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Show Vol 2, No. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 27, 1902. 1C. In the Political Arena. Really, there wasnt much use in Senator Kearns coming home to take a hand in the senatorial contest next ; everything has been arranged; the programme entirely completed. Nothing remains to do but to month, for Reed Smoot will be elected hands down. Perry Heath may continue to yearn for a toga; Senator Kearns may pull wires for him or for There there will be no results. will be no need of sending any more letters here from the National Republican committee; appeals from Hanna to the effect that it will be better not to elect Smoot at this time, will fall on deaf ears; expressions by the not be conveyed to need president those who might heed them; nothing can alter the decrees of those who have the reins of power; nothing short of death, earthquake or other stupendous calamity. The little opposition which may be thrown in the way of the election of the apostle will have no more effect upon the current of events than did the fetters, cast by King Xerxes upon the resistless Hellecall the roll. . spont. jl iji j Senator Allison, of Weber county, is to be president of the senate, and Thomas Hull of Salt Lake county, W, ;H. Barrett of Beaver or Thomas H. Merrill of Cache, is to be' speaker of the house. This will cause grief in the house of Dr. Condon, of Weber, who wants to be speaker, but it isnt his year. That is the first step. Then, just to show the Kearns faction that d they have the whip hand, the crowd will systematically shut out every applicant for any of the minor places in the senate and house. Truth gives this tip to the boys so they can hedge while there is time. If one wants a place as secretary, chief clerk, journal clerk, or. committee clerk, door keeper or watchman, he had best join in the shouting for Smoot. Ed Loose is going to dictate the patronage of the senate and while he will scatter the places around among the various counties in much Smoot-Sutherlan- . the same manner as they have hitherto been scattered, he will take care that no man or woman, who was not for Smoot or Sutherland, as against Kearns, gets even a look in. Ed is just the .sort of fellow for this work. The house will have a man equal to he task to attend to . its distribution affd if a Kearns be a daisy. man breaks in he will Jl ijl Smoot will be elected with a whoop. There will not be votes enough ngainst him to wad a. shotgun. Mormons and most of the Qentiles will answer Smoot when the roll is called. All the old fear against sending an apostle to the senate" liams is the daughter of A. L. Williams, well known in Republican politics for many years in Salt She has occupied a position as teacher in will vanish on the evening of the cau- the public schools for eight years, and cus. Then two years from hence is well fitted for the position of enSutherland will have a chance to suc- grossing clerk. ceed Kearns and the junior senator Jl will go away back and sit down, to D. M. Bernheisel, it is said, will be be heard of no more for ever save when the mining reporters announce appointed by City Recorder Nystrom to Kearns came down the office of clerk of the police court that from the Silver King last night anfl to take the place of Walter J. Meeks, reports everything much the same at when the latter retires to assume the this great property. office of county recorder, to which he was elected last November. Jl Jl Jl Jl Upon the whole, the scheme as outOn the evening of Friday, January lined shows very good generalship on the part of Sutherland and his friends. 9, the Republicans of the legislature Kearns set about to crush him and will caucus for the purpose of agreevery nearly did it. But by this coalition ing upon an organization and decidwith Smoot he evens up and when it is ing upon the officers for the coming considered that two years isnt so long session. The caucus will be held in for a young man to wait for a senator-shi- the district court room on the third it was worth trying for. floor of the city and county building. Jl Jl The Democrats will also hold a cauOf course all this does not mean cus on the same evening, to outline that Kearns will lay down without a their plans for the session. Jl Jl struggle. Not for Thomas. He will Representative Macfarland of West doubtless make a heroic effort, but it Weber will avail him but little. His own of the was In the city the early part' week, looking over the field. supporters admit defeat. They see the Jl Jl handwriting on the wall. He is right The friends of Mr. Smoot until renow being advised to let this fight alone and do all he can to get himself cently counted Representative J. J. in shape for the battle two years Stewart as one of the members of the hence, when he will have the fight of legislature who might be depended his life. 'Whether he will accept this upon to vote for Mr. Smoot for Unitadvice, tendered in all sincerity, or ed States senator. They say it was not, remains to be seen. Perhaps he thinks messages from the national fully understood when Mr. Stewart committee may have an effect upon the was nominated by the convention that he would support Smoot but now situation, but he is mistaken. As the Stewart is kicking over the traces and matter turns out, it looks as if the wont deliver the goods. The Smoot was up against it junior senator men are charging him with breaking Jl Jl faith with them. A. xl. Nash is anThe people who make the greatest other to whom Smoot will be a bitter talks against church influence in gen- pill, they say, especially since it is that there is an entente eral are those who appear to be the understood cordiale between Smoot and Suthermoist anxious to enlist that same in- land.' Mr. Nash does not love Mr. fluence In their favor when they think Sutherland, especially since the appointment of Mr. Thomas as postmasthey need it President Joseph F. ter at Salt Lake. Smith of the Mormon church is being Jl Jl urged to use his priestly influence to James Sabine, Jr., who, for nearly compel Apostle Smoot to get out of is influence This race. the senatorial four years, has held the position of being Importuned by Gentiles who pauper clerk, was summarily disthink they need It in their business. missed by the county board at its On general principles church Influence with them is the. most baneful thing meeting last Monday. Messrs. Harker imaginable, but in their specific case and Horne, the retiring members of it is greatly to be desired. Those who the board, caused the removal of Mr. have or are supopsed to have this in- Sabine over the protest of Chairman fluence surely cannot help despising such cravens, and If they have influ- Anderson, who thought that Mr. da- ence of any quality or kind, would be bine should be allowed to serve out the remaining ten days of his term, fully justified in using it to the limit and crawl who Sabine was formerly a Democrat, and the sycophants against some two preferobtain to political years ago, when the present grovel board went into office Mr. Anderson ment. wanted a Republican appointed, in Jl J of Mr. Sabine, but he was overMiss Carolyn B. Williams is being place ruled by the other two members. Satalked of for the position of engross- bine, like many other Demcorats, being clerk for the senate. She has came a Republican, and now claims to that party. There was to many friends who are interesting no belong found with Mr. Sabines fault Wil Miss behalf. in' her themselves ex-Senat- or p , 1iticK 5 Cents work or faithfulness in the performance of his duties, and his removal was either oil political or personal grounds. Commissioner Horne says he was trying to carry water on both shoulders, playing in with both Democrats and Republicans, and contril)-ute- d to both campaign funds. Commissioner Darker has no reason to like Sabine, as it appears he worked to throw liarker out of the nomination, and to laud it for Wilson. The present board appointed Charles Holm of Murray to succeed Sabine. What the new board, when it comes into power on January r, will do, remains to be seen. Jl Jl Congressman Sutherland, Senators Kearns and Rawlins have returned from Washington for the holidays. All three are very reticent upon the senatorial s question. Of course it is not Senator Rawlins play to say a great deal. He Is not in the game. Senator Kearns has nothing to offer, but it is understood that he is thinking a lot. Mr. Sutherland stated to Truth that he had nothing new to offer, and when asked the direct question whether there was an arrangement between himself and Smoot by which the former was to be elected this time and he was to succeed Kearns two years hence, he had no answer ot make, other than to declare he had heard nothing of it. By consulting other portions of this Issue Truths readers can, however,. get the latest which is doing. Really no one 'expects senators and members of the lower house to declare themselves in these troublous times. jl jl The election of Smoot may, of course, cause a peck of trouble. The people are now claiming that Mr. Smoot has a polygamous wife in Mexico. The Ministerial association is working on the clue and it is claimed that the association has names and dates and information that the apostle has more than one wife. If that is true it would be the height of folly to send Mr. Smoot to the Senate. He would meet a fate similar to that of B. H. Roberts. If it is not true Mr. Smoot ought to come out squarely and deny it without waiting for tne formal charge to be made against him. Smoot might have as many mistresses as he pleases and be thoroughly qualified to occupy a seat in the Senate, but if he has more than one woman whom he calls wife, he is a goner sure. The second woman in the case is said to be a Miss Jones who formerly, resided at Provo, but who now lives in Mexico.. . It is given out that a canvass of the United States senate has been made, and that a majority are against Smoot being' allowed to sit in that body.. This, however, must be taken with several grains of salt, for although many of the senators havent much 'sense, few. would be fools anti-Smo- ot : -- r - v .. C ... I 4 . 4 si d |