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Show I Political Pointers ,(i With the Denver and Chicago, conventions but distant a few weeks the political pot among the politicians is displaying some signs of heat, but among the general public it seems that the spirit of apathy prevails. The cause for this general spirit of restful laxitude on the part of the general public is probably due to the fact that things ' seem to be fairly settled as far as the National tickets are concerned. Wc have thus far heard of no farmer who has left his plow to come and help create sentiment for any new candidate. The workshop and factory seem to pursue the merry even tenor of their course and are not much disturbed about advocating the merits of any new candidate. candi-date. Taft will be nominated in Chicago and in all likelihood the present pres-ent vice-president will be his running mate. In Denver Bryan will be the almost unanimous choice of the con- 1 vention with some eastern man as his running mate. There are some W, I few papers who pretend to believe that a dark horse will be sprung 1 I in the Republican convention and there are a few Democratic papers , il expressing the belief that Johnson may supersede Bryan, but this. El in our estimation, is pure fiction. Jr.l The local state situation in the Republican party among the ft l politicians is that Col. Ed Loose will receive the Republican nomina- II tion for governor. Mr. Loose's friends claim that he possesses all r ,l necessary qualifications required to make him an exceptionally strong s jl candidate to head the Republican state ticket. The Colonel, of course, J jl is in the hands of his friends and his friends are shrewd politicians . jl and know what they arc doing, and while he has not announced his i 'I candidacy, it is dollars to doughnuts that when he docs announce ' :l himself it will be with every assurance that the nomination is his. I I Governor Cutler's friends think he is entitled to a second term I H on the merits of his record. The governor himself is maintaining a II dignified silence but it is understood that he not only is not averse H to a nomination for a second term but if the honor were thrust at H him he would not hesitate to go out of his way to accept it. In the ' lH case of Governor Cutler we have one of those peculiar situations that ,H sometimes develop in politics. .Four years ago he was the candidate 9 of the organization, or more commonly called the machine candidate, j H in one of the most spectacular fights ever seen in the Republican con- H vention in this state. He was nominated, defeating the then present H governor, Heber M. Wells. Soon after his election it was rumored , H that he was nflt entirely in harmony with the men who had fought and ; H won for him the nomination. There has been no open break, but i: jj H is understood that he no longer enjoys the favor of the organization ; H and now the men who were opposed to him last time arc found to be H his supporters. We may possibly witness in this state convention a H spectacular fight with the tables just reversed from what they were four years ago ; that is with the men who were Cutler men lined up 'M against him and the men who were anti-Cutler men lined up for him. -WM There are also several other men mentioned for governor among whom are Swen O. Nielson and Wm. Spry. With the Democrats Lyman R. Martineau, the present Demo- ,,H cratic state chairman, is being much talked of as an altogether suita-ble suita-ble candidate for governor. He is a Utah product who has been sue-ccssful sue-ccssful in many various commercial enterprises, in fact his friends claim that in Mr. Martineau they have a man who is in close touch )'fl with more phases of western growth and development than any other man. Besides him Wm. M. Roylancc, of Provo, a prominent merchant. is an active candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. Then Thos. ,1 N. Taylor, former mayor of Provo, is also mentioned. Major Richard 'M W. Young, of Salt Lake City, has been suggested as an available candidate. iM For the other offices on the state ticket there is no dearth of can- 'M didates and the matter of geography will. cut no inconsiderable figure in the selection of men to fill the minor places on the tickets. The Socialists have nominated a full state ticket and are already fl active in their campaign. Hearst's Independence League seems to have fizzled out so far as this state is concerr A reorganization oi the American party county committee has been effected. Chairman McGinty has included in his campaign com-mittee com-mittee a number of the stalwart wisehcads of that organization and is preparing for a vigorous canvass. Whatever else is slow, that term will certainly not be applicable 'M to things political in this county this fall. The Republicans claim they will carry the county because it is lM a presidential year and the great majority of people of the county are Republicans nationally. The Democrats insist that Bryan will be swept into the White House by a land slide that will carry Utah into the Democratic col- But the American party men believe that they will greatly in-crease in-crease their vote in this city and that their majority here will be big enough to overcome any lack of votes in the county outside of the So there you are, take your choice. 71 |