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Show . Uhe Mtid Uhejr lohroiw In I Ogden. h It Is a trite snying that a traveler on a political H road finds more mud than water. The reason is, ml there aro so many Democrats. And that brings y, .mo to the front door of my story the mud-sling-ff ing of the lato campaign. It will bo remembered that when Senator Beveridge would call the oppo- (j sition, consisting of Democrats, Kearns Republics Republi-cs cans and soreheads, got very fussy over the fact fl that Weber county had been receiving its just ;jj dues from tho State in the way of half salaries, and from the little stone cut from the mountain ,F without hands rolled such a boulder of abuse, re-i re-i crimination and falsehood that the whole structure i Ij of public policy threatened to follow the examplo - jijlj of the Campnnile. i 1 1 H I The indignation of at least one just man made H I perfect through the trying fires of many a cam- H J paign found vent through the newspapers, but the H I ft effect was as one crying in the wilderness. Yet H 5'. the infection spread until it reached the hair-trig- H t ger conception of the little Halverson, who skated H ;j ! ij down to see tho Governor and acquaint him with H i i I tl e details of tho tragedy which hovered over We- H , R her . (And therein lay much wisdom.) You see. H m f if ever Hayes is made Embassador at the Court of H St James or any other old place, the Governor H If ' j will appoint a new District Attorney up here. Now H 'wt : Halverson well, who can blame him if he tries to H j I J (J curry a little favor with the Governor! Hlil &) IP But I seem to digress. The foot of scandal and fj gossip having been boiled down, the scum natur- U 9j N ally gathered around the top. And now your Uncle m I E John Seaman is in the same box as the kitchen m utensil which called the kettle black. He also oc- m 1 K cupies the pitiful condition of one growing old H if; without getting wise. The fault is all with the 1 keen-scented old G. A. R. man, Squires, who did li , the investigating. He found that, whereas the 1 if f present County Board has been paying deputies for 1 w overtime, the Democratic Board, of which Seaman 1 ij M was a member, paid both principals and deputies jf JH ij for overtime, and then Uncle John was cheap 111. enough to squeal on the other fellow. E H Summed up, the State Auditor's report reads H something like tliis: "You fellows in Weber have w made the State live up to the law so far as paying half-salaries is concerned, but your county is the V only one out of about fifteen that succeeded in do- K ing so. But notwithstanding you were entitled to m Uie money, a farmer Attorney-General once upon H a time rendered a decision which makes the law jR one big monkey-business; so if you will give back If about nineteen hundred dollars, I will see that the j I Legislature appropriates you enough to call it 1 square. With kind regard,s, and may the present officers hold their jobs for a hundred years, I am I your old friend, the Auditor." I m That is Uie milk in the cocoanut, the potpouri m of Uie Democratic feast Is it any wonder that no- m body but Democrats, Kearns Republicans and sore- m heads gave Uie matter more than passing thought m Is it any wonder that the virtuous guardians of M probity lost interest in criminal prosecutions m when they discovered Umt Uncle John would be m i Uie first law-breaker to serve time? As a matter of fact the whole business was nothing more nor m i less than a four-flush campaign flyer which floated fi-JI-ff J menacingly over Uie heads of Uie struggling candl- HBI1PII I dates and Uien peacefully settled In the DamocraUc pli I camp, where It originated. Uncle John is hearUly Bf I I sick of it Hey wood Is recovering and Halverson H mm well, it is to be hoped he will survice. II HI mm I" his little tourney yiUi an unknown for Pres- Bil ident of the Senate, Coi. E. M. Allison, now of Wer her, but formerly of Salt Lake, has all the better of the joust. As an ideal presiding officer, Col. Allison fills the bill and gives back change. The dark horse being groomed against the Weber Senator Sen-ator has not been entered in any dope book, so it begins to look like first money for Allison. There is every reason to believe that Smoot will not oppose op-pose the Ogden man, so his opposition has narrowed nar-rowed down to a contest with his own modesty. The State Senate could not pay itself a neater compliment com-pliment than to elect Mr. Allison as President. Colonel, here's to you; you're a winner, sure. The election of Allison as President of the Senate Sen-ate carries with it a rod in pickle for another favorite fa-vorite son of what Lindsay Rogers calls Billtown ono Dr. Condon. The poetic doctor wants to be Speaker of the House. Unfortunately, Mr. Smoot of Provb and Mr. Hull of Salt Lake don't view the matter tlirough the same peepstone as does the man of medicine. That fact is ominous for Doc. But he is from Missouri and insists that, like Cas-toria, Cas-toria, Uie babies are crying for him for Speaker, and Allison knows it; yet the latter remains in the race for presiding officer of the Senate, and that leaves Doc. on the shore of nowhere. Why Allison would do that Doc. can't understand; but it is to be hoped he will get a hunch before Mr. Hull gets a corner on all the votes. |
