Show FITCH IS AFTER AFfER IT Announces His Candidacy Y For United States Senate GOOD AS ANY OTHER MAN BUT ANNoUNCES THAT TEAT HE RB WILL OPEN NO BARREL t 1 tI I Tom Fitch is very frank in ing in his candidacy for tor the United a States 1 senate When he came to this stats state last spring the impression got sot put Ut thai t the he had located in Utah for the th express purpose of winning his way way into the United States senate In fact fa t it Was t stated at the time that his coming to Utah was 8 a part of Mark Hannas Hann s scheme for or carrying the state at ate and get set setting getting getting ting another man in the senate upon whom he could rely Mr Fitch was W asked yesterday by a representative of The Herald if he I would be ls a candidate for the tb senate s I He replied i iYe Yes Ye i 1 shall be a candidate for the tb I United States senate before the lature and I shall consider it a great onor if 1 I am chosen to represent nt my adopted state st te in that capacity cap I do donot not claim any Rny superiority over any other candidate for or the but I r consider myself as well vell equipped to fill nn the position as 88 any other gentleman now n w named and in the late canvass of or orthis this state 1 performed as much if not as valuable work for the Republican party as any other man who is now spoken of as a candidate It was suggested to Mr Fitch that some of the candidates were in a post position position tion lion to spend large sums of money and hints of that kind were already In Inthe Inthe inthe the air I am not among those candidates was the reply I 1 have haye no money to spend for that purpose and joo no dispo disposition disposition disposition to spend it in that way if I had Nor do I r think that a si Republican legis legislature lature in Utah can be influenced in ill that way I have bave not intrigued for the place and I l do not intend int nd to W do 10 so 30 I have h e addressed a letter to each senator and nd informing him of my candidacy and asking him for his sup support support support port There I shall shan leave the matter Have I received any assurances of support None to speak of or ofA orA ofA A very peculiar was given to this statement and the questioner was vas left wholly in the dark as to just what was meant The statement made I as it was as might mean that he had very little tittle assurance of support or It might mean that he be had many assurances of support but not to be spoken of at this time or they might be assurances Of such a nature that they could not bg b bt spoken of at all ail The question as to his eligibility he having been a resident of the state less than a year was brought up but Mr I Fitch dismissed it as of no importance The UThe Herald exploded eP lo ed that i some pome time ago he be said It will not I be brought up in this senatorial fight J except by some sem one of the theother other eandi I dates There is nothing whatever in it 1 Reed Heed Smoot Is Coy I Apostle Reed Smoot of Provo who was w s in the city on business yesterday was as coy and bashful as a regular I Miss Nancy when the subject of the United States was vas men mentioned mentioned in his presence but it was evi ei evident eident evident dent that the thought of wearing a toga was very pleasant to him If I were to be sent as senator to Washington said he ly you may de cloo depend d pend upon it that I would represent the state of Utah and ancl not any ny particular lar Jar party |