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Show SOgdeiv Letter. About the coolest thing that has happened Webcrwards in these latter days was the effort of DI F n the Democratic leaders to coax Hon. Charles C. iij lt Richards into the ranks again. About four years i'l ago tho "insurgents," headed by Aguinaldo We- , her, in the interest of Prank J. Cannon, and car- ( 'rying tho blessing of brother Shurtliff, threw the political harpoon into the Honorable Charlie and towed him out into the still waters of political oblivion ob-livion since when he has been (so to speak) sulk- , ing in his tent, while the "Trojans" have carried B i , p the slaughter of the Democrats and insurgents Hi. i f clear down to the water's edge. Now, when the In I I" Demis are "all shot to pieces" they suddenly dis- Hi a x ( cover innumerable virtues in the hitherto-despised Hi I ' ; i leader. Will the sulking Achilles heed their call? Wi I I: ' l It is wonderful what a quieting effect the State Hi: i I: convention had on tho Weber county stalwarts; Hjf; ; the peace and quiet that reign in the camp surely K j'', "'passeth all understanding." Murphy hasn't been Hi I; :j,:' heard to cuss anybody (let alone the President) Hi )' since that auspicious event. Bill hasn't made any H 1 , 1 1 of his nasty attacks on anybody (except Hanson) H II; since, and altogether the stalwart camp H Jf is so peaceful that your correspondent finds dif- Hf I i Acuity in securing enough items for space. It may H I 'l be the calm that presages a storm. Hi I i ''' H i ! J A close observer says that the pathway to and H I IL from Col. Hayes's office has been kept hot the H I past few days by the senior member of the (office H I fflj brokerage) firm of Shurtliff & Hayes. No one who H ii W, knows the guileless old gentleman can be made to I B Ii j W believe that these visits have any reference to the ' a r Weber county Republican ticket. It may be that J!! the Kearns payroll is now made up here and the ; i p ecclesiastical reformer was simply affixing his j ! "John Hancock" to that health-restoring docu- l i! ment, or it may be that the Colonel has become ; m anxious about his soul's salvation and is inquiring ! - J the '"Way of Life." At all events the boys "mar- I I vel" muchly and the visits grow apace. f'ii H - a The convention left a few scars, but the real B f fti gnashing of teeth is in the camp of Kearns. It is B Jr all over the crude way that Col. Hayes played his Bi S politics. He made a fight for committeeman, but H Jfj overlooked the real milk in the cocoanut, the com- B' I ' M mittee on resolutions. That piece of pie fell to Bi I 1 A. W. Agee of Nebraska political fame and the B I ml way the old gentleman handed it to Kearns in the B; I i ' committee-rooms was enough to make "our crowd" R m squirm. Agee was agin 'em and agir 'em hard, Bit ma even after Hayes had assured his employer that he Bll J was "a11 right." After that for Agee to make Hi I 1 game of the Senator was the blow that killed B1 3 i father. Hfi tfj 1 I B i y The result was mixed. Hayes had to explain m, I , w to Per,ry; Perry fixed up matters with Kearnd, the B I' 'ij Senator made his peace with Beveridge, and the Bi 1 !i latter is supposed to go to the President and ox-Bit ox-Bit M plain that in providing for a sure-thing commit-i commit-i I j I teeman on resolutions from Weber county by some 1 ' j:f" occult power they were handed a gold brick. By m I''1! the way, there were some racy happenings in the M I 'ij, committee-room that have not been told. It is un-Jt, un-Jt, ,i fortunate that the Senator with three newspapers ll tjp could not arrange to give all the facts. Suffice it Hfliy k sar na: tne Proceedlngs were a series of bump-W bump-W frfE, nSB fr Kearns, Heath et al., which accounts for f P m the reason why Agee is now on Kearns's black- fill list. Hj II Hr B 1 Bill has already hung out the flag of distress. R il He sees in the challenge of the Democratic State Bra 'lK chairman to pit King against Howell in debate, a K M serious mistake on the part of the Republicans in Bf m not Putting him, Bill, on the ticket. He is also B I M quoted as saying that Dick Young cannot be beaten. Kf Iffi Bill's view is no doubt inspired by the attitude of KJ I m McCarty before the convention when he stated KI B that he would not care to run with Bill on the Hi m ticket. So your uncle Bill still has trouble of hio IBniK own; the meaning of which seems to be that HUB whether the Republicans like it or not he will Hh have his little say. The signs look like an upper- IBH cut from Bill. |