Show A BOOM FOR COL COLU HOLMES Republican Statesmen State I n still Hunting Hun ng For an C LA LATE TE M S o PECULIAR ULIAR I WHY lr y CAPITALIST IS CONSIDERED STRONG A ACKERS of W V J Lynch wore ware BACKERS B startled from from their security y str r day da by the discovery that there thele was a and strenuous hooch boom on for Colonel Edwin Edw n F Holmes An influential faction of orthe the party was WItS aJL a work yesterday y to place Colonel Colo el Holmes name name at the head hoed of the Re Republican R publican ticket ti ket Just where whore the time boom started just who is responsible for it or what is the motive back of It was Has y left to conjecture Naturally the first conclusion reached by the thc casual observer Is I that the boom beech for Colonel Holmes is a move by Sena Senator S Senator tor Reed Smoot but a careful vesti investigation l gation failed to reveal a connection Colonel Col nel Holmes is away awo from home hom t on ona ona I Ia a tour that will consume all aU the time between now nov and the first of or tIle the tl new ew 1 It is not unfair to assume that advantage has been taken Ul on of ot Jils ab absence absence sence mace to fasten fas en the nomination upon pon the tho colonel knowing well veil that no can candidate can be elected on the Republican ticket this year The boys In the trenches need the tire money still They have failed to s sell eil their gold brick to W S McCornick nit was presented to him recently he ho proposed an assay and the commit committee tee has hils not been seen in the neighbor neighborhood neIghborhood neighborhood hood of his bank since Colonel Holmes it appears app arS is regarded as the best sub substitute substitute substitute in sight for the banker bunker who seems to have bave escaped Of course the argument would be made that Colonel Homa has done great things in the direction of Irrigation irrigation Irrigation gation and the permanent settlement ent of the water question It will be point pointed ed out that he is a large property owner in the city that he Ire is public spirited that his wealth and social position would add dignity to the office that prominent visitors In the city cit would be beso beso beso so well entertained that a good im impression impression impression of Salt Lake would spread far farand farand 1 and wide Developments in lb the boom boon for fOl Colonl Holmes will be watched with kee keOn tt in interest terest thrust by members of all parties s |