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Show Ill IS Ogdeiv Letter. 1 i Ogden, Aug. 22, 1902. HHH.JJ H' There is no use denying it, the evidence of a Hmjil'i Ii! Kearns-Smoot break piles up higher and higher HM 31 I as the days go by. Last week we had another HBi II ' touch of it. Visitors to the Utah Light and Power Ulfp; iff company ofllcers last Saturday might have seen Hfp M Apostle-of-the-Church Smoot, President-of-the- Hi' m , Stake Shurtliff, United States Attorney Lippman flK'! j ( and District Attorney Hayes in confidential con- Hmh' i '' ference on the subject of Weber county politics. HB;H $ ' Now size up that bunch. Smoot, the apostle who jHPjnj I j made Kearns; Shurtliff, Democratic ex-Senator BUtfffl from Weber county and a pensioner of Kearns; Mfj Ii Federal Officer Lippman, State manager for nflnfjl H Kearns; Attorney Hayes, Weber county manager HBjlif , J for Kearns, all touching elbows around a mahog- HMfj ' , any table doing politics. !l fi ' After that nothing further is required to con- vince the doubting Thomases that the split of the !' Kearns-Smoot people has widened into a gulf, and MHgjgj S that over the yawning chasm epithets of defiance Ifjflff f' - are hurled from the would-be to the Senator, and IJi back again! After that who would advertise him-p him-p self such a neophite as to publicly proclaim the al-i' al-i' leged break to be a sham! Don't talk to me of I, chicanery and deceit in politics; don't fill my ears i" with tales of deep-laid plots to thimblerig the un ll suspecting suckers. I will none of it. This is an ij age of enlightenment when honor reigns supreme j I and integrity is the bodyguard of our virtues. Let ii j the people give thanks for an apostle without guile 9 and a Senator shorn of his cunning! ll jf The selection of John D. Murphy as temporary (J chairman of the State convention produced vagi va-gi rious emotions in the breasts of the faithful that if is, the emotion varied in inverse ratio to the in-gtf in-gtf , scrip tion over the particular altar where the dif-I dif-I ferent faithful worshipped. In the Kearns camp , the feeling was tranquil; Murphy is not at outs ,, i with the Senator. Among the Smoot crowd there i was a certain apprehension, which gave way to satisfaction; John D. speaks well of the Apostle. MgXt ' ' In the Sutherland push a placid acquiescence ffifjrr 1 I covered a hidden fear that the Congressman was fmfm i j j not getting what he wanted. The followers of llrcjlj j ' Mr. Wells, the Governor, were extremely satis-Bjfjlfl satis-Bjfjlfl i ; 'J fled. They like Mr. Murphy, There is a lurking WMfti I ' suspicion that the silver-tongued John is for the Mliji' ' j ' man who can do Murphy the most good. At least, IJSnP 5, that is the record. But everybody will get a square Ifjti i J deal from Murphy. HiH?3t I ' i Hrcjir j I There is woe in the shop of Littlefield. Note Bfjlfo ', ! the Major as he pigeon-toes down the street. The Bf&Rr : JL wan face, the drawn countenance, the trembling Hk;; jp mouth, the furtive eye. The physiognomy awry, HpilS" ' tne hurt look of affliction on his face and tue wML mi I j cup of sorrow to his lips. And all because of ijpf Ramsey Ramsey from Ouray, Ramsey from Chi- Bl ii, I ' ' cago, who came in the hour of his distress and Blj 1 found a place in the Major's heart and a job in fljli m " tlie Journal oflice- That was two moons agone. Hfj ffl B For Ramsey, Littlefield killed the fatted calf he Bfill HI made him business manager. Ramsey was on to R jf I ' If "is job. Why proceed? A good story is oft spoiled Bf t Mi in the telling. When Ramsey left and Littlefield HHH ii tried to balance the cash, oh, mamma! Ramsey HHii Ii Bas Sone for good, and there is woe, financial HflpB II ' woe, in the shop of Littlefield. Bffi '!OI Hfc I It is pertinent here to say to the Truth corre- HoHlflfl spondent from Ogden, who lives in Salt Lake, HmM'j that when he tries to put people wise on who HE$H! tno correspondent for the Weekly in Ogden is, HHn he needs the services of a physician. Hanson may RHH know who writes for Truth he ought to, he gets roasted enough but when that extremely young dictator puts out any forecast on the Weekly man he wants to be sure his wires are not crossed. The Ogden end of Goodwin's is not around ringing any bell, thank you, and whether he writes his stuff to suit the Truth man, who doesn't know a newspaper man in Ogden, is a matter of indifference in-difference to the public. But when Truth or Bill, the two opposites, or anyone else, gets next to the Weekly man there will be the biggest surprise sur-prise in the newspaper world since Bill succeeded Glasmann in the ownership of the Standard. |