Show alt I 1 POLITICAL POINTERS I 1 to I 1 state Attorney General barnes bames many friends are working hard and persistently for the re nom mation and reelection election re of that capable lawyer and efficient official next fall front from the observer pub published at cedar city this state in its issue of june alth i has the follows following ni land kind words for the gentleman which wilt will be endorsed in this neck of the woods the upstate up state friends of pir air barnes bames are out in large numbers aRo advocating cating 0 his chis rc nomination and reelection election re they base their claims only incidentally upon mr barnes sterling qualities as a man his whole adoption of utah as his home state slate by financial investment therein and marriage to one of her fair daughters etc they chiefly assert that mr barnes barncs is entitled to and reelection election re because of his able manly and really splendid and creditable administration of the affairs of the office of attorney general during his present and first term it can be said with truth that mr barnes is not lot only entitled to great credit for the collection for the state of more than a million dol lars in inheritance taxes from the estates of deceased nonresident non resident i owners or ol stock in the harriman haniman han iman system of railroads but because or of his genius and masterly knowledge of tile workings of large and extensive enterprises coupled with his leal legal acumen and general i powledge of the law his devotion to duty tenacity of purpose and determination to fully comply with the requirements of his oath of office und and to see to t it that the state is fully protected in every way lie he has been enabled to and stands practically alone entitled to credit for introducing and establishing a system by which railroads and other 1 corporations make the collection of j inheritance taxes froni from non re aident owners of stock in t those hose corporations certain and co comparatively easy other good things could well be said of mr barnes 1 but space here just now is limited 00 alternate AV D sutton lias has remembered the record seve several times tins this week by a live wire illy alie excitement aal continuous scrapping 0 of the bi big guns have afforded afforde cl the fhe gentleman gentle nian much experience peri ence and lie he will return home better posted than ever in tile the great game of polities politics ile he is a strong taft man and it lias has been a source of great satisfaction to him to know that 11 his side has the top hand 00 it ha s been a very strenuous week in chicago for the republican delegates it has been a steady light fight with the taft forces in in control at every turn roosevelt at this whitin is completely eliminated from the fight andl and it is generally conceded that t h a t taft T will be nominated for p president r e si dent t before convention adjourns today there will be no bolt by the roosevelt followers though it is quite possible that an effort will be made to form a third party later on 0 0 the democratic presidential nomination is now in the lime light with wm win J bryan already ni fighting harness it may not prove bove as strenuous as can convention but it will be a battle royal before a democratic nominee for president is decided upon 0 and then will come tile the voice and vote of the common herd to decide who will nill pull down the per year |