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Show MORRIS AND LYIIC1I. These are days when it is hard for Mr. Morris and Mr. Lynch to keep from hating each other, for they are both in a fix. Under normal conditions condi-tions Mr. Morris would be saying: "More Gentiles Gen-tiles will vote for Lynch than for me, but I will draw enough on the Mormon reserves to win out easy." And Mr Lynch would be saying: "I was born here. Young Utah will stand by me and I shall get the bulk of the Gentile votes." But as it is, there is danger in the air and neither of the two knows how the final instructions to the faithful faith-ful will read, for it is a clear case that if both are left to run on their merits, both will be snowed under. It seems imperative that one or the other must be selected for slaughter. But what are the chief priests and Pharisees H to do? If they instruct for Mr. Morris, what I answer will Apostle Smoot have ready on reach- ing Washington to the question of why the capi-I capi-I tal of Utah has been turned over to the Democ- racy? On the other hand, if Mr. Lynch is to be instructed for, then how can home contracts be squarred with those who on the contract passed the franchise grab? Was nor Mayor Morris promised a re-election? Was not Mr. Hartenstein promised a vindication? Was not the Salt Lake Herald promised the advertising? Senator Simon will not much care how it goes, for he is on top of Market street and other things. And then there are no affidavits anywhere to prove just how the senator is going to instruct himself to vote this year. He does not mean to cry his eyes out after election, no matter how it goes. But the great Democratic party will be sore sure enough if the faithful are not herded in a way to secure Democratic Demo-cratic fodder this year. So when Mr. Lynch hears that the faithful are going to be turned toward a Democratic round up, he wishes that Mr. Morris was dead, and when the bearer of bad news tells Mr. Morris how strong Mr. Lynch is and how his friends are rallying around him, and that it is quite possible that the faithful will be recommended recom-mended to "sustain" him, then he wonders why some men live so long when it is clear that their usefulness has been outlived. These be trying days, and the lights in some skies are dim. |