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Show OUT OF THE WHIRLIGIG. nit of the great whirling rage of things we find two certainties agreed upon by the advocates of Richard P. Morris for re-election ami William J. Lynch for election to the office of the Mayoralty of Salt Lake, and these nre; First, that the Democratic candidate Is to be elected by Republican votes; and second, that the Republican candidate la to be elected by Democratic votes. The method of securing the result accounts ac-counts for Its certainty In each case And why not? Why should there not be absolute foreknowledge among the sagos of either party? Mr Smoot's emissaries dell'neraieh advise the Lynch war horses that he has never yet failed to deliver the Democratic vote in Utah when he desired de-sired to deliver It, and that this time It will go to the Republican party. And then the Republican tabulators immediately imme-diately count up the highest Republican Republi-can vote that was ever cast in Salt Lake. And there you are: Mr. Lynch Is elected and the gentlemen who have so ably served are In office and are recouping re-couping themselves by the varied systems sys-tems known to the practical politicians of that clique. And the Democrats who know that the man who stands second In Immediate Imme-diate rank In the church favors Morris, Mor-ris, at once assure all the car horses of the Mayor's party that he la to have a delivery of all the Republican votes; and the one man who knows how to figure out political statistics over In Democratic headquarters proceeds to add the highest known Republican vote to the highest known Democratic vote ever cast in the lty and the event has arrived. Conduits that will never carry any water, and water that will never run into conduits, are immediately exploited ex-ploited aa alBo accomplished, and the spoils are divided. In the meantime there sits dally a board of a few men who discern and discuss all things in heaven, earth and hell, and in all stops between. Whenever When-ever they arrive at the election question ques-tion they announce that Thompson is defeated and then go sedately upon their further considerations. Just whether the Republican Brother" Lynch Is to be elected by the Democratic Demo-cratic party, or whether the Democratic Democrat-ic "Brother" Morris is to be elected by the Republican party, they have not yet seen fit to determine. In either case, however, they have no doubt of the defeat of Mr Thompson, because they have said that he shall be defeated. de-feated. And that is the entire Republican and Democratic situation in Salt Iake. Every hopeful Democrat who talks, claims that Morris will be elected by Republicans. Every hopeful Republican Republi-can who talks, says that Lynch will be elected by the Democrats. Both can didates are to have all the votes, nnd that la the only way their many authoritative au-thoritative assertions can be consirucd. One additional remark may be In order or-der The American party, depending upon American citizens generally (and assured that this dependence Is v. orthl-ly orthl-ly placed) will sweep both ef the church parties from the field |