The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-26

From the beautiful Garden City
comes a tale of such Republican dis
sension that every partisan of that
persuasion should blush for shame that
there should be such a breach of the
general peace in that region. 1t APP
pears that the second largest county
of the territory is determined to pre-
sent a fair rivalry to the squabbles of
the three warning Republican factions
in this city. They have all the essen
tan elements for doing so and ap-
pearanceS indicate that they will. The
history of last years campaign there
was one of petty chickering's and gen.
eral bad feeling among the leaders.
There is every promise that the record
win he repeated, only with more viru-
lence, this year.
Signs of Disafection.
Judge ]. D. Jones is showing very
strong signs of disaffection. Not so
many years ago he was one of the
chief ieutenantS of Charley Crane and
his combination. Although he is not
very strong man as a politician or
leader, he had come to the front and
was as good as any of those who OPP
posed him in his party. He had been
merrily sailing along as chairman of
Graham put in a sudden appearance
and showed him under. The effect
was that Graham formed a combina-
ton with John Z. Booth, then in the
hefghth of his power, not having lost
his bishopric, and old Judge Saxey,
and the three proceeded to run things
in their own way and against the
Crane machine.
Jones had with him a certain
Charles De Moisey, who is perhaps the
ablest Republican politician in Provo,
who had also been turned down, and
c. A. Glazier, chairman of the city
committee. A great deal of depen-
dence was placed on Glazier, but the
campaign had not gone very far before
the county organization sat down on
the city organization and there was
some very strong fighting before the
campaign ended.
No Patching Up.
For months attempts have been
made to patch UP the differences in
the party, as the whole thing was
going to pieces in the county and the
leaders generally were becoming
afraid of the victorious and confident
Democrats. De Moisey has been put
in charge of the city committee and
various other peaceful methods have
been used. But all this is likely to
prove abortive. The strong factional
fight now on between the Tribune and
Crane elements has only served to
widen the gulf in Utah county. The
Booth and Graham factions have sided
right in with the Tribune ana the
other has gone over to Crane, body and
soul. There is every chance of war
to the knife during the fall.
Frank Pierce's Prophecy.
During the constitutional conven-
ton, in one of those partisan, fiery
moments OF boastfulness, Frank Pierce
predicted that next fall Utah county
would roll up d handsome majority
for the Republicans. That was be-
fore the anti-bounty provision had
been inserted in the constitution. That
was before the Tribune had begun its
virulent fight on the machine That
was before the tide of silver tr.nti-
ment had really set toward the Wig
orOuS Democracy. That was before
the Republican majority in the con-
vention had had full time to prove its
general incompetency. There was
some chance that the Republicans
might manage to turn the victory and
do something for themselves.
Chance Has Vanished.
But it looks as though that chance
were gone. The people of Utah county
have always been the most interested
in bounties. To many of them this
was the most important of all ques-
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