Show MAY AY n HI Es PLACE Utah Man May Not Ask A Another Term in the Rouse E use Ut HE HOPES HOPES TO BE st StATOR TOR 1 SN TOGA fROM 1 SMOOT WHO 11 A wild weird and romantic jab fale that Congressman Joseph Howell wIll not 0 be e a candidate for reelection Is float floatIng lug Ing around in circles political Usually the man who hears bears it indulges in an in incredulous Incredulous credulous laughs but a few tew friends ot of oft t lone representative say it is a solemn fact and declare that Zion is IsI I about to bs l treated to the unusual spectacle ot of a Republican relinquishing an n office voluntarily and without being pried loose The story goes that Mr Howell Is consumed by a vaulting ambition to tobe tobe be United States senator that he will shy his castor into the senatorial ring in the event Senator Reed Smoot Is isI cast into outer darkness by the present I senate and that in any event he will willbe willbe be a candidate when Senator Smoots term expires by limitation in 1909 Should lie he be forced to await until y 1909 to gratifY his senatorial ambition It Is said Congressman Howell will retire from public life Ufe at the end ot of his present term confident that the people of Utah will not fo forget et him during the thet t two years interim and that he will be stronger than ever when he bobs up as 1 R a aspirant ay He Promised to QuIt I At the last state convention it is l asserted Mr Howell declared that he 1 would a candidate d for tor he te lower house again This dee dec declara II lara n was made it is declared when 11 some politicians exasperated over his hisk k delivery of Cache county to Governor 4 Cutler talked of springing a candidate agaInst him then and there thereIn In that critical it is charged lIre Mr Howell in beseeching the support of divers cold and indIfferent brethren declared th that t all ail he Vw wanted wase was a yin vin vindication and that he would be content at the next state convention to step stepaside stepaside aside and let somebody else have his seat That promise incredible as it may seem seam it is in asserted he intends to keep in letter but with a vIew to snatching the toga now worn by Real Smoot his political creator Plenty of Candidates County Attorney Parley P Christen Christensen r sen en ill is practically certain to be a can cana a 13 for tor Mr Howells place and andi Ii i James T Hammond Hammoud is likely to be bet t sprung by the followers of 1 I Heber L Wells Fells There is some talk I however that Governor wens Wells may mayI I seek the nomination himself |