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Show THE DEMOCRATIC "HARMONY." It was all smooth as a well-worn whistle; tho trouble, contention and bitterness wore securely held undor cover, and the fight was not on the real thing that caused the bitterness, but on side Issues. It was taken out In the selection of the delegates, and on tho National Committeeman. Otherwise It was a nice, good-feeling convention, a thick slice of harmony with the bitter plenty, and on top. Underneath, however, tho working was as of the very strongest yeast, In angry motion, hot and furious. There was a bubble from It on the attempt to oust the present State Committee, but this was a failure, and the rancor apparently ap-parently slept again, and for a time all the fomentation was under the surface. But the mallgnants know what they were about, and held their tempers until un-til the fight came on for member of the National Committee. Then the trouble broke loose. Thoso who were In favor of making a hot anil open fight against the "Idaho idea" took It out on Judge Powers, who was not In favor of such a fight, and whose counsels had been effectual in kcepins It out of tho convention. Tho storm broke loose when Mr. Harris made the speech presenting the Judge's name to the convention. Some of his expressions expres-sions were by some who opposed Judge Powers, twisted and perverted, and advantage was taken of them to belittle tho Judge's services; and his efforts in behalf of a candidate which had been referred to by Mr. Harris, were sneered at a3 If he had committed a orlmc In that support. Perhapo by this time he may be of opinion that he did. At all events, the war made upon him was malicious and unfair. It was plain to see that there was something back of the fight on Judge Powers that hud no place In a mere contest between two gentlemen for a comparatively remote re-mote position like the one Involved. It Is not conceivable that Mr. Pcery or Mr. Tarbet had any hand In this underhand under-hand warfare, though the Conner was made the beneficiary of It. It was charged that Judge Powers would be asking the nomination for Representative In Congress, and therefore there-fore he shouldn't have this nomination. When It comes to that nomination, a parity of reasoning would suggest that he might sometime be a candidate for the U. S. Senate, and should not be nominated for Representative. And so It would go defeat for him because some time he might want something else, and take care to sec that he never gets anything The result of the fight, cannot but impress im-press the Judge and his friends that he was In the house of his enemies, and it was so because he counseled peace and not war. But in counseling peace, he brought the war on himself, and an ugly, coarse war It was. Its Influence cannot but be Celt Cor weakness in the Democratic ranks throughout the campaign, ro IndeCenslble and mean It was. But It was typically Democratic Utah brand. |