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Show K mBmBMBm' Tll most unllaPPy man In ZIon s Parley P. B iilllBHH' Christenson. Until last Tuesday ho was happy in H PjHH' a feeling of anticipation that he was going to se- R iJnHIHf cure the nomination for congress; for Parley has H -tfiSHH visited seventeen counties in Utah and bought fire- H - 9Hn water in seventeen saloons in each county and had I ImmIHe mistaken the plaudits of the thirsty for a popular 0 'j'.JjjHHf demand for his nomination. fl riHHk Hg came down to hard realities with a bump, B tB' however, when Charles Mostyn Owen demanded 1 ( IJJhBHB that, as county attorney, he sanction the issuance B 'llllH f a warrant for the arrest of Joseph F. Smith, fl i ' 'is9HB' prophet, seer and revelator, on a charge that was fl .'i'lfllH flrst declared to be a cardinal crime on Mount B fBHH Sinai three thousand years ago. fl 'fljK In a popularity contest in Salt Lake Charles fl 'InfaBBlB Mostyn Owen probably wouldn't draw the flrst K '3oBBKi prize; but even an unpopular man has the power fl Hll!flHlM x to make a candidate "sweat blood," and that is fl ''ilmHw' what Parley is doing now. If he causes Smith's IS ffwiHI arrest, he couldn't come within forty miles of get- m MjfljHHB' ting the Republican nomination, and even if he Bj :'' ''jjfljjHfl did the Mormon vote would swamp him at the B mHBIB polls. If he refuses the warrant, his, his vaunted H JjBHBB claim that he is a Gentile, that he believes in the ffl !$lflflr enforcement of the law even against the Mormon fl t&hDbW leaders, and that he should receive American votes B fffBflWfl' because of his beliefs, vanishes into thin air. fl ' B gPjflH The fact is that Parley P. is between the devil H jtlff flflfl and the deep, blue, salt sea, and, unless he con- B ' '''PBB nects un wltn a miracle shortly, his congressional H ''flfflSiH Ex-Senator Joseph L. Rawlins returned from fl ' iSflHHK Europe this week, and gave out an interview. The fl f 'IflflBB Democratic faithful scanned it in vain for a word H failfMfl of encouragement for the Democratic party in fl M'HR Utah. Mr. Rawlins had much to say in eulogy of fl flflHI William Jennings Bryan, and indulged freely in prophecy that the peerless leader would reach the White House in about two years and six months. But he had nothing to say in behalf of the Brigham H. Roberts-W. H. King Democracy, of Utah, and expressed neither the wish nor the prediction pre-diction that it would ever occupy any position save that of the left wing of the church political army. Mr. Rawlins is no longer active in politics, and the few Gentiles who still cling to the church-ridden Democratic organization would do well to count over the list of Gentile leaders of their party who would aro now active in politics. Save and except Judge Orlando W. Powers not a single Gentile Democrat who ever attained state leadership leader-ship in the party real state leadershipis now actively engaged in advocating the election of-the Democratic ticket. & & & A call for a meeting of "anti-machine" Republicans Repub-licans Tuesday night caused less than fifteen of the faithful to assemble at the Commercial club. Of this contingent three were ofllce-seekers, two were holdover Republican senators who have fallen outside the breatworkss, and one was a man who has been in every party in Utah, Including In-cluding the socialist party. With this material it is proposed to smite the Smoot gang in the county primaries. Nothing could better illustrate the hopefulness of fighting the Smoot machine within party lines than the confessed impotency of the crowd In question. George N. Lawrence is a reputable citizen, and a man of standing in the community; but with only those to follow him who rallied Tuesday night, he will be r" over by the Smoot automobile, and he ought to know it. He has been active in politics for many years, and he knows none better just what will happen to him. His weak point seems to be his willingness to be tossed in & blanket biennially by the apostle from Provo. 1 The men who are fighting the Smoot machine and obtaining results are in the American party. If the machine is to be smashed the American party will be the agency which will smash it. That is where Mr. Lawrence and such as he belong. be-long. & & "Bump me good and hard, but don't punish Ogden's only friend in Washington just because he was friendly to me," shrieks Bill Glasmann In a frenzied appeal to the Republicans of Weber county to support Congressman Howell for renom-inatlon. renom-inatlon. If Bill is really grateful to Howell for the Ogden postmastership he should hold his peace, and let Weber county forget as quickly as possible that Howell was responsible for his ap-pointment. ap-pointment. So long as they remember it, Howell will be minus the support of the county. But if Howell "is the only friend Ogden has in Washington," why should Weber county elect a holdover senator pledged to vote for the re-election of Reed Smoot? The priestly senator has trotted out his candidate for state senator in the person of L. W. Shurtliff, president of the Weber stake of Zion, and an ex-Democrat who turned Republican Republi-can In order to participate in a Republican sen-atorlal sen-atorlal fight. He became a candidate for the state senate just after Reed Smoot attended the quarterly quar-terly conference of the Weber stake and addressed a secret priesthood meeting. If Smoot is not a friend of Ogden, then Shurtliff, in running in his interest, is using his garb of sancitity as a cloak for his own hostility to the town that supports him out of its tithing fund. t & & One thing that Senator Sutherland has done since his election to merit the hearty commendation commenda-tion of his constituents, has heen his opposition to Glasmann's appointment at Ogden. In opposing it and threatening to defeat the appointee's con- Urination he had the indorsement not alone of every honest Republican in Utah, but of every decent man and woman ,who knows anything about Glasmann. If it be true, as Glasmann claims and his claiming it is prima facie evidence that it is not true that every member of the Republican Republi-can central committee of Weber county Indorsed liim for the Ogden postofflce, then so much more shame to the members of the committee. They are either morally obtuse or too cowardly to brave abuse from Glasmann's alleged newspaper. Next winter, when the .United States senate reconvenes, re-convenes, the decent and reputable citizens of Ogden will present a petition asking it to reject Glasmann's confirmation. That petition will be presented to the senate by Senator Sutherland, and if he backs it up with a frank statement of the character, or rather utter lack of character of the appointee, he may displease the machine with which his best friends regret to see him af- ' filiated, but. he will earn the everlasting gratitude of everybody else In Utah. e & When the next convention of the Republican National Editorial associations meets Utah will be represented by Leroy Armstrong and Harry J. Robinson. Mr. Armstrong is a a. at. In 1904 he was in the vanguard of those . tried to deliver the Indiana delegation to th democratic national convention to William Randolph Hearst. He was what is known in Indiana as an anti-Taggart anti-Taggart Democrat!. Prior to coming to Utah Mr. Robinson was a political follower of F. Augustus Heinze in Montana. Monta-na. He followed Mr. Heinze from the Republican party into the Democratic party, and, when the Standard Oil bunch drove Heinze to organizing a party "of his own, Mr. Robinson joined that-party. that-party. Like Mr. Armstrong his identification with the Republican party dates from his coming to Utah, although for him, if not for Mr. Armstrong, it can be said that he didn't become a Republican here merely because he had bartered what talents tal-ents he has to the Smoot machine for so much per week. However, if the record of Utah's delegation to the Republican National Editorial association should be ventilated when that body meets lr It should be shown up that one is a Hessian and the other a renegade eastern Republican editors will wonder what breed of cats their Utah brethren belong to. |