Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 2 | Political Potpie

E l .. ; POL8T1CAL POTPIE I 'JSl'M--)1 -'' 'ccs have been sent out by Chair- M'l' 1 vnn Eldredgo of the church Republican jjf, ' bounty central commit too- for a meeting ijrtili ! - of tho committee on Thursday, Scp- fclliPl V- f ember 1, for the purpose of fixing tho SHlli I'M (late for tho primaries to select dole-j Sjjnfl'li ares to the State convention and to 'Fulfill' 1 a'so f'Sl'uss iattcrs pertaining to the TntM' j ' i fjampaign. At this meeting the. date I i , for tho county convention will be de- i.wf'l 5 ! aided upon. It probably will be held L4 " i about October 1. The date for holding E iUjlf j ia primaries to select delegates to the P 1M j j ; 1 county convention will also bo decided ' ra'. 1 .upon. -;' ii TC t ' :V. vfi ; ' : ' . Saj-s the Ogden Tournal: "Harry Mv ' . ' .T. Robinson, editor of tho Bingham Bulletin Bul-letin and member of the last legislature, legisla-ture, is tho Inst Salt Lake county man to jump into the scrimmage for tno Ro publican nomination for attornov-gen-oral. Prolfy soon somebody will leave the bars down and every Republican in Salt Lake county will be out for a Stnlo ollice." Ktank B. Stephens has been mentioned men-tioned as a candidate for the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for Congressman, says the Provo Democrat. While Mr. Stephens has riot pushed himself for tho candidacy, it is given out by his friends that he will accept the position. Mr. Stephens has a host of friends who aro anxious that ho accept the nomination, nomina-tion, and judging from 1he past record of Mr. Stephens, ho would undoubtedly 'm.'jke a strong man for tho position as well as run well on his ticket. t "Word has in somo way reached Provo," Pro-vo," said the Provo Democrat, "that Reed Smoot will leave Europo for homo on August 22. It is slated on tile streets hero that tho political tangle is assuming such complications that Smoot is needed immediately to untangle nnd straighten out tho kinks. In other words, tho bunch is of the' opinion thai Apostle Smoot can do more good hero iust now than in Russia.. Consequently ho is ordered home." All' Cole of Cache county is mentioned men-tioned as a probable candidate for tho legislature on tho church Republican ticket. It is said that Uncle Jesse Knight of Provo declines to permit his name to bo used in connection with tho gubernatorial guber-natorial raco by tho church Democratic Stare convention. But lot the whisper bo uttered, ".lesse. thou art tho elect, thou art called." and .lesse will forget everything that; ho has said about being be-ing a candidate.