously In nl h this tlrmol I is thai Suit La ice City needs above all other things I a united alI harmonious government which will I work as one man for the welfare of iho city Uusinops men especially rccognlu that little progress can bo made while factions of the cIty government an pulling pull-ing in opposite directions There Is I general agreement hat 1 a Mayor should be selected who Is In accord with l a majority ma-jority of thn Council and that 1 inn jority of tht I Council Mould bo in sympathy with the alms and purposes of tH Mayor but there li a wide difference of opinion as to how this harmony can be obtained Experience has howl that peace Is not to bo secured by the icclectlon I of all the present Council men and there in l more than a possibility that new men returned from the foverul I wards would mean mill i greater discord If it wero known that I KnoJi I Jamcti or Odcll was to I be l the choice of the Republican convention or If It were possible to forecast the i mkuup of the Council the vnturw could aqt Intel llgeiitlv but tho problem is one In which neither tern In given If I the light were to be strictly on parly lines the puIo would be simplified I i It were to bo on rcllclfus llnci the solution would be easy But with straight party contest In some wurds and religious In lUiencPS anting In others the tangle secmi too dense to be unraveled With remarkoblo leinorllv t William F Tamos walked from the ofllce of D II Vonger to the pustofllco and back yes toiday afternoon all alone Wliut would have happened If a piratical I newspaper Interviewer had steered across his coursts It is Impossible to say Mr James might have turned I on a lire alarm or run around the block shouting f or police protection I I Is ceiUilnb very careless of Manager Wenger to let his protege take such desperate des-perate chances 0 I do not like to see any division on religious re-ligious lines said Judge C F Loof l bonrow yesterday In the hearing or a reporter re-porter but It such a division must lake 4 place I would rather have It occur before than after election If tho City Council Into In-to bo miido up of eleven Republicans and four Democrats on election clay and seven Gentiles and eight Mornonn afterward we i might Just as well have the proportion of Mormons and Gen tl < decided upon ul Ihe polls I c L was congratulated d on that Interview I cave you tills morning said George T Odell to the man who is doing politics Thats good What particular feature were you congratulated on 7 A friend told me that I said less than any of the men quoted explained Mr Odoll olWhen V When n political party is largely In tIle majority In any body there la bound to be a division on questions of pollcv This asuerllon was made by Apostle John Henry Hen-ry Smith to an Interviewer Even In the Congress of the United States you llnd the Republican party spill wide open on the question C admitting the Territories to I Statehood HO why i should you not expect ex-pect it in a City Council I like to mice my party on top bit 1 think that there Is safety In a strong minority party Suppose Sup-pose the City Council were made up entirely tirely of Republicans you suppose that they would act as n unit on every proposition that came up That there would be no debate and no differences of 0ilnlonV 5 tr I have just been moving into my new house said Judge O W Powers ycslcr day when pressed for an expert opinion on tho political situation and I have been too busy to cast any political horo scopcc You may say however thai I am for Fcrnstrorn Fernslrom Is my man Whatever cnmpalgn contributions I may make will po for Fcrnstrom He IB i the greatest statesman In the City Council today and has served the people faithfully faithful-ly i He has protected the city treasury from many a graft and Would you nominate him for Mayor No because then he might not be elected 7 would run him again from the Third ward I 4 Up to date the t candidates for Repub lp lican nominations either selfannounced 01 put forward by their friends are as follows fol-lows I For MayorW F James Frank Knox and George 1 I Odcll FoFr CIty Treasurer li Whltlornore Joseph McKnlghl I liYnnk A Swenson John Oponshaw and Pei n Lynnc R lou Hutchlnson City Attorney George Nyc and W For City Recorder J Meyers Frank Matthews Lou Kessler and A L SI incndl l For City Auditor II Nash E Jenkins Jen-kins and J J Acomb For tile Council from the First ward 1 J Thomas F I J Hewlett Arthur Robinson Rob-inson J J Chrlstensen Henry Davis Carl Schmidt Thomas Hobday r W I Clark J J Corrum Rudolph A In L li Moore and Wright Pickering For the Council from the Second ward S E I Kardloy Charles Coltrcll Tr W 13 Vlgus J II Prcfice B D Blackmar B F Rodman For the Council from the Third ward T A Calllsler J iI Barlow George Davis Anthony Godbo and F 1 S Fern strom For the Council from the Fourth ward J N Sharp Jr J 1 D Wood and r Wash YcuJj I For the Council from the Fifth ward T S Dnvclcr T R Black A J Davis C M Llrck Nciihauson J W ColLie and J L I II j f Democratic candidates are few and far between this year John Dent and Simon Ramberger have been spoken of as POI slble candidates for Mayor though there IB I no assurance that either will accept If I a ticket Is 1 nominated R P Morris the incumbent will have no opposition as the nominee for City Treasurer In tie Third ward Fcrnstroin Arnold and Davis will seek reelection and D P Fell is also spoken of Councilman Tiiddenham of the Fourth will it is generally supposed be li the race for another term I 0 a 1 is understood that Arthur Barnes has refused to allow the use of his name as a Democratic candidate for Councilman from the Third Wnjcr J Lewis manager of the I DeaoreL News book store and Henry J Wallace manager for F Aucr bach Bro arc bcluj urged to seek nominations but It is I not known whether they will surrender to the clamor |