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Show By SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE B 'WE GET YOU, STEVE." H Carelessly and nonchalantly, with the romailr Hj I that he had heen urged by a number of prom- H lnent and influential Republicans to become a H I candidate for chief executive of the state, Steve Blr Love tossed his hat in the ring the other day, H where it will remain until the nominating con- Hj vention takes it out and puts Bill Spry's in its H l place. Hi Everybody likes Steve he is a good fellow; Hl he is well known all over the state. Maybe 1 H'ji can be governor some day if ho keeps on bt H n having as well as he has in the past in politics H j and otherwise, for irrespective of his party and H') church affiliations there are many Americans, Hf' Republicans and Democrats who will bo glad to H f honor him after a while. But there is an under-H under-H x current of feeling that it is not time for Steve H; to ask for the nomination for governor. H By every right in the world, Governor Spry H should be re-elected to the position he now holds H and not particularly because he has grown and H broadened and met every question with a fair- H ness and statesmanship that any executive might m be proud of, but because of a record of accom- i plishments upon which he can stand squarely jl and proudly and point to as tho most convincing i ' argument for his re-election. He has not only H' been instrumental in settling important questions Hy of state, but he is so closely Identified with big JU state undertakings such as the capitol building, W the Panama exhibit, the modernizing of the K prison and a hundred other things in which he H is constantly taking an active part, that it would j be a serious matter to fill his place with anj- H ono else at the present time. H' There is not one single important point thai B can be made against his record as a fine execu- i- tivo, and the people of this state will be guilty B of a great injustice to him and to themselves If f they fail to renominate and elect him governor H of Utah for a second term. m That hat of yours, Steve, is a little too new. H Get it mauled around in the dust a little until H tho newness wears off; then throw it in again H and most of your friends will look upon it more H favorably. You are a little too quick on the H trigger, Steve. There will be plenty of time in H four years more, for you yourself know that H there cannot be any reasons for the Republican, H American, Democratic or any other party hi H Utah electing anyone but Spry to the governor- H ship again except the selfish reasons sometimes H engendered by selfish politics. H H The announcement of the death of George B H Holleran, Texas, several days ago was very sad H news for his many friends in Utah and Nevada. H It was at first reported that he had committed H suicide, but later advices state that the coroner's H jury brought in a verdict of death from natuial Hj To his Nevada and Salt Lake friends who H knew him best, it would seem that there must H have been an error in the suicide theory, for H he had been through many ups and downs and H was always the same cheerful chap, no matter Mfl what his financial condition was. He was one H of the big figures in Goldfleld dining the boom H of 1906 and 1907, being a partner of Harry Mac- H Millan, the two of them making a barrel of Hj money out of the Mohawk-Jumbo lease and other H interests they had there. Hj He left Goldf rtd with money and was heav- H ily interested in mining and land deals after the H spectacular career of the firm in the good old B camp. H The Goldfleld papers, in their stoiios of his H death, state that he never wrote tho note supposed Hfl to have been left by him, and that the highly sensational storieB appearing in the Texas papers pa-pers were without foundation. Poor George! He was one of the real ones down in that desert that contained many a noble fellow in the strenuous early days, and hundreds of his friends are shocked and giioved beyond expression to hear of his untimely death. Once again the Swedish Nightingale, Emil Lund, has emitted his strident tones in protest against the finishing of the Nowhouse hotel, the Viking appointee of the city commissioners declaring de-claring that there must be some "wind braces" placed in the steel structure. If that is true, why would it not be a goo'l plan for him to resign as building Inspector and accept a position with the Newhouse Hotel company, com-pany, where he might walk around and through the building constantly talking to himself? He ought to start enough wind braces in that way to guarantee the safety of the structure. As building inspector he is just exactly the kind of one the commission might be expected to appoint, but to judge from the breaks he has made to date the only buildings that could really meet with his approval would be dugouts or ono-story ono-story adobe affairs similar to those inhabited here when the city was begun. As the pure quill in wiseness regarding the elasticity of steel, Norseman Lund has got the experts on the subject lashed to the flag pole oi a thirty-flve-story skyscraper, and Solomon and a tree full of owls were selling platers beside this new discovery of the city solons. |