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Show THE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR. In the next few days primaries and conventions conven-tions will be held and candidates for city ofllces will be nominated. Three Republican candidates for Mayor have been mentioned. In the old days the contests Were bqtween the Gentiles and Mormons. This year there is a third factor in the contest to be consideied. Hon. Thomas Kearns is a United States Senator from Utah. As such he is entitled to all the influence which his office and personal character can give him. But Mr. Kearns' idea is that his office gives him the right to dictate the" conduct of his party in this state and his idea ot running a party is precisely like- that of running a mine. Every foreman and shift boss must do what the superintendent says and every miner must obey the foremen and shift bosses or be dis charged. That is boss rule and when a little while Indulged in it leads to the absolute demoralization demora-lization of a city or state, for it breaks down the independence of men and insidiously administers slow poison to men's self-respect. To fasten this rule upon this city and state Mr. Kearns has secured offices for some, he has helped others with money, he has not been sparing spar-ing of piomises of other honors and emoluments to follow. Now, every one of these who has received or expects favors is working for the nomination of Mr. Knox or Mr. Odell, chiefly Odell. Then the threat is covertly held over the heads of the Saints that if Mr. Kearns cannot "Have his way, the help he will extend to Apostle Smoot when Congress Con-gress meets will be what the chicken received from the ax. This has its influence on a certain fl class 'of Mormons and on that score they are working for the nomination of Mr. Odell. B If either Mr. Knox or Mr. Odell is nominated it B will mean a triumph for boss rule. B Mr. James stands for the very opposite of this. He is an honest man who would not be swayed I tiom his ideas of right by any office that qpuld be fl tendered, him. Moreover, when he came hero , B nearly thirty years ago he opposed with all his I might what was unlawful, unjust and un-Ameri-B can in the Mormon system as practiced thjen. On B this point he stands precisely wheire he stood then B and he would not give up his convictions for a fl thousand nominations. This all Mormons know, cut they know further that were he to be nominated nomin-ated and elected, they could all appeal to him for any needed thing and that they would be heard as cheerfully and their just requests be as certainly certain-ly granted as would those of any Gentiles. They know further, as so does eveiy Gentile, that with Mr. James mayor the office would be held as a sacred trust for the whole city and not, even by indication, be subject to any influence, the purpose pur-pose behind which would be the tin ihering of the political ambition and power of some particular man. As to the qualifications for the place, no man in the city can claim precedence over W. I'. James. His interests are all here, he has as clear ideas of the city's needs now and in anticipation of the future as any man within the city's limits; he has given much thought and much unrewarded labor for the furtherance of the city's improvement: improve-ment: he has noted every advance ani every mistake mis-take that has been made; he has ample time to cicvotr to the t'utles of the office, and if Mayor with a public spirit that would never tail lMm would go to work to make the city's Intelligent improvements a guarantee that no mistake was i..ade in his elef'iou as Mayor. As. we look upon the matter his nomination would be an eviderce of the go?d taith ri the Republican Re-publican party of ll.e city in its efforts to advance liic city's material improvement and be an ear-rest ear-rest evidence oi the desire oMhe party tor cloan nmerican political methods. |