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Show Yol 1, No. 51. SALT- - LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 30, 1902. Price 5 Cents The people still want to know why Mayor Thompson has not accepted the resign nation of Chairman Dooly of the Board of Public Works In the Political Arenas. State Republican Convention at Ogden on Thursday Sept. 11. Salt Lake county, primaries for the election of delegates to the State Republican convention Friday Sept. 5th at 8 p. m. Salt Lake county Republican convention at Salt Lake theatre on Monday and Tuesday Sept. Salt Lake county primaries for the election of delegates to the county running for the lower house is contracted for con- cerned, the man who conceived the idea must have succeeded in buying a new and hereto unknown brand of hop. The sort of pipe dream which produces hallucinatiQns like that would make a man have visions of Bill Glasmann in the presidential chair. No comparison is intended and the writer apologizes Cannon for putting his and the name in the same paraRepublican convention on Thursday Ogden editors is no use denying that There graph. Sept. 18 at 8 p. m. Cannon Mr. a candidate for the is State Democratic convention at Provo story is too silly to be credited, even by on Tuesday, September 16. those who take no paper except the Salt Lake county Democratic conventio- Tribune, the journal which threw the n-last week in September, exact date startling tale at its unprotected constinot yet fixed. tuency. 22-2- 3. to-Mr- . II ft ft As a matter of fact there isnt much The campaign has opened. Everything is booming. The. daily papers new in the political field from a Repubcomprising the syndicate, have in- lican point of view. Every one seems structed their political reporters to get to be waiting for the arrival of Senator up a lot of politics. That is to say Kearns. It is a fact that Perry Heath, whenever they hear of a man who since his return, has been quite busy wants to run for an office, to mention getting in touch according to inthe fact and to ' take all kinds of falls structions received from his chief, but 8 efforts are confined to walking out of the Democrats, but never say a Perry from his office down to Joe Lippmans word concerning conditions in the g. o and over to the Dooly block to see Ben p. They, the reporters, are doing their Heyward and then going back to the Tribune and telephoning them someduty according to instructions. We he forgot to say while he was read with much interest that Tom thing with them. h Jones is running for constable at .ft ft - - Pan-guitc- and that C. M. Nielsen wants to be justice of the peace, in Salt Lake City. Our eyes light on the slug head over the announcement that G. Ham Naylor is again in the race for sheriff and that John James has an idea that it would be a good thing to succeed himself as county clerk. Our eager glance catches the paragraph that tells us Morris Sommer is thinking of going into politics once more and that Gus Kroeger has about made up his mind to throw himself into the hands of his friends for an office with jurisdiction limited to $9.99. But this news, printed in issue after issue, gets stale after a time. Then it is that the imaginative young men, who have a column or two to fill, write alleged political information; get action on their think tanks and give us something new and refreshing. For instance, we persue with intense interest the two stick story which lets us know Frank J. Cannon will be a candidate for congress and the breezy anecdote which announces that Quil Nebeker is up at the ranch shooting Clarence E. Allen is a cruel man. He should be disciplined by some one. The political reporters made a temporary chairman of him in place of John D. Murphy, and all he had to.do was to go into the convention, take the mallet, call the delegates to order, make a speech and then appoint the committees. But Allen kicked over thebuckec. He and said he wanted came out of to happen; that- he kind the nothing was in no sense an aspirant for the place. If that wasn't cruelty to human beings, then in the entire category of offenses against the common weal there is no such thing as a misdemeanor. -- flat-foot- ed - II ft Chairman Roylance has returned. It is understood that when he reached Provo he found on his desk a box of typewriter paper, a bundle of envelopes and $5 worth of stamps; also a new ribbon for his writing machine, the.gift of Joe Rawlins, with the message: Now let the campaign proceed. The cam- chickens. is understood to be KJgnRoylance is reported proceeding. ft as having all written nine letters to leading Demo.Quil may be shooting chickens and to have right, but so far as Frank Cannon crats asking for money1, ' thirty-si- x tatoes and a carload since his return. bushels of po- of watermelons, did all in his power to elect W. .L Bryan president and defeat William McKinley. Why even in Nevada, United States Senator John P. Jones ft ft and In this county all is activity. Chair- both William M. Stewart, who were elected as Republicans and who man Noble War rum has been to Dem- both ran the full gamut of Bryanism, ocratic headquarters in the Herald have since returned to the fold in sackeditorial rooms twice during the week. cloth and ashes, and announced from He is making a table of the vote of the the housetops that silver is dead, ft ft past six years, showing just how many Are Republicans the only ones, then; votes the party has lost and how they can be regained. It is understood when who are to learn from experience and this table and explanation are sent out keep abreast of the times ? Are the broadcast, there will be a tremendous Democrats to grope forever after a sensation. The work will be completed dead issue in the catacombs of oblivion just as soon as some one announces that there is money in the treasury sufficient while the march of civilization goes on to pay for printing and mailing. overhead? The very fact that the Dem- ft ft ocrats have begun to realize that the Morris Sommer is an injured man. silver issue is dead; that the world has The daily papers have been announcing moved since 1896; that William J. him as a candidate for city justice of Bryan is nothing now but the mighty the peace with jurisdiction limited to somnambulist of a vanished dream; that the need of the hour is an aggresone cent under ten dollars. Morris sive ready and able to meet the wishes it stated that he is not a candi- issuesparty, of the hour this is the most sigdate for any such little, petty place as nificant and encouraging fact on the that. Morris is making too much money political horizon at this time. If John to bother with any such affair. He is Sparks is an able honest man, in symwith the general principles of going to Europe right after election, to pathy the home of nis ancestors, where he the party, the Democrats of Nevada will buy a lot of furniture. Morris is have done well to nominate him for governor. His. opinion on the silver going to furnish a new residence in issue has no more weight now with the which he will entertain the .president of the United States, after Roosevelt steps people who are running the world than has his opinion on the Missouri Comdown and out. ' promise or the Salem Witchcraft. ft ft" ft ft Congressman King has been interThe colored folks of the city, through viewed in Washington several times. their leader, Bruce Johnson, are The press here has republished several of his utterances. But they seem to threatening to desert the Republicans have overlooked the one given to the this fall. Bruce claims that for many New York Sun, which declares Kearn years the republicans have promised a Democrat, or words to that effect, for his people a share of the spoils of office, it says that the people of Utah are in but have failed to make good. Prior favor of reciprocity with Cuba and to the last city election, Bruce claims, against a tariff on beet sugar. This the Republicans pledged themselves will doubtless be glad tidings to the senators friends to know that King is that several good appointments would with them. be given to men of his race, but all the ft ft recognition they have received is the menial of dog catcher. They Republican papers in this section of claim SOUplace votes almost enough to turn the country, the Tribune of Salt Lake the election either way. They prominent among the number, are givpower, and if the Democrats work there is a chance for that ing out strong symptoms of jimjams.be-caus- e things toright make some decided gains. The party John Sparks, a gold Democrat are not worrying much Republicans who voted for McKinley, has been nom- about it, believing as they do, that the inated for governor by the regular colored people are naturally RepubliDemocracy of Nevada. Here in Utah cans and that at a very little cost they . we have a Republican United States can keep them in line. They also rely on the genius of the Demosenator who bolted' McKinley and sup- crats toproverbial neglect opportunities which-arported W. J. Bryan. He was pulled presented to them. through the streets of Park City by his ft ft people six years ago because he reputhe of its state chairman Although diated his own party and espoused the committee has endeavored to stir the' cause of the enemy We have here in Utah a Republican congressman who blood in the veins of the stupid and t . . feel-thei- r e -- - , |