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Show I j Id he Lord and the I j Election in Weher. B ' ' The Lord did hIs work well in Weber this time. B j I So as to make assurance doubly sure, the faithful B j l I wno thought they were voting for Brother Smoot B j when they cast their ballots for the legislative B ' ' nominees went one better than the ungodly Gen- B M tile who scratched his ticket, by voting it straight. B ' j j The county officers, who had been shamelessly B j ; j ' attacked by Democratic managers and stump ora- H ' ' tors throl,S"out the county, got tlie best of the or B , I ' der to vote straight, and the result was the elec- B j tion of the Republicans who were placed on the B i I , ticket by the bosses October 2nd. A close scrut- B I ing Into tue inside of things shows a somewhat B raixea condition of affairs, out of which emerges B I the Kearns crowd more or less covered with po- B i litieal Infamy. HI B i j As the Weekly has stated from the first, State B j Senator McKay is warrqly attached to Sutherland. B When this fact had been thoroughly digested by Bj the minions of the parvenue Senator they decided B ' to do a few things to Mr. McKay at the polls. It B i I was generally expected that the Kearns people B ! would not play fair, but there was no outward Bj indication of revolt until Col. Hayes, member of B nj the State executive committee and Kearns's Poo B Bj Bah in Weber, boldly prophesied on Monday that H1 H McKay would be snowed under on Tuesday. He B further predicted that Hollingsworth, whom the H jl Colonel utterly failed to hurt in the race for the H IS nomination for Clark, would be everlastingly de- m feated. Some other candidates came under the H wire losers in the Colonel's mind, and one only B was a sure winner. B H j After relieving himself of these dire predic-H predic-H tions he folded himself up and awaited the Demons Demo-ns ' I cratic avalanche. It failed to come. The Colonel Hj i no doubt was sorely disappointed. His prophecies H I were only the reflex of his own mind in the niat-R niat-R , ter, and he no doubt imagined that all he had to IK ; do was to issue orders to do a little slaughtering II J) and it would bo done. He had not then tumbled II (B to the fact that the cheap Senator he represents I" had ceased to be a factor in live Utah politics, and that the people pay no more attention to Kearns Ml than they did to Hayes in the county convention. BE That is how the Kearns push, insignificant and B unfaithful, covertly knifed half a dozen candi- H j ! dates, and knowing it, Hayes walked abroad and BK predicted their defeat. There is no question that B the wish was father to the thought. If Hayes I1 won't admit it, other Kearns followers will: The Democratic candidates are taking out their Kpj m spite on poor old John Seaman, who has been Bil t scratched from Democratic manager to public BIB kicking post. The losers are all handing Uncle Bl John a warm package for his unclean campaign BIS against the county officers, which, thoy hold, har- Bafi mbnized the fighting Republicans. There is some BH 9 merit in their contention, as the heavy majorities BH I 8how the disapproval of the people of Uncle John's BBff M dirty methods. The county now has a most efll- BB m cient corps of officers, and no amount of campaign H m thunder could shake the faith of the people in HB M them. It is said the Democratic managers had HI H several heated controversies over Uncle John's HB I dGdger, but the old cynic had his way, and now HBj B that it proved a boomerang the sequel is disas- BB W trout) for Uncle John. MH w Bfl ft There is no doubt that the influence of high HBj m churchmen was invoked to carry the legislative HHj ffl ticket to victory, but in the face of the returns it BK B is highly probable that with all the Gentile dis- HBf M affection the church vote was not needed. If Mon- HRjf m ., tana and Idaho can go Republican, why not Utah? H ml S Says tlie satisfled Republican, but just a BPfL shadow of a wink is detected in the off eye. The church helped of course, but what church? The Catholics, Methodists, etc., who were Republicans voted their tickets side by side with Mormons. There was only one discordant note. It was the prejudiced Gentile coached by the Kearns deserters desert-ers that bucked and kicked. Weber went Republican Repub-lican because the party of protection had the people peo-ple in line, and the Lord looked on and smiled approvingly. |