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Show Hi S & Politics and Things S THE Republican organization this year resembles a corn popper. H ; 'rills lB not intended as a corn-Ill corn-Ill ' pllment to the party, but is merely If descriptive. The national organization lii swells up with iheated Indignation un-III un-III til it bursts and out pops a number IB - of gentlemen who were considered lr-II lr-II rogular, according to the accounted I i standard of regularity. As a popper Hi forces out the kernels of corn that U i grow out of proportion to tho avail-I avail-I , able room, so the national committee I forces out of the Republican party I various citizens who by their own aots show a lack vof sympathy for their I environment. H It has been so in iJtah. Men who B were accounted good Republicans un- H til this campaign have been read out H of the party with such regularity that H the reading clerk is hoarse and the H party roll Is 'marred with the crosslng- H off of names. Any man who has H shown the slightest wavering in his H fealty to the whole Republican pro- H gram has beon regarded with suspl- B cion until he has been requested to H remove his presence hence. H Harry Joseph and John C. Mackay H, , are two who have fallen under the ban m of the iron-clad agreement which B makes a man once a Republican al- H, ways a Republican. Mr. Joseph ia H not what might be called in sympathy H-: with tho whole of the Republican state H; ticket. In fact, he is anything but H wildly enthusiastic about one of the Hi Republican nominees for congress, m Judge Jacob Johnson of Spring City. B Harry fought him in convention and H. lost? 'ho fought him before the state H! committee and lost; he fought him B bofore the secretary of state and the B result was quite the same. Harry M Joseph first protested against the B method of Judge Johnson's nomination K and waB laughed into silence. Then E he tacked ship -and charged Johnson B with traveling under an assumed j name and with being an alien. It is m, currently reported that Brother Joseph i was told that Johnson was not a clti- g zen of the United States. He Imme- l diatoly inquired in tills state and dis- Bl covered no trace of a record on the HN subject and then wired to Nevada to R see if citizenship papers had been is- Hj sued there. Finding no record there, Bl Mr. Joseph forgot, for the nonce, that H there are at least 4G other states in V tho Union which are in the habit of B issuing citizenship papers, all things' K else being equal, and forthwith made HT the charge reflecting upon the judge's Kj citizenship. Bf After he was denied a hearing Mr. H Joseph went into court and .procured w an alternative writ of mandate against B the secretary of state preventing the R placing of Johnson's name on the of- B ficial ballot. The court will hear the f 'matter on next Monday. In the mean- B time Harry Joseph is hoping that the B litigation mav take a curious twist K so that he will have a chance to put H Johnson on the stand and ask him JHj same things. fl Consider, if you will, the case of John C. Mackay. He is now county commissioner and wanted to be again. After he had announced his candidacy for renomination, for a third term, he discovered that there was no widespread wide-spread demand for him and he withdrew. with-drew. In the convention Seth Pixton was nominated to succeed him but Seth popped out of the popper, voluntarily, volun-tarily, and tho Republicans put Ray Walker on as the candidate for com-missioner. com-missioner. This made Mr. Mackay very hot. He demanded to know by what authority Walker was named and insisted that things were not quite regular. All of a sudden it was announced an-nounced that the Republican stjate committee liad boosted Mackay off the executive committee. He popped out, as it were. It so happened that Ed H. Callister, internal revenue collector, and the premier politician of the state, was also on the executive committee, and still Is, but he had a narrow escape from being forced out of the popper. Ed wasn't spending much time with politics in the early throes of the campaign that is, since Brother Spry was renominated for governor. Neither did any of Mr. Calllster's associates evidence the customary Interest in the campaign proceedings. There is a suspicion sus-picion that Mr. Callister and his associates as-sociates feel that Mr. Taft can't be elected, and that being the case there will bo a change of population in the federal building along about next spring. So they can't understand why they should get out and drill for a state ticket when it has absolutely no bearing upon their own case. Besides, Be-sides, they are not ind will not be In sympathy with the aforesaid state ticket. Mr. Callister, in addition to being a federal officeholder, 1b the brains of the Republican daily paper in Salt Lake. If there is any outcropping of political genius in the conduct of that paper, he is the inventor of it. His paper, ho being managing director, was sailing along without making 'a defense of the Republican party, and the Btato committee figured, perhaps, that it needed it. Mr. Callister was invited to stand on the state comml-tee comml-tee carpet and show cause why he should not be removed from the executive exe-cutive committee for failure to show tho customary activity in politics displayed dis-played by tho average federal office holder. Mr. Callister called attention to the fact that he was a government official and that, as such, he could not be expected to take a hand in political politi-cal affairs. This delightful bit of sophistry didn't make much of a hit with the state committee and Mr. Callister Cal-lister was informed that unless the newspaper which he directed did not srhake off its lethargy and get into the game it would be divested of the honor of being called the party organ and Its managing director would be shorn of all tho power and prestige of a member of the executive committee. Wherefore, on the following . day the party organ chirped a chirp that lacked the ring and snap of sincerity, thus showing good faith with the state committee. com-mittee. In these days of strenuous politics when there are more past leaders In tho brush than new ones in the open, It is hard to keep track of the changes. The entire Blue Book of Politics will have to be altered and revised. |