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Show Politico-Personal Rev. Benjamin F. Young, pastor of tlio First Methodist Episcopal church, seems to have ,. joined the Smootites. He is avowedly in affiliation affilia-tion with tho Republican party of Utah, and has become the special pet and protege of the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Mormon. Behind the reverend gentleman's gentle-man's affiliation with the party of pelf and polygamy polyg-amy is a story which shows that even a doctor of divinity can at times be exceedingly narrow between the eyes. Shortly after the American party took charge of city affairs, tho Mormon church, . through its organ, the Desoret News, set up a howl for the passage of an ordinance closing theatres on Sunday. Sun-day. Such an ordinance had never boon passed when the Mormon church was in control of tho oity government, but the News and its owner-ship owner-ship saw a .chance to put tho American party in the hole by agitating for such an ordinance. The sohome was to alienate the Christian clergy of the city from tho American party if the ordinance was not passed, and to alienate the liberal and tolerant element of the community if it was passed. Rev. Mr. Young was one minister who permitted per-mitted himself to be worked by the News. He appeared before the council as a rip-snorting j champion of tho Sunday closing ordinance, and 1 thundered forth ponderous arguments, the gist of which was that tho city government should be conducted along lines agreeable to his religious views. The council turned down the ordinance, and since thou Rev. Dr. Young has had no use for the American party. To be entirely consistent Dr. Young should declare de-clare that he would rather be in bed politically with the keeper of an Oriental harem than with j a party which refuses to close the theatres on t Sunday; that if ho can't induce a decent Gentile j city government to pass an ordinance in conform- j ity with his own bigotry, ho will lend his puny I efforts to a restoration hero of Mormon church j rule, with its attendant saturnalia of vice and licentiousness, crime and disorder. This, in ef fect, is Dr. Young's real attitude, and he should j so declare it. I To bo absolutely consistent, moreover, Dr. i Young should now leave the Republican party in a huff. Tho Republican legislature last winter-even winter-even though it was absolutely in tho control of I Dr. Young's Mormon friends and allies refused 1 to pass a state law closing theatres on Sunday. It is probable, however, that the polygamous I prophet of Brigham street and his polygamous associates, who hate a Christian minister as tho devil hates holy water, aro laughing in glee because be-cause they have induced one Christian minister to become their political stool-pigeon. & & & ' And now Bell, a third man alleged to have been engaged in tho bunkoing of tho simple-. minded MoWhirters, has been jailed in Kansas City, and Sheriff Emery has gone to fetch him back to Salt Lake for trial. The extraordinary zeal of the Mormonlzed county administration in this McWhirter ease, as everybody knows, is to disorodlt tho American city administration, and, If possible, implicate Chief Sheets in a criminal i conspiracy with bunko men. But there is another motive,' and It is a mercenary mer-cenary one. When tho MoWhirters said they were bunkoed, . the wooden Indian who acts as 0 governor of Utah offered a reward of $600 for tho arrest and conviction of any or all of the men supposed to have been guilty of that crime. Throe men have boon arrested. James Donaldson Donald-son was the first. His acquittal is regarded as probable by all who have any knowledge of the I case, so the reward cannot be earned in that In- stance. W. H. Parrent was the second, and he was promised immunity from conviction or imprisonment im-prisonment if he would make a lying confession which would implicate Chief Sheets. No reward will bo paid, therefore, for tho arrest of Parrent. Bell is the third, and unless he can be induced to go the Parrent route and implicate tho chief, an earnest effort will probably bo made to send him to prison. It certainly looks that way. The other day one of tho MoWhirters filed with Governor Cutler an affidavit in whioh ho sworo that Bell was tho man who robbed him of $8,373 after he had lost $2,000 playing poker with Donaldson. Hitherto he has claimed that Parrent was tho man. So, if Bell is brought back, he will bo confronted with the alternative of making a "confession" implicating impli-cating Sheets or of going to prison on McWhir-ter's McWhir-ter's say so. In tho one case the county conspirators conspir-ators will get revenge on Sheets; in tho other they will earn the $500 reward for which their palms are itching. C & When the Smootites wanted a respectable Gentile lay figure to act as tho ostensible manager man-ager of their campaign last fall, they picked upon Orange J. Salisbury. True to their natural instinct in-stinct of despoiling tho ungodly Gontile, it is said they promised Mr. Salisbury that if he would act as their state chairman and givo their party an appearance of decency which it then sadly lacked, and would advance a large sum of money to help carry on tho campaign, he should succeed suc-ceed Smoot in the Senate. Mr. Salisbury swallowed swal-lowed tho bait, accepted the chairmanship, and, according to reliable information, not only contributed con-tributed $11,000 to tho Stato campaign, but purchased pur-chased an interest in the Inter-Mountain Mormon, which, thus far in its career, has paid only Irish dividonds. Whon he hoard, therofore, that Smoot had no notion of carrying out his promise to send him to the Senate, Mr. Salisbury came back from Nevada In a hurry. It is said that ho has obtained ob-tained but Httlo satisfaction from the Smootites, and that they are trying to Induce him to wait until Senator Sutherland's term expires In 1911. & S & When Mr. Salisbury swallowed the Smoot Senatorial Sen-atorial promise he should havo known that it would not bo carried out. Tho men who are higher high-er In authority in Utah than Mr. Smoot will never consent, except for financial consideration, that tho Stato shall be represented in tho Sonate by two Gentiles at once. They regard it as a tempting tempt-ing of Providence to allow oven one Gentile to go to tho Senate, let alone two. And that brings to mind tho fact that the Federal contingent are swearing his last term. While many Gentile friends, of the Senator have been prono to criticise him to some extent for his friendship with Smoot and tho Federal gang, tho truth is that tho Smootites are angry at him because ho has not "gono tho whole hog." His opposition to tho confirmation of tho unspeakable Glasmann as postmaster at Ogdeu, his insistence that ho be recognized in the distribution of patronage pat-ronage by Marshal "Bill" Spry, and two or three other refusals on his part to "take counsel" have caused tho Callistor-"Fussy" aggregation to vow that he shall never be elected again. Inasmuch as they seem to be in control of the situation, Senator Sutherland had better begin to prepare for his political demise. With a secrecy like unto that of a priesthood mooting, the Salt Lake board of education hps been wrestling recently with the problem of whether or not it will reappoint two school principals prin-cipals for another year. One of the nun whose fate is hanging in tho balance is Principal David Nolson, whoso divorce case occupied much spaco Bf in the newspapers and furnished the gossips with much food for scandal a few months ago. Some of th. board members are inclined to think that on account of hie divorce case and the revelations made therein' furnish a sufficient reason for drop-ping drop-ping him from ' the payroll. Other members of the board -don't think so, and the matter is still up in the air. j The Other principal, while a Gentile In ro-llgion, ro-llgion, is said to have developed some Mormon tendencies, in that ho is accused of having made love to and attempted to take undue liberties . with divers and sundry female teachers under his jurisdiction. Some of the stories told in the in-vostigation in-vostigation of this .matter, it is said, have been of a highly salacious character, and it is not im-probable im-probable that the accused principal's head will fall into the basket. H tj? tv The news that Larry Sullivan contemplates being a Democratic candidate for the United lH States Senate tn Nevada will gladden the Demo- cratic heart, and true disciples of Thomas Jeffer-son Jeffer-son will be dee-lighted to know that Larry has seen the error of his ways and joined the Demo-cratic Demo-cratic party: When he used to live up in Port-land, Port-land, Ore., Larry was an uncompromising Repub-lican Repub-lican and a firm adherent and devout follower of the late Senator John H. Mitchell. He paved the way for his entrance into the Democratic party, however, by supporting Governor John Spades of Nevada for re-election last fall, and now he is said to be a full-fledged follower of Jefferson, Hj Jackson' and Bryan. If Bryan be nominated for president next year the Democrats will probably - ' carry Aya'dai , rind stranger things have hap-pened hap-pened tlian. tlie' Elevation of Larry Sullivan to a seat among the mighty. IhI In this sdrap between ox-Federal Judge J. H. Beatty and Senator W. ID. Borah of Idaho, which has been filling considerable newspaper space, fl the - fact should not be overlooked that Judge Beatty started it Mr. Borah has his faults, and it is probably true that he has been indicted for complicity in land frauds; but, so far as the news-paper news-paper bombardment is concerned, Judge Beatty attacked Mr. Borah first. During his long career on the bench Judge Beatty earned the r&spect of the bar and the . public alike, but his row with Senator Borah re- calls the fact that when he was first appointed by President Harrison to the bench in 1891, Senator Fred T. Dubois, then a Republican, op-posed op-posed his confirmation, and that he secured con-, con-, firmation only by promising to keep his fingers out of Idaho politics. Judge Beatty kept that promise for about fifteen years, when senatorial ambitions began to stir within him, and from fl that time until his retirement from the bench a 1 few weeks ago he has taken a lively interest in H Idaho poIitic. He harangued a political indlg- H nation meeting at the Pocatollo Republican State convention last August, and otherwise showed a Hj decidedly keen interest in political affairs. H At tho same time Judge Beatty did give Mr. Borah one hard and well-deserved lap. While he was running for the senate Mr. Borah, who had H more or less litigation pending In Judge Beatty's court, did say frequently in newspaper intor-H intor-H views that, if he couldn't be elected himself, it H see Judge Beatty elected. Judge Beatty cruelly H reminded him of these utterances. Since his in- Hj dlctment by a grand jury in Judge Beatty's court, H however, Senator Borah has suddenly discovered H that Judge Beatty is an unhung villain. o " " |
