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Show Matters Political. THE campaign, national and local, is beginning begin-ning to grow warm. Warmed up by a I somewhat sneering speech, of Mr. Bryan, on Monday last, Mr. Taft hurled back some shells at him such as only big guns throw. And on j Tuesday Mr. Bryan in an extended interview an- Ij swered scorn tor scorn. This is hopeful; it promises to bring out all that is best in both candidates can-didates before November. In a campaign the people desire to see no boxing glove encounter, but they want the gladiators fully armed and want to hear the clear ring of steel. j On Tuesday Governor Hughes was renomin- ! ated for Governor of New York, Secretary of State Root went up fiom Washington to preside over the convention which nominated him. There was a desperate effort to array forces enough against the Governor to defeat him, bill the effort was without avail. He won on the first ballot. What effect his candidacy will have in the Empire State, locally and in the national election is a theme for much speculation. Some predict that all Republicans who believe in the ordinary pleasures of life will vote against him; that Mr. j Heaist's Independence League will throw all its i power against him and draw away many Repub lican votes; and that he will be beaten. We think he will be elected, for all the steady-going Republicans in the state will vote for him, and that the great so called independent vote will be cast for him. By this vote 'we mean that class j which really have no partisan political leanings, ' ' but who vote for candidates of their type; such so-called Republicans and Democrats, but which are neither, as voted the last time for Mr. Cleveland, Cleve-land, and are represented by such newspapers as the Nation, the Evening Post, the New York (Times and other journals which seem to think that it is a duty to be wise enough to outline policies which will save the nation from itself. If he is beaten it will be by a concentration of the labor vote against him, and this we do not anticipate. If ho is elected Governor, the state will be liable to be em oiled for Taft; and if Mr. Bryan's friends are wise, while making a great showing of a fight in New York, they will confine ! their effective work to outside states like Connecticut, Con-necticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Missouri. The Republican convention met here on Tuesday Tues-day and ratified the slate essentially as it was prepared pre-pared in the inner circle weeks ago. Senator Sutherland Suth-erland presided and made what he intended as a speech of denunciation of the American party, but ithe fangs of it were all drawn in advance. He talked of curing all wrongs within the party and knew all the time that all that could be hoped for in the way of a party triumph for his paity must come from the twenty-six who hold Utah in thralldom and whose purposes, none know better than Senator Sutherland, have not changed in the least since the beginning. Ho knew, moreover, that by his. words he-was endorsing the perfidy of those chiefs their pledge-breaking pledge-breaking to their own people and to the Government Govern-ment of the United States, and that the people whom he tried so vehemently to denounce were the only people in Utah who wqre striving to "redeem, legenerate and disenthrall" this state from a merciless foreign rule, which, could it be extended to twenty-five 'more states of this Union as it is entrenched' in Utah, would cause the republic of the UnltedStates to cease tc exist in fifteen days. Surely he paid a fearful price for his senator-ship, senator-ship, and is paying still, and when he speaks he is forced "to speak from the bench of a galley." |