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Show I AMONG THE POLITICIANS A. A 1 1 1 1 I i IIIIJlll.lll-lXt.iill i 1 111 1111111111111 111 11 1111 L MI7TT1IIIH! r J 1 I T I TT r T T T.I D. -V. W. COOK, accompanied by hli? family, was In tho city from Mllford Friday, returning home last evening. Dr. Cook is chairman chair-man of the Republican committee of Beaver county and i one of Utah's most enterprising citizens. He moved to Mllford from Frisco In April of this year and is now the Eurgeon for tho Majestic and the Monarch mining companies, com-panies, assistant surgeon for the San Pedro and a member of the State Board of Pharmacy. "Tho Republican outlook In Southern Utah is very bright, indeed," said the Doctor. "With such a National ticket as wo now have, I feel we s-hall not only hold our own In that part of the State, but will Increase our majority in Beaver countv. In the last election we cdrried the county by 100. electing Win. H. Biirrott to tho legislature. Beaver county will be Represented in the Legislature by a Republican again next winter. "Mr. Barrett will not be a candidate for re-election. He sustained a paralytic para-lytic Btroke and haR moved with his family to Provo. Our county convention conven-tion will probnbly be held about September Sep-tember 15th, although no date has been agreed on yet. It 1h probable that it will be hold either at Mllford or at Beaver. Six years ago it was held at Mlnersvllie; four years ago at Beaver, and two years later at Beaver." n T. W. O'Donnell, who is serving his first term as County Attorney of Uintah county, was in the city from Vernal, Friday. Mr. O'Donnell is agent for tho American Amer-ican Asphalt association of St. Louis. a Including Utah's delegation to the St. Louis convention, about thirty persons-left persons-left Friday forenoon for the Demo-( cratlc National convention. Former Senator Joseph L. Rawlins, who has been suffering from an attack at-tack of typhoid fever since the Democratic Demo-cratic State convention, was unable to accompany the delegation. Allen L. Lovoy will take Senator Rawlins' seat with the delegation, he being the first alternate. Simon Bamberger will represent rep-resent Senator Rawlins on the committee commit-tee on resolutions, The party w 111 travel over the Oregon , Short Line and the Union Pacific. A special sleeper was placed at the dis-posal dis-posal of the Utahans. Senator A. B. Lewis of the Eleventh Senatorial district, composed" of Beaver, Iron. Washington and Kane counties, is now in New York, on a business mission. mis-sion. He Is expected here in a couple of weeks. There will bo no election in the Eleventh district next fall, Senator Lewis being a hold over. n e o Don B. Colton. Republican member of Ihe last Legislature from Uintah countv, coun-tv, is now studying law at Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is believed Mr. Colton will become a candidate for re-nomlna-tion. on his return home in the fall. John II. Reader, a prominent sheepman sheep-man of Uintah county, may also become be-come a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket. c a George Billings probably will bo nominated by Uintah county Democrats for Representative. Abner Lowry, one of the San Pete county Republicans who does things, is here from Manti, mixing with the politicians. poli-ticians. Wm. Precce, Democratic Sheriff of Uintah county, visited his brother, Councilman Preece, Friday forenoon. Sheriff Preece is now serving his third term, and Is a popular gentleman. n Two well-known Beaver county Republicans Re-publicans are already in the field for the Republican nomination for the Legislature. Leg-islature. They are Dr. W. W. Cook, present county chairman, and Peter Martin, both of Mllford. i Governor Hcber M. Wells has returned re-turned from his fishing excursion. National Chairman George B. Cortel-you Cortel-you Is reported to have requested National Na-tional Committeeman Harry S. New of Indiana, to accept the vlce-chalrman-shlp. Captain New served as a member of the National executive committee during dur-ing the campaign of 1900, and practically practical-ly had charge of the Chicago headquarters. head-quarters. Captain New has not expressed ex-pressed Avllllngness to accept the vlce-chalrmanshlp. vlce-chalrmanshlp. but he Is urged to do so by Senator Fairbanks. Councilman A. F. Barnes will attend the Democratic National convention as proxy for Mrs. E. J. Roundy, and Councilman Coun-cilman Hartensteln has Mrs. Smith's credentials. In this respect these Coun-cllmen Coun-cllmen have the lead of the other members mem-bers who are journeying to St. Louis. b Assistant Attorney-General W. R. White, accompanied by his wife, left Friday for a visit to Wlnthrop, Me. They will visit the Louisiana Purchase exposition en route, and- will be away from home about a month. 1 V Most of the contests In the St. Louis convontion will be brought by the friends of W. R. Hearst. It is claimed that the newspaperman was swindled in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and Maine. , c Tho Republican campaign book will not be Issued until after the Democratic Democrat-ic convention. The book is being held open to enlarge on the trust question, should the Democrats treat the matter differently from that anticipated by the Republican campaign managers. a President Roosevelt has advised National Na-tional Chairman Cortelyou to take a vacation before he enters actively into the work of the campaign. Unless developments of the campaign seem to warrant it, headquarters will not be opened by the National Republican Repub-lican committee at San Francisco, as predicted fiome time ago. Chairman Cortelyou will pursue the policy inaugurated by Senator Hanna, and conduct headquarters both from New York and Chicago. These will bo opened about August 1. National Delegate Joe Monson of Logan, who it was feared would not be able to attend tho convention because be-cause of illness, has recovered and will leave for St. Louis today. Since Judge George Gray, who was 'indorsed for President by tho Deloware delegates to the Democratic convention, conven-tion, has declared ho will not be a candidate, and has expressed desire that Cleveland be nominated, the former for-mer President's boom has been given new force. Many of the groat Democratic newspaper news-paper ixa nayr; txtgia Cloyiand'A iHmi.tt.tj i.tjj.u 1 t'u urn nomination, and come of the best politicians poli-ticians expect the convention, to be stampeded for him. It is probable the nomination of Roosevelt and Fairbanks will not be formally ratified In Salt Lake City for several weeks; but some local sentiment senti-ment favors a ratification on the occasion oc-casion of the Young Men's Republican club outing at Calder's park on the lGth Inst. Tho Young Men'?? Democratic club may ratify the Democratic nomination next Friday night. "We will," said one, "if tho convention conven-tion does not make a ticket It will be Improper to ratify." ; - r E. J. Kcnms of Gunnison, a member of the State Board of Sheep Commissioners, Commis-sioners, has Just returned from a trip to Idaho. Mr. Kcarns says ho Is not a candidate for any office that the sheep commissloncrshlp gives him all the political concern he cares to feel. He says Idaho Republicans are well pleased with the National candidates, and count on giving the ticket a big majority next fall. Henry Kearna of Gunnison, one of Sanpete county's most substantial citizens, citi-zens, is in the city, and is stopping at the Cullen. "No, I am not a relative to Senator Kearns," said he, "though our ancestors ances-tors came from the same county In Ireland." Asked concerning the politclal outlook out-look in the Seventh Judicial district, Mr. Kearns said that the prospects were growing bettor every day. "While some bitterness grew out of the contest con-test for tho District Judgeship, the conditions are growing normal, and I do not believe the contest will affect general results. Judge Johnson, who was defeated for renomlnallon, Is one of Utah's stalwart Republicans, and his defeat, so far as it 1b in his power to prevent, will have no bearing on the results of the elections. "Sanpete county Republicans are very enthusiastic over the nomination of Roosevelt and Fairbanks, and I have no doubt that the county will continue to be the banner Republican county of Utah." .. Politics in Sanpete county are about as warm as In nny section of the State. The candidates are numerous for both county and legislative nominations. Among the names discussed for the Legislature are Parley Christiansen of Mnyiield, William Metcnlf, Henry Rob-bins, Rob-bins, W. H. Grlbble. Henry Kearns, Box Bobbins and Tom Kearns of Gunnison, Gun-nison, F. C. Jensen of ML Pleasant, Peter Deerlng of Manti and John Bartholomew Bar-tholomew of Fayette. Hon. T. C. Calllster, County Clerk of Millard county, left for Fillmore last evening, after spending several days In the city. He Is of the opinion that Hon. Orvllle Thompson of Sclpio will receive tho nomination for member of the Legislature from tho Nineteenth district, and that he will be elected beyond be-yond the peradventure of a doubt, the county being safely Republican by about 150 votes. |
