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Show Doin's Politically. It is noted that in these last days of Congress Utah has only one representative at Washington the Hon. George Sutherland, The senior Senator is here playing politics, the junior Senator is over in Europe, and Doc. Jones is away on a honeymoon. honey-moon. Mr. Sutherland is not coming here until Congress adjourns, and a great many ambitious gentlemen will stay on the anxious seat until he comes. A half-dozen or more would-be candidates i for Congress are earnestly hoping that he will decide de-cide to enter the Senatorial race, and fully as many would-be Senators are convinced that he 'should again make the run for the lower house. The latter contingent is the more likely to be disappointed, dis-appointed, as the Hon. George has already informed in-formed his friends that he doesn't want to be a I Congressman again, and there are some unusually I able licks being put in to further his chances for ithe Senatorship. This means, of course, that the 'sentiment against Smoot, the Apostle, and against 'Wells, the Junior Senator's understudy, has reached a point where each and both of them can , see impending defeat for themselves, if not for the .party, and the party, to save itself, must look for an unobjectionable third man. The Gentile ele-unent ele-unent would accept Sutherland and one or two others oth-ers who have been favorably mentioned. On the 'other side of the house, there is a quiet but strong current working towards Joseph Howell of Cache, who as a State Senator has made very few mis-takes, mis-takes, and who was looked upon as a Gubernatorial Guberna-torial possibility two years hence. It is significant that certain Senatorial interests have tried to (drum up a boom for Howell for Congress. t J As to prospective Congressional candidates on ;the Republican side, the woods are full of them. The latest to "declare his intentions" is Fire Chief Jim Devine, who says he will run if Sutherland doesn't. Leaving all the other qualifications aside, the Fire Chief would be an expert on the water cure and might thereby be valuable in extinguishing extinguish-ing the Rawlins pyrotechnics, if the latter goes back to the Senate. Devine will have lots of com-pany com-pany in his candidature; Buffalo Bill of Ogden, Booth of Provo, Livingston of Sanpete, Miner of Salt Lake, George M. Cannon (possibly), and even Dan Harrington are "mentionable." j He Hi Harking back to Rawlins, the adulation accorded ac-corded him by the big and little Democrats at the Lagoon picnic, fulfills our prophecy of the power of dictation he brought back in his pocket from Washington. Ho is presumably in accord with the "reorganizer" wing of the national Democracy, which, with Cleveland, Hill, Whitney and a hundred hun-dred of like stripe, means money for campaigning 4nd knock-out drops for Bryanism. Mr. Rawlins will dictate the policy for the coming campaign in ytah, and with his own return to the Senate in yiew he will not overlook any bets in the little game. He won't say much about reorganization, which isn't needed for two years yet, and the Philippine stunt will be omitted except for purposes pur-poses of showing what a big frog he is in the Democratic puddle in Washington. His policies will be cast upon local lines opposition to Smoot and the church where it will do most good; opposition opposi-tion to the Cutler crowd and the sugar trust; opposition op-position to Kearns and the slave ownership of the Silver King push; opposition to the Salt Lake machine ma-chine which has no regard for public good-these and a dozen more will Mr. Rawlins put out to elect a Democratic Legislature and perhaps a Democratic Demo-cratic Congressman. In Salt Lake county the platform against church interference based upon the memory of the fl sale and delivery to Kearns, is likely to win. A H very earnest Republican, who has been high in the fl party councils and a good campaigner, has said fl that he could support such a platform on the Dem- B ocratic side. Street opinion has gone far enough fl to bear out the belief that it would split the Re- fl publicans atwain. Yet those who are looking for B an anti-church move, to down Smoot the Apostle, fl are not banking largely on the King speech at the B Lagoon function. They remember that soon after fl the last election King and several other offended fl Democrats foregathered and decided to issue an fl "address to the world" which would contain some B very sharp and saucy strictures on ecclesiastic pol- B itics. There was much talk about it, but it never B was "issued" and probably even now reposes in the B pocket of Dave Dunbar. H fl By the way, Dave, in his capacity as national B Democratic committeeman will take no part in this B campaign. He will devote his time to his oil and fl sugar promotions and wait till the signal is given fl to rally the ranks around the standard of the re- I organizers, He has been East long enough to fl learn that the anti-Bryan element is the strong fl wing of the party and that the big fellows propose B to have "harmony" or cast off the followers of the fl Nebraska man-of-mouth. Bryan wants a reorgani- B zation that will permit him to name Tom Johnson fl for President. The reorganizers mean to name fl David B. Hill, and they will do it. The "harmony fl dinner" on Tilden day in New York was the key- B note. Bryan wasn't there. National Comroittee- B man Dunbar wired the Hearst papers that the din- B ner, or rather the harmony was a good thing for fl the party. That means that Mr. Dunbar and the fl other Utah Democrats are early in getting into the B Hill band wagon. fl George Hanson, who was recommended by B Congressman Sutherland, will not be postmaster B at Ogden. Thomas H. Davis, who was recom- B mended by Senator Kearns, gets the job. There Is fl as much difference between the unsuccessful and fl successful candidates as there is between their re- H spective supporters. The first is a brainy young I man of superb attainments and ability one amply fl qualified for a postmastership in Utah's second fl city. The other after a life-training in mechanics B (which is far from disgrace) is promoted to a high fl Federal position, not because he had fitted himself fl for its responsibilities, but because, very early in fl his first term as a lawmaker for the commonwealth B he supported for the United States Senatorship the fl man who has just given him his reward. B It certainly implies a previous promise of fl something worth as much in dollars or fame as the fl Ogden postmastership. The Junior Senator is cer- I tainly "making good" in paying off his heelers in fl and out of the Legislature. The list grows: An- I derson, Surveyor-General; Axton (Rev.), army I chaplaincy; Van Home, Judge of the Court of fl First Instance at Cairo; Davis, postmaster at Og- B den; Hey wood, United States Marshal; Lippman, B United States Attorney, and a few lesser ones, but fl none, where he could help it, who was other than H active in his election. He fell down on Hayes, at I Ogden, whom he tried to land in an Alaska Judge- B ship, but Hayes will not go without -his reward. fl The Hanson episode is going to muddle the H political situation in "Weber county. He has a fl strong political following of his own, and it will fl be reinforced by the friends of Mr. Sutherland, fl who will not brook what appears to be an inten- H tional slap at the Congressman. It was under- H stood that Senator Kearns would no. oppose the B appointment of Hanson, but before leaving for his B trip to Europe the paymaster of the last Legisla- B ture got his lips to the Presidential ear and fl wheedled him into aiding in the payment of one fl more election debt. H Congressman Sutherland, so far, has only ex- H pressed his surprise at the action, but we imagine H that something more than surprise will be ex- H pressed by his friends and Hanson's when the re- H turps from Weber are announced this fajl. |