Show A HORSE ON SMITH J t Did Not Know Ezra But Thought He Was a Sport At least one Salt Laker gavevent to a chuckle of intense amusement when he read in The Herald yesterday morning morn-ing the speech made by George A Smith when he nominated Ezra Thompson Thomp-son for the mayoralty The particularly particu-larly amusing feature of the speech to this citizen was Mr Smiths reference to the extent of Mr Thompsons acquaintance ac-quaintance Why Smith said that every man woman and child every tree bird and flower in Salt Lake is acquainted with Ezra Thompson he said Now let me tell you a little story happen to be a neighbor of George A Smith About six weeks ago I was standing in front of my premises talking to George when who should drive by but Ezra Thompson He had a pair of fine hon s hitched to his light buggy and was dashing along at a great rate Smith turned and looked at the man and the team Then he turned to me and asked Who is that man Ezra Thompson said I Thompson Thompson replied Smith And who is Ezra Thompson Oh I said hes a racehorse man Considerable of a sport aint he I was Smiths next remark I said I didnt know much about that and there the conversation ended I I had to laugh though when I raad of how Smith told the Republicans what a yidely1 known man his candidate I candi-date was 1 |