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Show WHAT MR. McCRACKEN THINKS OF BELLE. Our friend. Representative Mc-Cracken Mc-Cracken from Weber county, whose bill. No. 81, was tho basis of much discussion in the lower house of the Utah legislature Friday when asked by Mr. llolman, "Isn't a fact, Mr. Mc-Cracken, Mc-Cracken, that Belle London runs poll-tics poll-tics in Ogden," he pleaded guilty to the accusation. Mr. McCracken when you return home, wo are going to cross-question you on that confession, and that you may not be wholly unprepared to answer an-swer our questions or make a successful success-ful defense, we will say this much tor the present: If it is true Belle London runs politics poli-tics in Ogden, then it is equally true, is it not, that Bcllo London can point to the ownership of those who are in' politics In Ogden? Perhaps you will say no with tho mental reservation that there arc two sides to politics, one tho successful and the other the unsuccessful. Therefore There-fore to preclude the possibility or your evading the direct question in that way, we will ask: Is it not true that Belle London can claim as her own those who succeed in politics in Ogden? Do not answer until you have weighed the full significance of this question, for you, Mr. McCracken, are numbered among the most successful. There was some talk of a machine last year. It was a highly successful machine, smooth running, well oiled and skilfully chauffeured. If Belle London is the reigning queen of Ogden, Og-den, was that machine Belle London's and were all those well groomed, suave Rentlemen who rode to virtnrv in that carry all the proteges of this woman of far-reaching influence and mastertul conceptions, who seemingly waves a magic wand to which all the fairies dance persuasively, temptingly, im: pelling the ward heelers, the higher-ups higher-ups and even the pooh-bahs of the city administration, the county administration, administra-tion, the legislative delegation and all to be Inveigled, ensnared lost? My, what a woman; and oh my, what men! And to think that Mr. Jimmy McCracken was gone and disclosed the whole pcrildious gang to the prudish Salt Lakers. My! My! O temporal O mores! |