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Show MAYORALTY SPECULATION IN OGDEN BILL OR SHURTLIFF OGDEN'S "TOM SHOW." Speaking of Mayors, it is about the time of the year that the pulchritudinous bunch which claims a monopoly of the manufacture of political dope for Weber county get reintroduced and begin to dangle the bait before the eyes of the Silurians and other inhabitants who meet, nominate, resolve re-solve and vote according to plans and specifications specifica-tions filed away among the archives of the bosses. The main pie this fall is the office of Mayor. Not in itself a sinecure, not overburdened with salary, sal-ary, but not without pecuniary opportunities. Thus, a "Mayor may veto an ordinance and give his reasons, and within a fortnlglit withdraw the veto and the reasons for the same reason that he vetoed it. But that opportunity does not come very often. Bill says he won't be Mayor again. That is jH to be regretted. The gentleman has his good AH points. Though the politicians distrust him; thefjB reformers despise him and the people generally Wfm malce merry over his antics much as a crowd otHL children are pleased with the idiosyncracies of afH performing monkey, yet his administration is notK without merit. Under his regime the city hasB not saved money, but it has made money. TojB him, too, is due the credit, past and to come,B for defending the party through his personal or-jR gan from the assaults of those who prate offlB party promises unfulfilled. He also is the author jR of the quiet enjoyment within the party, the im-iK munity from attack that a solid front presents 'H He is the administration and his paper the organ ''H of the' administration. He is so busy throwing nK bouquets at himself that he has not time to at-JB tack himself; and save for an occasional roast H for the council and an invidious eruption against H some individual, we have had quilt party sailing tH on the usually tempestuous journalistic sea. InHH that way Bill is useful. There are already those H fawning sycophants on various street corners H who proclaim the virtues of this administratipn H as "the best Ogden ever had," and in some re- H spects they are right. However, we have citizens IH who assert that these boasters are under paytjH from Bill. Yet through the turmoil can be heard mM the Mayor refusing the crown unless it comes H unsolicited, and offered on a silver platter. H & & &fr JH The powers that be are not exactly In touch H as to what to do, under the circumstances, with H Bill. Shurtliff says the Mayor will not succeed H himself. It is said he did not voice this opinion H until he discovered that John Henry was of the jH . same mind. Again, it is claimed that ShrutlifC jH would like the job himself. And why not? The wM party managers CjOuld do much worse than Shurt- H liff. He has been one of the powers behind H Bill's throne and his friends claim that he has H more than once saved the Mayor from a faux pas. wm If the party wants a man of affairs, Shurtliff is H it; if they want a man of dignity, Shurtliff has H WK it; if they want the antipodes of Bill, Shurtliff V is the man. H C C tv Bp- As if to commemorate the success of the Press Ig Club in the ','Tom Show," Billy Wlson, four- H year Commissioner, proprietor of the Hermitage, B and all-around good fellow, has built under the B shade of the sheltering pines in his mounitain re- m treat a. veritable Uncle Tom's cabin, only that it K is such a one as the old slave probably hoped K to inhabit in the Kingdom Come after Copp fln- K ished him. It is an architectural dream on the K outside and a thirsty man's paradise on ithe B inside. In short, it is Wilson's wet goods parlor, B under., the auspices of the Becker Brewing com- m pany, , Stanford voting no. If the Press Club K were not, to a man, teetotalers, the manufacturers B of public opinion of the state might ease up, some L Sunday, by accepting Wilson's hospitality In vis- M iting Uncle Tom's cabin. |
