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Show A REPUBLICAN ROW IN UTAH. According to a dlBpatch from Salt Lake City to the Now York Tribune, the Republican situation in Utah threatens to be seriously affected by the formation of an anti-church party, in which both of the old parties are represented and whose purpose pur-pose Is to wage war on Senator Smoot and the Mormon church in this campaign. The Salt Lake Tribune the leading Republican paper there, has bolted the state ticket recently nominated by the Republican convention, and Senator Kearns, who is a Republican, has declared that he will not support sup-port that ticket unless Smoot is eliminated from Utah politics, and the Mormon authorities pledge themselves to keep their Angers out of the political politi-cal pie. Other prominent Republicans have joined issue with Smoot and the Mormon church. It is understood that the disturbance in Utah affects state politics alone, but it is not unlikely to be felt in its effect upon the national ticket, just as tho trouble In Wisconsin, which also is a state matter, mat-ter, is expected to militate against the success of the presidential ticket. It is evident that the Mormon Mor-mon influence on the politics of Utah is a sore point with the Gentiles, and as the fight is sure to be marked with all the bitterness that religious and political differences can inject into it, the trouble promises to be serious for the Republicans. Mr. McKinley's plurality in Utah in 1900 was only a little more than 2 per cent, of the total vote, a margin that could easily be wiped out in the attrition at-trition of factional warfare. Binghamton (N. Y.) 1 eader, September 10, 1904. |
