Show POLITICAL POINTERS In a burst of enterprise some Ogden citizens got together and offered to put up for the State Capitol if it could be erected The sum was subsequently raised to double that coupled with the gratifying assurance that the structure should cost the rest of the state All this is very commendable and shows a go-ahead disposition on the part of Ogden's business men such as is worthy of Perhaps it not looked on as a matter of immediate or it may be regarded as something that can be overlooked that the Capitol as at present contemplated is to cost five times as much as the larger of the sums also does it not appear to be considered that before the necessary legal routine for making the change of locality could be it is hoped the edifice will be As it is a laudable ambition and the Ogden people are entitled to praise for their pull in that when Utah has a building of the kind spoken it will look majestically down upon Salt Lake valley from the eminence known as Capitol The Americans have been casting about them for an acceptable for That word is to be taken in more tha none for there are quite a few who would be satisfactory to the reigning dignitaries of the but who are not in an accepting frame of It was hoped that David Keith might be prevailed but it seems Mayor Bransford has probably had enough of and thus the selections Without designing to be too we why not Joseph he has not many qualifications for the but he has some things in his favor from a party point of prominent among which is that as a political Barkis he has few equals and no Try It looks and in fact rather small business to have a man put in two months' time as clerk of the juvenile court and then refuse to pay The fact that there is no statute specifically authorizing such payment is a poor one of the kind that is worse than none and used oftener than otherwise as a cloak for malice and If it is necessary for public work to be payment therefore is presupposed and public policy is antagonized by any other F. Utah's member of the Democratic national was down from Logan a few days If there were any traces of political disappointment in his they failed to show on his or through his which were hopeful and even stimulating to those of political inclining who heard lie is a good man from whatever standpoint considered and has a host of friends who are not confined to his own A malicious on hearing it stated that George Sutherland might be appointed to the United States Supreme Court are two or three other jurists here who deserve and as there are likely to be that many vacancies in the highest tribunal soon let them all have a Let us not overlook Dan Harrington and Brig One thing begins to with tolerable plainness in our local the Democrats will not join the Republicans in a citizens ticket for the coming municipal Several of the more prominent ones have been talked and the consensus of expression was about as Republicans of this region are short on judgment and long on After the corrupt contemptible methods they re sorted to last they now want to get us to crawl into the same trundle-bed with and be kept snug and Realizing that they have got to the end of their tether and couldn't carry a constable here any they are willing to take half a than go without and have the nerve to ask us to help them get the we Half or whole loaves have never made any difference to being regarded as the means to not as the ends but if it were and we were willing to so far forget our principles as to set them aside for the sake of a few paltry we would not even then join hands with open and unrestricted That's pretty strong but it has a certain ring to A familiar figure in local who has gained some little distinction by the on coming hands out this rare sample of dope for the benefit of Independent readers next United States Senator from Utah will be D. C. Jackling or Samuel The chances at this time slightly favor the this notwithstanding the almost certainty of the Republicans losing this county next they now have every county but and have a chance at those while they have all the hold-over There will be considerable opposition but whether enough to overcome the existing Republican preponderance is the Sutherland's goose is cooked in any It ought not to but is necessary to remind our readers that on Tuesday next those of them who pay a property tax and are registered are called upon to vote yes or no on the question of whether they will tax themselves an additional mill per annum for fifteen years for the purpose of building a state Indications are that there will not be a heavy vote and that the matter is likely to go which ever way it does go by This should not Wake up Uncle Joe Cannon opines that the only way to get Congress adjourn is to have the thermometer register about 97 in the Even that would be warm compared with the condition of things that waits some those who were elected with the distinct understanding that they would work for a downward revision of the |