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Show Cfe Situation in XOeher Cotinty. The lines of the campaign have been outlined and the fur is expected to fly next week. The Republicans, Re-publicans, both as a national and local issue, are crying. "Let well enough alone." The Democrats are meeting this slogan by asserting that in county coun-ty government the people have not been having "well enough." They are making a campaign of abuse and faultfinding, and they hope to horn-swoggte horn-swoggte enough of the people to give them the victory. vic-tory. The orators of the unterrifled have loaded up on misrepresentations and cheap attacks and propose to carry the war into Africa. The Republicans Repub-licans will content themselves with denying Democratic Dem-ocratic campaign stories and will depend on the good sense of the American voter to see that the 6, o. P. ticket is victorious all along the line. One of the really funny things of the local campaign cam-paign is the selection of Judge Dee as chairman of the Democratic county committee. The good old Judge is one of our leading citizens a pillar of our financial temple and a far-seeing, sound business man. As a matter of fact, he is such a sound, safe business man that he votes the national na-tional Republican ticket and supports the national na-tional Republican policies. He poses locally as a Democrat, but that is for reasons which pertain exclusively ex-clusively to his own political virtue. He was a Democrat in the olden time and at his age to change his politics would put him in the same class as Shurtliff. So he is a Democrat for 364 days in each year, but on election day he marches to the polls and puts a cross up by the bee hive and lets it go at that. Judge Dee voted for McKinley a couple of times and is glad of it. He is heavily interested in the Ogden Sugar company, now the Amalgamated, Amalga-mated, and of course he wants a Congressman who will vote against the reciprocity bill. He is a firm believer in sound money, so naturally he would be opposed to the silver mouthings of William Wil-liam Henry King. He is a disciple of expansion as the Oriental market will make a demand for the products of the West and thus help out all the industries the good old Judge is connected with. And that is why it is funny to see and read and hear of Judge Dee managing a Democratic campaign cam-paign when everybody expects him to religiously ork and pray that from all the efforts of Democrats Demo-crats to harass the land with. Democratic government, govern-ment, the country may be spared yet another time. The people in Weber have just about arrived at the conclusion that the so-called Smoot-Kearns combination is nothing but a dream. Those on the inside know that the camps of each bear strained relations toward each other, but the people generally gen-erally have not expected to see an open rupture. The unexpected, it appears, has happened, as Mr. Smoot is riding in the band wagon alone, while Kearns is frantically gesticulating back of the procession. For some unknown reason, let us hope the love of self-respect, the apostle has served notice no-tice on the Senator to get off the earth, and the Senator, it appears, will have a hard time trying to evade the manifesto, if he fares no better in the rest of the State than he did in Ogden at the late convention. So far as the combination goes Smoot is in the saddle and Kearns is nowhere. It looks as though the Democratic hope that Bill would jump on the Republican ticket with both feet was about to be verified. The Mayor-editor Mayor-editor has not said one kind word of the ticket or a single nominee and that means that your Uncle Bill must have an understanding, or he must know where he is at politically for the future. That, if Bill can be relied on long enough to follow his own precedent there will not be much doing through the columns of the Daily Bill until the editor has been "seen." However, these calculations calcula-tions may be rudely shattered. Bill may jump in and put up a rousing fight just to show the boys that he knows the Republicans are going to win anyway and he don't propose to be outside the breastworks when the victors share the spoils. A resume of the Republican situation shows that at least four of the Legislative nominees are for Sutherland for Senator, and as the fifth is doubtful, there could stranger things happen than giving Sutherland the whole half-dozen from Weber We-ber (everyone knows where Senator Allison stands). Should the Congressman conclude to butt in on the Senatorial fight he can start out with practically the solid backing of Weber. That fact is significant when the Kearns managers here have assured the Senator that Sutherland did not get a call at the late convention. If the daily press of the State was not syndicated and if the truth was not so often strangled to make a Kearns display, the probability is that in other parts of the State the American spirit of fairness might occasionally be found and the Senatorial situation might be decidedly different. |