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Show I ill Cold Crobvjfor Kearns.? Appealing to I III! Gentile4?.y'Rotited by City Committee. IibIiI i LB" jMTI I The evening organ of Senator Kearns has fin- M I ' j 1 1 ally secured the kind of interview they have been m 1 1 J looking for ever since that tool of the senior sen- m hp I J ator was impressed into the political service. 1 ; g 1 , h They have induced John Henry Smith to state that B j ' 1 P his personal choice for mayor is W. F. James, B i If M I since he is better acquainted with him than with M j U either Frank Knox or G. T. Odell. This was ex- sB ! ' $ ' 1 5 ploited In headlines big enough to indicate that B I a 11 x an internatIonal war was tumultously raging. M i 1 1 i ' F It Wll be expanded and distorted and buzzed in H ji 1 1 M the ears of the Gentiles in a desperate effort to B I I til secure their support for Mr. Knox on the plea i f 'L jj that Mr. James, by reason of this endorsement, is 1 1 ( I i the church candidate. ill il 'j That should not deceive anyone, even under If 1 j J the tense and vivid suasion of Mr. liippman or Mr. h I j. Gus Holmes, manager of the Knox mayoralty sH vi "I s' airship. The lieutenants have from the beginning M IPm '' U of tbe munIcIPal campaign been making a strenu- H II I l H ous effort to deceive Gentiles into supporting B i I (If ; them by arguing that they represented the Gentile B ! I! ' element. This has been repeatedly announced in H , N II fi these columns, so the capital they are endeavor- B if 'If If ing to make out of that muchly be-headllned in- V Irl 11 tervlew assays about ninety per cent bogus bul- Lfl ill II i on 'rne dependent Republicans are very B fi I ' glad to know that they have the support of Mr. m lii j Smith, although this had never been suspected. B : i , ' It is well known that he, as a rellow director for B y 1 1 j 1 the Utah Home Telephone company, has been H j pi ill h working incessantly for Mr. Odell, as havn all the LUri'll other directors of that corporation holding a H yU l(j K franchise under the municipality. It may also be LB Mil 11 " stated here, for the popular edification, that Mr. B v ) 11 Odell has placed in the hands of the secretary of the telephone company his resignation as a director di-rector to be accepted if he is nominated, and to be thrown over the breastworks if the handwriting handwrit-ing on the political wall be not amiss and he meets with ignominious defeat. His desertion of Odell merely shows that that candidate's cause has been given up as hopeless. The ultra Gentiles Gen-tiles like the Ministerial Association do not care for Mormon domination, but they will never be deceived by a Lippmanlzed plot, which involves their reeking iu the pithy depths of the Kearns limbo. ' (,3 V & Every one interested in the political municipal developments has observed marked symptoms of alarm on the part of the implementmanager over the increasing growth of the James boom. It has even driven him to the unheard of resource of sending for his brother, chairman of the Republican Re-publican county committee of Cache county, to aid him in his peekaboo battle, and for the past ten days that political light has been working arduously ar-duously to head off the inroads Mr. James is making mak-ing in the Odell forces. t e t Mr. Kearns and his lieutenants suffered the most severe routing of their political career at the meeting of the city committee last Monday night. Outside of the appontment of Mr. Louf-borrow, Louf-borrow, the obsequious political slave of the Monetary Senator, an appointment which was not seriously contested by the adversary, the Kearns people were flanked and battered and beaten in every maneuver they essayed. In the first place, . the Mazouma Senator wished an apportionment on the basis of the vote for county attorney, knowing know-ing that as Mr. Westervelt was a Kearns candidate, candi-date, there would be under this adjustment the smallest possible representation from the districts in which he was weakest, and a correspondingly larger one where the Kearns flag wasrrampantly cutting the breezes. The requiem was promptly sung over this abortive little venture. But the proposition which was the greatest test of strength, and on which Kearns was most seriously seri-ously bludgeoned, was the one launched by his adherents ad-herents for an early convention. This was desired by the Lucre Senator for two reasons: First, because be-cause he did not wish to unload the money for a long-drawn-out campaign, and, secondly, so that, if the ticket nominated by the Republicans were not satisfactory, he could come out of his ambush and have a citizens' ticket nominated with ample time to make a vigorous campaign. In that the Senator was likewise foiled, and the 15th of October Oc-tober was fixed as the date of the convention, leaving only a margin of two days after the convention con-vention for the filing of certificates of nomination. So the Gilded Senator will be forced to forsake that beatific dream or uncoil his citizens' movement move-ment before the meeting of the regular organization, organiza-tion, an effort which would be so disastrous as to retire him permanently from the political pasture. pas-ture. To be forced to take James as- a mayoralty potion, at the same time, will be a dose as nauseating nau-seating to the Silver Kingite Senator as if he had been forced to quaff the sered sediments from the morphia infected chalice of a denizen of the Black Hole of -Calcutta. Sad to relate, that is the very kind of libation the decent political element ele-ment of the municipality is mixing for the Shifty Senator. e & & Meanwhile the Kearns lieutenants are busy betimes among the city departments, particularly in the one operated under the direction of Super- intendent Hines. In order to give one Earl Ripley' Rip-ley' ample time to operate in favor of Knox in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth districts, his position has been temporarily filled by Hy Thompson, who was discharged from the department depart-ment after the last city election for supporting the Democratic nominee for city treasurer. In return for this Mr. Thompson is delegated to turn over to Knox the Seventeenth district, an effort so palpably hopeless that it is a wonder the Kearns lieutenants are deceived into expending money and energy in such unremunerative channels. chan-nels. Mr. J. J. Meyers, the Kearns candidate for city auditor, is working lavishly for Mr. Knox. In this Mr. Meyers is showing remarkable political cunning, cun-ning, since he figures that In case of his own defeat de-feat and the election of Mr. Knox, he will still be ready and eligible for the office of food inspector. Having been grievously disappointed in his first manager, Mr. J. O. Nystrom, and realizing that the support of Mr. D. C. Eichnor Is becoming lamentably lukewarm, it is now reported that Mr. Odell has secured the services of County Clerk John James as his mouthpiece and manager. B & jx & B Health Commissioner tSewart is the latest city fl ofllcial to listen to the seductive voice of the fl Kearns' machinists. He has given Instructions to fl all the employees of his department to work in- fl dustriously for Mr. Knox for mayor. Further, Mr. fl A. H. Little, steward at the isolation hospital, Is fl circulating among the voters of the city in the fl interests of Mr. Knox, instead of attending to his fl work in the institution he is employed to look fl after. If there is any department which should fl be free from factional politics it is the one In fl charge of Commissioner Stewart. He will prob- B tn , m ably discover that working in the interests of Hon. T. Kearns is a thankless and unpopular task. v |