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Show THE OROWD IN POSSESSION. The local Republican party Is In a bad way. Its management Is in the hands of pigmies. From "Fussy Jimmy" Jim-my" Anderson down to Apoatle-Senator Smoot the men who control Its destinies desti-nies aro ejlher blunderers or self-seekers. In ull their rnnk3 there stands out no great leader. The only power of control which any one of thorn can oxorclso over the mass Is through venality ve-nality or that still more Improper thing, ecclesiastical influence, That the party can maintain any atandipg against tho aggressiveness of its opponents In the field Is due to the fact that. In the average Republican heart, Is an abiding abid-ing faith In the principles of the party and a determination to see those principles prin-ciples triumphant in Utah by a voto tor the National ticket, and not because be-cause of any confidence In tho motives or abilities of tho local party bosses. And this humiliating characteristic of party management Is quite equalled if pot excelled by the humiliating presentation presen-tation which the party makes, when Us speakers appear upon the stump. The great men who were wopt to thrill the hearts of Utah people, whose unselfish advocacy of party Interests was at once a tribute to the party and themselves; the men whose devotion to the great cause In the Nation and the welfare of the peoplo of Utah won respect re-spect If not conviction from every Hs-te-nor nearly all of these are lacking. Their places are filled by such hired creatures ib appeared at the Grand theater last Saturday night, who arc Jicre bocause they are not permitted to be elsewhere, who speak solely for pay and not for patriotism, who have no Intorcst In Utah or her people, who would snout as readily upop one side as the other fpr the same amount of monoy, and whoso very appearance on (he rostrum is an Insult to the Republican Repub-lican party of the Nation and to tho self-respect of Utah audiences. It seems as f Aposlle-Sonator Smoot has been reduced to such a point as that ho Is willing to Uike any kind of aid which may come to him, whether through venality or vanity, and that tailing to have those qreat reputable expounders of Republican doctrine whoso names, wh.Qse character, whose motives, are known to the People of Utah; he Is compelled to rely upon tramps who are willing to change their parti' affiliation and who do change their resldeneo as often as they change their linen. To be sure there are a few exceptions to this rule and one ex.centlqn Is the Hon. George Sutherland. He does It because he llkea to dq t. The Hon George Is too conscientious to say anything any-thing that he does not believe and Is loo high minded to take any pay for saying what he does believe. His affiliation af-filiation with the Smoot crowd, who are destroying Republicanism here, Is accounted ac-counted for by the fact that he desires above all things else on earth Iq elect tho Hon. W. S. McCornlck to the United Unit-ed States Senate. |