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Show 4 THE BEE. a score of other complications have made the Tribune's effort to stay at the head of, the procer-sio- n a veritable hurdle race. It has been between the devil ami the deep sea for almost two years, wondering which way to turn, and now this new party offers it the first resting place in all that time. The Tribune will favor the new party ; it will advocate the consolidation of the silver forces under a new banner; already 'indications are cropping out. The Herald will oppose the new party ; it will make an appeal to the people in favor of the regular Democratic organization. But the Tribune will have this advantage. It will take refuge behind the recent letters of Mr. Bryan and Chairman Jones urging consolidation ; the Herald will hardly direct its criticisms against such authorities on silver and Democracy ; and from behind this breastwork the Tribune will pour a fire into the ranks of Utah Democracy that will teach their organ how to improve an opportunity, how to use an advantage. Had the Herald been givingmoreattention to the local situation than it has to foreign rumors, its adversarys guns should now be spiked. It will not be able- to prevent a serious defection from the Democratic ranks, and it will only be able to defeat the new party at the polls by putting up a fight beyond its apparent capabilities. -- - PROPOSED PARTY CONSOLIDATION. Some peculiar complications in local politics are developing. The nucleus of a new party has already been formed. What influence it will have over the young state remains to be seen. Whether or not it will, as some believe, go a loDg ways towards the solution of local political problems, is another question that time will be permitted to answer. But the new party is beginning its existence under conditions not the most favorable, not generally conducive to long life. If it were simply the embodiment of a principle, if it were the representative solely of some great cause, its outlook would be more encouraging and its growth more substantial. But there are a few things connected with it, a few suspicious circumstances surrounding it, which will cause many a man and woman favorable to the idea to pause and consider well before uniting with an organization whose chief purpose seems to be the furtherance of the plans of some aspiring politician. The chief promoter of this new party, the state organizer in fact, is a gentleman whose fame as a senator-makeextends over the entire west. He has been with Dubois in victory and defeat ; he took part in the memorable contest between Shoup and Sweet ; and opened headquarters in the hotel Templeton as Frank Cannons chief lieutenant in the apparently one sided battle of 9fi. He is a maker of senators if he is anything, and while he has sometimes met defeat he also dangles a number of well combed scalps at his belt. Is there any need of mentioning the name of Ben E. Rich, of Idaho, in this connection? r Mr. Rich is unquestionably a friend of silver money, but he is not a worshipper of principle in the abstract it must be personified in some dear friend. And so it is that he leaves the impression almost everywhere that he goes that the most important thing for the people of Utah to keep in of Senator Cannon. This mind is the will not ail in the organization of the new party, for, while the Senator has many warm admirers, people are not lacking who think that he has already been honored quite enough, and that a party made for a man is not so much to their liking as a party founded on principle, free to choose its candidates afterwards. n Various speculations are rife, among members of the dominant church as well as among outsiders, as to what endorsement the Senator is apt to receive in view of the castigation administered by his father in a Washington interview last summer. It is claimed that the Senator will fight his battle alone, depending upon his brilliancy and his record, rather than the assistance he has received in the past. And yet the fact remains that his John the Baptist, who came down from Idaho to preach in the wilderness of Utah, is goiug about armed with an official endorsement, adorned by three well known signatures, talking Mutual Improvement one hour and Frank Cannon the next. But there will be a newT party organization in Utah this fall, it will take part in the coming campaign, Frank Cannon will be its standard bearer, some leading Democrat will manage its campaign, Democrats, Silver Republicans and Populists will compose the party, the Tribune will be its organ and Manager Lannan the mogul. After eighteen months of dodging and darting to and fro, the Tribune is about to steal a base on the Herald. Nothing but sheer clumsiness and asinine stupidity has prevented the Herald from winniugthe game. It has had the Tribune at its mercy time and again. The people have seen it. There is no need of making excuses. Fate has frowned on the Tribune month after month. She has smiled on the Herald until the stolid indifference of that journal has driven the smile from her lips. Misfortune has pursued the Tribune with awkward complications and embarrassing alliances ; and its pursuit of the one has left the other without external handicap. But the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the man with the odds in his favor. Many a race is pulled and many a battle thrown and some are lost from a lack of grit or judgment. Eighteen months ago the St. Louis Republican convention left the Tribune practically at the mercy of the Herald ; the Chicago convention added to the advantage of the Herald. The desire of the Tribune to secure favors from the administration ; the work that it did in that direction ; the gyrations it has performed in local campaigns; its denunciation of an influence at one time that it encouraged at another ; these and When the new organization shall have been perfected and the Tribune, as its organ, begins the fight in earnest along the lines laid down by Bryan, Jones and'the national leaders of Democracy, the Herald will be placed in the unfavorable light of opposing the plans of the national organization of ignoring the wishes of the silver leaders of the nation, and it will be treated as the organ of a faction, of a local party. It has only itself to blame; and the state Democracy depended upon its vigilance in vain. It was a long, dark lane through which the Tribune groped, but the turn seems near at hand, and when it emerges from the shadow Manager r in Lannan, the, shrewdest political the state, may realize his dream and sit in judgment over Utahs politicians, the uncrowned king of the situation, the proud political boss of a new and dominant party. wire-worke- ANOTHER CHANCE FOR TRUflBO. When Lawyer Clara Foltz sued Colonel Trumbo for five thousand dollars in San Francisco three weeks ago, the case was compromized in a most mysterious manner. The Call, reporting the case, says the litigants appeared in court and shortly before the case was called, plaintiff and defendant held a whispered consultation with the result that a compromise was reached. When the fact was announced surprise manifested itself on the face of Attorney Grove L. Johnson, who represented the plaintiff, but he expressed no opinion. As Bishop Clawson was in San Francisco about that time, and as the Colonels campaign for the senate was apparently launched immediately thereafter, it is believed that the the plaintiff agreed to wait and give the Colonel one more chance to retrieve his shattered fortunes. And so it rests. But the Colonel hasnt the slightest hope of an election. There is something in his boom besides his chances for the senate. It gradually dawning on the minds of some people that there i3 an electric light trust m this is vicinity. |