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Show State and Local Politics. are getting much run. One of his friends, discussing amusement nowadays watching the the recent statement by the uninformed political writer of the Tribune, antics and movements of Joes trained that Snow had made a compact With mouse. This delightful little creature Judge Powers and Judge King, de--c seems at this particular time and seaares that story can be nothing but son to have an eye single to judicial the result of too much dope, taken becandidates. At one hour he may be fore eating. J & noticed walking arm in arm down the street with Judge Lewis, his eager, The Kearns men are declaring that face close to the shoulder of the jurist, the party must be united this year. and in the next ten minutes he can be That it is a presidential year and all observed butting into a conversation differences must be buried and the between Dan Wenger and some friend. state carried for ' Roosevelt. All of Then it is ho for the Eagle block to doctSix minutes later which is very good Republican report progress. want one can see his sprightly little form rine, but the boys who do not senate to to and Kearns back the go crossing Second South in order to in- who think there are other and abler tercept some candidate for the district men for the had best, keep a attorneyship and then back again to weather eye onplace the primaries and conthe office to relate what Smith has same. It is a scheme ventions the just said or what Loofbourow is doing. on of the part Kearns, pure and simThen over to the Smith corner, where he intercepts Morris Sommer and ple.1 He wants to lull his opponents chassade back again to tell Joe that intq a. feeding of security.no Better mans for he is watch Kearns a Sandy Fowler is in the field and so is fool if he does bit, fits have sometimes. McMaster. A quarter of an hour afdoctrine laid terward finds him in Judge Stewarts A good bit of Democratic not will be amiss Jefferson down by court, listening with bated breath and for are who against Republicans in the. next ten minutes he has once fall. this Kearns Eternal vigilance more appeared to tell his liege that the court has just overruled an objec- is the price of safety. tion, which action means that Sandy will be carried by the Republicans beHon. Charles S. Varian is being cause the defendant iives in Sandy. mentioned very frequently as a candiJust as soon as Joe and the little fellow get the judicial cheese all cut and date for the Democratic nomination for the Supreme bench. Mr. Varian is properly distributed the mouse will a very able attorney and would make tackle the gubernatorial problem. Then there will be doins. Each con- an excellent judge. Judge Baskin is test wiil be settled in the order of its a candidate for renomination and has a strong support and it is stated that importance. No one need express any Ko.app of Ogden might be insurprise if the mouse rushes up to Ed Judge Callister and bestows upon him some duced to accept. There is very good affectionate caresses and tells him reason for believing that Judge Zane what Wells told the cook at breakfast will be selected b$ the Republicans. about him, Callister, on that very In that event just watch and see how Kearns wants harmony and Republimorning, because the mouse is omni- can success. present. Look out, too, when Senator Jt J Smoot comes to town, for the mouse Both judicial conventions will be will be Johnny on the spot with some wild, deep curse against Kearns. The held in this city on Monday. Hes a hct thing, is the mouse, but Democrats are going to send a comsome day the cat will get him and mittee to the Republican convention then it will be all off. and ask the delegates to make the juJ & affair by W. H. Dale has a large number of dicial election a four district judges renominating the friends who are urging him to make now in office. The indications are that the race for state treasurer. Mr. Dale ths proposal will be rejected and that informs Truth that he has not made the two conventions will nominate up his mind; that he has said to him- four candidates. Morse is certain of self he does not want any more poli- a nomination at the hands of the Retics, but it is believed he can be in- publicans and is the only one who duced to enter the lists. seems to have a dead cinch on the J& & place. Lewis chances are also very The candidacy of Edward H. Snow good. Dan Wenger, George F. GoodD. H. Harrington, for secretary of state originated in win, Judge Tanner, Lewis, George Armstrong and Judge Utah county, where Snow has a large the balance of the candidates will have number of friends. Snow is a con- to scrap it out. Tanners friends sistent Democrat and a very able man. claim he will have no trouble in landHis services in the state senate demon- ing and the balance seem to be very of strated his' fitness and if the Democ- sanguine, so there is contest. a racy selects him he will make a good lively Many people non-partis- an every-prospe- ct Judges Hall and Stewart have a lead pipe cinch on the Democratic nominations and the prospects' for Judge Cherry are very good. His friends say he is sure is sure of the nominaStrenuous efforts are being tion. made to induce Judge lilies to make the race, but he lias declined so far. Attorney Hurd is mentioned very prominently for the place and Judge A. B. Sawyer has supporters who are urging him to get in and .hustle. For the district attorneyship the Republicans have four candidates in the persons of Fred Loofbourow, Benner X. Smith, L. L. Baker and M. M. Kaighn. There will be a merry the for place. tight On the Democratic side D. B. and Ray Hempstead, Ed Van Cott are the prospective candidates, with no choice between the three, except that Hempstead and Van Cotts friends have been doing A. J. Weber is the most hustling. mentioned for the place and may get in and if he does there will be someMc-Gurri- n thing doing. George F. Goodwin, one of the leading candidates for judge,- is a man 55 - years of age, a life-lon- g consistent Re- publican who has never asked any political recognition in this state other than that for which he is now a candidate. He has been in' active . practice for 25 years and for the past 11 years in this qity. His ability is well known to the bench and bar and has been recognized by the Supreme court in appointing him referee in important matters, as well as making him a member of the committee for examination of candidates for admission to the bar of that court for the past five or six years. -- Jl Tlio delegates to the judicial con- vention from districts 1 Jo 52, both inclusive, will meet after the. judicial convention to nominate two candidates fdr judges of the city, court. Morris Sommer, A. S. Fowler, Former Justice McMasters and E. A. Walton are the candidates so far. All four, are making heroic efforts. Sommers friends claim he is a winner and Fowlers friends contend he McMaster will come has a cinch. into the convention with a great deal Gf support. As to Walton, his campaign has been so brief that his chances are not as good as they might be. Sommer, Fowler and McMasters will do the battling and two of this trio will doubtless be selected unless some dark horses are sprung. Jt Jit. state Until the and judicial conventions are over it is not expected there wiil be much activity among Democrats regarding the places on the county ticket, although there are a few who are quietly getting into the race. John Howell, John B. Arthur Cummings and one or two others are doing seme work in Cum-moc- . k, the matter of the sheriffs place and Nicol Hood is being mentioned quite freely as a candidate for county com- Candidates for the legislature are not plentiful as yet, but there is plenty of time. missioner. J The Tribune has started a boom for Johnnie James as a candidate for re-election as county clerk. Johnnio has been a good friend of the Tribune elver since Kearns appointed him consul to Cardiff, failing to land him in Postmaster Thomas shoes. But Joe Eldredgo or some other goed man will doubtless knock all the underpining from Johnnie and he will go back working at his trade again. The Tribune had belter go to knocking Janies if it wants to him. re-ele- ct J J The political writer or the Tribune, as predicted last week, read Truth and on Tuesday morning announced that the candidacy cf Judge King for governor was an error on the part of Judge Kings friends. As a matter of fact the candidacy of Judge King was a pipe dream on the part of the Tribune and nothing else. J J The election of Fred C. Loofbourow as chairman of the Republican city committee f, generally pleasing to the Republicans. The only fault found is that Loofbourow is regarded as a Kearns man. He has great experience in politics and is energetic ".d capable. His appointment of Parley White, who is not a Kearns upporter, as secretary to the commit tee was quite a happy choice. They should make a strong team for the coming campaign. The contest for the district attorneyship promises to be not the least interesting event to be pulled off before the Republican judicial convention. Some of the respective friends of Benner X. Smith and Fred C. Loofbourow, either with or without the consent of those rival candidates, are getting quite warm. The friends .of Mr. Loofbourow are inviting attention to the late record of Mr. Smith, whose nomination they claim will materially weaken the ticket. They say that he was a conspicuous and rampant bolter of the city ticket last fall, that he vowed eternal and bitter opposition to everything that carried or should hereafter carry the Kearns e of branch, that he as the National Guard took too active a part in the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of the striking miners in Carbon county. It is altogether safe, they say, to predict that if nominated Mr. Smith will be knifed at the polls by the Kearns push in about as lively a fashicn as he and his supporters Johnson fought the Kearns-Bruc- e ticket last November. On the other hand. Smiths friends declare that Fred C. Loofbourow is persona non grata to the great majority of those Republicans who are anti- judge-advocat- |