Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-02-10 | Page 32 | Politics Will Not Mar Lincoln Day Feast

POLITICS WILL NOT NOr NOTS I S MAR LINCOLN DAY mm FEAST FEASTS S Republican publican Do DoS S Not Expect to Make S Affair Partisan r 5 y Frank C. C Greene Republicans giving a nonpartisan Banquet at a hotel named Wilson Wilson- r you beat it S Y Yes s It does sound odd Yet nevertheless never that is the Ule attraction to be Tuesday night in the name of the Great Emancipator whose birth- birth f Way kjay ay will thereby be celebrated is Of course courso the Wilson business merely a coincidence but the tho fact re- re Imams that the intention is to remove removeRS remove t RS s 's s far as possible the flavor of politics I from the tho affair In fact a great deal of the politics be that develops there will rap In lean san ean rather than bipartisan if advance notices bout the little love loye feast can be bet beI t I trusted Press agents agents' promises of the doings lUst former Senator Thomas Kearns as aslone aslone lone one of the speakers and it is the tho first time the old war horse has been listed at ft time t a a- G. G O. O P. P doings for lo 10 these those many years It used to be that the Lincoln lay day was the oCca occasion lon for ins ng the first shot in the campaign o of I the year It was a time to point with pride and view with alarm and Incidentally in inS incidentally In- In S to size up the prospective candidates and cast about for a financial financial financial finan finan- cial good Samaritan who could be deI depended depended de de- de- de on to be on the job with thelong thelong the tho I long sack shortly after the first Tuesday Tues Tues- day dy In November But its it's different this year Despite the recent outbursts of ot Senator Cha ChainS Chain Cham Chamberlain n- n S and the colonel the Sans ns ns of ot Utah having baving a regard for the theS J beit t interests of the nation will go S slowly Dowly about entering into a fight that would put them in the position of ot shouldering the tho obstructionist club v S Therefore they dont don't Intend to mal make Lincoln's birthday the excuse for de deS delivery de- de S livery of a lot of oratory ra From the general temper of S tho Iio state as repeatedly demonstrated S are are re co convinced It wouldn't be bo good ft ur tv Therefore h any politics played about S at t banquet board will be of ot the m hoe variety There Them Is little doubt 1 piat there will be he a lot of gumshoeing S jut But Its It's an off oft year with only county df flees to fill so BO while some possible candidacies for state offices may 1 Y be suggested with a view of ot gets get's getS get get- s 's S tJ ting a a line on sentiment nothing big S Mis apt to b be brought out IS WIt It will be rather a chance for the of local issues issuS s and right S there bere Is where the olive e branch the young oo Republicans seek to wave willbe will willS S be c. c burnt t to a u cinder Those present will hardly forget that one faction the party is laboriously striving strivingS S rt tCo defend a piece of an aa administration l equallY laborious attacks by anS anther an- an sides will be rep rep- repS ither er faction Both S S j her t i- i so if the boys start talking S y hop the foreman or somebody may r ec me peeved