Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-09-27 | Page 64 | Rather Shabby Politics.

S1 SIL Y POLITICS There Thero aro arc a few tew things which only tho the depraved will do in politics Therefore tho the Tribune does docs them Jesse Jcsse Knight was named by th the Democrats for tor governor of or U uc Ufah alt t. t It was against his hla will against his plain protest repeated repented a a. hundred time 3 But they named him Back of ot the Democrats counseling them aid aiding InS InS' them abetting them guiding them with cleverness toward what the they believed cd would cause the tho greatest greatest great great- est cst Injury to tho the Republican party part were the leaders of ot the American crowd Those believed Mr Knights Knight's nomination would get them money Thc They believed ho would bo be a strong candidate I against Mr Spry and they helped tho two D Democratic boomers for tor Jesse Jesso Knight Mr Knight never consented to bo be a candidate atc never wanted tho nomination or tho office One of or his clo closest cst friends has been boen O. O W. W Powers To that man his confidante for tor years Mr Knight told ono of the things a a. man doesn't barter on tho the street He lie told him ho he had pra prayed cd about the problem that his friends Insisted on pressing upon him He revealed that closest secret of oC a man manly h simple soul lie Ie hl had gone Sone to his Go God and ancI asked If It ho were wrong and all the tho clamoring crew was right And his prayers did std not result in causing a chan change o of ot mind And Powers with no morn mor reverence for or him than Tom Kearns has love e for him flung tho the sacred confidence Into the tho American camp as If it It a story to make merry with WUll Jesse has been praying he said Jesse l lAnd wont won't run run And tho atheists to whom Powers pan pandered n that violating of ot tho the confidence of his friend shouted shout shout- ed all over O tho tiro city that Jesse Jesso was a a. silly superstitious superstItious superstitious super super- old oId Incompetent who believed belie In prayer Of Ot course men look at the Delt Deity differently But Dut n no no man outside the thc Tribune over oyer until now laughed at it a n. man because of his sincere Christianity Mr Knight ah a always s 's said EnId he le wouldn't accept the tho nom nom- The Tho clamor from tho the Kearns Inspired Democracy grew BO so stron strong that ho lie asked the tho God of his fathers for guidance and his purpose was approved There Is something r rather solemn Inthe inthe in the tho thought of or it ft Judge JUds-c Powers stepped beneath the class clas j to which ho he belongs when he lie shot that pr prayer er with ridicule and flung it under the feet of the tho Tom Kearns crowd Ho lIo certainly knew tho they would bo ho base enough 1 to abuso it