The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-03
POLITICAL.

In the near future the leading men,
bers of the Republican combine will
hold a conference. Just where it will
be called together is yet to be deter
mined. Usually they have met in this
city, but it is now said by some that
Ogden is not a suitable place to hold
a secret confab so some other place,
in all probability Provo, will be chosen.
Mr.. Crane is not over anxious, but
he does not propose to be caught nap
ping when avowed enemies are in the
field after his scalp. Hence he intends
to get his friends together in order
that they may be posted in regard to
the state of affairs.
Some time ago it was reported that
there was to be a determined effort
made on the part of the Tribune to
overthrow Crane and destroy the SUI
premacy of the combine in this county,
and a number of prominent Republi
cans We're approached and found to be
willing to lend a hand.
In order to make the rebellion sue
cess it was necessary to induce the
leading men of the party in the coun-
try precincts TO join the movement.
but it was no go; the men in the coun-
try refused to follow any leader, save
sGlassman and the Standard, and the
campaign against the combine in We
Der came to a sudden end. There may
be plenty of good Republicans in Weber
county who do not favor Crane and
his combine, but they realize that they
will commit political suicide if they
attempt to buck against fate, because
they cannot hope for anything in the
future if they make a fight openly
against the combine and lose. There
fore, knowing the exact condition of
affairs. they will remain quiet.
What has become of the criminal
libel suit against the Standard and
its editor? Appealed to the supreme
court. to be sure; but will it ever be
pressed? With Crane and John Henry
Smith TO back him it is hardly prob
able that this case win ever cause the
editor of the Standard to lose much
sleep.
And what a. strange condition of af-
fairs this brings to light. The Stand
ard made an open and avoWed fight
against the Republican ticket last fall
and boosted when most of the candi-
dates fell by the wayside and claimed
the credit for their defeat. The editor
was arrested, tried and convicted of
slandering one of the leading candi-
dates on the Republican ticket, and
when he required bonds to save him
from going to Jail the chairman of the
Republican territorial committee and
another prominent party man came to
the rescue and became his sureties;
and now that selfSame editor is the
chief lieutenant of that chairman in
this county in MS contest for the NOM
ination for governor. And one of the
principal parties against whom the
editor hurled his worst abuse in last
urged by him Che EDITOR as a candi-
date for the supreme bench on the
Republican state ticket.
Talk about a man getting mad, why,
when a prominent Tribune man calls
the attention of Weber county Repub-
licans to these "outrages" on the
part of the Standard and they refuse
to rebel, mad" is no name for it.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Enason drew only a moderate sized
house at the Grand last evening, al
though it was better than the night
before.
The frost predicted for this section
has not arrived yet and it is to be
hoped that it will strike the breeze
from hades which is blowing in the
east before it reaches here.
Judge A. C. Bishop left for the east
yesterday morning to attend the
Supreme Lodge A. o. u. w. at Chi
cago and the meeting of the National
League OF Republican Clubs at Cleve-
land AT both meetings the judge will
represent Utah.
There seems to be quite a tempest
brewing in postal circles hereabouts.
The retirement of Mr.. Orchard and
several more reported changes are the
result of an investigation on the part
of the department. so it is claimed, but
nothing about the facts can be learned.
1t is said by those who claim to know
what they are talking about that Og-
den is TO be the headquarters of the
Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern
when Mr.. Egan takes charge
as separate receiver. 1t was thought
Portland, orr would be the head
quarters until quite recently, when il
was developed that Ogden would be
the place and that general offices
would be opened here soon after the