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Show It is stated that no less a statesman than Mr. H. E. Booth, prominent among the promotors of the new Smoot paper, will be a candidate for the seat shortly to be evacuated by the Provoite. This will naturally involve the relinquishment by Mr! Booth of his sterling ambition to become United States attorney, which news will be a crushing disappointment to the local bar association. asso-ciation. If there were really any danger of anything any-thing of that nature happening, the local population popula-tion might begin to show a lamentable loss of enthusiasm over the prospective removal of the Provo apostle. Probably there is nothing to be alarmed about. The brethren will probably not be enthusiastically disposed to substitute the folly of electing Mr. Smoot with the joke of selecting Mr. Booth. |