Show MIDNIGHT CAUCUS r OF REPUBLICANS Party Leaders Confer on Matters of Organization t KEARNS AND SMOOT THERE 4 SL X PROBABLY FOR I t t tAT it T THE TIlE BEWITCHING hour hour of I AT 11 midnight a number uber of the roost mOst m t i prominent men in the council cou of the Republican party held a s a conference last lut night for tor various and sundry pur pitr purposes poses in parlor A of ot o the There was wa something done at the con conference conference ference but the public p will wID learn mm only by b degrees d 1 all that transpired tran Certain it is Ia however that ways and means meane were discussed to bring victory again to the Republican party in Utah Present Pre ent at the conference were Sena Seas Senator Senator tor Kearns Apostle Apo Reed Smoot Snoot State Chairman C Marshal Heywood District Attorney LIppman Perry 8 S Heath Heth George M Cannon and Tom D Pitt the latter hitter of Box Rox Elder county Others Othere dropped in during the tile earlier eadler part of the evening e to pay their re respects Sparta to the senator before his return to Washington but those thON named na were there by special invitation of the rec recognised recognized leader The TIM reason given for the lateness a of convening the conference 11 p m rn was waa that Mr Cannon and Mr lr Smoot had prior engagements at the peace meetings Mr Cannon and Mr Cal Callister lister left after midnight and the oth others othera ers era remained continuing the discussion on general rather than special lines it was WU stated Committee Meeting Tune rune 5 Probably the most m t Important matter to receive Ive attention by the party lead leaders eye ers r was the th necessity nece ity of early and effective organisation throughout the state Chairman Callister Call later advised his confreres that he would call the state committee together on June 5 to fix a aMm Mm time and place for tor holding the nom nominating nominating convention and to select lect his hie successor By reason of Mr Callister holding holdine a federal office it is incumbent upon him to resign lp re the chairmanship of the committee and this he will do doal doat dog al g the meeting early next month It was wag known during the day that the conference would consider con lder in an advisory way the propriety of or inducing George Gearge M Cannon to accept the chair chairmanship chairmanship manship of ot the state committee after Chairman Canister has hu resigned and this was waa one of the important consid considerations as had bad been scheduled Mr Cannons Cannon Attitude 11 I have not seriously considered the matter Jatter said Mr Kr Cannon when asked a ked by The Herald if It he had ad decided to accept the chairmanship of the state Republican committee My business bustness demands demaa my may attention and six years ago aso I resigned the position po lUon of chairman for that reason If It under any uy circum circumstances circumstances stances I should be offered the position and should accept it It I 1 would only do doso doto so to with the distinct understanding that I would be under no obligation to any candidate or his friends and the only consideration that would Induce me to accept would be if I 1 concluded it would be in the th interest t of ot the party as sa a whole If It any an man desires de to attach me inc to his faction I wish wl h it distinctly under understood understood stood that he would be obliged to look ook elsewhere If I become chairman I will wUl be chairman for nfl all the people of the party and for no man of the party 7 I am friendly with Mr Smoot but no DO more so 10 than with a score of the theother theother other prominent Republican workers Advising With Mr Smoot Mr Kr Cannon added that this was the way the matter stood tood so far as it related to himself when he left the meeting for he had been careful to Impress his sentiments upon Mr lr Smoot and Del the others who had presented pre the question of the chairmanship to him Senator Kearns KenUI stated that Mr Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non would be acceptable to him as u the state chairman but he would defer deter to the committee to make the selection as seemed proper He further remarked rel that his desire is III to see the state go KO Republican again and have a Republican Republican lican colleague in the senate Some of Mr dr Cannons friends are quite certain that he does doss not wish to so sotie tie himself elf up so that he would be pre precluded precluded precluded from aspiring for the senator ship himself as against Mr Smoot Soot or any other aspirant or for any thor ether office for that matter by accepting the Ute chairmanship Senator Kearns Kearus left ten on the early morning train for tor Washington He H will wm sail for tor Europe on June ii 11 ice for his family and will return here lien soon after alter to occupy his new mansion |