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Show ftil Political Vfebv Toint. E B There is more and more division 'twixt the B tV souls of the chiefs who are manipulating the des- K j& tinies of the rival Kearns and Calllster-Anderson K n ' factions in the battle for supremacy in the com- KB - ing Republican contest. The Kearns Hosts are be- K B ing thinned out so rapidly that it will take a H jB 2,000 horsepower lens to And them in a few & B months, and Callister and Anderson are facing the L B sad emergency of an open revolt against them H? m in their own precinct. With these disruptive deft de-ft in , velopments among the two big factions of local K Republicanism, the independents view the situa- K B lion with a considerable show of jubilation. Bf' m It is down in the Second Precinct that the An- K B derson-Callister political cauldron bubbles and H B ferments. That is the largest precinct in the B B city, and on this battleground the two manipula- K W tors have heretofore directed their forces. But R w v they have now unfortunately aroused the antag- B B onism of the precinct committee by having ut- flt B terly ignored them after the late election in the fl' B distribution of county patronage. TSven City IB Auditor Re'.ser and" Street Supervisor P. S. Con- K die, two political factors in that section assured-' assured-' B y to recone with, were totally overlooked I" B by the leading machinists, and their retaliatory I B v action upon the convening of the coming conven-H, conven-H, B tion will be awaited with profound interest. It V is entirely probable that Reiser and Condie will I M join with the other members of the campaign com-B com-B m mittee, and it now seems likely that Callister and Bn jj Anderson will be the recipients of a very unpala-Bfi unpala-Bfi jj table surprise when they undertake to control af-BS af-BS B fairs in that section as they have done heretofore. Hi The county officials who have given most of-BB of-BB B fense. by bowing to the Heavenly Twins are BB fl County Recorder Meeks, the county commission. B a ers andSheriff Emery, with whom the above men-BB' men-BB' tioned are said to have asumed the attitude dic-B dic-B tatorial in the distribution of patroaage. County HI Treasurer Carbis has alone failed to incur the B9 displeasure of the revolting elements. In their Bf patronage-grabbing specialties, the' Heavenly B U Twins are said to have made the statement, as H the basis for their oposition, that Reiser and Con-B Con-B i die were making an effort to supercede them and B I control the precinct machine. HjH) 1 -A- meeting of the committee will be called Hh I within the next few days and it is predicted that HIi a reorsaniation will be affected which may not Hjf ! prove at all pleasing to the Twins. HHiSi "" ij! J Jit I The mayoralty situation is still in an embryo-tic embryo-tic condition, but every Indication points to a a, sharp contest between Kearns and the other fac- Bi' tlon" Sausuury Is stI11 being quietly pushed by BkL the independents, and the Twins are remaining Bi! for the present discreetly in the background and H P refuse to be dislodged from neutral territory. Tne Htf people benind the Salisbury boom feel confident Hj f that he will take the nomination and that the ' Hli coming convention will favor him. It is stated H deflnfTely, however, that Mr. Arthur Pratt, who I-- managed Mr. Salisbury's senatorial venture with such distinguished skill and secured for him a lone vote which stuck with such tenacity that it ftjj could not have been dislodged with a hydraulic B I press, will not have managerial control of the B I mayoralty campaign. B ft i So long as George T. Odell was regarded by B P the Kearns' people as the candidate of the Twin B t faction ho was greeted with uniform, frowns B i trom the Kearns coterie, but now that he has H ' been consigned to outer gloom by them on ac- 1 count of his remarkable attitude in the Sheets H 9 case, the Kearns chiefs are disposed to treat him H I ' with a great display of urbane consideration. Jt is H now tnouSht probably that the Kearns people will H i I drop the Knox mayoralty boom altogether, and K iB iHR. settle definitely upon Odell as their candidate. If t,hls be done it will alienate entirely from the Machine man all the independents and the Twin crowd, and the chances of a man like Mr. Salisbury Salis-bury grasping the rriayorty laurel will be very good indeed. The idea of the Kearns people is that by taking on a man like Odell, who is partially par-tially acceptable to a large contingent of the Mormon church, Bishop Taylor of the Fourteenth Ecclesiastical Ward, and Councellor Fox, for- instance, in-stance, they would be taking a much less hazardous hazard-ous chance than in launching Mr. Knox. Still they have not yet definitely decided just which of the two men they will send into the arena. But whatever their attitude may be, everything every-thing looks favorable for a decisive defeat of the factions by the independent Republican element. |
