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Show AMONG THE POLITICIANS' 4- T HHHIHMmHlHlhft I I I I 1 I 1 I I 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 n 1 1 Z Senator Thomtiu Kearn3 has nothing but kind words for the Democratic nominee for Vice-President. He Is in-tlmatelj in-tlmatelj acquainted with Mr. Davis, and has much to say of the venerable Senator's hospitality. "I was never more royally entertained enter-tained by anyone," sold Senator Koarns, "than I have been on several occasions by ex-Senator Henry G. Davis. He Is as fine an old gentleman as 1 evor knew. Mrs. Kearns and T have most pleasant recollection of visits to the Davis home at Elklns, W. Va., and his neighbors speak of him In the highest terms. He Is a grand old man, as straight as an arrow, and there Is no one who would take him to be more than CO years of age, although he Is Sl Former Senator' Davis Is largely interested in-terested in mining In West Virginia with R. C. Kerens of St. Louis, and It Is through business matters that Senator Sena-tor Kearns first became intimately acquainted ac-quainted with the Democratic nominee. "The Republican Stale convention to bo held In Salt Lake on Thursday. August 25, promises to be one of the largest, If not tho largest, ever held in Utnh. Republicans feel that there is not a doubt of a great party victory next fall, and this fact has brought Into In-to the Held an unusually large number of candidates. These candidates are calling Into action all their forces, feeling feel-ing that the real light must be for the nomination. They have no doubt that If nominated they will be elected. This activity promises to Involve every Republican Influence in the State and there is every reason to expect an unprecedented attendance. From this time the search for support sup-port will reach out Into every county and to every election precinct. Even' the voters of San Juan, the faraway far-away f-ounty which has fewer voles than some election precincts pre-cincts In Salt Lake City, who seldom see a real live politician from other parts of the State, will be labored with. No one will he Ignored. 0 The Democratic State convention will not be held until a week or more after the Republican ticket Is in the field. At least this has been the custom and there is no intention of the leaders of the Democracy to ignore the precedent. It Is Intended to wait until It may be seen whether the Republicans make a mistake, and. If they do, to profit by it. At this time there' are but two active ac-tive candidates In the field for the Democratic nomination for Governor They are Mayor W. M. Roylance of Provo and Attorney James II. Moyle of Salt Lake. At one time Aqulla Nehe-ker, Nehe-ker, the Logan statesman, was regarded regard-ed as a candidate but he Is quoted us saying he will nl be . before the convention. con-vention. MaJ. R. W. Young, also, was talked of but he declined to make the race. A report was circulated Monday that a close friend io the. Major had said he would accept the nomination if tendered, tend-ered, but this was denied by that friend, and the Major being out of the city, could not be reached for a statement. state-ment. Those who know him best, however, how-ever, say he has fully considered the matter and that he will not make the race. Moyle, at this time, seems to be the more popular of the candidates. He made the race four years ago and his supporters feel that he should be given another nomlnatlon- m t Congressman Joseph Howell has been spending several days in the city with his daughter, and he was conferring with the politicians a. great part of Monday. He says there Is little doing In a political way in Cache county at this time. Congressman Howell has no opposition opposi-tion for ronomlnation and it Is not thought at all likely that he shall have. If renominated he expects to begin a thorough canvass of the State about October 1. Conditions may cause him to, begin his speech-making" campaign earlier, but he now feels that an earlier ear-lier date than October 1 will not he necessary. "There is no doubt of Republican success In Utah," said the Congressman, Congress-man, "and 1 do not thlhk there Is a probability to the defeat of the National Na-tional ticket. The candidates are both substantial men and they are popular. Here In Utah. If we take the speeches made by the Democrats In the last two campaigns, and the editorials from the Democratic newspapers, these will make all the arguments against Parker that will be necessary. There Is little difference between Parker and Cleveland, Cleve-land, and the arguments against the former President will apply almost equally to Judge Parker. "I really do not see how Senator Cannon can support that platform. It contains about everything that he objected ob-jected to when he bolted the St. Louis convention In 1895 and It is difficult to understand how he and other leaders of the Democracy will reconcile their views of the last general election with the provisions of this year's platform." Aaron Farr. one of Ogden's best known Democrats, who waa a member of the constitutional convention,' waa in the city Monday. a i Charles D. Rooklldge. the hustling young mining man. has announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination nomi-nation for treasurer of Salt Lake county. coun-ty. Ml. Pleasant Pyramid: John Knud-sen Knud-sen of Clear Creek will enter the race for the nomination for Sheriff on the Republican ticket. James F. Jensen of Mt. Pleasant Is being mentioned men-tioned by his friends In connection with the nomination by the Republican convention con-vention for County Commissioner. W. E. White of this city la also mentioned in connection with the County Attorney's office on tho Democratic Demo-cratic ticket. County. Clerk Ellason of Moroni is out for l'enomlna-tlon l'enomlna-tlon and has the support of his home town solid. ' George Chtlsten-sen Chtlsten-sen of this city is being utged by friends to make a race for the County Attorneyship on the Democratic ticket and his name has appeared In the paper pa-per several times In that connection. Mr. Christensen Is not a candidate for that or any other office Just at present, a Samuel Newhouw, president of the Young Men's Democratic club, lf-ft for Europe Monday. Before going lie did n handsome thing by hl.v club which the members are hilarious about. A committee asked President New-house New-house to provide quarter? for the club, and he promptly Instructed thorn to engage five rooms in the Atlas block ,-ond. furnish th&m at hia expense. Ho( afterward directed that furniture bo purchased for the clubrooms to the valuo of $2000. A week ago Mr. Nowhouse presented the club his check for $1000. His last liberal neb hae given him a warm spot in tho heart of every member, and the talk that Mr. Ncwhouse may become be-come a candidate for the United States Senate, started several weeks ago, has been revived. The Young Men'p Democratic club-rooms club-rooms will be made Joint headquarters for the Suite, County nnd City Democratic Demo-cratic commltteer. mm Two new names lmve been entered In the list of the possibilities for the Republican) nomination) for Governor, and the politicians are beginning to revise their guesses. Tho new nainen are Jesse M. Smith of Davly countv and Thomas R. Cutler of Salt Lake. Mr. Smith Is the well-known Sheep Commissioner and is one of the most active Republicans In. the State. He has a very wide personal acquaintance throughout Utah, Is a. gentleman of high character, nnd it Is conceded that if he conclude to make a fight for tho nomination he will he a wtrong candl-t candl-t date. Thomas R. Culler Is tho vice-president and general manager for the Utah Sugar company. HIp headquarter? are at Lehi and he Is generally regarded as a Utnh county matx While he has not formally announced his candidacy, his name is freely discussed dis-cussed nnd there Is a growing feeling that lie will he entered in tho race- within with-in a few days. Mr. Cutler hns a reputation np a business man that Is National. He has so thoroughly Informed himself on the sugar question that when the Cuban reciprocity measinc- was under consideration consid-eration by Congress the President had Mr. Culler to appear before the committee com-mittee and give hln vlewp on this Important Im-portant measure. It 19 said that he was so conversant with the question that his opinions carried great weight. A friend to Mr. Cutler, discussing his probable candidacy. Insisted that his nomination and election would caiie Utah to take higher rank In the business busi-ness world because of Mr. Cutler's well-known well-known abilities. f Thomas Smith, a prominent Logan Republican, is a candidate for Sheriff of Cache county. Joseph Gilbert, editor of tho Crisis, who has been speaking in the southern south-ern part of the State for the Socialist party, returned to Salt Lake yesterday. He i?ays that he had fine audiences In the mining camps, bub that the farmer." farm-er." are too busy harvesting their hay to pay much attention to politics. - Senator Simon Bamberger has returned re-turned from St. Louis, where lie represented rep-resented Utah n a member of the resolutions committee at the Democratic Democrat-ic convention. The Senator was one of the- prominent promi-nent figures at the convention and was often quoted by the metropolitan newspapers. news-papers. He expresses great satisfaction satisfac-tion at the work of the convention and says he believes the party Is united and will he victorious. " . Thomas Smoot, one of Cache county's best-known. Republican political workers. work-ers. Is being dhvussed as? a very available avail-able candidate for Representative from that county. t a A great crowd Is expected tit Caldc-r's park Saturday on the ooufislon pf the Young Men's Republican, club outing. The races and other air usementy' thus far planned are to be high grade. Many thousand tickets have already been sold and the club expects- to entertain enter-tain one of the largest assemblages of the season. - The Young Men's Democratic club If endeavoring to secure a National speaker speak-er for Its outing at Saltair August I. Possibly William Jennings Bryan will be Induced to come. National Committeeman Peery. Slate Chairman Frank Cannon and State Senator Sen-ator Simon Bamberger wc-re called "the big three from Utah" by the newspaper artists. On several occasions they were "ynap-shot" in a group, the most characteristic char-acteristic pictures appearing In. the St. Louis Republic and the Buffalo Courier. "That telegram which Henry Peery, Democratic National Committeeman, sent to the Herald." said a Democratic Democrat-ic leader, "was the most remarkable thing of the campaign. Did you read It? Well, here It Is. The last part, especially. Is commended' to the dear people." The part referred to by the Democrat' Demo-crat' was: "Can absolutely promise exceptionally ex-ceptionally generous? and liberal treatment treat-ment in the distribution of rewards. By your works you shall be Judged." o Cache county has quite a large number num-ber of aspirants for the Legislature. Among thos-e who desire to be elected to the House of Representatives on the Republican ticket are: W. H. Maughn, Jr., Wellovllle; Lorenzo Hansen, Thomas Smoot, Robert Murdock and D. R. Roberts, Rob-erts, of Logan, T. II. Merrill, of Richmond; Rich-mond; Joseph A. Smith, of Providence, and Albert Law, of Paradise. For Sheriff Thomas Smith of Logan Ij mentioned; for County Commissioners, Commission-ers, Joseph Crawford of Logan and BerJ. Hendricks? of Lswlston; for County Clerk, J. N. Larson to succeed himself; for Assessor, James Richardson Richard-son of Smithfield. On the Democratic side Jerry Blair is a candidate for the Legislature and Judge Hart and District Attorney Neh-eker Neh-eker to succeed to the offices which they now hold. Mrs. LUlle R. Pardee, who was prominently prom-inently identified with the Republican women of Utah In the early days of Statehood, has returned to Salt Lake after a long absence in the East, and I visiting friends' here for the- summer. Mrs, Pardee wan a member of the committee com-mittee of women which' appeared before be-fore the Constitutional convention in behalf of euffrage for women, was secretary sec-retary of the Republican, State central committee during the first State campaign cam-paign and was secretary of the fW State- Senate. u |
