The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-12

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those who have worked the longest
Then besides this there is always a
feeling of diStruSt against recent
convert. This is especially true among
the ward politicians, who are accus-
toned TO repelling aggressions from
those who are likely to step in and
take the pfunder from them.
Besides, it is rather to be feared
that some of the peculiar elements
most ardent supporters say, HE
would be very likely to be easy on
the boys" But outside of all that.
Duke will make good fight for the
place. He made surprising fight in
the campaign of two years ago. He
is hustler, and his friends are among
the hustlers. What is more. he has
seen several municipal campaigns
and is onto the ropes around pri-
maries and conventions.
1t is a. rather curious thing that one
of the announced competitors of Duke
is another whose party obligations
lay but lightly on his shoulders. 1t is
none other than Jake Moritz. 1t will
be remembered that two years ago
there were certain individuals who es-
tablished magnificent records for
themselves as practical jokers by
pushing forth Moritz for the Liberal
nomination. However, this boom end
ed in smoke, and it was thought the
man who talks constantly in two
languages would be squelched on that
subject. But Moritz had his weather
eye open. He was looking out for
number one, and he, too, jumped the
Democratic ranks when it appeared
that the city was likely to be Repub-
lican. The haste with which the
party gobbled hime and his bar'l and
sent him to the constitutional con-
vention in order to get funds to send
someone else has evidently given him
roseate views of the future. He IS
reaching for the mayoralty plum,
though too modest as yet to blow his
own trumpet and herald abroad the
tidings to an eager city. He may be
given place in the council IN order
to keep the bung of his bar'l we'll
oiled, but his party would not be quite
so foolish as to nominate him for the
mayoralty. In that body he would
make a brilliant record, just as he
did in the legislature of 1892 and the
constitutional convention.
Perhaps the most dangerous rival
of Duke will be Heber NJ
Wells. That young man has been
pushed. to the front with great
assiduity for a number of years. To
get the nomination for mayor now
would lift him into a commading po-
sition from which he could look higher.
But he is likely not to take the NOM
ination. unless the convention should
be held after that at which the state
officers are to be nominated. He is
being quietly groomed as a. black horse
by a considerable element with the
expectation that the fight between
Crane and Thomas will become so Bit
ter that neither can be nominated and
third man must be picked upon.
While Wells could not bring together
the warning factions-as that is a,
herculean task, too great for any man
in the party-still he would do almost
as well as any other available man.
Spencer Clawson is being talked
about considerably. His economy has
secured him a large following, though,
to tell the truth, it has also made a
powerful clique of enemies for him.
President of the Council Mccormick is
also coming in for his share of the
gossip. Richard Macintosh is men
toned. but as the mayorality boom
will conflict with his suffrage senator
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ground.
Colonel Trumbo failed to reach home
yesterday as expected. and as a re-
suit the Republican bosses who are
anxious to make a, coalition with "the
liberator" were exceedingly glum. The
g. o. p. adherents, apparently, can hit
upon no one else within their ranks to
pour oil on the turbulent waters and
scatter sunshine through the gathering
clouds except the colonel. And. by the
way, doesn't this abject surrender of
a crowd of his old enemies indicate
the straits in which the Republican
party of Utah are plunged?
A gentleman in Nashua, n. H, has
'or several years past, been in the
habit of taking Ayers Sarsaprilla to
.one up his system in the spring The
'esult is that he finds himself stronger,
happier. and better than he had been
'or many years before.