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Show Doin's Po.xt.cally. There is no intention on the part of the Utah Democracy Dem-ocracy to side track Senator Rawlins. It's so seldom sel-dom that a Utahn and a Democrat attain distinction of any sort that Rawlins can consider himself firmly tacked on the party pedestal and the followers will fall down and worship. lie came back in time to participate in the party picnics and to do the chief talking stunt at all functions and his recent rant in the senate anent the awful army and the Philippines is not so far agone as to escape modest reference. And too, Rawlins helped bring some foreign money into the coming campaign in Utah. It looks very much as though he is to be leader, dictator and boss, and those arc the very things u.ic Democracy has long lacked in Utah. Those in apparent command, including the State Chairman, declare without reservation reser-vation that the Democratic convention will not commit com-mit itself on the senatorship. This means that the few anti-Rawlins, anti-Smoot, gentiles in the party will not succeed in forcing a pledge for some candidate candi-date like Powers or Hiles. Roylance of Provo is getting lots of joy out of his recently acquired state chairmanship. He has no candidate for anything (except himself for anything the party may give him) but he scents Democratic victory in all the winds that blow, from the street corners in the metropolis, to the trackless sage brush flats, where the sheepherder has forgotten the merits mer-its of a tariff on wool in his hatred of a trust on beef. Mr. Roylance says, however, that a whole lot of help is coming to the Democracy through public disgust with the present domination of the republican republi-can machine. And he says that the domination isn't all vested in the Silver King but has its ramifications ramifica-tions through the Grand Central represented by Ed. Loose and his mining satellites; through the sugar trust of which T. R. Cutler is the Utah agent and through the church as far as the Apostolic influence of Reed Smoot extends, which is some little ways down south. But there may be a rupture in the Republican party as between Smoot and his opponents. There is no doubt but that the Apostle is in the race and no doubt but that he has permission from authorities closer to, God than he but ho really isn't relished by the Junior Senator who is now on -.is way to Europe, instead of here, handling the fight. It is admitted that Kcarns would like to see Wells succeed Rawlins. Rawl-ins. So would Wells. In fact it is known that the ambitious Governor has already sent emissaries into the far corners of the state to drum up sentiment in his behalf. The funny part of it is that the emissaries emis-saries met a blast from the trumpet of the Smoot supporters and were so overcome thereby that they divulged the purpose of their mission and confessed its failure. There are many straws pointing to diverging winds among the Republicans, one of which was the failure fail-ure to elect a state chairman at the recent meeting meet-ing of the committee, and this notwithstanding the necessity of the man who is to direct the next campaign, cam-paign, being early enough in the field to get his bearings. bear-ings. George M. Cannon couldn't get the chairmanship. His senatorial aspirations barred him. The friends of other candidates saw how dangerous it would bo to have Cannon in charge of the campaigning and the distribution of the funds. In fact with Cannon as chairman there would have beeen no funds, because be-cause each senatorial candidate instead of trusting his coin to the general committee would have placed it where it would do the most personal good. James Anderson didn't want the job because he would rather stand discreetly between the factions, and get himself carried into the four years term of county commissionership. Really the convention will have a high old time in finding a chairman. They will be as scarce as Mortenson jurors and finally one will probably be caught out in the alfalfa fields. And it won't be Walton. 'The congressional situation has not yet taken form. Sutherland has stated to his friends that he will not make the race again. He reserves the right to say later what he will do about the senatorship, In the meantime his friends would like to see George M. Cannon nominated for congress. It would remove George M. from the senatorial lists and give an ex cusc to oppose Smoot and Wells on the grounds that a non-mormon should go to the senate. But the Sutherland forces expect to profit most in the event of a deadlock between Wells and Smoot, which might reesult if the church holds aloof. (And it won't.) |