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Show Iff .(jN Cf2 Latent Plot of T. Kjearfi.s. H If j' Hie Magnnlmlty His Worthy Strategy Odell rii J I iJ if1! In the Creaky Van Employes "Seen." I ; I The latest political airship to shoot skyward H : I ' ! ; from the vlcnity of the Kearns camp fires Is the K 1 ; i proposition to regale the public with a non-parti- Bjj j 1 !,. san or citizen's ticket. This is the most lamen- K ! ; ;' table display of weakness and despair that the H J 1 ' ! i . senior senator has thus far exhibited. H P ; I , It shows that the versatile Silver Kingite was H ; P.J ; j f, ' forced to go to the tents of the local Democracy H I ft J 4 for an Inspiration. The idea of placing a non- H H j f ,, partisan ticket in the field was first launched B (' Sliii by the demoralIzed Clevelandites, after they had Hj j, 1 1 II looked in the face the apparition of assured de- H i I t N feat' Absorbing Political Inspiration from Right H ! I I Honorable O. W. Powers is a brand new line of HI j c" ; f j work for Hon. T. Kearns, our unimpeachable and H ; ! ' jfl learned fellow-patriot. And the ead phase of it H 1 I is that Mr. Kearns' clamor for a citizens' or busi- H u ftt ness men's ticket originated in the sciatica of H '! ; 1 foregone defeat. Knowing that his independent H j if machine would be crushed under the war hoofs H I If' of the indISnant hosts of tne independent Re- H Sj '.. l; publicans, and desiring to retain some vestige of H si I1 !i municipal control, the senior senator resourceful- H U ' h' ly shouted for a citizens' ticket, In the hope that H j f : if he might retain some fragment at least of muni- H ' ;i clpal patronage. H ' ; ! I All this misguided sentiment in favor of a H 1 i f non-partisan ticket Mr. Kearns has endeavored to H 'i i $ work up through his evening journal, and be it H ; ! & said sadly that many prominent citizens have j , l been duped into giving the scheme a quasi-en- B ' ' ; : ; i dorsement, not knowing that the chubby fingers i s :, ' 1 i of the senior senator were gripping, the guide ' . ; t :.i' v ropes'. A handsome scheme is this of Mr. Kearng ; ! : of marlplotting through the evening sheet, in- H , j; il stead of issuing his sapient bulletins through the K j ',' f medium'TDf the morning contemporary. H ( I i ' 'i It is a bold stroke on the part of the whipped H J ' ' senator to endeavor to work up a non-partisan B i'i V sentiment, serruptitiously, in the face of the fact H lc I j'j' that his whole future career, if the ghoul-like B j; 'j , formation which looms up before him may be so H L ; I termed, depends, upon his remaining tightly en- ! I 1' wrapped in the cords of strict partisanship. 'I : i! Therewith he has had the chagrin of observing ! I that his efforts have been wholly futile, and that j '.If' the Telegram pilotings have not crystallized Into j ll p any form of sentiment favorable to what is delu- ! ( M,;" i sively termed a citizens' ticket. It is a last H ! j (J a 1 desperate and abortive effort to save .some city H " 1 1; ! 1 ; . offices in the impending wreck of his municpal B 1 t' !: machine. m i I 1 1 1 1 . vit Jt Jt B ;': ;i:, Mr. Kearns and his lieutenants have an bbre- b j ; viated memory: otherwise they would remember m j I ;, the farcical retrogression which has attended all j 1 lfi former efforts to inaugurate municipal reform m II I through a ticket unallied with Either of the great H II Si' political parties. He should know that "While H lb, i t a man is successful in the manipulation of his V p ! l, private business affairs, he will not necessarily H j;J ! 'j! develop the ability requisite for the proper con- H , j. duct of the' intricate mebhanism of municipal B j ; ! ,i! , interests. Ho should know that to place in the H; ,f , city council a body of men unacquainted with B 1 ,1 J :i' practical politics, and unaccountable to any dom-B dom-B u" .' ' , inant party sentiment, would be wave-tossed on H I j ' f; ! the municipal sea and easy victims of the shrewd B L (I political manipulator. He should know that the B ,y; XI healthy rivalry between political parties for the B Mm privilege 'of administering public affairs will al- H Jl if j r ways protect the people from too flagrant abuses B i , ;j; of power. And he should know that in any event B I ; : ' p if a non-partisan ticket is placeU In the field, the tml it life, aD8Urd act must be performed before the meet- B i llllii ing of the Democratic and Republican conventions LB MJ8R s both parties will .delay the time of holding B WM' conventions until it becomes necessary in' order to file certificates of nomination within the time specified by law. Mr. Kearns may also be informed in-formed appropriately that the Democrats who or-. or-. iginally uncoiled the scheme which he has fatuously fatu-ously followed, will place a straight Democratic ticket in the field. 0 5r tt &9 ic? Mr. Kearns has now locked arms with one George T. Odell, nianager of the company of which President Joseph F. Smith Is president and director of the Home Telephone company, (a fact which would debar him from holding office in the municipality), and they are walking smilingly together down the pathway which leads td the dark dungeon of unmistakable and irretrievable defeat. Poor Odell has been caught in the Kearns tenticles and is politically so unsophisticated unsophis-ticated as td believe that he can walk into mayoralty mayor-alty honors, lead by the braying baratone of the senior senator. Witness Mr. Kearns' first maneuver with his gullable protege. The Young Men's Republican Club gave an outing on Thursday, and previous thereto .Senator Kearns purchased three thou-san thou-san and Mr. Odell one thousand of the tickets. The tickets sold at ten cents a piece. Mr. Odell, at the suggestion of the senator's lieutenants, sent his tickets broadcast into the different districts with his effusive pre-mayoralty compliments, the distribution being made by the Kearns henchmen. hench-men. The senior senator adopted a different method. meth-od. He sent four tickets, involving a gross expenditure expen-diture of 40 cents, to every member of the last convention, accompanied by a steel engraved card, whereon was enscribed the following: "Mr. Thomas Kearns presents his compliments compli-ments and herewith encloses tickets of admission to the Salt Palace grounds on next Thursday, August 27, 1903, the occasion being the annual outing of the Young Men's Republican Club of Salt Lake City. He hopes you will find it convenient con-venient to attend and by your presence encourage encour-age the members of this worthy organization." That was assuredly magnificently munificent. Wild enthusiasm surged In a thousand breasts when . it wa's learned that through the ceaseless efforts of Senator Kearns they would be permitted permit-ted to enter the Salt Palace grounds free. He is a great and guileless philanthropist, is Senator Kearns. The Superintendent of Waterworks, a grateful grate-ful and firm adherent of Kearns, called a meeting meet-ing of all the employes of the department last Thursday night, at which they were instructed not to .voice any personal preference for mayor. The object was to head off the overwhelming sentiment in favor of W. F. James, and leave matters in such a position thpt the Superintendent Superintend-ent could throw the department's support to Mr. Kearns' Mr. Odell when the proper time arrived. The men wore also all instructed to be delegates to the coming convention and to be in a position to control the delegation of their district if possible. pos-sible. An effort has been made to bring about a similar condition in the department of streets, which is vastly more important politically, but Mr. Condie was deaf to the honeyed words of the Kearns campaigners. ' tv Mr. Odell did not pay his contemplated visit to tho city and county building to "size up the situation;" a proposed trip which was generously mentlened in these celumns a week ago. Instead of this he unostentatiously appeared at the outr ing of the employees of the building last Saturday Satur-day at Ogden Canyon. He was introduced elabor- ately by Hon. Denis BIchnor, who is the partial spdnser of the implement candidate. And that In itself is an amusing situation. , Apparently Mr. Eichnor has forgotten how the Kearns people attempted to oust him from the chairmanship of the county committee in favor of A. F. Lawson a year ago, and that when they failed in this they lodged Lawson In the presidential seat of the Young Men's Republican Club. Mr. BIchnor ap. pears to be another choice dupe of the Kearns intriguers. & It now appears as If Mr. W. F. James would receive the nomination for mayor practically by acclamation, unless some formidable candidate not heretofore mentioned enters the field to contest con-test for the honor. Mr. Odell, whose prospects looked almost luminous a few weeks ago, is now looked upon as having about as much chance of becoming the convention's choice as one W. J. . Bryan has of receiving the nomination for the presidency. - tw tffi Councilman A. J. Davis is not with the junketing junket-ing party in the Northwest, as has been stated, and he naturally feels as though the public should be made aware of this fact. Gouncilmen Daveler, Thomas and Robinson also remained at home. Tribune. It was kind and magnanimous of Mr. Davis to give the public the abeve informa.tien. in Mr. Kearns' organ. The whole populace was waiting with breathless anxiety for this cheering news. They feared for one awful moment that this lofty lof-ty statesmen had deserted the city and despair was widespread at the thought that his master hand was no longer at the municipal helm. For his grand self-sacrifice in remaining here to guide us during the absence of the the other intellectual intellec-tual sages, Mr. Davis should receive the heartfelt thanks of the entire community. W fcj ( That was a good trap that Senator Kearns laid for Mr. McCornick when an emissary of his evening organ was sent to interview the banker regarding his views on the proposed citizens' or non-partisan's ticket. Mr. McCornick heartily endorsed en-dorsed the scheme, thereby incurring the enmity of the party workers, just as the senior senator had anticipated. That is one way Mr. Kearns has of smiting his fellow aspirants for senatorial honors. hon-ors. This is in harmony with the scheme Kearns worked on the hanker, when lie urged him to publicly announce his acceptance of the portfolio of the secretaryship of the interior long before there was any possibility of a vacancy in the position. ( 5w A few new candidates for councilmanic positions posi-tions are James W. Wilson and J. D. Wood, who are being strongly supported in the second precinct, pre-cinct, and Mr. Joseph Christensen, who will make the race in the First. F. J. Fabian is being urged to enter the contest for the council in the Fifth precinct, and Mr. James Chipman and T. E. Harper Har-per have many friends who desire them to represent repre-sent the Fourth precinct in the council. |