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Show TRUTH. POLITICAL MELANGE. Smoot is the most active of all He is already the Senatorial aspirants. earnest and is in going into the thing effective work in creating doing very pntiment in his favor and sounding as to possible legislative candidates JJJr oreferences for a successor to Senator Rawlins. Mr. Smoot is not overl- ooking any points. Gov. ueiidreu (lereated by 120 votes. He ha?, lie jury commissioners, Messrs. H. G. been working around with that in view McMHlen and George P. Felt, are now for some time and has obtained which he believes reliable to at work selecting jurors to serve for next year, and it may be worth their the effect that in various election w hile to exercise care in the to his oppomatter. They are special both upright men nent, u. I . Morris, w'hich were intended and can be depended upon to do their nd that ballots which were irn1T spoilt by being improperly marked by duty honestly. voers and which should have been thrown out were counted for Morris Some lawyers have suggested that aiso. Mr. Whittemore has been led to the law should be changed so as to believe that there are enough errors make it the of that kind to elect him duty of the Judges to seif rectified. ? decides to make the contest he lect the jurors and it has also been will have to file it In the courts suggested that the addresses and occuDecember 15th, the law requiringby that pations, as wrell as the names of those such contests must be filed within forty selected, should be given and published. days after the election returns are made up. OGDEN LETTER. 1 Reed . Wells is apathetic and from all outward appearances is contented to fill the gubernatorial chair until his term expires. McCornick has been doing a sena-torshi- p, little work toward securing the W. S. and several probable candidates for the legislature whp are known to be friendly to Mr. McCornick are feeling around among the politicians. term of office of Chief Justice who has presided with such signal ability over the deliberations of the Supreme Court for the past few' The Miner, infor-mati- on j : dis-count- ed There are indications that Chief of Police Hilton and certain of his friends a e working with members of the City Council with the view of preventing the removal of the Chief. That is all right and proper if it is done in a proper way and on legitimate lines, but the effort that is being made is all in the direction of making it a Morman and Gentile fight. That is utterly wrong and reprehensible in the extreme, and those who are engaged in it had better quit it, or there will be trouble. Jnte; i al R?' e ueio hctcr Callister his seen fit to espouse the cause of Hilton and is using his influence with members of the City Council on behalf of the Chief. It would be Interesting to know on what theory Mr. Callister is proceeding. Is it on the Mormon and Gentile issue, or as a purely political proposition? If the former it is pernicious; and if the latter, it is no better. Mr. Callister is a Republican, holding office under a Republican administration. Is it square, clean politics for him to uphold a man in a city office who is distasteful to the Mayor, who is the head of the party ln the city, and to solicit aid from the Democratic section of the' Council to enable him to successfully thwart the wishes of the Mayor. Mr. Callister, since he became a Federal office holder, has taken the high ground that he must keep out of politics. He will show wisdom by taking a tumble to himself and keeping out of municipal affairs and intrigues. ? in January, 1903, and it is understood that he is making preparations for renomination as one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. From present indications, however, he will have an opponent In the field and the contest will be watched with much interest. Ever since Statehood, the Supreme Court has been comSalt posed of men w'ho hailed from Lake City and the southern portion of the State is now clamoring for recogniwhich tion on that bench. Counties have been giving the Republican ticket constant aid and comfort and which have been accorded but slight recognition in the distribution of political pottage are going to demand something for their section. Accordingly they have united on a candidate for the Supreme bench and he is none other than that stalwart Republican, Judge W. M. McCarty, who as Judge of the Sixth Judicial district, presides over the counties of Sevier, Wayne, Piute, Kane and Garfield. He has the judicial temperament which eminently qualifies him for CAR SERVICE UNIMPROVED. the place and his strong personality will draw toward him a big following. He is a Utah man and is thoroughly acThe Street Car company pursues the quainted with her history and her even tenor of its ways. There is no needs. Four years after his birth at appreciable improvement in the serAlpine, Utah county, in 1859, his parents moved to Washington county and six vice, if anything it is growing worse years of his boyhood were spent amid and the condition of its employees is the privations and hardships incident few new cars have to poineer life. In 1870 went unameliorated. A his parents street line, and to pioneer life. In 1870 his parents went been put on the Third to Iron county and thence in 1876 to the First street and East Fourth his home. During his boyhood and earSouth street cars stop at the Intersecyears, expires ly manhood he Was occupied in freighting, farming, railroading, cattle-raisin- g and mining, and, in fact, was ready to do any and all kinds of toil to earn an honorable livelihood. His character during these years of labor and privation became rugged and strong, and when he made up his mind to study law in SS2 he had but little scholastic lining. But by delving in the mines in summer he was able to delve into the 0 in winter, and In 1877 he was Admitted to the bar. From that time on his progress has been steady and rJ '! 1889 he was appointe ,ited States Attorney tor .. rnpart of the then Territory, noiaing that office until the advent of ln 1892 he was elected Coun- tvAf10' V !.ney for Sevier county and re-- n 1894; wras elected District 'r the Sixth Judicial district at election, and in 1900 was rLi ' State to that vfr office, running ahead nf ket 700 votes. He has about , fro. y teen called upon to sit in tha e on7 7me Court and has written ..n a number of very important pfliai0 iJrni ' " lis. ludIcial experience, his legal knrtw.V ti8 untiring Industry, his men anl events, gathered ' In world, and above all hi " 1 well fit him for the honesty D a vhich his friends seek to ele-vvato, .1 - 1 'k-a-d- ay af Dlaoa?i comae Whether the Judge has as ;itel to permit his name to be nomination when the time s not been ascertained. 1 hlttemore is considering the maWng a contest for the t r ,1y urershiD for which he was advi 7 tion of Main and Second South streets, instead of nearly opposite the Commercial block, but those slight imoffset by provements have been fully elsewhere. service the in deterioration The East Fourth South street cars, which when operated by the Rapid Transit company before the consolidation ran east to Tenth East street, now have Ninth East for their althoush the rrils for that b ock are intact and the cost of running, that trifling. The rhort distance is very to save every wants company, however, its passengers makes and can it the additional block shortening the 5 cnt ride by that distance. On Fourth South from State street car west the people are still without cars from the and kind service of any city in all di the central part of the as usual 5 rections are as crowded None of 7 o clock. 5 to evenings from fenders as the cars are furnished with are they should be. ofFenders the public. but the for the safety little for the public cares car company else when or something luck to trusting are brought against them. damage suits remarked that by lawyers It has been so rnany of names the how Is it strange with the street car persons connected or another are some way in company who have found on the jury list MenShort Line an interest in the Oregonrailroad comWestern Grande or Rio among the Jurors, panies are seldom the street car combut In the case of It is also a subpany it is otherwise. few who ject of remark that thepersons cars street have been injured by in recovering successful have been may be for their injuries damages fact. is the such n. nniv coincidence, but ter-minu- s, nsaP Ogden, Dec. 6. The expected has happened. Bill and the machine are at outs. Ani so is the rest of the push so far as Bill is concerned. A number of the Councilmen are flying the flag of belligerency, and the storm signal is everywhere out. Bill wants to be the whole works and the small fry dont propose to stand for his interference. He bumped up against Recorder-ele- ct Critchlow the other day so the story and Informed him that the present system of bookkeeping was all wrong and he, Critchlow, must adopt a new system the Glasmann system. The Recorder, ln brief, terse English, notified Bill that when his suggestions in regard to the Recorders office were wanted, he would be called in, not before. But that did not teach Bill anything. goe3 He is Interfering ln all departments and his ideas of reform and economy are less stupid than ridiculous. As an instance: He wants the firemen at the central fire station to be jailers at the police station. His idea is to keep the firemen busy when they are not fighting fire and to reduce expenses. He thinks the Fire Chief should be paid from $25 to $50 per month and should run a cigar store or cobbler shop or keep any old thing on the side to helpwants the wolf from the door. Again, he the firemen to supply the necessary help around the police headquarters, and to Jump on a bike and make tracks for a fire when an alarm is sent In. These are samples of his ideas In these departments only. When you understand that his .table of contents takes in every branch of city government, you will get an idea of the capacity of the makeshift into whose hands the city has fallen. above parallel 40, in the shadow of the cheapest fakirism of the West. But that is not all that is the matter with us. We are just now stirred from the center to the off side by the travial of the Judges one defeated and one elected, and one of whom wanted to furnish court records for the other. Shall my rival get in his deadly work still, even though I ground him to powder in the election? saith the elected one. Dont be a kid, came back saith the other, give me a chance to make a living. Let me make the forms of the court and I care not who sits upon the bench. And he labored with the youthful magistrate but he would not. Whereupon the Council, which must, furnish the records for the city court by January 1st, is much wroth and the end is not yet. Speaking of the escape of another batch of prisoners from the county jail reminds me of a prison bird whose nest was around Ogden for several years. The fellows name was Brown. At least he wras convicted under that name. He was probably the most expert that ever rifled a ladys boudoir. He had been a locksmith and chain-makand at his business he wras a genius. But crime was his diversion. He was ingenious in his criminality and criminal ln his ingeniousness. He had stayed in and around prison so long that the jail corridor was his hall and the bars his front fence. His home was in a cell and for fourteen years, off and on, his only home. That is, unless he wanted to move. If a desire to emigrate invaded his bosom, he picked a lock and lock-pick- er er wras gone. He. wras in jail here when that murderer, con-sciousl- ess Fat Coughlin, and his comrade, George, were occupying quarters at the county bastlle. He would take the wire from a buckle ln his suspenders and pick the locks. In his idle moments he manufactured enough gunpowder from sulphur, nitre and charcoal furnished him by children, to blow up the courthouse. He would break jail by the route whenever he took a notion, and he has been known to call at the Sheriff's home for breakfast. There was no desire to escape that would be too much like running away from home. He picked locks to keep in practice. After a dozen adventures the Sheriff discovered a way to keep Brown in jail. He got a 2x4 railing, saddled Brown astride of it. but his body backward till it lay on the plank, and then him to it. That was the only All this, however, is for a purpose. strapped to keep Brown in o nights. way It is part of Bills system to plan a coup detat from the ruin of blasted COUNTY WILL PAY OLD DEBT. hopes and the wreck of broken promises. His scheme Is to throw the. burden of responsibility on the other felThe County Board is expecting to pay low in this case the City Council. In other words. Bill will say, when the peo- off at the end of the year the balance ple rise up and demand that he make of the old county furniture warrants, pledges, "I tried amounting to about $22,000, which was good his to reduce taxes, tried I to economize; by left as a legacy of debt by a former but the Council would not standcanBill The total me. It is a small hole that county administration. not crawl out of. The new Mayor is amount of those warrants was about nothing If not foxey. He knows he $36,000, of which $14,600 was paid some cant make good on the waterworks months ago. After years of litigation expectations and he is looking for the the courts decided that the warrants most healthy way of escape. The prob- were valid and would have to be paid. stand ability is he will make a grand It has been quite a strain on the preswill he which say, fail after playand ent administration to pay this old debt s; "The law is at fault, in addition to the legitimate current frame will I and elect me to Congress of the county government. expenses a law whereby we can get the water- The County Board mapped out a plan works. early in the year to wipe out the old debt by only half a mill advance ln the Such demagoguery is entirely in keep- tax levy and by practicing strict econoing with Bills plan of campaign. It is my in every department. Under the eyes of Chairman Anderson anything for Bill and Bill for every- watchful his and Harker and Horne, colleagues, of a the thing. The pledges and promises so has succeeded that plan so long enough money will be in thewell campaign can go for naught treasury "This the can at as Bill windup, say when the year closes to off the old Council, which you gave me, did hin- indebtedness and leavje pay the treasury the not perform der me and I could as good shape as it as when the in same The .with office. duties of my present board came into office, and fixing the tax levy a duty which falls nearly three-fourtof the amount has on the legislative body and not on the come from the saving in expenditures. executive. How easy for the Mayor to The board has also provided for a pavlevy when, as a advocate a 6 or tax of $4000, levied against the matter of fact, the Council knows that ing county jail property for its proportion the city must have from 9 to 19. In of the expense of paving Second South that way the Mayor spells his title with street, a pretty good a capital M, while the poor dupes of present administration. record for the ante-electi- lock-picki- ng on fellow-citizen- hs ill will be compelled, unless the watch crafty executive, to furthey nish the wind wherewithal sails the Glasmann kite. Councilmen The entire school population of the State, as computed by State Superintendent of Schools Nelson, ls 8T,125, of It may be so after all; no doubt we which Salt Lake City has 14.543; Ogden, are a peculiar people, living up here 5659; Provo, 2155; Logan, 1978. 1 t J |
