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Show POLITICS WARM IN OGDEN. Ogden, Sept. 14. Tonight's primaries prim-aries will settle the question as to whether Howell wln3 in Weber county. coun-ty. The Stnto Journal has been hammering ham-mering at Howell for a day or two, and In addition to this there has been a strong movement against him. So strong, in fact, that Glasmann was compelled to sit up and tako notice. Ho went after tho Journal on Wednesday Wednes-day evening In a signed article which Jackson took up line by line, nnd, in a reply headed "Bellyaching Bill," handed tho hairless ex-edltor a pack-ago pack-ago that made him squirm. There Is much dissatisfaction among Republicans hero and tho chances for carrying this county for tho Republican Republi-can ticket this fnll aro going to be lessened. It will bo remembered that last fall Kuchler was defeated by Dr. E. M. Conroy when they ran for mayor, may-or, by about 300 votes. Those votes wore cast by Republicans, who have tired of Glasmann dictation In affairs, and if Howell Is nominated at tho state convention there will bo some knlvos drawn and used. Glasmann has read George Hanson out of the party again; also Dr. A. S. Condon. This Is nothing now. Glasmann Glas-mann reads those two out of tho party whenever ho has a bilious attack, and Glnsmann is constitutionally bilious Ho stnrted to read Tom Cnrr out. but Tom met him on tho street and told him ho would put jalap in his next doso of blue mash and Bill ipsc-iuded It. Thoro has been somo talk about nominating cither L. W. Shurtllff or Bishop McKny for tho state senate, but a lot of tho younger Mormons hero nrn protesting against such action. ac-tion. It has been stated that should either bo selected tho American party would bo started hero, and then tho I troublo would begin. There aro a whole lot of would-bo Americans here, n who only wait for an excuso to put up a ticket and raise tho dickens with K some ones chances. As matters are, there is no chance, unless BUI helps. M Your correspondent can state that M there Is no more chance for the Slate HI Journal to espouse tho cause than Bj there Is for the Juvenile Instructor to fll swing into line for Ezra Thompson. I U have inside Information that Willard .91 Snyder hasn't any moro to do with jW the Stato Journal than Pat Lannnn hus W to do with tho Salt Lake Tribune. Bill X might get sore if his man was de- M fcated and toll Francis to flop, becauso m Francis is tho man who runs things, so S Bill says, and turn things over, but tho S other paper is anchored. 'Sj & m Besides, thcro aro a lot of men S younger than either Shurtliff or Mc- H Kay, who think thoy ought to be given a chance. These two men are peren- , nial candidates. Every time an dec- tlon approaches either one, or toth, I blossoms out as a candidate. There is no disputing the fact that the nomination nomina-tion of either would mean grave dls- satisfaction and the old cry of chinch Influence would bo raised at once. Such action would pleaso the Demo-K Demo-K crats. It would bo nuts for them. Do- I cause Val Gideon and Tillman John, i son, Dr. Conroy and tho Scowcrofts I are smiling up their sleeves at tho 7te- i publican fight. Even Uncle John Sea- 1 man has emerged from his chrysalis and was seen on the streets a day or so ago smiling like a basket of chips at the outlook. Several leading Dem- li ocrats out in tho county have been A y doing some chuckling for quite a 3 while, and it looks as If the great un- washed was going to start a scrap and I expect to carry off a few of tho bou- j quets. ' & , f ! This Union Labor party, which holds a convention soon, at which a complete com-plete county ticket will be placed in I tho field, is going to cut some ice. It is not hampered by any Scotty Rankin annex in tho shape of a Worklngman's " I club, but is made up of tho labor un ions of tho city, and thero are several ( acres of them. They come from both parties, and arc betting they will poll more than 2,500 votes In this county. Ii If they do some one is going to suffer, because no man can determine which side is going to lose. The Socialists I have been making great gains 'also, and thero is an element of uncertainty about tho ensuing campaign which makes it fair and delightsome to tho average ward heeler. I believe tho Republicans will suffer most, because one of the leaders informed mo today that tho majority of tho membership were formerly Republicans, while the balance are about equally divided bo-1 bo-1 tween tho Socialists and Democrats, 1 I with the latter a shade ahead of the en.utl divislonists. The Socialists will I lose many votes on account of tho labor movement being so gencial all over (tho country. But tho secretary, Mrs. Hllllard, claims that with all theso dls-! dls-! affections her party will poll moro ( votes than ever this fall. I & Jt I j If tho disaffections and desertions ! amount to 3000, as It Is confidently be- j I lloved thoy will, some ono is going to j l( smoll woollen. Tho party managers of i ' both tho old parties had better keep ( an eyo on Weber, for thero Is work to do here. Candidates for county commissioner aio thicker than fleas. Every voting precinct outside the city has one. The county demands two, and they B.iy nilly Wilson and Oscar Madsen must go. If Ogdon does nut concede their demands and tho Democrats have srnse and nominate two fiom tho countiy, theio will bo music In the air, as tho country voters derhuo they aro tired of having everything go to Huntsvlllo and tho Kermilaqe. Tho south end of tho county declares they want a short cut road through to Lay-ton Lay-ton and tho Davis county commissioners commission-ers aio willing to help, but it is said that with tho exception of tho times when Commissioner Standiord comes down to smell the butter at tho poor farm they novel 300 a commissioner. So the south end demands one and Plain City and vicinity demands one, and there Is tho situation. P. H. Hendorshot is a candidate for the state senate on the Republican ticket. That's the reason his name hasn't appeared In the Giasmann papers pa-pers of late. Illll is for Shurtllff or McKay, piefoiably the fonucr. Jt & Next week tho ball will open hero. The fight will begin in earnest and by that time you can look for somothlng hot and juicy from FELIX. |