The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-09

THE Charlie Crane men have been
wondering ever since the convention
what power it was that turned the
solid delegation from Cache against
their candidate and caused it to go
for Wells and Thomas. Tt had been
thought that Cache would be all right
In Cranes figures the day before the
convention he claimed twenty-five OF
the thirty delegates from Cache. In
fact. I'D to within two weeks before
the convention the sheep kings assur-
ances from the granary of the north
had been of the most fattering ma
ture and he had no doubt ne was
solid.
IN some mysterious way a combina-
tion was made between Hammond and
Thomas and a number of. the delegates
turned to Wells They swooped down
on the convention and MADE things
lively. They worked for Wells and
probably did more than. any other ele-
gnent to turn the tide of the country
members towards him. 1t was the re-
port that Cache was solidly against
him that first made Cranes forces
wITer- w. ~ ,o..n
The week before the Republican
estate convention Herald reporter was
Z spending a week in Logan on a Yaca-
E.aon While he was there one of the
MAINLY with whom he was staying re
marked: Il see Chief Devine of your
city is up here to buy q team of
horses. They tell me he is getting
around at a lively rate. He has been
travelling over the country hiring liv-
cry stable rigs and seeing all the towns
~ the valley. 1t seems to me he
FNKould be able to get a good span of
horses without doing so much travel
ing about"
It is true that Chief Devine did do
a great deal of travelling while up in
Cache county ostensibly for the pur-
pose of purchasing a span Of horses
such as had been authorized by the
city council. He spent five days there
the week before the convention and
was very active, travelling necessarily
and rolling up q. fine bill for hotel ex-
penses and livery bills. He was around
with the prominent politicians and is
known to have had a talk with Ham
mond and with delegates to the state
convention. The fact that Devine is
aNTribune man; that he has not yet
fully retired from politics, but is keep
ing in touch with them as far as pos
sible, and the result in the convention,
all go together and bring light where
before there was a mystery.
Merely Tribune Crowd.
Apropos of this, the Crane men,
Oquirrh club, Brown men and various
others are beginning now to realize
that in nominating Wells they were
terribly buncoed. The country MEM
bers. too, viii learn before the end of
the campaign that it takes an under
standing of,conditions before they can
make harmony in the party. The
country members came to the city with
an idea that there was q serious war
between Crane and the Tribune, and
a further idea that the only way to
patch up differences would be to NOM
mate a man who would be suitable
~ both factions, without favoring
either of them
-, '7>e Tribune ring was wise in its day
esld generation. 1t pushed Heber NJ.
F-Fells as the compromise candidate.
Fred Leonard, the chief booster of the
Tribune, took the innocent country
members aside and told them that the
only way to get harmony would be
Il nominate Wells. They bit. They
nominated Wells for harmony. 1t was
all right with the Tribune. It's man
had to be put in a. the head of the
ticket. OF course there could be en-
dorsement. Fred Leonard had done a
good piece of boosting for his paper
and was duly rewarded for it.
All 1t Wanted.
Then the Tribune proceeded to make
its grip absolutely secure. 1t buncoed |
the country members again by MAX |
ing them believe that George NJ. Can
non would be a good compromise can
didate for territorial chairman. Can
non was duly elected. Once more the |
Tribune gang had its grip on the peo-
pie What more could it want than |
it got? Its candidate member of the |
ring, for the supreme bench was nom
irated. Juoge Zane is at the head of |
the roost- He is the only really strong |
character on the judicial ticket, and /
will rule the bench. It's candidate for
governor second choice-its candidate |
for secretary of state. and its candi- I
date for the superintendent Of public |
instruction have been put on the |
ticket il has the territorial committee.
with an executive committee of its |
orvA choice. The Tribune is indeed,
81 the bike"
Governor Budd of California rides a
bike. But then, you know. Governor
Budd is not dignified enough for Utah
Quotation Was Justified.
The Herald on Saturday quoted Mr.
P H Lannan as saying ali over the
streets that Roberts would defeat AL
len for congress. In yesterdays Tri-
hume Mr.. Lannan, with dignified calm
ness. says that was lie. The Her
aid reporter merely relied on the word
of about fifty gentlemen. who said
they had heard Mr.. Lannan make just
such statements as were quoted, both
st ts9 Ogden convention, and in this
~ 4As an instance of how the talk
IN about Mr. Lannan's admissions, it
say be seid that The Herald report