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Show H 0?den feettep. J ' j Ogden, Utah, June 10, 1002. Bli "I1 il The congressional situation is somewhat engrossing f , j at present. "If Sutherland declines to run" is the H ,, icfrain of Ogden's standing candidate. The politi- 1 , r 1 1 cians are casting anchors to windward and from up Hli ' North the Howell boom roars welcome to the opponent Hjf ' ' of Bill. Does Bill really want the nomination? Does H ' a cow want a calf? Is there anything in the hcav- i - I ens above or the earth below that Bill docs not want? Hlr ' $t f I He has the whole swarm of congressional bees in his Hl '' i bonnet and his chief worry from now on till August Hf 14 will be to find some one capable of putting them H( ; safely into the nomination hive. But Bill is up H$ ' ' m S against it. He knows he is in a small and ever de- Bli' i ij creasing minority and he wants to gold brick the We- H!(' ber Republicans into supporting his pretensions in H i ' another convention. "Just one more" as he pleading- Mfi.v' ' ty I)Uts it. But the question with Bill is who to sc- H f, 'i 'i' cure. Hi till H(L.uV There is Edwin Dix, chairman of the county coni- BhI8'Jw 'Si mittce. lie would be subservient enough but he is regaided as a "granny" without influence or man- Ingement and Bill,, well he knowing how abject and cringing Dix is, dares not trust nim to deliver the goods. Then there is Bishop Wade, who so loyally and ably supported Bill at the Provo convention. But Bill has in confidence, he always retails his slanders in strictest confidence, told everybody and his neighbor that Bishop Wade sold him out at the election of 1808 and also at Provo, and he, Bill has the documentary evidence to prove it. So the Bishop will none of him. Sidney Stevens, Gus Wright and Ike Clark, Bill's trio of business men, might be impressed, im-pressed, but the best they can do is to give him a vote while they wink the other eye, and thus the sup-port sup-port of the business men proves another pipe dream. Hanson would do, but Hanson so cordially despises des-pises Bill that it is idle to talk of truce between them. Hanson might be willing to let Bill have the delegation provided his defeat in the convention were a foregone conclusion. Hanson is in touch with Bill's enemies, inside and out, and it would be ducks for him to repeat the inquiry of Joab to Aniasa "art thou in health, my brother" and he took Bill by the beard and plunged the harpoon under the fifth rib. So Hanson is out of the question. What's the matter with Ileywood, dignified, politic, and with more real ability than the rest of the bunch put together? If he could satisfy himself that the political proverb "He who sleeps with dogs must expect to get up with fleas" were not true, he would be the man. But Ileywood Iley-wood has a conscience, so Avhat's the use. There's Murphy, he of the shaggy locks and silver tongue. Yes, Murphy is diplomat enough, Republican Republi-can enough, strong enough in party servitue to do violence to his better judgment by supporting Bill, but the Murphy machine had half of its cogs broken and most of the machinery tin own out of gear by Bill after he became Mayor. Most of Murphy s strength lies in the fact that he is the oracle of the ward heelers, party workers and machine manipulators. manipula-tors. When Murphy wanted the boys taken caie of after the city election, Bill threw down all of the workers, all the candidates the machine endorsed. A'mighty howl of vengeance went up; Murphy binothered his wrath and said "Wait, the proper time for vQngeance is when Bill wants to go to Congress." The time is now here and the machine is calling on Murphy to make good. Bill wants Murphy bad enough but John D. will not listen to the siren voice. It is all off with Bill. Bill may turn to Hayes Hayes, the oresaiblo, the manager and Weber county mouthp "f Senator Sen-ator Kearns. Hayes is a good manager, stick a pin there, has courage, a pleasing address and the backing back-ing of the senator. There is supposed to be the entente cordial between the senator and Bill for has not the latter told in confidence, strictest confidence, con-fidence, of the triumvirate agreement with Smoot and Kearns when he jumped to Kearns in the last legislature. Kearns to furnish the money, Smoot the influence, whatever that may be, and Bill the oratory! So why not Hayes? But really, it is too bad to chronicle. Hayes health is poor; he expected to improve im-prove it by hanging it in an "Alaska" refrigerator for a few years but he changed his mind and now to help Bill he really must, yes, must be excused. He would like to please the senator, but Bill and Smoot, no, his health is too poor. Poor Hayes. There remains another giant, Dr. Condon. Bill and Doc are at present shaking clenched fists at each other under the shadow of a yellow flag, but a few flattering notices in the Standard, a large sized dose of hot air, taken by both, clasping of hands across the bloody chasm and Doc would let fly his choicest flights of poetry and loose his silvery tongue in Bill's behalf. But Bill might not cotton to this program. He knows Doc has no following, and while Doc is Doc and Bill is Bill, a union of this precious pair would mean only Doc and Bill and Bill and Doc, and theie you have it. Nothing doing Chairman Stanford of the county commissions no, he has grown gray in party service and he is now too wise to become tarred with the Glasman brush. Besides Be-sides he is too conscientious to ask the Republican party to pin its faith to a dead one. Heber 'I nomas! That is clear. Bill managed Heber's campaign for Mayor you know, and one good turn deserves another. It is said Bill actually cried when he was forced (?) to take the nomination aAvay from his friend. Thomas, and if Thomas was susceptible to tears then, why not now? Unfortunately Unfortun-ately when Bill has had occasion to roast the old council he occasionally took a crack at his friend Thomas which the latter has not forgotten. So that would need patching up. Yet Bill is said to feel a certain coyness about approaching Heber on the subject but he is preparing his tears and his whine so Heber will be pursuaded to return the compliment com-pliment which Bill hanaed him in the city campaign. Yes, Yes, Bill see Thomas he will no doubt treat you to a very interesting interview. As a last resort the editor-mayor-candidatc might try an ad in the want columns of the The Standard, carefully worded something like this: "Wanted A manager, must be able to have a swarm of congressional congress-ional bees August 14th. Must have references. Conscience Con-science not required. Enquire W. G. care Friday W. Chambers, Manager Oguen Daily Standard." |