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Show LYNCH HAS LEAD ON MORRIS. The political dial has thrown a new shadow during the week, and it now looks as though Chief of Police Lynch would outsprint Mayor Morris in the mayoralty race by a comfortable margin. Of course, it is always necessary to reckon with mine host, the church, but that is what would happen in all likelihood if the election elec-tion were held within the next few days. It looked for a time as if the Mormons in the Republican ranks were either going to permit their strength to go to Mr. Morris by default, or would openly come out in favor of the Mormon candidate. Developments during the past few days indicate that this supposition was erroneous. The Smoot forces will make a desperate effort to elect their candidate. It is realized by them that a Republican victory is vital to the prestige as well as the political interests of the senator. They also contend that if Mr. Morris were elected, elec-ted, it would prove all the statements made by the organ of the American party to the effect that politics on the American plan is non-existent here, and that Democratic and Republican nominees were defeated or elected at the whim of the church. With this idea in view, and the further fact that Mr. Morris is ine only Mormon nominee for mayor, they view as suicidal an effort ef-fort to throw the tide in Morris' favor. Besides, if this were attempted, they argue that all the Gentiles who still maintain fealty to the Republican Republi-can organization would almost in a body desert the ranks, a contingency which would practically insure Mr. Thompson's election. Outside of their belief that the church favors their candidate, the Democratic hope of success is chiefly based on Mr. Morris' rather startling majority of two years ago, which they affect to believe will be duplicated in the coming election. That seems to be a rather absurd basis of calculation, calcu-lation, for of the people who supported Mr. Morris Mor-ris two years ago, fully one-third were Republicans. Republi-cans. They voted for Mr. Morris at that time purely as a protest against Kearns' machine encroachments, en-croachments, but as this year no such issue is involved, in-volved, they will naturally support either Mr. Thompson or their party nominee. The radical Smoot following that year voted for the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate almost without exception, and hundreds of anti-Kearns Gentiles were also enlisted en-listed as opponents of the Republican candidate. Many leading Republican Gentiles overtly avowed their opposition to Mr. Knox. Among . them were O. J. Salisbury, Benner X. Smith, W. kbH F. James, Judge C. S. Zane and M. H. Walker. , SfflflM No one can seriously believe that either of these oeSfl gentlemen will support Mr. Morris; in fact, some h9H of them have already announced that they will iSflH this year vote the Gentile ticket. nH All this being established, where is the Morris iBhH strength coming from? Palpably, it does not ex- fHH ist, or must come at the last hour through the po- IfiH tential influence on South Temple street. And with Smoot and Callister and Anderson and all Hl their cohorts at present in solid alignment for :KB Lynch, Mr. Morris' chances for aid from that llH source look very sorry indeed. IHI Still, it cannot be denied that at the. last mo- HH9 ment, probably a day or two before election,: a HBH secret dispatch may go forth from headquarters, iBfl whereupon the buzzing of the teachers and the HH bishops will blur the prospects of the Republican ' Bflj nominee. Meanwhile, the Democrats surely look VH like stalwart candidates for third place in the ''fifl running. 'ififlH |