| Show THE LIBERAL nomination FOR RECORDER the fight for the liberal candidacy for the of salt lake county was lively almost to the verge of ferocity the unmitigated snub administered to H S mccallum shows that even the party of fraud draws the line somewhere in its manifestations of appreciation of those who have helped them into power by political trickery the limit IQ i placed at self in terest in the event of an unscrupulous or incompetent person being in the position ot recorder the interests of all classes of citizens are jeopardized mr mccallum at no time received a vote of the convention sufficiently strong to reach one half the number necessary for a choice seeing that the liberal organ had asserted that he and his friends had been jobbing and conspiring before hand to secure him the nomer nona nation this showing is all the more humiliating the snub was shared by 0 W powers as mccallum McCa lIum was disfavor ite ice for the candidacy for recorder but he got partly even by a coup de etal which secured tile the nomination for his next abo choice lc i e colonel page when he saw that Callums mccollums Mc case was hopeless he arose and stated that he was authorized to withdraw the name of his favorite and to express a wish on his behalf that his friends vote for col page this was a sortie into kimballs Kimb Kim alPs balls camp as the mccallum McCa lIum supporters were undoubtedly committed to a thumbs up or down process at the dictum of the powers mccallum combination it was evident from the beg beginning hilli that mr kimball was the real choice of the convention but the unscrupulous political manipulator from michigan was equal to the occasion and managed to de feat the real favorite I 1 we wonder whether poor old P edward ebward connor really believed he could get tile the nomination ifo if so the fact that he had bad not the ghost of a chance from the start must have been a source of mortification to the misguided man the liberal party have shown beyond doubt that the only use they have for him is to head a street parade in the fire and the rattle of last winter the chief liberal organ used to speak of him as the gladstone of utah and the old man of the west it was too cruel to thus tickle the old mans vanity and then demonstrate the hollowness of tile the flattery by giving him a corporals guard vote for the party nomination for county recorder A type of manhood hunting a county is rather a remarkable spectacle anyway so consistency may after all demand that failure should be the result of the effort there is much dissatisfaction among the liberals so it is reasonable to expect that mr powers will soon b e at a work cracking his whip and threatening to have dissenters drummed out of the party ranks thus following up the tactics of last cpr spring dg |
