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Show SOME CACHE COUNTY POLITICS. We notice in the columns of the Logan Republican that a special meeting is called of the stockholders of the Logan Newspaper Company, Com-pany, a corporation, for Monday the 15th of June. This company owns and controls the Logan Republican, which, by the way, is one of the sprightliest and brightest of our country exchanges. The paper is Republican in politics and during the past few years has been edited by Ralph Moore, with Fred Turner as business manager. In the advertised announcement of this meeting it is stated "It is the intention of said undersigned stockholders to propose the removal and to rembve all the directors and other officers of said corporation from the respective offices held by them. And notice is further given that it is the intention of the said undersigned stockholders to elect at said meeting directors and other officers in place of those removed." The call is signed by Fred Turner, W. W. Maughan, J. A. Hcndrickson. , Albert A. Law, J. S. Larsen, who claim they own over fifty per cent, of the outstanding capital of the company. This announcement looks innocent enough on the surface but below be-low it all there appears to be a political fight between the elements of the Republican party in Cache county. The meeting is a special one and the object, of course, is to remove the present board of directors direc-tors of the company which is composed of Congressman Joseph Howell, Postmaster Joseph Odell, Senator Herschcl Bullen, jr., and J. C. Walters. These men are the recognized leaders of the Republican Re-publican party in that county and have directed its destinies during the past few years. They are the "ins" and it would appear that the others are the "outs" and want to get in. Looking over the list of names it is apparent that a pretty fight is forthcoming as the men are all recognized politicians and tacticians. From the present outlook it would seem that the present board of directors would be ousted and substituted by the men who sign the call for this meeting but still "there is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip" and the management of the Republican party in Cache County may still remain where it is because the men in charge are above all, resourceful and shrewd. The impelling motive for making this change in the directorate of the party organ in Cache county is said to be a desire on the part of the signers of this call to free themselves and their party from ring or boss rule. A plea of this kind is always a popular one and one that often wins, but wc have observed that the chief achievement of any movement of this sort usually means merely a change or transference trans-ference of ring rule or boss domination to another ring and another set of bosses. Let us hope that is not the chief object in this case. |