JOE ElDREDGE Will RESIGN Must Elect New NeI Chairman of Republican County Committee Co THEY ARE NOT SORROWING SORRO WING I I FEAR LOYALTY TO CAUSE OF PROVO BOSS It is up UD to the Smoot machine to se select select lect bet a new chairman of oC the Republican county committee Chairman J U Eld Eldredge Eldredge redge rodge jr announced yesterday that he would tender his resignation to the coun county county county ty committee which called to meet next Wednesday afternoon In Judge Armstrongs court room tn Jn explaining his resignation yesterday esterday Chairman Eld Eldredge Eldred redge red e said Two years ago when I was chosen to manage the county campaign I held the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of deputy county clerk I resigned that position J in order to manage that i campaign Now however I hold an elec tive tivo office and am an a candidate for re reelection reelection election I do not consider that I have the right to draw salary from the county while devoting my m time to political af fairs I shall resign and let the commit tee select another man so that he can be broken In by ly the time the county count con meets Smoot Men Not Displeased The Smoot machine leaders are not en Urel displeased with Mr res ignation While he has worked with their faction of or the th party ever since Reed Smoot became a factor Cador in politics he ho has been under suspicion of late months of oC not being entirely In harmony with his quorum The machine turned him down for the postoffice last winter notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding standing his herculean labors for lor the election of or Senator George Sutherland and ever since that time the machine leaders have feared that Eldredge would seek the first available opportunity to even up with them They Thoy have a suspicion however that Mr Eldredge cherishes an ambition to be the real reul boss bo s of the Republican machine himself and to supplant E H Callister William Spry Fussy Fuss Jimmy Jimm Anderson and the rest of the Smoot bunch They The have had an uncomfortable feeling for months that were he h to raise the standard of or revolt his acquaintance with and friendship for the workers In every vot ing district in Ii Salt Lake county would make him a L most dangerous and ormid formidable formidable able antagonist Disapproved Smoots Election Moreover Mr Eldredge committed one offense for which Senator Smoot never forgave anybody At t the time of Smoots election to the senate Mr Ir Eldredge ques qu the wisdom of It and said so He did not rebel he merely said that he doubted the expediency of sending a to the United States senate For that same offense Reed Smoot de decreed decreed decreed creed the downfall of Heber M Wells whom it is said he hates worse than he does Thomas Kearns and he hehns has hns always been suspicious of Mr lIr Eld loyalty lo alt That expression of ion more than anything else cost Mr Eldredge Eldrod e the postoffice The Smoot organ too is distinctly sore at Mr Ir Eldredge because he has hns refused to give It an absolute monopoly of the advertising patronage of his office The organ has had the lions share true but It has hat demanded It all and Mr oIl Eldredge has hns stubbornly refused to accede to tho the I demand Wont Oppose Him for Clerk I It is not likely that the machine will wilI I oppose Mr for I outwardly at least he is still a staunch machine man Besides a fight with him himat himat himat at this time might wreck TeCk the machine for forever forever forever ever and a day But Smoot and his sat satellites satellites in the federal building are well content over oer the retirement of ot Mr Eld Eldredge Eldredge Eldredge redge from front the leadership of the county organization They rhey will try to pick a aless aless aless less ambitious man for his successor Mr Eldredge has be been m connected with the Republican county organization since 1898 In that year he was elected secre secretary secretary tary tar of the county committee He was re reelected reelected reelected elected in 1000 and 1902 and when Chair Chairman Chairman Chairman man Dennis C Eichnor died In April lOOt 1901 he was made chairman of or the committee and has held that position 1 ever since The campaign of 1004 1904 which he man managed managed managed aged was the first time since Utah be became became became came a state that the Republicans elect elected elected elected ed every man on their county count and legis legislative legislative ticket Horace II H Smith secretary of the com corn committee committee will not resign next Wednesday but it Is said that he will not stand as a a candidate for reelection when his term expires with the county counts convention He has been appointed assistant secretary s of Senator Sutherlands committee In the United States senate Will Hold Separate Primaries When the county committee meets Wednesday it will call the county con convention convention It is probable that separate primaries primaries maries manes will be held for the election of delegates to the tue state and county con conventions conventions respectively and one of the du duties duties duties ties of the committee will ill be to apportion apportion apportion tion Salt Lakes Lakos delegates to the state convention among the voting districts 01 of the county count The county convention will wil wilbe willbe willbe be held after the state convention which meets facets Sept 20