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Show ; I! ..AFFAIRS AT PROVO.,. I $& Matters Political and Otherwise ? in Utah County. e J Special Correspondence to The Tribune. -stkIIOVO. May 21. The political at- 13 mosphcrc licroabout linfl soinc-! soinc-! f what cleared up. Since my last, the county committee Has met. clone Us work unci adjourned. Hon. Eph Homer was elected county chair man by a vote oC twenty. Joseph Dunn receiving four and N. C. Laraen three ! votes. The olecllon of Mr. Homer slvcs j?en-cral j?en-cral satisfaction except to a few, and I that, of course, is always to bo expeet- Cd. Bat in the main everybody seems Lj to bo satisfied with the choice. Mr. Ho- M mcr has had some experience in the A line of work he will have to lake up in a short time. In fact, it ousht 'o be i commenced at once, an there Jh much to yl do. Mr. Homer is an aggressive mnn, a i thorough Republican and willing at all I times to do all In his power for the good I of the party. It is safe to s-iy that I Mr. Homer will ho found dolus his 9 level best to bring all the members of H the party together for the good of the I cause, and will not tolerate the idea I .that any one not agreeing with aim (or 1 any one else) must be read out of the 1 party. He has loo much good sense for anything of that kind. It in believed R that he stands for an open Held and fair I (play to all. without the dictation of any I one, until after the conventions are held. Then, when the ticket is made, I everybody ought to go in with a will and elect the ticket. This Is wfiat is said of Mr. Homer, and which "Republican" "Repub-lican" haB from the beginning urged as being the only safe. policy to pursue. The matter of the secretary of the committee was left for the chairman to fill at his pleasure. Who his choice is has not been made known, at least not publicly, as yet. Several. have been )nontloned aa probable -mnncrs, but I this will bo announced in cIup time. I Whoever receives the appointment will I have plenty to do, ami 'a hard position to mi. I u - I At present it seems protty well un- I derstood that Judge Booth will bo rc- I nominated. Still there are whisper- I lngs of a new deal when the convention I meets. It Is said that there arc several I around the courthouse who lake of- I fense at what was said by "Repub lican," and think it is a shameful thing to have their little schemes exposed, or if that is too harsh, that the little schemes thev have launched should so I early in the game be made manifest to the people. But they must remember that if slates are made by a few they may he broken by many. At a meeting of the county committee, commit-tee, to show the committee that thero was nothing In the assertion made to the effect that the gentlemen and the chairman had at last come to an understanding, under-standing, that they were "ag'in" ono another, a vote of thanks was moved to the retiring chairman. The retiring chairman has made a good ofneer, and until he became so wrapped up with a couple of individuals that 'no one else's opinion was worth anything, he had the good will of the party; but, as with all chairmen, he could not expect to always have the good Avlll of everybody and keep his job. Tils remarks concerning what had been done by the trust in redeeming Lhe county from the Democrats was ill-advised and untimely, as he knows as well as any person living that the county vvas ATenchcd from the. enemy when there was neither machine, ring, nor any combine, except the combined and united efforts of the whole party, and that without that united effort his labors la-bors would have been fruitless. Xo o-io wishes to take from him any honor-that honor-that is due him, ;uh1 It may be that ho is glad that he belonged to lhe trust" He should be. as they took good care or him. and he should feel thankful which no doubt he Is, from the expressions expres-sions made. Still, when he claims that this trust should receive all the credit for the "wrenching,"" aa he calls it, of the county from the Democrats, he must have mude a slip of the tongue as he certainly knows that at. the time tho victory was Avon the trust did not exist. The fact is, we Avon because of the absence of any trust.. After the first victory, and the machine began operations opera-tions In the next city election, we lost again. Again, at the last county election elec-tion (the next election) the county was held In the Republican column from the fact that we liad a candidate fm- t s Senator, and it was Avell known that If JlllM Ave lost the election in this county Ave Wtfi'e beaten for the Scnatorshlp; and -u;hlle there Avas a lot of dissatisfaction 1 11 was held by everybody that we must elect our ticket to insure the Scnator- ship to us. At the next election, however, things avcto different, us I have said before. JlllH and we lost because of the trust that he JlllH so much admires. B There is a rumor in circulation to the effect that it Is possible that Ave may 1 nnve a political paper started ere long, to be run on party lines, as an Indepen-dent Indepen-dent Journal. It Is impossible to verify thltj report, but it haa been whispered for sometime. fllllfl . , J1 ls sa,d by Parties avJio ha-e been through the State of late that there la a strong feeling that Utah countv. having the U. S. Senator and several appointive officers. Is unfair in asking for a place on the Stale ticket, and that there has been effect-d a combi-nation combi-nation against Utah county being itn-relented itn-relented on tho stale ticket. But Utah county will be In the. race just the same. H There Is a feeling In some quarters that the ladies are going to ask for roC-ognltion roC-ognltion on the ticket this year; and" it IJM has been suggested that the ladies I1M would like to see one of their number on the Legislative ticket. Mrs. Fauny Stewart has been mentioned as a prob-able prob-able candidate. It is further stated that the ladles have their eyes on some of the county ollices, which thev believe they may bo able to capture In'th con- line Democrats in the county are in a demoralized condition- Thee are at 5ca on all matters political. 'j"t is said they arc Avaltlng until the State con-veutlon con-veutlon Is held before anything will be done at allvlt Is bclleAvd by manv that the JudgfcMhip for this district" avIH either go to Judge J. B. MJlner, M. M. Jvellogg or Andrew Morgan, Avhllc the District Attorneyship avIH either fall to fJrant Bugley or M. M, "Warner, with the chance very much hi favor of Bag-ley. Bag-ley. a It is not thought that Mr. AYar-ner AYar-ner is staunch enough a Democrat tat he has a very strong liking for IJJB Rooejivelt, 3Y. D, Poberts Is talked oi " for the position of County Commissioner Commission-er from Provo. o o , Up to the present writing there has been no contest proceeding begun against Counselor Bott. After the effort ef-fort of the organ to adjust matters, and the opinion given, people have been Avonderlng Avhen the contest Avould be started. But It's dollars to doughnuts that It will never be instituted. What could be accomplished by it? Mayor Roylance, they say. would be the happiest man on earth If ho should by a chance receive the nomination for Governor. Ills friends, however, behove be-hove thai he started his boom too early, and will miss the game. Still. It Is aa-serted aa-serted that ho Is making strenuous efforts ef-forts among his farmer friends. c V. E. Rydalch, is is said, is making a desperate effort to capture the nomination nomi-nation for District Attorney, and will, It Is said, make the race of his life, as he belleve3 he can beat any man the Republicans may put up. He huo thought so before and been beaten, but he Avants to make another trial. Of course, they are trying to keep It quiet, but well-laid plans, they say, haA'c been made in this direction. . SeA'eral things have happened of late tending to show the way the Avind is blowing. Matters are now to be adjusted ad-justed In a Avay to bring harmony and peace to the parly, with all Indications of a grand -Jctory this year. "Republican" "Repub-lican" predicts that the boys will all be in the harness with their fighting clothes on, and the proposition ad-o-cated by a feAv that every one who did not agree with certain gentlemen should be read out of the party, avIU be abandoned, aban-doned, and the schemes concocted by certain people avIU fall to the ground unnoticed, and that President Roose-A'elt Roose-A'elt will receive ono of the largest majorities ma-jorities ever given any one in this county. The bolt affair Is in statu quo. Chairman Chair-man DeMolsey has resigned! Mr. Homer Ho-mer was elected to succeed him. Joseph Jo-seph T. Farrer has resigned as Avard committeeman from the First Avard. and D. H. Thomas follows In his shoes. The postmaster has gone to St. Louis. The organ ls now loud In its praise of the county infirmary and the management manage-ment of the same. Senator Smoot has returned homo, and it Is believed he may exert a strong Influence for good. These are some of the events of the past Avcek in political circles. More anon. REPUBLICAN. |