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Show !w -a - i i , HRpQtfdeii Letter. HHnHlpi darkehlp fight 1b about the warmest one HHHHttt'UlMl ever been waged in Weber county. When HHHralhr big Swede" first announced his candidacy a HHPp-wft4 frtn wae eeen to overspread the placid fea-Bmlik fea-Bmlik t of the present incumbent, but after awhile HRte persistent campaigning and "honest dollars" HHRiffe'; tbiftt Dve threw into the Scale began to tell and flH&PF ttarlto awoke from a dream of security to face a Bii4 ' "condition." He then got a hustle onto himself, HhP; i&d the way he put up "combinations" and put BK Ht "whips," "missionaries" and evangelists might BHRnllfP'' hve made Reed Smoot envious. Now it is Hgiiii Barls' time to be scared and from a confident pjp' swagger his gait has lengthened into an offlce- HEiii' seeking trot, the confident flush has died out Hff ' k8 'Rce and pale, faded out expression has HKr taken Its place. Col. Hayes and his shadow (Al Epb Herreck) persistently run up and down the street, HKIfik hailing and "heeling" and altogether it is an in- HHkkIC terestlng play the big Swede may land the prize HlflBftP but just now he is like Judge Rhodes' coon he Hi, Is "akeered." KnlP HBiiP' Anent the clerkship fight it is interesting to HHH8lp; watch the maneuvers of such stalwarts as Condon, BpF Henderahot, Hulaniski, and others. These are Hb1 among the unfettered Republicans who have EH about as much use for Tom Kearns as the devil HjHif has for holy water, yet they are boosting for the HHIl Kearns candidate with the full understanding HSk that the county clerk can do them more damage BHgW politically than all the other county officers cora- HHH bined. Hendershot is for Mattson because he HHE. expects some of the patronage of the office; Con- H don is playing the same way for the reason that HL"" he did not get to be county physician; Hulaniski HK,: , Ul opposed to the third term idea, so he too is HBr , playing the Kearns' hand. Thus some of the HkI " best of us cut off our nose to spite our face and Hr we do Tit without any vegard for consequences. HHp" HkBY One of the peculiarities for which Weber is HV famous has sprung up over night in the shape H H I of a movement to nominate a woman, Mrs. Dr. H I Coulter, for the Legislature. This ill-advised H H 1 idea might be taken seriously under different H 9 1 conditions, as Mrs. Coulter is a woman of modern m 1 ideas and many attainments. But from St. H George on the south to Logan on the north, not B a woman has been nominated, and for Weber I to parade to the front with the only lady nominee HI in the State would alike be ungenerous to the H 1 lady and weak minded in the party. In all prob- I ability Mrs. Coulter will nip the boom in the I bud and keep out of the "filthy pool." It is 1 something terrible to be in the hands of your H I a friends, especially when solid sense is supplanted H by silly sentiment. j B The primaries on Monday night will be large- H ly attended. Already a whispering campaign has H begun in the interest of the church candidates and the result will be as the Lord directs. "The Lord givoth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." There appears to be I no slated candidates but the indications are that E I a couple of bishops and bishops' counselors will j ml be landed on the ticket. The chances are that I the convention will be harmonious as most of the M I , old-time leaders are either sick of the whole busi-H busi-H K ness or are taking their medicine like little men. H 9 Of course the Kearns following will get in be- S hind the push and exclaim "We did it," when, as H IS matter of fact, they will be playing the hand j 1 which the apostle choses to deal them, and noth-sH noth-sH m 1 ing more. B hi H m It might be worth while to mention that one I i of the reasons advanced for desiring the nomina- B 0 I tion of the Smoot candidates is that in the elec- LH M I tion as Senator of the apostle prophecy will be HjXl fulfilled. This day and generation was foreseen HJhI by our old friend Isaiah, who predicted that the H ; law should go forth from Zion and the word of Wb the Lord from Jerusalem. By a happy combina- H m b tion of circumstances this prophecy is to find Hftl practical fulfillment when one of the chosen of I the Lord shall sit in the national congress and i help to make the laws for the mightiest nation H : on earth! To the ungodly Gentile, with scales 1 on his eyes and a veil obscuring his vision, this 8 explanation may seem a trifle obtuse; but to the 1 sanctified of Ephraim it is as clear as the statue Bffi of Maroni. BH The lithe, willowy form of Reed Smoot was BB pL gliding around our streets on Tuesday last. BHS No one who knows the pious apostle would for a moment suspect that the casual stopover had any political significance. Yet a cynical cuss who saw him drop into Col. Hayes's "oil room" was mean enough to wonder "if he was looking for Brother Shurtliff." Judge Patton or some equally ardent admirer last week urged Bill to become a candidate for the Legislature. Bill well he actually blushed, but felt so good and good-natured that he indulged his vanity and eased his burdened mind with an editorial which read something like this: "From all over the county the friends of the Mayor are urging him to accept a nomination upon the legislative legis-lative ticket, giving as a reason that the Mayor's undoubted popularity would greatly strengthen this ticket and carry the weaker candidates to victory. vic-tory. The Mayor is profoundly moved by this universal evidence of the Mayor's increasing pop- ularity, and while the Mayor feels that he should be willing to aid his party in any manner which it might demand, still the Mayor is reluctantly compelled to decline the added honor of a nomination nomi-nation at this time, there are one or two pledges which the Mayor gave the voters of Ogden in the last municipal election which the Mayor feels in duty bound to redeem, and well in two years from now the Mayor will need more printing presses and new houses, and Kearns he pays the freight." So with many thanks the Mayor bejjs that the Mayor be excused. |