Show FOR SEAT Howel Howell Christensen and Law Lawrence Lawrence rence in Race for Republican can Nomination REED SMOOT FOR HOWELL COUNTY ATTORNEY WILL PLAY PLAYA A LONE HAND AT PRE ENT County Attorney Parley P formal announcement of his candidacy for forthe forthe the congressional nomination apparently derine defines the lines upon which te the struggle for that wi be wase waged Representative Joeph Joseph Howel Howell wi will undoubtedly be have the backing of the machine for ton tion Gre George N Lawrence who has not announced himself bt but whose candidacy is regarded as a certainty wi wilt probably be the candidate of th the Hebr Heber 11 M facton faction and of t the pronounced men while Mr Christensen will m play a alone lone Jone hand and wi will ty try to develop enough indivIdual strength to make him avail available able as a compromise nominee Of th the three candidates Mr Howel howell is a Mor Mormon mono mon an and lers Christensen ad Lw Lwrence Law Lawrence rence ae are Gentiles Mr Chrisensen Christensen went et cast recently it itis itis is said In an effort to Senator Smoot and Representative Howel Howell that the lter latter ought nt not to ru run again Smoot and Howel Howell s see It in that light and told Mr Christensen 5 so I It is beleve believed however that thy they le led him to believe that the Smoot strength would go to him rath rather er than s s the nomination capture captured by byan byan an avowed Wels or man lkc like Mr Lawrence Mr Christensen himself has never ben been classed as a Smoot man His have rather ben been with the theother theother other faction bt but nt not to the extent of those of lIr Mr Lawrence Avowed of Smoot Mr Lawrene Lawrence ha has always been a pro pronounced pronounced mn man In he re refuse refused fuse fused to vote for Mr Smoot for United States senator even after the later latter lied received the Republican cucus caucus nomina nomination ton tion He vote voted for Hebr Heber lI M Wells VeIs and the suggestion of his congressional candi candidacy dacy now comes from the Wells els men If auspice auspices he enters the race i It wi will be under VelIs Mr Christenn Christensen who has held office long bong enough to know at Icat least the ruth ments of politics ha has figured out an op opportunity opportunity to sUp slip In between lIr Mr Lawrence and Mr Howell Howell He knows as doe does ever every boy body els else that the Smoot men realize that they wn will have trouble carrying Mr Howell Howen through to a 8 There are signs of mu in the Smoot camp over th the continued exaltation of Howel Howell and It is doubtful if if al all the Smoot men c can b be held in lne line for him Mr Christensen calculates that the Smoot strength would b be throw thrown to him rather than permit th the nomination of a biter bitter man Might Get Wels Wells Support Moreover Mr Christensen figures that if the Wells Veis men mei get enough strength in the convention to almot almost beit Howell Howen he cou could force theta them to jin join forces with him and name him a as a seon second choice He has always bEn been o on frendly friendly tens terms with the Wels Wells people an and there is n no insurmountable pep able ren reason why they woul nt take him up upI I It is probe probable therefore that the Re Republican publican primaries in Salt Sait Lake and other countes counties wi will witness a fight for delegates to the state convention TherE There ma may b be even eyen more candidates W WD 1 D Livingston of Mant Mast once stuck his Ilis head ot out of hi his hole to surey survey the cn con situation Somebody hi hit his hed head and he itly hastily drew i it back wih with the announcement that he be a candidate I |