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Show Frtfgrelsof The Campaign. At this writing Mr. Morris anil the Democracy ' seem to be in the shadows, the light of the ' ohurch having turned away from them. It seems that 331der Musser knew whioh way tho cat was -tP7tJump, while. Mr. Bruce Johnson remained in ! " -thjfl&rk. The final deciding factor, it seems, was t " &hjjstatement that if tho church used its lnflu- '$ngo tp .elect a Democrat mayor, Senator Smoot, t . bnj5eurnioff to Washington, would be confronted williH$h:& statement that the Republicans of tho f QhleJ ;Qlty q Utah Irad. repudiated- him and slanped. in c.tho face the President of the; United State and all those faithful Senators whobeing :, ooAVlnced of the almost superhuman purity of Apostle Smoot, had voted to sustain him in the Senate. Another whisper is that Colonel Loose, U tali's member of the national Republican com-, com-, mlttee, finally got on the rampage and declared that If Salt Lake did not oast its full Republican ' vote for Dr. Plummer, 'Fwill quit, yeh!" Again, j ' a committee of two Gentiles called upon Presl- 1 dent Smith, and the spokesman of the committee, i with' tears In his voice and simulated sorrow In his tones, wanted In God's name to know If he and his party were tqgha left orphans on olootlon day. It Is Said that abe tirtbars was but as a t, dancing sprite by comparison. Finally President , - Smith, who had at first favored Mr. Morrl& soe- ing the futility of getting the Republlcahs,iln ilno i. for him, and dimly seeing that to disintegrate the K , Republican party this yoar would In Washington ; establish tho real truth that the Mormon chiefs have no use for either of tho old parties except to 4 play them for suckers,' turned his face away from , v Mr. Morris and beamed upon Dr. Plummer. It Is h hinted, too, that tho dootor knew all this before '.. Jib consented to accept tho nomination for mayor, and that when ho declared that no Republican L f could be elected he was "jest a-foolln'." ' f The rumor goes further that certain Gentile - f- Democrats have been placated by a promise that j' . $ls shall bo tho last yoar, for a good while; of $fcelr hunilllatlon; that substantial rewards shall Jis their portion next year; that the seating of jl W Jtnator Sihoot Imposed certain obligations upon the liurch which It cannot get out from under this year. L i .It leaves both the old parties in a position to 1 l cause generous men to pity them. The grand ft iiH party of Lincoln and McKlnley, the . other grand old party of Jefferson and Jackson, the party whatever Its sins and mistakes was never charged with cowardice, here in Utah begging favors and petty spoils' from a prophet who under oath declared ho had never had a revelation. Surely the situation for both is most humiliating. And some of these supplicants were once of tho stalwart stock who claimed that an enemy of the country was their enemy, and that they would cry out for justice until their prayer should bo answered. As the campaign Is now drifting It sooms that the struggle on election day will be to elect Dr. Plummer and a fused council tiokot In spme of tho wards, tho hope being to get enough Repub-llcan Repub-llcan and Democratic councllmen to make together to-gether a majority. "To this complexion has It come at last." Moanwhlle the American party is moving on, gaining in confidence and votes every day, firm in tho belief that it will win, no matter what combines are fixed up against It, for Its only demand de-mand Is for a square American deal, and the on-sweeping progress of the city gives It a slogan which cannot be stilled. |