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Show l The Farce of the Season THAT non-partisan eruption upon Salt Lako would be pathetic i it were not so laughable. laugh-able. Its warm support by tb - Deseret News adds immensely io the hilarltj The News explains ex-plains that the movers of the business would be p fr willing to "support John Dern or Frank B. , " Stevens or even Bransford, had he been willing to boeome the mayor of the people instead of a ' party tool." Then comes the real milk in the cocoanut of the News when it says "there should , be no difficulty in uniting on Mr. Wallace, who i comes as near being a non-partisan in local poli tics as any man tn the city." That is, Mr. "Wallace has always been a good i Mormon and always, willing to obey counsel. ! That makes clear why the News is willing to give up whatever has been partisan in its composition and warmly support Mr. Wallace. If only a mayor could be elected who would stand like a stone wall in tbe way of every effort toward the advancement ad-vancement of the city; who would work in perfect per-fect accord with Mr. Fernstrom and receive his instructicns from the same fountain head, then the organ of the church would be really happy. So would those who started this so-called non-pal non-pal tisan movement. The Mormon people have never espoused it. From the first it has tried to play the part of the wolves woh prowl around the tired traveler at night until he thinks there is a million of them, only to discover at dawn about three alternating coyotes skulking away afraid of the light. The petty priests who ostensibly Inaugurated the movement, hoped to assimilate the Democrats by naming for mayor a man who claimed to be a Democrat to give to tho federal bunch a few unimportant nominations, and thus to combine every faction against tho American party and make It unnecessary for the high priests to "instruct" "in-struct" the people this time how to vole. And it har fallen flat and to look at the result, it is to laugh, so impotent was the whole dreary farce. So transparent wa3 the whole bungling role that not more than one or two of the federal bunch could bo caught by it. A partisan struggles lor the success suc-cess of his party believing in the principles behind it. But this "non-partisan" business has never mi had any principles behind it, its uttermost dream was first, to serve the church, and if It could not achieve this entirely to so neutralize the power of Ihi American party that It would bo half a triumph. tri-umph. The result has not only been an abject failure, fail-ure, but it has so sorely disgusted hundreds of saints that they will either give the American party their full vote, or give it half their votes by remaining away from the polls. |