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Show Vou 8; No. 29. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH . 2(S, 1901. The Political! Outlook political situation with re-- . gard to the coming election in this state next autumn fs assuming very definite shape. The lines are already drawn and the parties are already engaged in workings out their destinies in the struggle.' The republican party, if united, would have by far the better chances of carrying the state, The which of course-includethe legislature and a United States senator. But the republican party is not united. s Just as it was in the recent municipal election, there- is bitter war between facthe Kearns and the tions. By superior generalship and bribery and corruption, the Kearns crowd carried the ctiy convention last November, but the people revolted and the Kearns cohorts were defeated at the polls, the democrats profiting thereby. The Kearns people are preparing to repeat their convention victory of last year. They have their agents in every .county of the state secretly and by devious and indirect ways working up sentiment for the Kearns machine. The agents so emslick fellows, well ployed are drilled by their clever managers. They never show their hands openly: That is one of the secrets of the Kearns success. His managers never expose their workers, to. the fire of the enemy and the workers get well paid for what they do They go out avowing that they are not Kearns men, they even on occasions abuse Kearns and declare they have no use for him. - anti-Kear- ns . . . At the present time their plan is to talk harmony and union of the party. Eliminate, they say, the Kearns, Sutherland and Smoot factions and choose delegates independent of any of them, conservative men they call them. All of which is a clever ruse. There are few men in the republican party who are not allied with either the machine e or the crowds. The "conservative men that the Kearns secret agents are endeavoring to have chosen as delegates would be all found ' on the Kearns side when the right time comes. They are purchasable and like those who have gone before in the same interest would get their price. The machine firowd are well organized, prepared to spend money and will put up a fight next fall worthy of a better cause. , On the other hand, the antis, though overwhelmingly in the majority, are disorganized. Their leaders are not anti-machin- usual will be the feature. The candidates for delegates who seem in the lead are shrewd and are poor manipulators. Sutherland, State Chairman Anderson, Their plans are known to the enemy H. Bullen, Jr of Cache county, Chas. almost before they are matured. They W. Hollingsworth of Weber, C. E. underestimate the strength of their Loose of Utah county, A. H. Christensen of Sanpete, Wni. Spry of Tooele. opponents and they dont produce the The Kearns people arc putting formoney to pay their workers. They ward J. J. Meyers of Salt Lake, Robexpect their friends to help them out for the sake of sentiment, while the ert Murdock of Logan, J. A. Smith of Mother fellows put up the coin. The Providence, John Meter of Richfield, 'antis talk about good government, L. W. Shurtliff of Ogden is mentioned both factions. purity in politics and all that kind of. by & stuff, very good, indeed, but hot to' be The date for holding the democratic relied upon with too much confidence when there is both brains and money state convention has not yet been Thats the situation f in fixed. It will, however, probably be against it. about the latter part of April." the republican ranks at present. anti-Koar- ns an 4 The Liberal or The democrats have their opportunmovement which was started a The war in the republican party ity. cannot help being advantageous to couple of weeks ago seems to have them. The republican fight vill lest what little force it had at the be It was an absurd move, be waged to the bitter end. If the inning. forces win in the conven- hardly worth the noticing. anti-Morm- so-call- ed on . anti-Kear- ns tions, it will be more by good luck than good management, but if they (should the Kearns people will knife ithfc ticket quietly, not daring to openly oppose a duly nominated republican ticket, but in secret they will stab it. On the other hand, if the Kearns tick 'et should succeed in the conventions, there will be an open revolt of the antis who rather than swallow Kearns will vote the democratic ticket just as they did in the city election last November. With such conditions, the some, radical republicans, unless change takes place, will have a hard pull to elect their ticket, and they realize it and look the ifkat- had better . ter straight in the .face now, rath,er than go it blindly and have their eyes The triopened after the election. umph of the Kearns forces means certain defeat for the party, while ?n ticket K with Roosevelts state might great popularity'!!!, this ' pull through in spite of the secret knifing which it would be subjected The demoto by the Kearns men. crats, however, have a great opportunity and will no doubt seize it. anti-mac- hine : o Jt The Herald and the Tribune have arranged that W. M. Roylance of Provo will be their candihte for gov ernor on the Democratic ticket next fall. The Herald has already given Mr., Roy lance several pleasant and will continue to boom. him for the nomination. Marked copieof the Herald containing notices of, Mr. Roylance have been circulated quite extensively in the country district?. The Tribune will aid the Herald in1 its booming of Roylance, by referring to him as often as possible in a compli mentaiy or a mildly critical way, acting as a foil to the Herald, thus giv ing their candidate all the publicity possible. Thats the way the Herald and the Republican-Demo Tribune 'arrange things on an amicable tiasis. .Nebeker, Moyle and other probable gubernatorial candidate? need not.expec.any fair treatment from the JHerald.'-eithebefore or aftertKe convention, -n- 4 , Demo-Republic- Interest among the republicans is centering in the state convention for the selection of delegates to the na- an . . : r ' H1 ' tr ; J. J. Meyers, leading Kearns candias ' delegate to the date for national Republican convention, now carries a check book around and is said to be using it freely on his polit-ca- l perigrinations through the state. He is posing as a conservative Repub-lea- n and indifferent to the Kearns nterests, but everybody knows that Kearns owns him body and soul. -- STATE POLITICS. otices, publican ticket. Mr. Griffiths has many friends who want to seo him . win. , . - 4.Tribune keeps tip its fight on Republican1 State Chairman Anderson. That is to be' expected. The grievance the Tribune has against Mr. Anderson Is t hat he cannot be controlled by Senator Kearns, and refused to join the senator in his efforts for the unseating of Sonator Smoot. The state chairman is a Republican and works .or the interests of the Republican party, while the Tribuno devotes its time and energies to advancing the aspirations of cue small 8Cc,n of it and viJllfying all those who oppose Lho outrageous ambitions of Senator Kearns and Perry Heath. The Tribune and the Kearns henchmen will make a strenuous effort to have some one else ".chosen as state! chairman when the Convention meetB. The sheet is i trying to make a point against Anderson because C. M. Jackson, a Democrat, was named with three others to make an examination of the books of Lho County officials. Tho naming of Mr. Jackson was none of Mr. Andersons doings, and if it were it was a wise thing to have at least one of the examiners of the opposite; political faith tS the parly in power. Its high time, too, that the books of two or three county officials that Truth could name were being examined., 4 , The-- I , i ". , . 4 J Candidates for county offices are beginning to come to the front. Car-biOrnery and Mont Fisher, to succeed themselves as , treasurer, sheriff and auditor, seems assured, if the Republicans win. Percy Perkins appears to be in the lead for the Republican nominaiton for county reebrder. J. U. Eldredge, Jr., is far in the lead for county clerk; however; John James, the present incumbent, notwithstanding his arangement with Eldredge to drop out; Is, now that his chances of being postmaster are gone, looking for. an opportunity to butt in on the theory that if Eldredge cant get it if he can; of course the Kearns crowd will be behind James. He is their staunch friend, conducts a branch office of tho Tribune and helps the Kearns organ to soak the public n exorbitant charges for advertising. Johnny does all that, of course, from irinciple. He Is the only real Simon mre Republican in the city and coun-- y The delegates tional convention. building. from the state will meet in the Salt Lake theater on Friday, April 8. Six Wcstervelt may be a candidate , to T. F. Griffiths will be a candidate delegates and six alternates will be as or a legislative nomination on the Re succeed himself as county attorney selected. Kearns and anti-Kear- ns s, |