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Show The Campaign in Ogden Ng 7ocr iPeter of the Democracy Cannon and Glass man. Talk about the white het of the campaign! And get the baby stare fromtthe standbys of other years who have weathered the storms of politics when a nomination for a city office meant a fight that left the smoke of battle, red fire, an abundance abund-ance of coin, cracked heads, and sore hearts in its wake. Prattle of the chances of this or that man's election and get the derisive ha ha from nine sides, including the blind side. It's a cinch. It's worse. It is a hippodrome with a cakewalk finish; it is a lazy procession for the Republicans without an hysterical bray from the Democratic donkey to advertise its desolate plight. There's nothing to it. The election will be simply a legal formality. No noise, no war. Just an incident in the political log of the Republican candidates. & 5 & It is really painful. And behind it all the rediculous pose of the unterriAed to the effect that God, or Mammon, or the Standard, or the machine, or Murphy, or something, has them under un-der the spell of the evil eye and it's no use to bump their wooden heads against a stone wall. The pose is the more rediculous because it is not true. If ever the hypnotized Democracy of Og-den Og-den had a cherry ripe chance to jump in and win a fight the chance was this year. But how timorously, timor-ously, how skulkingly they avoided it. They seemed content to meet and hear once more their heroic orators declaim upon the beatific grandeur of a fight for "principle" and et it go at that. The main "principle" of the local bunch seems to be a whole-souled desire not to go on record as a Democrat. t w The Republicans will go into the campaign just as though there was a real opposition ticket In the" field. No political prophet can tell exactly what the people will do, but when the opposing party "lays down" and refuses to participate, it seems-a waste of campaign thunder to make much of a fight. That is just the situation here. The Democrats Demo-crats served notice, by nominating Peter Anderson, Ander-son, the tailor, for Mayor, that they did not want to beat Bill, but Murphy seems determined to I make the vote prictically unanimous, so he will stir 'em up a little anyway. Tie Democrats will levy no assessments and not a dollar will be spent. The Republicans will keep the machine oiled and running so as to be ready for the more important contest next year. The nomination of Peter Anderson for Mayor by the Democrats is suggestive of the moral in the story of the boy, who, seeing his father set upon by robbers, struck the olO man himself to help put him out of his miseiy. There is the choice of two explanations why Peter was put on the ticket: First, not another Democrat could be found after a house-to-house search who would take it. Second, the leaders of the party are playing play-ing in with Bill and want him re-elected. The latter lat-ter supposition is the most plausible, but it is hard to swallow in view of the highly dramatic wind-jamming wind-jamming Senator Cannon gave Bill in his speech as chairman of the convention. Cannon roasted William to a frazzle and then stood in to nominate nomi-nate poor Peter thus placing a guaranty upon Bill's election. & Ji & And Peter. Well, he is a subject for profound and sincere pity. The Democratic leaders, whose policies and politics in and out of the party clearly Indicate that they will secretly support Bill, should B bo made to wear sack-cloth and ashes for sacri- I ficlng Peter with a pipe of hop. Poor Peter. His only sin was in admitting he was a Democrat. B That won for him the nomination for Mayor. An honor at which he may well look askance and which may mean for him a life of sacrifice and self-denial to livedown. Again poor Peter. But those who pressed down upon his brow this crown of thorns for them the mark of the con sharp, and the brand of dope dealers for the unsophisticated. unsophisti-cated. jjt & & The feature of recent maneuvers was the ascension as-cension of Frank Cannon into the clouds around the great white throne of purity in politics, when ho rhetorically assaulted the public record of the Hon Bill. Frank is sensational at all times, but it was hardly thought he would break into Bill's class by tumbling from his lofty pedestal of self-erected self-erected righteousness and walowing with the Mayor in his own mud-hole. Frank's speech roused his few hearers to a high pitch of enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, no doubt, but at this writing things are about as flat as before. Frank made a hit, of course, but the rebound had about as much force to it. Frank was a member of the Council once a Council that is still well remembered by the tax payers, and until his own record is forgotten, his j- fiothy attack in Bill won't hurt any one quite so much as Frank Cannon himself. fl ? & & 'M It is a freak of human experience that ridi- B cule will pierce a coat of mail where logic will t fl not mar the softest skin. Cannon's attack on Bill B results in two effects: It shows that the Mayor M has succeeded in being talked about and the ad- ' M vertising, in consequence, is free. Next, it re- fleets the motive of the person making the attack M and the reflection shows envy, malice, jealousy, in H every feature. That result is to be regretted. It M adds to Bill's measure of egotistical asininity to M knov that Cannon could, be envious of him. But to the point. The minute Canron takes Bill ser- M iously, that moment has Bill f right to move a M step upward. The public don't care for sentiment. S When two men get into a ring, the crowd wants to t H see the best man win. In this case, Bill is sure to M win If Cannon knew it, he is not looking for H any trouble just now. H |
