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Show Vol. 3, Mo. 2. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 10, 1903. ; Price Cents 5 , Politics, National and Local. Although the readers of Utahs daily papers are not apprised of conditions, for some reason best known to the management of each paper, it is, nevertheless, a fact that there, is considerable doing in national politics throughout the eastern states, more especially in New York. In New York City,, more than anywhere else, is the activity general, for there the leading politicians are becoming more active as the time for holding the national convention draws nearer and they are warming up their work - excellently well, while their newspapers teem with accounts of what is being done and comment upon what will be the results of the various actions. Nor is the interest manifested confined to any one section. On the contrary the actions of the several state convention appear to have been watched with vigilant eyes. What at first was seized upon by the politicians of one party as being an Indication of weakness of the other is quoted as an element of strength by the adherents of ' the latter and vice versa. For im stance: The Republicans were glee ful because Tom Johnson won out in Ohio and Bryan agreed to stump the state. The Republican organs endeavored to use this as. an object lesson having for its teaching the fact that the Democrats were still tied to their idol, free silver, but the fact that the Ohio convention endorsed as a candidate for Senator a man who is- now and ever has been a consistent advocate of the gold standard; who voted for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of those who would have used this action as a club to beat Democracy with. On the other when the Democrats seized upon the action of the Nebraska convention, which declared for straight protection to the utter exclusion of the Iowa idea, there were those who predicted that this diversity of judgment on the part of the partisans of two adjoining states boded no good results to the Republicans. Neither side, however, has gained a. single advantage, because the national conventions will settle all matters of policy and the voters of every state will abide by the decision of the convention of the party to which they respectively belong. - - . . Jit It is singular to ' note with what unanimity the eastern press has arrived at the conclusion that Mr. Bryan does not intend to bolt his party ticket, no matter who is nominated nor what the platform may contain. It looks as if some one had given the eastern press a hunch. That con servative and usually correct authority, Harpers Weekly, voices its sentiments in the following paragraph: We shall not be surprised to see Mr. Bryan in a tolerant and conciliatory attitude, since the Democratic state conventions in Ohio and Nebraska have demonstrated that he still retains a great deal of influence and must be reckoned with. We do not credit the report from Grand Island, Nebraska, where the state Populist convention was held, a report attributed to Mr. M. F. Harrington that if Mr. Bryans friends should find themselves outnumbered in the convention, they will bolt and nominate a third ticket, to be headed by Mr. Towne. That Mr. Bryans friends will be outnumbered in the convention may be taken for granted, but we do not for a moment believe they would bolt the nomination of such men as Chief-Judg- e Parker, or Judge Gray, or Grover Cleveland. A delegate who declares beforehand that he will not submit to the will of the majority ought not to be permitted to vote in a national convention. While it is possible that Mr. Bryan and his friends would, not bolt either Parker or Gray, nay even improbable that he and they would do such a thing, Truth has its doubts about the accuracy of the statement, in so far as it pertains to Grover Cleveland. Jt The same paper appears to take a very rosy Democratic view of the result in the state of Ohio. It declares that while Johnson won and as a result will control the Ohio delegation in the next convention, the endorsement of the Kansas City platform was and that no perfunctory merely Jit putes the statement and combats it vigorously. It cites the last speech of the departed executive at Buffalo, in which he showed he was firmly resolved to carry, into effect the policy of reciprocity contemplated in certain clauses of the Dingley bill and the contemplated treaties negotiated during his administration, which were not then ratified by the senate. The editor points to the fact that they still remain unratified and that Mr. Roosevelt has made no effort to bring about reciprocity with any country, save Cuba. It alludes to McKinleys peaceful policy and asks if Roosevelts way of asking for an increased navy and perpetually going about with a chip on his shoulder can be consid- a continuation of the policy of the apostle of peace who now sleeps his last sleep at Canton. It recalls that while McKinley made friends everywhere and had the southern states especially ered . . conciliated, Roosevelt has antagonized all of them and is about as cordially despised and hated by the true southerner as any man who ever sat in the executive chair. The paper does allege that the President did this not because he wanted to, but rather for the reason that he is too fresh, too strenuous, or fails to interpret the signs of the time correctly. It is admitted that he has kept McKinleys appointees in office and that is the real meat in the Nebraska cocpanujt, according to thljs eminent authority. Jit jJt Speaking of the effect of his actions on the vote of two classes of men in this country, this authority doubts if Roosevelt will poll the labor vote, even with his record of appointing a commission to settle the anthracite coal strike, for the reason that he has mortally offended organized labor by man in the reinstating a government printing office at Washington and compelling every employee in that office to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. It thinks that the laboring element will remember these actions, while it forgets the one that settled the coal strike. It believes his treatment of General Miles will be resented by the Grand army of the Republic, and points to the reception given the general at the reunion in San Francisco. non-unio- n word having been said about silver the ratio of 16 to 1 and a gold standard man having been nominated as candidate for United States senator, so far as it is possible to nominate a candidate for that place, ergo the Democrats of that state are letting loose their former idiosyncracies and getting ready to join with other states in making a fight to win. It also points to the fact that Bryan is becoming very tolerant, in this that he Jl J is speaking for the election of Clarke, out is It that at nine Presipointed whereas that gentleman bolted his in dential elections the result was de1896 and stumped Ohio against him. Jit Jit termined, or should have been deterThe declaration of the Nebraska mined by the electoral votes of the Republican convention to the effect State of New York. In no other State that Mr. Roosevelt has carried, in a in the Union can this be said. We masterly way, into full and complete would now point out that on almost execution the masterly policy of Will- all of those nine occasions, when the iam McKinley has caused a small electoral vote of the Empire Commonwealth proved decisive, the course storm in certain was determined journals down east. One of them dis pursued by the State . quasi-Republic- an to a very large extent by the City of New York. It was the overthrow of the Tweed gang in the city which assured to Tilden the Governorship of the State of New York in 1874, and the electoral votes of the State for the Presidency in 1876. In 1884 there is no doubt that Blaine lost in New York city more votes than were needed to defeat Mr. Cleveland by his presenco at the Jay Gould banquet, and by the outbreak about Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, of which Burchard, . one of his professed adherents, was guilty. In 1888 it was largely the votes cast in what is now the City of Greater New York that enabled Harrison to carry the State. Perhaps, however, there has never been a stronger proof of the influence exercised by the State on the City of New York than the contrast presented by the majorities obtained by Mr. McKinley in 1896 and 1900 respectively. In 189G Mr. McKinleys popular vote all over the country was 7,106,779. His plurality over Mr. Bryan was 603,-85In 1900 Mr. McKinleys popular vote was 7,207,923, and his plurality over Mr. Bryan was 849,790. We would naturally, therefore, expect Mr. McKinley to have beaten Mr. Bryan In New York much more decisively in 1900 than he did in 1896. What are the facts? In 1896 a Republican, William L. Strong, was Mayor of New York, and all the Influence of the municipal administration was employed on behalf of the Republican candidate for the Presidency. In 1900, on the other hand, a Democrat, Robert A. Van Wyck, was Mayor of the City of New York, and we cannot believe it to have been a mere coincidence that Mr. McKinleys plurality should have been cut down by about 125,000. That the whole power of the municipal administration, however, was not exerted by Mayor, Van Wyck on behalf of Mr. Bryan is evident. from the fact that in 1898 his brother had come within less than 18,000 votes of beating Mr. Roosevelt for the Governorship. It may be asked how we account for the fact that although Mr. Seth Low, a Republican, was Mayor of the City of New York in 1902, Mr. Odell carried the State that year by less than 9,000 plurality. We answer that the influence of the fusion municipal government was that year not exerted vigorously, if at all, on behalf of the Republican candidate for Governor. In view of Mr. Roosevelts notorious weakness in his native State a weakness indisputably demonstrated in 1898 there is not an atom of doubt in the minds of persons that if a Democrat should be installed in the Mayoralty of the City of New York on January 1, 1904, and if the Democrats should put forward such a candidate as Cleveland, or Chief-Judg- e or Parker, Judge George Gray, they would be almost certain to carry the Empire Commonwealth in November of next year. Moreover, the same ti-4. , well-inform- ex-Presid- ed |