Show STORY A fABRCATIN Primaries Had No Bearing On the Senatorial Struggle A PUELY LOCAL CONTEST IvE WAD CONVENTIONS FORT FOR-T EVENING Republicans Preparing to ttake a Rpublcns Prepai Mae Fight On BoothWat Allison of Weber Because He Dresses Well County Executive Committee Will I Hold a Meetg Today Ever since the date when the Tribune decided to down the Demorcy at any costs when It adopted a motto Anything Any-thing to beat the Democrats It ha incessantly in-cessantly labored to create confusion in cessanty labore the ranks of the Democracy by false and misleading stttements sttements Immediately following the holding or the prImaries on Tuesday evening comes the announcement that In those pri niarles the friends of Congressman RIng I were downed and that his senatorIal boom was greatly retarded while in the I ae story the clam is mae that Roberts Rob-erts shows strength to the disadvantage of hIs opponents I Now as a matter of fact this course is adopted with a view of wIng the seeds I of suspicion and for no other purpose The truth of the state af affairs is that the senatorial and congressional fights if such 1 a proper term did not prevail in the primaries to any marked extent The contests fGr the several county offices have become so interesting that everything thing else was for the time forgotten In the eagerness to sure advantage for favored candidates In seven election dis I tricts of the city candidates for the legislature leg-islature were turned down as delegates because forsooth It was feared they were not with the candidates ot the majority ma-jority of the delegates for the office of sheriff assessor county recorder and attorney at-torney I ha by np means lessened their chances for becoming nominees for eIther of the two houses and they will receive the same support from their rE I sDetve dIstricts for a place in the senate sen-ate and house they would have had they been selected as delegates to the county convention The frIends ot the several candidates sever for sheriff for instance gave no thought to the matter of senator or congrssmah In their anxiety t select delegat s who would be favorable to theIr men And as a matter of fact there will be nothing noth-Ing In the nature of a contest for either place until the delegate shall select a legislative ticket and the delegation to the state convention The above statement represents the concensus of opinion of the leading Dam ocrats of the city I Is useless to quote them all for the reason that the conditions con-ditions are too apparent And In the judgment of al who have had opportunIty opportun-Ity of expressing themselves no attention atten-tion should be given the baseless fabrications I fabrica-tions which Sven been written with a I 1 view to creaUng him In the counties xtside of snhim countes I I The congressional mater will come before I be-fore the people when the delegates to the I I county convention express their choice for delegates to the convention which I I shall nominate a congressman Then it will be seen from a poll who they are for I for that place When the candidates for the legislature shall have been selected it will be easy to ascertain the personal preferences of the nominees for senator But until that time no credence whatever what-ever should be gIven statements of a paper pa-per whose avowed mission Is the down avowe party ing of at the any candidates cost of the Democratic I |