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Show Many Democrats wise in counsel, whose ears are close to the transom of the inner chamber, professed to disbelieve the announcement of yesterday yes-terday that Senator Cannon's ahiance with the American party was due to an agreement with and at the request of the national Democratic committee. But they were unable to explain why the ex-Senator's sudden change of political rai-ment rai-ment mot with the approval of the Democratic state chairman, the Democratic national committeeman commit-teeman and the Democratic organ. There are very few people who watch the local political situation who will not admit that the ex-Senator can do far more valiant service for the Democracy as a leader of the bolters than he could as a proselyter for the untorrifled, because the converts he makes whl be Republican con- 1 verts and he can at the same time use Demo- t cratlc missives against the Republican party and , the Republican President with as much assiduity assidu-ity as he could while in the army of the local Parkerites And now another report has become quite persistent per-sistent and, if true, is additional evidence that Mr. Cannon is the ambassador of the national Democratic Demo-cratic committee iff Utah. It Is stated that within a few days the virile young political acrobat will f assume the editorial chair of the Tribune and t guide Its destinies in the campaign for the elec- I tion of a Democratic state ticket. Recent editor- ials In the bolting organ of "purity in politics" point strongly to the facile hand of Mr. Cannon and it is a pretty firmly entrenched belief that Mr. Cannon has already begun the duties of Tribune odltor. In yesterday's issue of that paper, it waa palpable that an alien hand had grappled with the I editorial helm. In the first place, the Tribune swallowed a great libation of choleric venom and published the names of the Roosevelt electors on the editorial page, a feat which must hav& made the Tribune quake from base to apex. Then the editorials directed against President Smith of the Mormon church had lost some of the peevishness of yore and some of the former rancor was noticeably no-ticeably absent. All df these developments show that a now and more diplomatic cerebrum is at work in the editorial department of the paper. Cannon Is in all probability the man who has wrought the transformation in the bolting organ. But whsther he has already taken charge or does so in the future, the intent remains the same. The mere' publication of the names of the Republican electors, elec-tors, one of whom was the victim of a recant Tribune Tri-bune attack, does not mean that the old repro- ' bate is to undergo a rebapttem or that the vine- garish attacks upon President Roosevelt are to cease. It does not mean that the Tribune is going go-ing to dissolve its amicable relations with Chairman Chair-man Bamberger of the Democratic committee; it does not mean that there will be any cessation of the poiicy of at all hazards wreaking a com- j plete revenge on the party which refused to listen to the tuneful plea of Siren Kearns for 'a second4 term in the Senate. If Senator Cannon assumes editorial chargo of the Tribune, everything will go on as before, except that the anti-Republican campaign will con- tinue and the ancient clumsy bulldozing will give I place to a more modern and acceptable style of ( journa.ism. The paper itself and Mr. Cannon are already committed to a violent antipathy towards f President Roosevelt and Mr. Fairbanks, and the t new American party is the weapon by which they expect to make the conspiracy successful. What-j What-j ever changes may be made, there will still be no chance for reconciliation between the bolting organ or-gan and people who believe in Republican control in the state and who desire Theodore Roosevelt to remain President of the United States. y The editor of the paper, whoever he may be, will not be permitted to forget that Thomas 1 Kearns did not bolt the Repub ican ticket because John C. Cutler was nominated for the governor- ship, and the fact that the bolt was planned weeks before because Thomas Kearns' candidates for the k Legislature were defeated in Sanpete and Mil- i lard counties will be weightily impressed upon him. I But above all, the editur will be taught to so I write that between the embittered lines may be plainly seen the message of hostility toward a I Republican President a message inspired in the II vengeful heart and baffled hopes of an unscrupu- lous boss One important thing that becomes more apparent ap-parent with every evolution in the American party campaign la that the leaders of the movement move-ment will subserve every energy toward the election elec-tion of Judge Powers for Congress and their Legislative Leg-islative ticket in the county. Leading Americau party men who have discussed the subject without with-out extreme caution have permitted this secret to escape them. The reason Mr. Kearns desires at all cost to have the American legislative ticket elected is quite patent. It would probably give ' him the balance of power in the coming, legislature, legisla-ture, and he would be in a position to say who should or who should not go to the United States Senate. If the vote were close, it is even possible that he might be able to bind the Legislature so that no election would be possible. In the accomplishment ac-complishment of this, he would of course require also the vote of Summit and some other outside counties, which it is reasonable to believe, he might control. All the trouble involved in stirring up this American party turmoil, all the fragments of Silver King dividends he has spent in the weakling's support, would be amply recompensed if the bulky apostle of "purity in politics" could once so fasten his talons on the Legislature as to wield such an influence. |