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Show THE BUSSES. After all, concurring how rapidly time flies, It will not be long until we arc In tho throes of another political campaign. There Is surely going lo bo something doing next fall. The American party, flushed with Its recent vlctorv In Salt lake City. Is going lo rench out for additional addi-tional strength In lho larger cities of tho Stale and In the mining camps. It will bo a foe not to b" degpjsod. its recruits come from both the old parties, tho Republican Re-publican party being mado to suffer especially. es-pecially. There In danger ahead. It Is time now tbat party leaders should get together and formulalo plans to bring about harmony In the ranks something which does not exist. Machlno politics and bosslem must be smashed If the Republicans Re-publicans of Utah expect to win next fall's election. The time Is rlpo for 'missionary 'mis-sionary work A well-delivered blow at bosalsm, right now, means future harmony har-mony for tho party. It meunH success. The machine and lla builders must go. Richfield CUtab) Sun. But will the smushlng of the machine ma-chine and the expulsion of Its builders accomplish anything for the Republican Republi-can party In this State, at the election of next fall or at any subsequent election, elec-tion, so long as the controlling authority author-ity and power of politics shall be exercised exer-cised by high eccleslasts? To depose Smoot as the actlvo boss, and to reconstruct the Republican machine ma-chine under the operation of men supposed sup-posed to be out of sympathy with him merely produces one of two effecto: Either the new engineers and conductors con-ductors will make their obeisance at church headquarters and receive secret support and binding Instructions, or they will find themselves In a disregarded disre-garded and discredited minority while the Democracy will be In partnership with the church and running away from the Republicans, leaving them on a blind switch or ditched by the roadside. The Sun speaks of the growth of the American party and Its intention to pursue an earnest campaign In this State; and tho expression of this truthful truth-ful Idea prompts the remark lhat there are only two elements In Utah today which can be considered In the political arena, and they are the church political quorums and that body of citizenship which opposes church rule In affairs of state. With the political quorums of the eccleslasts arc allied some Gentiles offlce-holdera and seekers after office for themselves or their friends. With lho large and growing element of citizens citi-zens who are opposed to the hierarchy in their present attitude, arc many Independent In-dependent Mormons. It Is not a dividing divid-ing line between creeds which Is thus cstabllshod. The chasm Is between those who would heed the sentimentalities sentimentali-ties of the country and keep the covenant cove-nant upon which Statehood was based all these upon the one side; and tho betrayers of their country's trust and those who sympathize with those betrayers be-trayers or who rely upon them for political po-litical proferment and emolument all these upon the other side. Such being the case, any reconstruction pf the Republican Re-publican machine Is worse than to attempt at-tempt to relnhablt and revivify a last year's bird's nest. The Republican machine Is destroyed in Utah. Its present bosses are discredited, and any new bosses would be Immediately discredited dis-credited if they attempted to drive the party forward to success upon the only present line by which success could be attained, viz., through tho cooperation co-operation and dictation of the leaders of the church. So long as tho hierarchy rule the politics, the Legislatures, nnd the administrations ad-ministrations of this State, so long there can be but one Issue of real Im-portance. Im-portance. Self-respecting citizens of all shades of political opinion will unite themselves In one phalanx to resist the further encroachment of the hierarchy, and as the strength of that phalanx shall grow to make aggressive warfare to drive the hierarchy from the field of civic affairs. When the Mormon church becomes a church, and not n political machine, a lawbreaklng and treasonable organization, organiza-tion, and a gol-rlch-qulck concern It will be time enough to construct or reconstruct re-construct the political enginery of the groat pnrtles In this State. Then, and not until then, the questions which af-fecl af-fecl our fellow-cltlzens elsewhere can become of vital Importance to Ihe people peo-ple of Utah. And then the people will be the bosses and their will the machine. |