Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24
POLITICAL SUMMING UP
The Old Order of Things and the New-utah and Out OF
National Lines--Sorne "reminiscences and concIu-
sons-Rerarks by Veteran at Primary.

lcft md 80 dii we. There never was
+. inter man 10 be President, but ntncss
SS Vas SoV"' bit .ssfssd S Of n, my bri iSn
men and Thought Tie ones that didn't
sumo puite - much was safer having
no reference TO the pfcaen, case at All
As have said two Or three umcg
ana YOU KNOW without any saying at All,
am an oid fool wlsh 1 knowel
that you would like NO hear II pears
To- me- That now ~ ~ good time 70 say
something that worid mnd of smooth
thlnfg over aud mako people not rut 20
fur apart that they can't hear onr AM
other except when they speak iu tones
~ anger and hatred. II s,cma 10 me
fomcthing ali the while We arc learning
:, much-lkc as II We wnH overlooking
the Important fact that politics, while
ihc OH, t6nk We ourhi to look 10 and
cultivate. especially when IL makes
neighhor ilrht agln ncish.or aud father
a nlmrlctnn. sou win make fun allow
unco Tor msi but when I am called on
70 tay HoinothinH OF course you don't cN-
why. my friends. ! heard lsph Nor
ton say the Other day that he wasn't
going 10 trade VI Brother Smiths little
u crippled aud HE wife IL sickiy and they
have half "a dozen children TO keep. I
made bold. e. ask him why. and he
SAID that Smith WAS Democrat while
he WIS Republican and he must giyc
hts patronage aud such of lie nubstance
Us he could spare 10 hts own parry. OF
course I am an old fossil whuCh don't
comprehend the new order. bit ! can't
yet zee why Smiths family should SUI.
ier because be- y dincfant ia politics
from spmc ~ hts customers. And I
heard OF Sister Amanda brown brag-
nlnr because she had guno TO "a Ncpub.
llcan primary II believe that's what
Ike one Of them. while all the time Oh.
u Democrat and they never found u
out on her, Now In my Jay, which OF
o orh " i no' 10 y. compact Win tn...
nec how much ! have uutliyed my time,
that sort " thing would not have taken
women wer. women aud didn't care to
mix w with the things which the good
Lord must have intended was for men
only. and secondly because II would
stealing 10 steal a vote that belonged
elsewhere 49, 10 take "A garment on a
nclghbors clotheSling without permits;
only mention II 20 show how much my
day was behind this one, how Tar ! am
towards the hind end Of the social pro.
ccarion. YOU may say. and how far IN
ndvnnro Of that other one. which begins
when the mother sheds tears Of boy over
our arrival from the hidden SKY aud
ends when few ouiwnfdly Borrowing
friopdH ana relatives hear the cold aud
clnnimN riudt fattlinr upon our collins.
- don't want 20 iHlu up your time,
than illtenlnE q whlmporing old slm-
plrtona like me. I will UlDfc hy wish
Inc you ail the good that may come ~
contest In which I fear there might
be- an Improvement " an tho uid-tlme
spirit was not thrown out of n. II
looks fo me ua N politics WIS merely
an Incident In lifo anf that thUm which
make II tho object nfu ua much hatfny
NJ them who think manrv.rHitlnr II tho
chief snd ~ man, ana Tint them that
don't gst mucu don't amount 90 much.
~ 10 n powerful good thlng tn have when
used In the right WAY. hut has caused
more crime than even politics. 1--we
and let live. BE- 49, ono-rided as you like.
who1p u NO FOR your party and jump
all over the other. but Just occaalnnaliy
remember that We afv all travelling the
same fuud after all, ana the end IL too
near nt hand for the most enduring 10
justify him In being "a hlnckguard aud
opptca.,,at 60 ininre and hurt terpeh9dy
else. That 10 all gentlemen ana ladies;
~ the last speech I ever expect 90
make. and ! guess the last Of the kind
you want 10 hear Thnnkin' you
Almost anybody could mako u better
speech than TINT. myself have often
made better oncf3 hut u seems ~ mo
there are some ideas In the old fellows
talk that will be new to u good many
psouir and food for thought TO good
many more. ~ they were only couchsd
In tho language of SONG of the roul-
atlrrlng Hpeii bound. plnHtcr-cfncklnf
orators ~ today Ike Hon. John htnbhH
and the undersigned their effectiveness
would undoubtedly be- very great.
3. a. kENNER.