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Show A PROMINENT Salt Lake woman, who always takes much Interest In politics, says she will have nothing whatever to do with politics this i year unlosa tho pnrty forces a change In tho joint commlttco chairmanship. chairman-ship. "I think It Is a poor policy," she declared, de-clared, "to elect n saloonkeeper chairman of any political organization which women aro exaected to nfflllato with. 3 havo nothing personal to say about Chairman Mulvey. It is not nocesHiiry. He should not havo put hlmsolf forward, knowing as he must, that hundreds of Salt Lake women wo-men will not go Into an organization led by a liquor dealer. "And besides. I thmk that It weakens the Democratic party. It gives the Republicans Re-publicans a chanco to mako an issue of tho chairman. It also brings tho liquor Issue to tho front, whora It docs not belong. be-long. 3 do not object to saloonkeepers voting tho Democratic ticket. 3 rather llko it. But they have no business trying to control the organisation In a manner as bold as Mulvey has dope. I'll havo nothing to do with tho party under such a leadership, and I know of many other Democratic women who feel as I do. I'll not have a thing to do with politics this year unless there is a change. That's all thcro Is to it, now!" ( a o Utah Republicans aro especially harmonious har-monious on ono thing. They all want William Wil-liam Randolph Hearst to win out at SU 3xuls. V (I General Miles may become the Presidential Presiden-tial candidate of a consolidated temperance temper-ance party. He is being very strongly urged to do no, and while not announcing his willingness he has written manv letters let-ters to friends telling them to defer'hold-ing defer'hold-ing a convention of the anti-liquor people until tho great parties have a full ticket In tho field. Clearly General Miles will brcomo a candidate can-didate for any party that will give him a chance to tell the people what ho' thinks of the President of tho United States at this writing. ' Every man who goes Into the State convention con-vention next week should labor to discover dis-cover tho slates and, figuratively, to kick a hole in them. Democrats may be said to bo In tho samo predicament as a famous character was who was dogged for ers by tho ghost of a victim of an early crime. The party Is pursued by the specters of Its M,h,c..1i.n1 1,7nB,lB City platforms. And tho specters will not "awRy"" Jf the party could bury 'tho folly of tho campaigns fought on those platforms-lf at tho Hume tlmo it could awmsslnato or hide away the "living leaders" who bulld ou thOHo party-wreokcra there might bo somo hope for success. But the specters will not "down!" Colonel Henri Wattoraon has tried to stab thorn with his editorial pen. They o udo hlmso far as tho naked ovo may discern. Cleveland has attempted "to hoot them out of sight. They will not lca?o tho banquet board. If they were mortal Hearst might brlbo them to loavo. but even tho milllonii of tho lrroprcs3lbIo Now lorker do not terrify them. Thoso platform bogles nro tho spirits of Democracy made drunk with the gush of an irresponsible orator and killed In tho blossom of inebriety. The platforms will not down! Our Democratic friends should not bo so familiar In poking their fun at the local Republicans because they do not readily agree on national delegates Thcro 13 a Democratic convention booked for some time In the futuro, and tho laugh muy bo ours after all. At tho conference next week it will bo a good tlmo to draw "Fussy Jimmy" out on his appointment of Jackson. The Republican Re-publican Stato chairman might find It interesting in-teresting to explain to tho Utah Republicans Repub-licans In convention assembled why ho appointed to a fair position in his office the secretary of tho Joint Democratic committee of Salt Lake. Possibly tho party In Utah will feel more Intorest In carrying out the Instructions ot the Stato chairman If they aro assured that the instructions arc not written under the eye of tho Democratic secretary. m m 3n tho meantime keep your eye on the slates and smash them. d ,A mugwump never votes for anybody. Ho Is always against somo ono or somo measure. That is what he noes to the polls for to vote against men and thlnga He Is never satisfied. He must be opposed op-posed to something If In the course of time the mugwump finds tho trend of affairs af-fairs his way, which is seldom, he forthwith forth-with goes over to the other side Mugwumps Mug-wumps are nevor organized except as a'll kickers nnd malcontents organize. It Is natural that thej get together and work along tho same lines. Tho mugwump Ih a political animal, as rostJes as a Jackal and as pestiferous as a mulcy cow. |