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Show THE DRIFT OF POLITICS. Thoro are some men in Salt Lako City who contend that the Mayor and hla friends havo resolved on a plan of action In tho administering of the affairs of the city that has for Its central Idea the organization of a new Democratic party. Tho good old party which the Herald is supposed to represent Is not to tho liking of Mayor Morris and his first chief of staff, Councilman Fernstrom, and thcaa dignitaries and their satellites purpoao hewing out one moro to their liking. In this event, Jf they succeed, the old war-horses war-horses must stand aside. Tho center of attraction for this now Democratic party Is tho pot of patronage whlchMr. Morris Is so zealously working to open and distribute. dis-tribute. Ho has his own Ideas of distributing distrib-uting tho contents of this pot, too, that aro not at all satisfactory, it Is claimed, to tho so-called "rank and fllo." A voter whose label Is "Domocrat" has no moro recognition than tho man whose mark of distinction Is "Bolter." and tho result of this policy Is that tho "unwashed and un-tcrrllled" un-tcrrllled" Democrats of Salt Lako aro not bubbling over with enthusiasm since Mayor May-or Morris has got in tho saddle Some of them think that If to bolt will hasten their entrance into the ranks of tho servants serv-ants of tho public,' that thoy will do a little bolting themselves. In the meantime mean-time tho work of organization goes bravely brave-ly on, but it would bo manifestly unkind to say that the editor of tho Democratic newspaper la tho only Demoorat in Uie city who is kicking himself ovor the zeal he displayed last fall. It Is entirely Inadequate for tho opponents oppo-nents of Mr. Hearst to say, that "his cako Is dough." Tho young man's cntlro stock In trade is "dough." Somo of the local Democrats think that the work of Mr. Tarpoy was exploited too early. This Is equivalent to saying that thero la a tall bit of hustling being dono by tho antls to ofTset tho work of tho friends of the New Yorker. It may bo added that a considerable feeling has crept Into it also. Of course Mr. Roberts has not forgotten tho Hearst petition against him, and tho Utah Domocrats who think that tho ex-Congreasman ex-Congreasman Is a dead one will have a very dlfforont understanding of the matter mat-ter when thoy return from St. Louis. Thero Is going to be some fun at the Utah headquarters In the convention city If there is anything in tho signs of tho times. As nn Illustration of the many lightning changes that Mayor Morris has been making since ho was Inductod Into office one should read tho political news In tho Mayor's newspapers, predicting what ho would do, and thon reflect on what he has not done. It was promlsod only a week ago that ho was going to cut off tho heads of moro than eighty Republican employees em-ployees forthwith, and with such dispatch that theso eighty heads would not havo tlmo to think about It But not a head has been so much as disheveled. Th poor fellows on tho street force thought thoy wcro about to be guillotined, but tho Mayor relented and put his newspapers In the hole Instead. He was going to stop the pay of the city's employees, but not a dollar hoJ ho tho courage to suspend payment on. One of tho newspapers, in a labored statement of the smoke question, ques-tion, called attention to the leniency of former city officials on this matter, and predicted swift work would be dono by Mayor Morris. The Mayor weakened the noxt day. And thero aro a ocore of other incidents In tho official life of Mayor Morris that give his newspapers causo to wonder what kind of "gold brick" thoy bought last fait o And speaking of tho Mayor's fall-down 6n the' smoke nuisance proppsal of his. a citizen remarked. "I noticed that tho Herald; in discussing tho question, said that ovory difficulty along tho lino of tho enforcement of the law had bcon removed, but now It is claimed that tho law cannot bo enforced and that Mayor Morris qulto agrees with tho Chief of Police that this is true. It seems, thoroforn, that Bomcono has been leading our now Mayor into another very awkward position.'' o A distinguished Kentucky editor Impales Bryan and Hearst and Uien gooa on to discuss "yellow puns" and "brlndle cows" In such connection as to lead ono to fear that ho Intends to bo personal. But tho thing that keeps tho roador guessing guess-ing la as to which Is which, It will bo vory easy to assoclato "yellow" with tho Now York nowspapor man, though ho Is iporsonnlly a very clovor gontloman and r.ot of tho spcclos which tho crusty old Kentucky editor would probably havo tho peoplo Infer, but to llkon Mr. Bryan of "God and morality" famo to a "brlndle cow" in simply too muoh. If It is truo that Mr. Bryan is going to Boll tho Democrats a "gold briok," us Mr. Wattcrson assorts, It in mora than ho baa ' before attempted. He heretofore was lcary of anything that looked llko a gold 1 brick. It may be added, however, that H If gold bricks aro tho means by which IH Mr., Bryan expects to reach enough dele- fl gates to land his young friend Hearst, IH that Utah Democrats are not susceptible H Thoy must be shown the contents of tho H package they buy. H 1 Mayor Morris's patronapo ordinance IH which la expected to cause a row when it IH comes up for final passage, would bo a generous contribution to the power of tho HJ Honorablo Richard P. Morris; but tho Council of the city of Salt Lako Is not H likely to hand to that gentleman a weapon IH by which ho would be ablo at any tlmo IH to tlo its hands so completely. Even tho HJ Democratic members would likely llvo to HJ eeo tho day that they would regret dole- HJ gating to tho Mayor such unlimited HJ power. HJ |