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Show MOT'S PULl IS DEPENDED UPON Democrats claim the Apostle Does Not Cut I ho Ico Anticipated. An-ticipated. PEOPLE ARE ASKING WHO LEADERS ARE Senator and Associates Are Running Republican Party As They Please. Tlie chief KtrtiRKle hetweep the Democratic Demo-cratic and Republican parties at present is ahuiK the Hues of securing the Gentllo vote. They both think they havo the cold-storage voie of the church packed snugly away In their vest pockets, and the Democrats were claiming Thursday that they would Ret more Gentile votes than the nepnhllcnns. The latter have spruced up wonderfully since Smoot's vis-It. vis-It. and nothing Is too great lor them to conquer. . prominent Democrat was. rld-ICUllhg rld-ICUllhg the political boastmcs of the Re-publlcana, Re-publlcana, nnd their calculations on l lie misguided Gentile vote they nre hoping to secure He sld Overestimate Smoot's Pull. "Who are the leaders of the Gentiles, Is It Smoot? Smoot, Fussy Jimmy. I'allls-ter I'allls-ter and Spry are running the Hppuhllcan campaign to suit themselves, and do th Gentiles ..f Salt Iake acknowledge these men ss their political leaders? It surely is a sweet bunch foi the Gentllea lo tie to, Isn't It? You can put It down that the Democratic parly will get ss many Gentllo Votes ;1S (tie Krp Ij III lea IIS. and JOU Will also tin. I out (hut the Kepuhllranw vastly overestimate Bmoot'l political power over the people and his pull with the church." Plank by Plank Pulled Away. The Republicans, however, claim thov have the world by the tail. Thoy claim that M.-rrls Is gone Iocau9o the planks In his platform have heen pulled out from under him wltli monotonous regularity. They point out how his supporters have been ihoutlng about bir Cottonwood water At the" Democrutlc rally recently hel.i in tho Salt Lako theater, speakers st rived to Impress upon tho people how Morris had already conquered the Bin Cottonwood situation, and how the water from that source had alr.adj been saf.lv eci red Nothing was left unfinished but the construction of their big ditch. City Officials Smoked Out. Recent disclosures In the water sltua-'I"" sltua-'I"" hav. shown how absurd these enm-palgn enm-palgn arguments of the Democrats wore. Instead of standing pat on what thoy had he, up In plain view of tho voters ns their record, the Morris administration realizes they nre in a hole, and that no w it.-r fn.m i "ottoim uod has t.e,-n se- cun d at all. This they acknowledge in allowing themselves to be smoked out ns they him hi en In the Knudsen matter The suit against Knudsen shows how the administration had trh-,1 to bunco the people Into he.-lng that the Morris people peo-ple had really accomplished somothlnta At a time so n. ar election as to be ridiculous, ridicu-lous, they hasten to take steps to cover tho ground that should have been gone over n voar ago. Tn th-- Knudsen suit " '"r the administration. Ii Is shown Kie the e direct to the campaign arguments ar-guments scattered abroad earlier In the prt -ent fight. False Election Figure? Republicans hav been having considerable consider-able amusement over some figure thov claimed were secured from tin- Demo- rati, headuuiirlers. Th.-s, figures w.-rn said to be official; of course thc showed th- Republicans in the lend over the Democrats, unrl It was claimed that they were the results of the Democratic can-veai can-veai Democrats Indignantly deny th.ir these figures are ..mciai or in anv way correct. It was said at the Democratic headquarters that the figures never saw ih.-ir haduuarters at all Thev were. rakes, pure and simple, gotten up for poll po-ll i i.m i purposi i Third for the Democrats. Councilman Ferns trom was asked Thursday by Tho Tribune ahout the Third ward, as the it publicans nr.. claiming this Ward by "evrr.il hundred Fernstrom said that the Third ward m .-r looked better for the Democrats Chairman uartlneau, while passing the letting board on Brokers' row. stated that otes nre made In the districts nnd not on the boards Thursday was a brfd day for Morris among the bettors. Mormon Candidates. A number of iHiiiticinns were discussing the chances foi the candidates running against Thompson, and one Democrat very frankly tusked the crowd If thev hnd stopped to consider thnt Morris vrss the onl Mormon in the race for Mayor The remark caused a general raising of eyes, and smiles were passed around-"Are around-"Are you sure nbout Lynch'."' was asked Nil one ventured a repjy |