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Show GIST OF POLITICAL GOSSIP. Somo fool frloud of William Randolph Hearst ha3 declared that tho Now York Congressman "Is tho greatest ntatesruan slnco Thomas Jefferson." Wonder what ho would say If ho wero responsible and woro asked to specify? "Tho City has lost a most efficient man through tho dlscnargo of City Englnoor Kelsey," remarked a prominent Salt Lakan. "Ho was especially well prepared to attend to the duties of tho office and tho City lias paid ln a largo sum to equip him and his subordinate. Now to pay for the training of a new crow Is In my mind a foolish bit of nolloy. Thero aro somo divisions of the City that should bo kept forever out of politics and tho onglnoorlng division is not the least Important of them." So far Judge Parker has not developed any following In Utah, but It la more than probably that if tho anti-Hearst crowd wins out, and tho New York Judgo Is a factor In tho contest at that tlmo, that the Roberta crowd will know his hand wagon when thoy see It and climb on. i It is presumed that now that tho contents con-tents of tho City's political bakery have been distributed that tho Mayor and Councilman Fonistrom will feel that thero is no danger of the City going to the bowwows, bow-wows, and will breatho oaslcr again. It was a narrow escapo, and no mlBtako about it. Salt Lake County Republicans, at their meeting at tho Knutsford yesterday, adopted rules for tho selection of tho delegates dele-gates to tbo Stato convention that glvo ovory voter full voice In the matter. Tho ono hundred and twenty-odd delegates to bo selected ln this county on the aist instant, in-stant, will doubtless bo representative Republicans, Re-publicans, If tho voters go to tho voting places and do their duty. c It will not bo necessary now for tho City Attorney to search tho law Iwoks to And somo means of proving that membors of tho street force, and worklngmen In the several departments, aro "officers," as has been clalmod And thero Is everv reason to supposo, therefore,, that the City Attorney At-torney is mighty glad that tho Mayor and a majority of tho members of tho Council havo got together on the patronage question. ques-tion. Slnco Colonel Watlerson referred to Bryan as a "brlndlo cow," tho Nq'brnakan hajj been "beefing" about It hh though tho Kentucklan had touched a place that la especially personal. But tho characterization characteriza-tion wns tho "limit" oftho Colonel's stock of pet phrases, and nothing so expressive has boon forthcoming since. id 4 A "constant reader" wants to know which is tho worst to voto according to revelation or for a couple of "cartwheels." "cart-wheels." In tho East tho ndvantago Is conceded to tho former, slneo it Is believed be-lieved that the money Is saved and spent on systems of irrigation, whllo with them tho bulk of tho money goes toward Irrigating Irri-gating tho systems. Ono of tho latest features of the Hearst campaign Is tho Issuing of a circular refuting re-futing tho charges against tho young man ,irado soven or eight years ago by a Call-lornia Call-lornia Congressman named Johnson. Tho charges, whllo In no senso such as would bo suitable to read In pollto society, woro printed In full in tho Congressional Record, Rec-ord, but not .until a few days ago has tho Hearst propagandas thought them worthy wor-thy refuting. Now tho air of mado to fairly burn, and the circular that has been sont out from tho Chicago headquarters head-quarters of tho Now Yorker. Is about tho most unmanly and undignified campaign document that hao como from a printing machine. Hearst concludes his plea of sclf-defenso by saying' that the charges against him aro being mado by "criminals, forgers, bribers, thlovlng trust managers and owners of scab newspapers." Of courao ho had to mako uso of "trust" and "scab" or tho defense would not be properly Interpreted. Thoso words aro especially fetching with tho avcrago partisan parti-san of tho young New Yorker. Since the Hearst Issue is such a hot ono In Utah at this hour, and thero aro so many political fortunes becoming shattered shat-tered on tho hard points that It has presented pre-sented to tho local Democracy, It may bo nald that It Is really rubbing It ln on the New Yorker's followors to further tan-tallzo tan-tallzo them with tho gibes of Henry Wat-torson. Wat-torson. But tho editor's dcoluratlon that "Mr. Hearst haH no moro chanco of a presidential nomination than ho has of a hcavonly translation" mar cauao tlie Hearst men hereabouts to think about It and pocket tho money they aro said to havo received, and whloh they might otherwise oth-erwise bo foolish enough to spend ln an effort to get a fow votes for him. Thero Is somo uneaalnous being felt among the friends of Chief Lynch because be-cause of tho report that tho Mayor's friends are urging that ho mako a clean swoop of tho sovoral departments and fiii Otho subordinate places with men who are his partisans. Eomc nays that this would bo so groat a broach of faith with Councll-mon Councll-mon Precco and Ncuhausen. who assisted him and tho Democratic Councllmen ln breaking tho deadlock, tthat thero would be a general revolt. But to Uioho who know that there would be nothing to revolt for, feel that tho rumor ru-mor of tho Chief's early removal and that of Superintendent of Waterworks Hlnes, too. Is a matter to study about, Tho pfo counter was not Jioarly long enough for tho hungry friends of the now Mayor, and those who wero not fed ln tho first Instance aro said to bo making llfo a misery for Mr. Morris. |