Show THE POLITICAL PIPE Unless nil signs arc misleading the primaries pri-maries tonight will be among the tOt hotly contested over held by the Repub UcniiK In Salt Lake By the Republicans Is I mined advisedly I would be exceedingly exceed-ingly bad form to contest primaries as hotly as the Democrats have done In times t 1 past I lu I not apprehended that tho partisans of time I various candidates will reason with cobblestones or 1c ort in the I logic oC lefthand swings Repub llcnna arc as a rule too well bred to throw each other through windows because be-cause or slight differences of opinion when the doors do Just as well Nor will u wel they throw brickbats their candidates will do c treat deal o better < All the managers are continent of course A man would never get to bo a political manager unless ho possessed chlldllkc confidence I necessary he must be able to add 2 and 2 In uch a manner as to set C or 7 as the result Judge Wcngcr the political keeper of W tin I James has no doubt In the world that Mr JnniuK will have iO or f > 0 per cent of the delegates to the Republican city con ventlon 131ner D Jones manager for Mr Odcll simply declares that the telephone tele-phone candidate will get his number all right and refers anxious Inquirers to Claim Agent Wnntland for further de tails Wantlnnd cheernlly concedes three votes to Knox and two to James E C Loofbourow who Is looking after Mr Knoxs interests seems cheerful and simply sim-ply says that the friends of his candidate will be at the balloting It still looks to the Pipe Man as though from two to a half dozen ballots would be necessary to select Die Republican can dUmb for Mayor Certain It In i that If Ian I-an one wins on the first ballot It will bo by a narrow margin effected bv I tho transfer of delegates from one candidate to another The claims repeatedly made by I the James men that their favorite will go Into the convention with a clear ma jority are too optimistic for serious consideration con-sideration In the opinion of careful observers ob-servers the I James following has actually decreased since It became apparent that James Is committed to the plot hatched by Senator Smoot to provide places for Calllster Anderson and Reiser at the po litical nle counter S The weak point In the James boom Is tho complete luck of mutual confidence among the boomers Each Is seeking l to further his own schemes at the expanse of time test and each seen In the more or less Immediate future a good chance to throw down his colleagues Apontlo John Henry Smith Is prepared to throw James In favor of Odell and Calllster In favor of Wells Calllster which should bo spelled Smoot has already decided to throw Sutheiland and is making kittenish 1 advances to 0 G Salisbury to keep that gentlemans barrel open and Anderson and Reiser arc getting ready to throw themselves In nil the ratifications of time plot and counterplot It Is plainly to bo seen that a certain official from Provo will be tho power behind the thrown It a Mr Odclls campaign has been conducted conduct-ed with commendable energy Mr Odells business connections with the Interests which control our blessed lighting system sys-tem our Immaculate street railway and other public utilities the selection of Mr Jones manager of the new telephone company as campaign manager the III dlsgnlsed anxiety of Apostle John Henry Smith to work up Odell sentiment undercover under-cover of Mr J s candidacy the large suna expendeu IS maintaining headquarters headquar-ters and hiring workers all these things make a poor impression on the voter who looks forward to time establishment of new enterprises In this growing city a The promises made by Mr Knox on the other hand at the beginning of the campaign cam-paign arc promises which he has every Inducement to fulill In his case private Interest In-terest as well as lotHi pride will Impel him to work for municipal progress and Improvements Improvements that will encourage legitimate competition In every public service and bring In now capital new blood and new Industry Mr ICnox has relied upon his wellknown ability and public spirit to gain the support of the substantial and Influential business men and those who are dependent on a policy of Improvement for It livelihood r i Much Indignation Is expressed In some quarters over what Is alleged to be a policy pol-icy of Intimidation pursued by the Canis terJames combination In the city departments depart-ments It is not really Intimidation however how-ever Neither Mr Calllster nor Mr Anderson An-derson has gone up to a city employee and said If you dont get out and hustle for James I will knock your block off lima would be Intimidation Of course titanic gentlemen may have mildly Imf cited that a lukewarm attitude on the part of the employee would necessitate his separation from the municipal payroll pay-roll and act as a bar to future engagements engage-ments In the fame line hut that Is not Intimidation That Is electioneering a a Warren Foster Socialist candidate for Councilman In the Fifth ward was the I I speaker at the Socialist meeting yesterday afternoon His talk was devoted chlctly touched upon time escapes from tho penitentiary peni-tentiary to point a moral and adorn a to the subject of public utilities but ho tale After the meeting the campaign committee held a meeting and decided to engage Father McGrady the Socialist priest for a Sunday afternoon lecture on October ISth Tho place has not been selected se-lected but one of the theaters will be engaged ii possible Father McGrady will speak at Murray Thursday night |