Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-21 | Page 8 | Smoot Would Accept

SMOOT WOULD I GGEPT Will Not Make Active Fight for the Senatorship I WANTS BEST MAN TO GET IT i Has Cause for Feeling Happy Over I Result of ElectionState Chairman Callister Congratulated by Vice Chairman Payne of National Committee Com-mittee Affidavits Being Prepared for Third District Contest County I ClerkElect John James Swamped I With Applications of OfficeSeekers 5 AposiIe Reed Smoot of Provo wns In the city yesterday returning home yesterday yes-terday evening to attend the Republican Repub-lican ratification meeting and ball at Provo last night Mr Smoot was asked concerning the report that he might be a candidate for the United States Senatorship and replied that he had not seriously considered It He said that if it were tendered him he would accept i ac-cept it although he did not Intend to J I enter the field and make a fight for It It Is not so much a personal matter j I with me he said as it Is to sec the man who can best represent the State and the party chosen If the Legislature j Legisla-ture decides I am the man best fitted for It I shall of course accept it although al-though personally I have little desire for the office Mr Smoot said he had been feeling pretty good since the election elec-tion I live in a Republican district a Republican ward a Republican town a Republican county a Republican Stale and a Republican Nation so why shouldnt I feel good he said 1