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Show jjjir Iffatrs ToltttcaU Hjl 1 It was in the most vinegar! sh and vitrdlic Hp m i convention! the Democracy ever held in the state H iJjjj; that D II Peery defeated O. W. Powers for the HP( .'?' I position of national committeeman. The vote H 1 f was so clo&3 that the result could scarcely be sur-H!r sur-H!r I h mised until the vote of the last county, Washing-He Washing-He h Ion, was announced. Mr. Peery's victory was ! jiP; due largely to the superior generalship exhibited 1 , in the conduct of his campaign, and the fact that B M f i Judge Powers entered the contest, on the ill-ad-B , 'l' h l vised solicitation of certain friends, at a very late B 1 ml and untimely hour. ; Ml Not since the arraignment of B. H. Roberts B 'W y Governor Wells some years ago has so much B : j M interest been apparent in a Democratic conclave. i! Partisans on both sides formed a rigid and belligerent bel-ligerent alignment. While Mr. Peery's election was 1 a personal triumph, a great compliment to the your?: nan, and a delight to his many friends, a I number of the delegates also viewed his election . as a defeat oi W. H. King, who was accused of having induced Judge Powers to enter the race at j the last moment. h In a forensic way the convention was remark- J able. The best orators of the Democracy thun- dered at the awe-stricken delegates. But it was the quiet work of Mr. Peery's friends, lead by R. B W, Sloan that resulted in Mr. Peery's vic- H tory, although Mr. Sloan's forceful and in- B ,f clsive appeal to the country delegates was K ,)g probably responsible for a heavy vote from B "1 , the outside counties. In many of the counties B ik the vote was equally divided between the two j , Jg leading candidates, the idea of the outside delega- BVtjfl tlons apparently being that if Salt Lake county Bffili Mm 1 were so strenuously in favor of Mr. Peery, it jHBy I would be unwise for them to injterfere in their Bf" wS '? selection of a committeeman. Hf nWat J i In other respects the convention was har- B If j monious, and there was little strife in the se- H ;S, lection of delegates to the national convention. H There was no effort to duplicate Senator Dubois' H polygamy plank or to instruct the delegates for H ; a presiden;tial candidate. B ; & & & B ' Mr. Joseph Lippman, as manager of that great B -j and soulful and guileless organ, the Tribune; the H i) involuntary abdication of Perry and the en- H ' f thronement of Joseph; It all appears as the Irre- H i descense of a May day vision; the divorce of Per- B ( ry Heath and T. Kearns; all forming a chapter of H paradoxes which the mind mundane grasps not H f with ease. Yet the fall of Heaih seems inevitable al though it should prooaoly not be taken with a great outlay of seriousness. Mr. Kearns wishes to succeed Mr. Kearns as U. S. Senator from Utah, and could not enter the race handicapped with Heath, the spotless, and weighted with the erratic and insane policy of the Tribune during recent months. Mr. Kearns was sufficiently wise to know that his antagonistic demeanor, through the Tribune, towards Smoot had effectively obliterated any remnants of popularity he may have had with the dominant political power in this state, so it was necessary to resort to heroic measures. In the first place, it was necessary for Mr. Kearns to indicate in-dicate to the public that he was not at all responsible re-sponsible for the attitude of the Tribune in violently vio-lently attacking the church and assailing Mr. Smoot. There was only one solution. This was the retirement of Mr. Heath a circumstance which would enable Mr. Kearns to make a scapegoat scape-goat of that distinguished citizen by charging him with the responsibility for all the attacks made in the organ on the Provoite and the church. It is all a very notable exhibition of diplomacy. The policy of the Tribune will probably change. Mr. Kearns will probably blame Heath, in conversation conver-sation with Mormons, with all the misdeeds of the Tribune. Out of the quagmire of impending defeat, de-feat, Mr. Kearns will emerge smiling, triumphant, washed of the Tribune's iniquities, the immaculate friend of the Mormons, guileless and guiltless. Immortal bays for you, Mr. Kearns, who can hyprbtize the gullible and eat like and with the ecclesiastical ox upon which his fangs have fattened. fat-tened. W & James Anderson, the "Fussy," manager and twin of Callistcr, has left the city to the buffet-ings buffet-ings of evil, and will not gladden us wih his presence pres-ence again for iwo weeks. Meanwhile the deserted desert-ed Callister has locked up his gubernatorial aspirations, as-pirations, walks with a stealthy tread and speaks in whispers. He appears to think some great international in-ternational cataclysm may occur during the absence ab-sence of the manager. And, by the way, it is reported re-ported that he has beon in secret conclave with a representative of Mr. Kearns of late, which would indicate that the senator desires to learn just how strong each of the gubernatorial aspirants aspir-ants are, and cast his lot with the winner. If one stops to think, Mr. Kearns is about the key to the situation on the governorship nomination, nomi-nation, and he can be counted upon not to overlook over-look his opportunity. However, nothing decisive in the gubernatorial situation can be expected until the return of the Fussy manager. w t?v v W. H. King has been busy of late sending out letters to diverse portions of the state, urging prominent Democrats to run for judicial and other offices, which would indicate that he is desirous de-sirous of strengthening as much as possible the state ticket. Is it possible that this presages Judge King's entering the sweepstakes for the aenatorship in case of a Democratic victory? & & & H. BuLen, Jr., of Cache county, recently announced an-nounced his intention not to run for the Republican Repub-lican nomination for secretary of state, upon learning through these columns that he had been led to seek the nomination through the machinations machina-tions of the political enemies of Congressman Howell of that county. Postmaster Clove of Provo has a dual game up his sleeve, John De Gray Dixon and Glazier, both of Utah county, for secretary of state and state treasurer, respectively. He will maintain that Dixon Is now a citizen of Salt Lake county. This news will not be greeted with joy by Moyes of Weber or J. N. Christiansen of Severe, who is gaining considerable strength in his campaign for the state treasurership nomination. |
