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Show n K TRUTH 4 L. Nye as their candidate for this office. He is a good strong man. In tbe Political Arena, At the municipal election to be held on November 5th, a full set of city officials are to be elected, as follows: Maytwo City or, Recorder, Treasurer, Judges, Auditor, City Attorney and fifteen Councilmen, three from each of the five municipal precincts in the city. The campaign is beginning to be talked about and although neither of the two parties have yet fixed the dates of their primaries or conventions, prospective candidates are laying their wires to se- ure the nominations and their friends are working around in their interests. Jim Pardee will be a formidable can- Haie for one of the City judgeships. Fourth precinct David Keith, John well Sharp, R. R. Anderson, D. C. Orlob, Jim Is a good lawyer and stands the with profession. James Chipman. Fifth precinct J. S. Daveler, Frank i For the Mayorality there are as yet ! George Buckle, president of the Council, will be a candidate. He has supporters, and will make a fight, reBoss" lying on his .opposition to and his and thereby methods, Dooly will gain many friends. Simon Bamberger seems to be the favorite son of the Democracy. He is a good business man, and popular. As a member of the Board of Education he has risen aboveh is fellows and is probably the storngest man the Democrats could put up. A technical point has been raised against him that he is legally disqualified from holding the office because he is said to be the holder of a franchise from the city for the portion of the Salt Lake & Ogden railroad within the city limits. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the point is . e.i taken or not. Other possiule candidates mentioned by the Democrats are John Bransford, Charles Crane, R. P. Morris and John Clark. There has been some talk of the latter running on a citizens ticket. He was elected four years ago on a ticket of that calibre and maybe thinks there would be luck in it again. . r President of the City Council Buckle got in some fine work in his interrogation of Chief of Police Hilton before the City Council in regard to Sunday saloon closing. The effort to poise the Mayor on the orns of a dilemma was artistic. There will be no general registration for this election, but the registration agent will be at his or her appointed place iii each of the flfty'rtwo election districts to register new names on October 8th and 15th, two days only. V l As to the City Council, there has been much dissatisfaction expressed with the present body, and whether rightly or not it is doubtful if many of its members will be renominated, especially on the Republican side. It is very import- nt to have a good business council and it appears one of the hardest things to get. For the Council on the Republican ticket tne following have been mentioned: First precinct, James H. Brown nf Brown, Terry & Woodruff Co., John Robinson of Robinson Bro. Shoe Co., J. J. Thomas, George Buckle, F. J. Hewlett, Ernest Speirs, Lorin Morrison, .Wright Pickering. Second precinct A1 Richardson, Geo. Raybould, E Eardley, Ed. Ahston, Geo. Canning, C. O. Whittemore, Charles Cottrell, Jr., John C. Cutler. Third precinct Joseph F. Smith, Jr., Albert Davis, Richard Hepworth, A. W. C&rl son, William Elliott The labor organizations are getting into shape to make their influence felt ' There is no labor ticket in intention of putting a the field, but strenuous efforts will be made to secure the nomination on both tickets of representatives and friends of Some fear has been expressed, howlabor. As far as possible, they say, political lines will be obliterated and the ever, that even so abject an evidence of A votes of the unions will be cast for their devotion to the Scorchers association TTflrtpnstMn Fifth precinct T. D. Williams, Bishop people on either ticket. will not propitiate the hot tide of their Morris. indignation. Also it is now hinted that rubber-tire- d athlets will come out Councilman Cottrells political ene- the Jack Daveler has a strong following mies say he is too busy with Sunday- - in November with an independent for the nomination for Councilman school work to devote the time neces- ticket, the personnel of the ticket to from theF fth on the Republican ticket. sary to making an election campaign consist entirely of men who can do a mile in less than 2:10 flat. C. M. Berry, He is Secretary of the State board of ar- -' this fall. president of the local protective society, bitration and has long been a prominent has been suggested for Mayor. He is man in the ranks of his party. elected, to make his what Councilman Cottrell I dont see how pledged,be iftermed a bicycle administra-- ' might my two colleagues from the Second, tion. No other municipal business will R. P. Morris has his weather eye on Whittemore and Canning, can expect be taken up until the bicycle riders have received tender and solicitous considerthe mayorality, but if his Democratic the ..ominalion again. Their record in ation. Mr. Berrys first official act will friends turn him down for that he would the present Council is against them. I be to send a message to the Council adbe willing to accept a renomination for v.'ill pull through with hands down. the closing of all public streets vocating Treasurer. He would, however, meet Councilman Whittemore How Can- pending their conversion into bicycle with a formidable opponent in the con- ning and Cottrell expect the nomination boulevards. During this period all vention in Bishop O. F. Whitney. is beyond my comprehension. Look at traffic will be aoperated by a system of the sprinkling this year. That settles aerial navigation. It is contended by the wheelmen that this is not only meriCanning. For myself I fear nothing. I have attended torious and eminently just, but will be Councilman Robertson's friends are toCouncilman Canning business and I know I made a hit a grand and noble Incentive to the virile urging him to accept the nomination to when I was acting Mayor for three young genius who has a penchant for succeed himself as Councilman from the days. I am not seeking but inventing new methods of aerial locomotion. While it is admitted that this can if For want know I it. it I I get Fifth, but "Rob holds back. He might Whittemore would be an annoyance and inconvenI have and well, Cottrell, however, be prevailed upon to accept a a time, it would certainly be ience to for have I about but them, on say nothing the ticket as Treasurer. Dick place an incomparably jubilant carnival for. Whittemore says he will retire from my opinion. the wheelmen: furthermore, the wheela ra. v race if given the nominamen contend that aeronauts of long extion for Treasurer. claim that after becoming perience WHEELMEN IN POLITICS. thoroughly accustomed to this system transit they prefer it to all others. The Wheelmens Protective associa- - of There is no scarcity of candidates for This would also greatly enhance local the two places of City Judges. They tion will be a factor in the coming mu- business by giving a magnificent spurt accident insurance agents, who numare important positions and good law- nicipal election. It has broken into pol- to ber thousands, even in this comparayers only should be considered. The itics with an aboriginal minor metropolis. tively Democrats are talking of A. N. Cherry, All people who are not defenders of the rubber-tired Morris Sommer, Alex McMaster, Matt inalienable rights of the Thomas, Gus Groeger, C. M. Nielsen, sprinters are barred from holding office in the municipality. Resolutions to this James D. Pardee. On the Republican side are mentioned effect, drafted, it is understood, by John D: H. Wenger, H. S. Tanner, C. B. Sharp of the L. A. W., were sent hurtDiehl, T. D. Lewis, J. M. Bowman, Dana ling through the warm ozone of the Wheelmans club at a recent session. T. Smith. in the campaign. hl no avowed candidates, but there are receptive ones. Mayor Thompson did not wish to be a candidate for a second term, but the pressure brought upon him has been so strong that there is no doubt he will allow his name to .go before the convention and his supporters say he will have but little opposition. Ezra Thompson is a good, clean, and sterling man, as honest as the day has made a good Mayor. He will go before the people with everything in his favor. Knox, George T. Odell. A. A. Robertson. On Democrat ticket: First precinct E. W. Wilson, E. M. Weiler, A. B. Sawyer. Second precinct Thomas C. Lewis, Max Peters, Ben Loose. Third precinct F. S. Fernstrom, E. E. Rich, J. B. Reid, D. P. Felt, Arthur Barnes. Fourth precinct Frank R. Snow, Ne-pY. Schofield, W. J. Tuddenham, E. violence of a young volcano. It is that before the date of the the bicycle mar. approaching primaries, ket will be flushed with orders and ever politician of eminence from Senator Thomas Kearns to Auditor Reiser will be seen flaunting down the piazza bvehicle. The estriding a rubber-tire- d wheels which will be purchased by the statesmen and heelers between now and election , might well be termed thr The machine should politicus. be given a distinctive color, indicating that the erant rider pledged th. remainder of his political ' career to the defense and advocacy of the rights of the wheelmen. i - war-whoo- p. ; J. O. Nystrom, the present City Rewill be a candidate before the corder, Republican canvention for another term. He was Deputy Recorder when Recorder Naylor resigned and his efficient services entitle him to recognition at the hands of the party. His chances to landing the nomination are good. y On the Democratic side Thomas Homers friends are talking for him for Recorder, but it is by no means certain that he would take It even if It j were tendered him. Albert Reiser will be a candidate to succeed himself as City Auditor, and he has good backing. Mr. Berrys first message, it is said will also contain a clause advocating the abolition of the office of bicycle policeman. They contend that this official has frequently been a great inconvenience to them, especially in preventing C. R. Howe of the Third, it is understood, says he does not want to go back to the City Council. Charley says he nas had his fill of It. Dr. Beatty of the Fifth will not be a candidate for renomination to the Coun- the lowering of worlds records in the paved district. The most celebrated orators of the association, for the tropical eloquence of its members, wrathfully denounced the Mayor and City Council For City Atorney p. b. Is in stirring philippics, because, forsooth, Stephen, willing to sacrifice himself again for the boulevards of the metropsake of Democracy. A. S. Fowler is olis had not been converted Into bicycle The cycle-lecyclists. for some alThP ward by Democrats Republicans are talking of George heeler prostrated; and local political circles are stirred as with the eruptive cil. far-fam- ed ss There has not as yet been much discussion of candidates for the minor municipal offices, but It is understood that they will be largely chosen from the habitues of Mr. Mulveys saucer track. The man most favorably spoken of for the Recordership is Ivor Lawson. will be a formidable candidate King for Treasurer, on Account of his splendid exhibition in the twenty-fou- r hour race, although the friends of John Chapman are urging him strongly for the place. It is believed that, as a compromise, UM rntm .J |