| Show BY THE BY do you see bee the democratic orchard of utah in your minars eyt eye note how the eager boys come trooping into the enclosure and with what yearning eyes they cluster beneath the some enter boldly through the kate gate as those having an undoubted right to be there others climb tumultuously over the walls wall and with a scramble drop into the cherished precinct still others am assemble at the gates and peep longingly in yet set no foot beyond the portals unit as if doubtful of their reception but whether within or without all eyes are fastened on the great plum tree and all hands are stretched forth to catch plums plume that seem just in the wot act of getting ready to fall well they have worked nobly most of these boys and they are right in their expectations of reward there ure are perhaps it a few who come piling over the wall whom those centering jent ering by the gates eye askance as if to say you were somewhat late in coming it is a question whether you would have come out at all but for the tempting bloom of this orchard but come on and if you capture a plum we will not begrudge it you vp perhaps also the finger of scorn is pointed at some of those fearful linderen lingerers linger lin geren ers at the gate whose democracy haj bal to be filtered through a powers and lannan sieve before it could be called pure who in fact act did not make up their winds minds that t they ey were democrats at all til till I 1 the morning of november ath A silver hatchet ak n as the former insignia of this noble bands but hatchets this year are worn in the pocket but generally speaking all eyes are too busily engaged fe legating gating fen sting on the plums plume to pay much attention to new arrivals and all minds too absorbingly sor bingly centered on the problem of how to make the somewhat limited u number u aber of plums on the tree satisfy all the anxious watchers and waiters below tu abandon metaphor there la is no spec spectacle taule in the whole political arena that will be more interesting for the next six months than that of the distribution trib ution of government patronage in utah no one oae disputes di spates that every republican rider must be unhorsed if he be does i lot ot dismount peaceably aud and very few of them will A few old stati neb Imp imperial ecial guards like judge zane may resign as soon as am cleveland assumes sum command of the grand corp but generally they will have to be jerked from their saddles by the arm of force it la is the fortune of war and they should not murmur four years ago they assisted in a similar ceremony in which the roles were reversed and four years hence they will be just as ready to assist again in the same oid 0 d roles as before Toab to aban anJou jon metaphor again the contest for the governorship is the first thing though not by any mesas means the main thing that is attracting mon mons mens s attention the contestants have narrowed down to two hon caleb W West the former democratic incumbent and col lett both are on equal ground as aa regards their exodus irom from Liber liberalism allom and this by the th way think of it 0 tribune promises to be tho iby test teat of true democracy the shibboleth by which men rea i ther the r title clear to the right to stand in the same rank with the hendersons the dyers dyer the chambers Ch ambera the rawlins the williams and the others who were the first to throw away their arms and refuse to fight longer anjer the implacable bunners of liberalism against a foe that had bad already surrendered eju at this distance from the idea of march it may be said that governor wes lei a chances for regaining his old seat are somewhat better thau than those of his competitor he is in a kentuckian Kentuck iau anil and will have the valued support of carlisle he has besides au immense acquaintance in washington ands and m re than all ne lie was one of cleve landed first utah appoint appointments befurt col letts connection is in largely in nebraska and colorado which are hardly iu in the position to ask favori from a democratic administration that kentucky is but lett is a gamey individual and the verb to falter never had a place in his bits coD conjugation the part that the local committees territorial and county headed beaded respectively by C C richards Bic hards and J B toronto the national c committeeman col merritt vice ferry wiped out the two congressmen mr caine the going and mr rawlins the coming man take in recommending the various applicants will of course have a great deal to do in settling the matter with president cleveland but as far as the local committees at least are concerned little positive action can be looked bior the reason is that in conducting the great battle so triumphantly concluded the committees had equal assistance from mapy many of those who are now pitted against each other in the race for office col lett gave up his private business and simply devoted himself to the campaign governor west was also an ardent worker hence the committee is obviously in no condition to take sides and all it can do for either is to endorse both and say no mistake will be made whichever man was chosen the committees have literally been submerged and overwhelmed with applications from the various applicants but very wisely they hey have decided to endorse no one so far in advance and to wait till all the names are before them before acting on any col merritt mr calne caine and mr rawlins hawlins may have their but as far as ai can kanbe be learned all are proceeding very tory cautiously with wath one exception bowd blar two none of the applicants app licanto can count on the endorsements endorsement of eather of those theae three important individuals there are two contests before which the gubernatorial race and all other races entered for this great quadrennial spring meeting pale into insignificance namely that for the united states and that for the position of united hates marshal I 1 violate no confidence in saying that judge judd and A T schroeder are rare looked in a deathlike embrace struggling for the first and that judge norrell wendell benson and nat M brigham are conducting a lively three cornered fight for the second it Is sail that judge howatt the distinguished lowan iowan who has just fust formed a law partnership with judge sutherland would not be averse to accepting the but it is to be feared that he hardly comes as yet within the meaning of the clause relating to residents J W mcnutt of ogden is 18 said bocast to cast a lunging longing eye at the plum but it is hardly likely that that appointment will go to ogden oden aa long as the penitentiary and so large a part of its constituency remain in salt like lake so the battle is narrowed down to benson norrell and brigham Brig bam with it must be said the chances at present very much in faar of the silver throated tenor ba everio e knows brigham was wag one of the mainstays main stays ui oi cable the man who carried illinois an and who can have Rayth anything ilig he wants frum from cleveland the united states is one of the he be wants and he has drawn a sight eight dra t for it on cleveland in favor of brigham rumor says the dral draft it has beon beau accepted and that brigham and his bis friends expect the commission by the first mail frum washington after the inauguration so lar as the salt lake publics preferences go Brighum though popular in a get bet stands lust last lie he has shared no part of the beat and burden ot of the day in utah and Js is among the recent comers with the politicians and workers the is 18 thought to belong to norrell who was one of the war horses of the campaign and who even in the hottest days of liberalism still guarded alo 0 a d kept alive the sacred embers ot of the democratic fire it if prank frank dyer nad had survived norrell would be sure of the place with business men and amt a good many others wendell bensun is if the favorite the man who put hiu his thousands into an edifice like the knutsford has a strong claim on his bin fellow citizens citi zeus and there is a very widespread feeling that hat his claim should not be disregarded then too bedsol is entitled to the gratitude ot of everyone for his hie fearless record lu in the kerutis days of 89 and 90 when to 10 favor a mormon was almost as much as a gentile Is social position was worth benson was one of those whose num ber could be counted on the fingers finders who resolutely set got their faces against the he policy ot of ostracism and boycotting boycott inK atone at onetime time inaugurated by the labom a he almost caused the walker house to rook on its foundation by defying in its lobby a committee sent to remonstrate with him for employing mormon laborers on the knutsford excavation but bat as ae I 1 have said brigham la Is in tha lead and there la every khanoo of ha age reaching the he goal some of wendeel bodson beddons Be Dons le friends however are ace not at all backward in saying baying that a pretext will go to cleveland it if appointment looks imminent bat B ita protests do not count for munh much at washington as governor thomas thomaa and judge bartch can testify the contest is a verv pretty fight ss it stands they say any taj when judge judd learned that anyone hadtke bad the unparalleled audacity to enter the lists against him he simply 44 ai down aud glared at his through his eloquent spectacles with mingled amusement and cont contempt he has hardly yet brought his bis soul to a realizing sense of sub lime gall that young man whose three Ps made hiria him lo locally calli in a single night famous is said gald to to have the endorsement of every bank on the street with the possible excel tion of the american national ja judda judd has gal gaii he expects the offee to come to him without an effort on his hia part he goes on the principle aba everything comes to him who waita schroeder broeder dc operates on the belief that providence helps those wh who 0 feln e stiem elvea and he I 1 r imposes to haa h ot e himself to thy the if he OIL in a hustling qualities leads but judge judd secured secure ti an appointment from cleveland one onca bet rd ra taj tie lie may be able to do it aelia nom herrons w it is ie a radiant relief to turn to the office of secretary of the f for this large rile rie plum ou on luscious lusciousness neso governor thomas aud and col sells riella bota waxed fat there A only one competitor C C buchardt Bl chardt ghere were several before it waa w learned that mr richards wa was s sia applicant but MOHL of them gracel retired as soon as ae his name was mentioned in connection with the clatie well it is a fat berth but it is ie aone too gm good lor for charley who led the lowd 1001 democratic hosts on to victory I 1 in the late tremendous battle as few other men currl have done and who when knees were quaking all around him hia never for a moment lost faith in tb te star ot of democracy if mr richarda goes in and the man who doubts ja it is yet to be encountered lie he will be the first mormon to hold federal ot office since well since a time so nr far L back that the memory of man runnel nut not to the contrary in jug H may be mentioned that joe waldo anti ana young are said to hax had eyes on the secretary office it may be doubted however whether they are doing any serious work for ati and what of the chief the honor of filling judge zan galoshes galos hes la Is an exalted one but it if ft were accompanied by a larger nun aanal hii stipend etl pend perhaps there would be mo MUM eager eagerness in reaching aut for it btty 21 aa men of the stamp of judge sutherland frank richards charde Bi and parley williaw can double the salary of the chief 91 tice by an ordinary years and it Is in understood that neither oitt the three will look at the po position sitton different now from the days when W clerk of the court could be in the he family that om office tuo to afis tb in ID altena alienated ted by a tern dorm ean any uv relative of the judie judge w that sent john zane out and a ath 7 E G KO Ballan in mr jesse EL barton of libel writ suit memory to said to im b cli clamoring for the chief justice aldi but mr barton holds or hold held bedox views on the question qu estton of tato hood and was unwise enough to write them to the the dome time ago any man who to not sound bound on the statehood question ban baa about go as much hope of office under fa cleveland leveland as she he 1 has hag of kecur wit the government printing for the eaxt four years yeam by the WY way but for that home rule plank what an act of poetic justice it would be for cleveland to send eliot jp sanford back baak to the first place on the utah bench it has gone into history how bow that distinguished jurist because he was not in asard jhb president harrison harrisons Harria ons s policy regarding regard 19 utan the particular aeto of which he was guilty no one ever seemed to know but he may truthfully be said to have been the olineor in the groat great work of win in utah and many there are who demote the home rule plank would de ngat to see him vindicated by receive ha they ther applin appointment truant for the other positions on the bench this itoe applicants are too many to specify ift smith better known as ken lueky from his big long residence lu in who 10 has a first mortgage on the seat and lawyer mcnally p one of the stalwarts stal warts in the he recent figh t has preempted pre empted the probate of it to Is generally understood that the advancing youage lawyer B R W vice president of the school wara and a grandson of president BrIg barn young can 0 an have either oue one olt of the judge judgeships ships he wants atoo also that it was a common understand tax tas in the bar association among Rs blicaus and democrats alike that W wt young ws to be urged for the ow now fillod filled by judge barton bartch but lawyers propose rod and politicians disi and the scheme fell through though ough if all reports say tru it will nit idly an aunt to more than a post poat PO coment in mr youngs oase case john H rumel bamel and C B R barratt an re in a nook neck and nook neck race for the both are such evenly excellent follows fellows that one Js is deprived of the chance of saying efty the best man win ja barratt WW mat the appointee under cleveland ada a clean record be made there ave half a dozen applicants for the ogden and provo floes rod and wry overy village in utah will have a now new man main to put up for its local office here will be afforded a rare opportunity for the democratic administration to undo an injustice which has been for years past pasta reler refer to the old practice of tabooing tabo mormons cormons in use appointment of postmasters hitherto the policy has been to bestow offices on LVe liberals rals if a liberal could be found anywhere within the radius fadjus of the district and the convenience and wishes of the community have been mado made entirely secondary considerations coming down to the land office and receiver ate comfortable ber elisi avd them be ebo seek nook to nestle thereto therein mr parks Cle olds old appolin appointee would falu fain adorn his former seat mist and frank harris the reial real estate man attorney Attorn dy caball cabal H L casady a mr blakely W E D barnett and some rome others are seeking one place or ane other but I 1 can give them all a pointer mr byron groo former editor of the Bero Aj and a toiler for democracy in utah before many of the other aspirants know knew utah was waa on the map of our common country has baa b been mentioned for one of the land office offic desks and my advice to the other contestants te to la to refrain from selecting their bureaus until after groo gets through it to s known that groo and richards richard form the only two exceptions to the rule mr Baw line mr Cal Calne Cof merritt stud and possibly the committees have laid down oot not to 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