| Show WELLS WILL GROW WBA V t People Are Realizing He Is Not an Ideal Candidate Can-didate TRIBUNES WEAK DEFENSE It Cannot Escape the Logic of I the Situation Gray Hairs Urging Tender Years asa r r as-a Qualification Republicans Are Greatly Worried About Campaign Funds McCsiIlum Says They Will Cry Boodle Democratic Headquarters Head-quarters the Scene of Political Activity Democratic Speakers nnd Workers The dear old Tribune is in a terrible quandary just now Its greatest desire is to secure the election of Heber M Wells in order that the head of the paper may secure control of the public lands business of the new state and use the department for his own interest inter-est It would like to be able to draw > comparison between the two candid candi-d ts for governor that would be unfavorable un-favorable to the Democratic nominee But when it sets out on this mission it is confronted with the very patent fact that it cannot pick a flaw in John T Caine while it can bring nothing the effect of the orwrd that will offset criticism that Heber M Wells has never shown indications of the possession posses-sion of such ability as would fit him to be governor of Utah Under such desperate circumstances I the esteemed Tribune is driven to extreme ex-treme measures In fervent words it I of portrays Wells as the representative young Utah It pronounces John T Caine as unfit to hold the office because toe was prominent under old conditions In the territory It misstates the position posi-tion taken by The Herald It is not < uring Wells age against him Far froft it There are at least twentyfive I young men in the Democratic party whose age almost corresponds with hat of Wells who have already given I = t ifaPle evidence of such knowledge of Jjoveromental affairs and executive ability that they would be available gubernatorial timber It is not age that is tl e issue It is fitness The Aged Advocate Thel Is something excessively amus i1b in the Tribunes attitude Who on ftding articles holding up Wells roe mTilSC of his youth would imagine that the writer of those articles is one on whom old age hrs written his deep marks upon whom decrepitude is bearing bear-ing heavily Who peeing an old man slowly I walking along the street with gray locks and wrinkled forehead would look upon hith as the one who would urge forward inexperienced youth for the honors which belong to I ripened experience Who reading the sentences directed against John T Caine because he was prominent in Utah before the division on party lines would imagine that the writer of those sentences had spent the years of his most vigorous manhood in prominent opposition to the man whom he thus enoteavors to defeat I I Cannot C C Goodwin realize that whenever he brings such an argument to bear it can be turned against himself him-self with double force by those of his own arty who wish to defeat him for the Uniter States Senate Can he not realize that it is somewhat inconsistent inconsist-ent for him to aspire to a higher office than Mr Caine just because of his pi eminence in years gone by arid then I endeavor to defeat Mr Caine just be I ause of the latters prominence during the same period Theatrical Questions Under the heading Let Us See the esteemed Tribune yesterday devoted its leading editorial to a supposed review of The Herald comparison of Caine and Wells in which it takes parts of sentences and endeavors to make oft of-t esf arguments in the usual way One pert however deserves some little at tt niJn The Herald speaks deprecat Vngy of Mr Wells because he has tak fr AT part on the stage on some amateur lov > atncpls says the Tribune Is tpat a rime Then what is to become of John T Caine who ran the whole theatre for several years In the first place The Herald does not speak deprecatingly of Mr Wells ib iause he was an amateur actor On tlE contrary it spoke very highly of h m as such It really conceded laurels to him It holds nothing against eithEr Mr Caine or Mr Wells because be-cause of their connection with the theatre But one point it does wish to insist upon That point has an Important Im-portant bearing on the present campaign cam-paign It is that from one end of the territory terri-tory to the other the chief fame of Heber M Wells is based on the fact hat he is an actor the most successful success-ful amateur in Utah while the chief fame of John T Caine rests on the fact that he has been an able good faithful honest representative of his constituents for ten years in Congress iDraw the distinction well Notice that even in the Tribune extract quoted above John T Caine appears as the executive head Heber M Wells as the amateur actor Again The Herald says that Heber M Wells is not known forMs for-Ms executive ability or political knowledge knowl-edge throughout the territory while everywhere John T Caine is known asa as-a man of broad conservative ideas eound political judgment good ability aii thorough knowledge of political quE suons and affairs The Sanpete Libel The Herald insists that Mr Caine has been around the territory repeatedly re-peatedly There is a very strong im presson that he went to Sanpete hurriedly last fall and thatjust afte his return t was found that the San 5ete toallot boxes had been stuffed continues tile Tribune Mr Caine did not go as hurriedly as did Frank J Cannon and C TV Bennett who went to Sanpet just after election and returned re-turned before Mr Caine went there While Mr Caine was in Sanpete his acts were open and entirely free from anything that could be criticized anyhing Moreover Sr Caine will go to ante an-te again today speaking in Ephralm > ffy completely refute the slanders r V i i ijJj 3 which Republicans have been circulating circulat-ing there So much for the Tribune article Now to examine a little farther into the fitness fit-ness of the two candidates for the office to which they aspire To whom does Heber M Wells owe his first II Wels official position and the training which kept him from becoming a professional profession-al actor To John T Caine who appointed ap-pointed him deputy city recorder when the former first took the office When Mr Caine was elected to Congress he was chiefly instrumental in securing the city recordership for Wells and helped him to retain the office until the Liberals came into power Fortunately For-tunately at that time the State Bank of Utah was organized and largely through the influence of friends Wells was appointed cashier Had it not been for this he would have been very likely to have become a professional actor Not a Lending Financier Republicans have been making capital capi-tal out of the fact that he is cashier of the State bank and saying that denotes de-notes an ability to conduct the executive execu-tive affairs of the state of Utah But they are sadly In error Heber M Wells is not the executive head of the State bank Every day at 1130 the executive execu-tive committee of the board of directors direc-tors Wiliam B Preston Spencer Clawson and Charles S Burton meet at the bank and go over all the business busi-ness I is this committee that does the business It is the board of direc I tors that maps out the policy and the committee that executes it The success of the State bank is not due to its cashier There are other cashiers in this city who are regarded as better financiers than Heber M Wells and yet they are not thought of as gubernatorial possibilities Some of them with more latitude even are not pressed forward for such high offices What is more the place of Heber M Wells at the bank was promptly filled by Charles S Burton and the board of directors would hardly feel embarrassed over the prospect of finding a suitable permanent per-manent successor So much for the executive capability of Wells Give Some Instances The Tribune has been saying Wells is up to the times and progressive and that John T Caine would not be so Now it would be a relief if the Tribune should kindly take upon itself to show wherein Heber I Wells has shown himself particularly progressive sive He has not lacked opportunities Did he ever show such remarkable progressiveness when one of the directors di-rectors of the chamber of commerce Did he show it while a member of the board of public works Did he show i while he was a member of the constitutional convention An anxious constitutonal comenton public waits for some sign that he is a leader that he is one who will make a good governor I If he is up to date why did he not take occasion In his ratification speech in the theatre to give some sign of i Why did he not speak of the living questions that are now confronting the people of Utah and that will confront them under statehood Why did he leave a discussion of those living questions to the who Is man pronounced pro-nounced by the Tribune to be behind the times Why did he not range himself him-self alongside thegiants of the constitutional con-stitutional convention and endeavor to lead his leaderless party along a course that would have excited admiration admir-ation instead of allowing i to be broken into a dozen pieces and forced into ridiculous positions These are pertinent queries 4 S Political Finances Republicans just now are greatly worried over the question of cash An instance of their feeling is afforded by a conversation which took place on Thursday afternoon between Harry McCallum president of the Oquirrh club an obscure judicial candidate I named E D R Thompson and the I ever present third person that the Democrats They tell me I have a campaign fund of 50000 remarked re-marked Thompson l Well I have it dead straight said the third person that they have 40 000 in the treasury My information such that there comes from a source is no room for doubt Is that so asked Thompson with a sigh < Then its all up with u Harry iMcCallum was feeling very confident just at that time He was even more supremely cheerful than usual usualWell Well I guess it aint all up with us I Pat Lannan and I have got together again and fixed i all up between us The Tribunes all right now There wont be any more trouble between us Pats come off his high horse Weve arranged that as soon as Powers haslet has-let off a few fireworks and red fire well raise the cry of boodle in every schoolhouse in the territory Thats how well make the campaign Well tell the people about the 50000 and cry boodle Shades of Boss Tweed What a spectacle spec-tacle it will be to see Harry McCallum delivering an eloquent phillippic agains boodle There will be at least one element of interest in the thing People who go to hear him may rest assured that if there is anything about boodle in politics that Harry Mc Callum fault does not know it is not his Republicans Greatly Iiilcrestcil The question of Democratic finances is a serious one with the Republicans Some of the visitors go to the new state headquarters and wander around and as their eyes light upon the sign All bills paid on Saturday they heave great sighs The amount of the Democratic campaign fund is a subject sub-ject of deep thought by day and of nightmare by night Further than that it is ample to carry on a campaign they can get no information of for Judge Powers is silent as the sphinx on this proposition The Republicans of course will endeavor en-deavor to make the people believe that the Democrats have 50000 In the first place they will want to raise the of boodle in order to distract cry bodle attention atten-tion from the issues of the campaign which tel against them so heavily in the second place they want to use this cry a a everage to force contribu tions from unwilling Republicans In the third place they are anxious to drive down on the Democratic managers man-agers a horde of strikers with a vain hope that these may divert some of the money from the legitimate expenses of the campaign With the Republicans the financial question is a jzery serious one They are already out of funds George M Cannoh has been using a great deal of his valuable time during the last few days in an effort to secure some of the I needful He is putting off payment of bills and endeavoring to collect prom ised subscriptions but is everywhere met with the marble h art Repub licans will not give money this year yea They are bothered by the state committee com-mittee the city committee the Oquirrh club and the various Ind Ue precinct commit tees and refuse to be bled in the interest inter-est of a failing cause This is indeed a Democratic year Continned on Page 3 > |
