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Show I POLITICAL I FLUB-DUBS I Gossip About Condt- I tions and Candidates, I Who and what, which I and whyfore. Attorney Nolo .li'fisen of Hrlgham I -was in town y est onlay. Mi. Jensen Is H a candidate foi the Republican noni- Jnation for district attorney. Four Hj jcirs'iKohcHiit a candidate on the H Democratic bide for the same position. . -Logan .louinal. mfg1 Mr- Jensen says lie was in Logan all r right as stated by the .Journal but denies that lie has expressed himself as a candidate for the oillcc named or for anyolliceelthei on the Republican Republi-can or Democratic ticket. He Is out of politics, entirely, he states, and can't account for the statement made by the Journal. Hox Kldei Nous. Frank Thatcher lus been approach-cd approach-cd by prominent Salt Lake Democratic Demo-cratic politicians In reference to his becoming a candltade for State Treasurer, Treas-urer, but Frank does not take kindly to the Idea. Salt Lakers want a good man up here for one of the State olllcers and tin; name "Thatcher" has a euphonious sound. Frank Is a model young man, or excellent business busi-ness qualifications and has a host of friends heie, but is In no sense a politician poli-tician nor does he caie to become one. H The Democratic State convention will be held on September 8th in the Salt Lake theater. No other city In ' H State wasaftci the big gathering. r , This little talk about theie being a k uuwuUIUJi to Congressman 1 lou ell's ' J renonilnatlon is all silly twaddle. H Theie aie tliose envious of "loo" and IB the well-mciitcd recognition he has M received, and these are pleased to H woik theli imagination veiy strciiu- M otisly at times. Mr. Howell Is strict- H ly in line for another tcim, and it Is H ccitaln that there will be no actle H opposition to hU lenominatlon. Once icnomlnated, Mr. Howell will be reelected re-elected with the lest of the Republican Republi-can ticket. Senator llalley's Texas wiudwoik and Ex-Republican Cannon's Can-non's smooth-Uuic utteiances will not cause a ilpple on the clear-sailing surface sur-face of I'tah's political sea. The J)eseiet News of Thuisday is responsible for the following political M Items. Aaion F. Farr is one of the etithus- iastlc Democrats from Cache county at Saltalr today. He states that as yet theie are piactlcally nocandldates In that county who h.ie announced J themselves, but says that Democrats J I .as a rule are gieatly encouraged over I the outlook. I J. C. Thorcson of Cachecounty came ljf downJor Paikei day and to attend WS the meeting of the Demociatic state I -committee. There Is a prospect, his 1 friends say, of Mr. Thoieson being le- I turned to the state legislature. I Joseph A. Smith of Providence, hi 00110 county, has gone to Omaha to jffi accept a position In the internal rcve- H uue dcpaitmciit. Mr. Smith was un til recently a candidate for the legislature. legis-lature. A prominent politician fiom Cache -county is strong In the belief that the county will bring down a delegation for Cutler. The county, he says, may also have a candidate for secietaiy of state. Seerotaty Cottelyou has named Geo. A. Knight, of California, as an addl-i addl-i tloiral mcmbci of the National He- publican committee. Knight Is the t man who made the How cry speech at the A. C. of U. at the time of the recent re-cent irrigation congress. A piomlncnt Republican of Cache who had the honor and plcasuro of putting his feet on Editor (classman's desk and smoking tlilrty-flve cent stogies with him the other day says that the iricpiesslblo WJlllam Js absolutely ab-solutely certain that ho will be sent to the U. S. Senate to succed the gentleman gen-tleman from I'aik Cltj. "The people peo-ple In Ogden cuss Hill, but work for him Just, the samo" sais our Infor mant." and such a thing as the Standard Stand-ard man becoming the Republican standard bearer a little later is not beyond the range of possibility " Mi. K. U. South returned from Rich count) Thursday evening and in an Interview stated that the Republicans oer theie at o thoioughly ullve and will make an extraordinary otlort to cany cventhlng before them in the coming election. Mr. South says that the last election was lost to t he Demo-crats Demo-crats simply through the apathy that existed then and a desire to wage "a quiet campaign." "The Republicans of Rich aie foi Howell to a man, but unless there is some tall hustling done, Judge Halt and Attorney Nebekcr on the Democratic ticket will liae a walk-over theie," says Mr. South. "Judge Halt is smooth and has managed man-aged to patch up any little differences that niii) have aiiscn and has a stiong hold on the people, and it Is the same with Attornej Nobekei. It seems ih.it the Demociats choose to disregard llielt aversion to the thhd term idea In Judge Halt's case, and the Republican candidates will have to make a strong light to win out." Mr. South had the honor of repicscnt-lug repicscnt-lug Rich in the state legislature a few years ago, and knows conditions in that count as few men do, so that his statements after his lecent lslt aie woithj of weight. It l- iiuuoied that James Dcvinc of Salt Lake will tty again for the nomination for Congress. He was de-teated de-teated by Mr. Howell two years ago. Mantl Messenger. It is also rumored rumor-ed that Pics. ShuitlilT will also become be-come an active candidate for Congressman Con-gressman Howell's seat. Major Collins of Hoston savs, "1 am mom sanguine of Democratic success than 1 have ever been in a national campaign." This means nothing more than that this distinguished disciple of poik and beans will get a liarilei fall than he ever had befoie. A movement Is on foot to oiganle a joung men's' Republican club. - -Those who aie at the head of the movement stale thai the pui pose of the oigaul-atlon oigaul-atlon Is to piomote the interest of the Republican paity In Cache county, and II Is fui ther staled that it will be organized along the Hues of other similar sim-ilar organizations. |