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Show Callister l&etired Ng Cutler to the IPoretS he Manipulations of Smoot. Politics in General. The primary bombardment in the flght lor Republican Re-publican supremacy in the state has been opened, and through the ensuing smoke can b observed the easily distinguished facial lineaments of Reed Smoot, Poor Callister has been retired, and John C. Cutler, unknown save in a business and ecclesiastical way, has been substituted by the Provoite for the abnormally ambitious internal revenue collector. Reed Smoot was sponsor first for the luckless Twin and then for his apparently stronger rival, and now stands imposingly silhouetted in the foreground as the self-elected arbiter of Republican politics in the state. The method of Calllster's undoing and Cutler's rapid ascent was unique. It was a sort of dumb waiter effect; when one went down the other came up, but Reed Smoot was the sole operator of the mechanism. It had been supposed that the inquisition (through which Mr. Smoot had passed in Washington Washing-ton had slightly dulled his political enthusiasm, but at the very first opportunity for an exhibition of his features at the political feast, his unheralded presence was again apparent. This sudden activity has received generally a churlish welcome, and the people who have suffered suf-fered from his illstarred entrance into official life are disposed to challenge his present domineering attitude in a contest where quietude on his part would have been far more welcome and in vastly better taste. Since the Provoite assumed the dignified roll of dictator in Utah Republican politics, while his senate seat was still tottering from tho vehe- mence of an immense popular indignation, his followers fol-lowers have covertly conveyed the impression that the junior senator never favored the candidacy candi-dacy of his lieutenant, E. H. Callister, for the governorship.' gov-ernorship.' Such a contention is meet for babes, and its object is to make Calllster's collision with the canvass of defeat and desertion as free from painful and lasting bruises as possible. But everyone every-one who is familiar with the Twin, or "with his co-partner in political intrigue, Fussy, the chairman, chair-man, knows that he would never have had the audacity to announce his candidacy for this exalted ex-alted position, had he not been aided and abetted by the helpful apostolic hand of Reed Smoot, for whose official success he worked strenuously In violation of the rule which Is supposed to govern the political conduct of the holder of a federal position. The fact is that Mr. Calllster's candidacy was sanctioned and encouraged by Mr. Smoot, and he only forsook the revenue collector after he discovered dis-covered that a serious advocacy of Calllster's candidacy can-didacy was greeted generally with jeers and derision. de-rision. The lieutenants dispatched to various portions of the state in the Twin's Interests returned re-turned with the uniform story that the Republicans Republi-cans of the state refused to consider such a proposition, propo-sition, even if it was fathered by the towering sycamore from Provo. That is what forced Mr. Smoot's hand and led to the launchment of Mr. J. C. Cutler, Mr. Smoot's retiring, non-committal, politically speechless protege. The corporate Interests of the state had rejected his proposed projection of Callister into the welkin, so this tongueless Parker of Utah was vouchsafed as a substitute. Mr. Smoot's subsequent foisting of Cutler SH had a dual purpose. First he desired to overcome SPB the opposition of business men, and secondly, he IIHh desired, by enlisting the peaceful Cutler, who SH is known with some favor among the leading cor- KH porations, to deliver an effective blow at Govern- IHB or Wells. To offset Wells' superior advantages H among substantial business interests, Cutler was lH the available antagonist. The fact, also, that Cut- HH ler has been the senator's business associate and flH intimate for a score of years had, of course, no HH weight with him in his sudden advocacy of the Hi local representative of the Provo Woollen Mills H and his desertion of the one who had trusted H that he would pull him through. H |