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Show THE QUESTION OF DELEGATES. The organs of Senator Kearns publish a letter from the Senator waiving any ambition he might have cherished of being a delegate to the Repub lican National Convention for the sake of harmony har-mony in the party, and asking that all cliques be ignored and that men Independent of all cliques, but who have been faithful but unrewarded unreward-ed Republicans be chosen. Senator Kearns has never made a reputation for surrendering any honor in reach for the sake of party harmony. Hence it is only fair to conclude con-clude that at this date the senator has surveyed the field and concluded that it will take .too long a pole to reach the coveted persimmons unless some one bends down the branches for him. Ho lias some faithful henchmen here who will surely bend down those branches if they can. This truth must be kept in mind. Outside of that the senator's advice to unite for harmony is good. But when the close friends of the various cliques are all ignored who will be on hand to lead the procession? The men who are" the activo political politi-cal workers; the men who handle primaries and steer conventions are almost to the last man attached at-tached to one faction or another of the party. - Whore is the Cincinnatus who is going to leave his plow in the furrow and come forth tc lead ' and' harmonize the party? We know of no such one and we anticipate that when the selections shall 'have been made it will be discovered that the heads of two or three cliques have made a combine and that their henchmen while shouting shout-ing for harmony have at tho same time been ' counting hoses and have gathered in the persimmons. persim-mons. ' There will not be much for delegates to do this year. Doubtless the platform will be drafted draft-ed in Washington or New York or Ohio or Chicago Chi-cago and about all the convention will have to do will bo to adopt the platform and give one vote for President Roosevelt, perhaps two or three for Vice President, and chose a member of the national na-tional committee for Utah. Still Utah should send sterling men there, men who will be an honor to Utah and who will rep- resent the whole state and not some gentleman 'H who loves Utah so much that ho will, if necessary, '4 neglect his own business, to serve the state in L iH the United States Senate. f, HH |