The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-25

The campaign for the mayoraIty is
still on. Harry Duke is letting no
chances slip 10y because of inaction.
He Is too old a bird in politics, and
especially those of this city, to be
guilty Of such q piece of very bad
management. In fact. his boom is
waxing every day. He has already
started his friends to talking, and his
name can be heard in every place
where politicians Of the local stripe
do roost. Every qualification which
Harry ever had, or imagined he had
forth Office has been brought TO the
IA, while his recent conversion to
the Republican faith has been kept IN
the background. The old die-in-the-
last-ditch Liberals are beginning to
rally around him and are carrying the
war for him into Denmark His boom
Is well started and seems destined to
grow nightly in the coming month
or so. But it is rather a dangerous
thing TO start booming a candidate
too soon. The shores of the political
sea are strewn with busted" booms,
started too previously.
Wells Coming Forward.
Heber II. Wells is now coming to
the front with more prominence as a
mayoralty candidate. His most en-
thusiastic champions have long been
hauboring a desire TO groom him as a
dark horse to take advantage of the
fight between the Tribune crowd and
the Crane-Trumbo alliance. Now,
however, they are beginning to see
their case is hopeless. The fight be-
tween the two heavy factions is more
than likely to be settled in favor of
Crane, though the Frank Cannon
Tribune combination may capture
one senat0rship. Thomas stands but
little chance WeIss chances are
, great deal better for the mayoralty
y than for the governorship. He was
once nominated for the former Office
and has often been spoken of since
that time. The enemies of Harry
Duke, seenting the battle from afar.
are anxious to find some man on
whom they can combine. He must
be strong and such as to attract the
best element of the party.
Not OF Sufficient CALDER.
Wells would do this. There is a
distinct fear that Harry Duke is not
of sufficient calibre to bear the
burdens that viii he laid on the
shoulders of the next mayor. The Of
nee III require the ablest of finan-
cieeA While both Wells and Duke
naFW'5abbled in politics to a great ex-
telE, still Wells has been freer than
Duke and he's made a good reputa-
ton among the business men for sta
bilii. and carefulness. He would be
likely o draw 20 himself the support
OF almost the entire anti-Lfberal wing
of the party, besides the safe element
Of the other side and the black Re-
publican element which can see no
good in recent converts.
Jake Moritz Won't Take 1t,
The politicians will be surprised to
learn that Jake Moritz will have
nothing to do with the mayoraltv.
There was time when Jake was be-
ing mentioned with fiattering fire.
auency by a certain element. But
with lofty patriotism, he has nut
the temptation from him He talked
quite freely on the political situation
yesterday, and said some things of
which some Of our more certain pol
/iticiars may we'll take heed Z am
not in for the mayors Office" he said
emphatically, nor for any other Of
flee. 1t requires a better man than me
for mayor. 1t wants a man who can
mayor is more important than the
governor in this election. We want
the best kind of a financier We're
going to get into trouble If we have
Mt safe man. The Republicans
want to put UP their best man, and
hell win. If they don't, and the
Democrats put up the best man,
they'll win. The people want TO have
their affairs properly attended TO-"
6 Jake on Prohibition.
81 see the prohibitionists are begin
ming to get ready to make it warm"
he continued. Il don't know what
they're going to do, but I guess they
are just about as strong in the terri
S.ory as Icy were in the constitutional |
ccGSention, and there we had a big
majority against them. I am not !
afraid"
Then he branched off on the guber-
material situation. 81 dom know who /
IS going to get there" he said. |
There's going to be some peculiar pol |
ttics in Utah this year; mighty pecu-
liar, and I want to tell you there amt |
any man what's got a string on any /
of the offices. You can't tell how this |
things going to come out until after |
the nominating convention is over"
Then Jake walked off, leaving the |
astonished crowd to digest his large |
dose OF political wisdom.
James Great Speech.
''Tll give you one on w. F. James,"
said q Republican politician yesterday,
''if you'll promise not to give my
name. The joke is too good to keep.
You know James went into the consti-
tutional convention all loaded for bear.
He had the Gubernatorial bee buzzing
in his bonnet and he wanted to be dead
sure To fix himself in the eyes of all
good Republicans. You remember that
during the sessions he made several
ambitious speeches. 1t appears that
the Tribune man did not give him
sufficient prominence. He longed for
more glory; so he went to that paper
and got a promise to run one of his
speeches in full. Then he had a, tran
script made of the speech and fur
Wished it TO the Tribune. Well. when
Nat speech came out you should have
81 James friends. When they looked
Mer> the ridicuiously long and involved
feDtences and the general makeup of
She speech they came to the conclusion
1af the Trib. had it in for James and
was taking thus method OF holding him
up to 4idicule. Several of them made
TO the paper and If was
necessary to convince them that James
himself had furnished the copy. These
ardent admirers have since been doing
a deal of thinking, and somehow az.
other they don't entnuse as much a.
they did when James is mentioned in
connection with The crox,o,-,, o,.e1,;,, 4