The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-01

Tin of circuitou:
I'm route from in
II side the office o.
Brown & Henderson yesterday after
noon and is presumed to be reliable
1t appears that some of the other can
didates have been indulging in the per
nicious habit of letter writing, and the
information has been conveyed tC
Washington that the judge knows
more about law than lines; is better
posted on judicial than surveyor
tripods and could survey a scene in
court far better than plat of 32C
acres, more or less. This statement
has been discussed at headquarters, so
they say, and it has been suggested
that TO appoint the veteran to that
place would throw discredit upon the
party; hence it has been suggested
that Judge Blair be retired from the
race and given something else to While
away the time with and permit sur
veyor to occupy this position. What
Judge Blair is slated for. no man at
this time knoweth but he has a fol-
lowing at Washington which will not
see him suffer, SO he will not need to
worry a bit.
Friends of the judge say that he
don't need to know any of the practi-
cal workings of the office in order TO
fill it successfully, but the antagonists
of the eX-judge of probate are making
a strong point against him and relate
that the president might as well ap-
point a surveyor United States attor-
ney as to appoint an attorney survey
or-general.
With the judge out of the race, the
next question arises, who will be the
lucky man-Doremus, LIE Prohon or
Joseph? It is said that Bingham
i Tala 1,-
alluded in glowing terms to that
giant in the silver cause, William Jen-
nings Bryan" (applause), will cook
his goose. This being so, the next Two
men in order of succession would be
the eX-city engineer and the council
man. Both have intense love for one
another and the Endorsements one
party would give the other would make
interesting matter for public IL
brary.
But Judge Blair was not the only
political topic on the street yesterday.
FiOyt Sherman was receiving attention.
Whether this is a ruse on the part of
Sherman to throw his opponents off
the track or not remains to be seen.
but it was asserted with great con-
fidence that he has received an intima-
ton that if he wants something good
beside the office of United States mar
shall ne can have it, but Uncle John
cannot assist him in getting Ibis place;
that Mckinley himself has a man he
wants to select. This caused a COM
motion among the chaSers as to who
The man is Some say that John Lu
Taylor has been working q PennSyl-
vania wire with good effect and that
he is going to win on his war record.
Others intimate that Guthrie has made
a ten strike somewhere and will win
ta inf Of
coupled with the following he has here
Many incline to believe that Hardy is
coming up strong, but the greatest ma
jority seem TO think Glove of the En-
Quirar down at Provo, has struck the
track hard and is going TO win out.
However, it may be they are all guess
ing, and guessing hard. 1t is asserted
that the marshalship cannot be dis
posed of by the secretary of state TO
his nephew; that the president has
so said.
OF course. it is hard to believe that
Mckinley has paid any attention TO
Utah politics up to date, but it is well
known that he has been importuned.
and really it is time he was doing
something in this line for the faithful
here. Up in Montana there have been
several changes which have satisfied
the gold faction. Idaho has had many
small officials removed and others ap-
pointed.
Wyoming Wolcott and Warren have
done nobly. So it may be true that
the president is going to do something
for us soon.
F. d. Hobbs has had a cinch on the
land Office ever ,Since the ball opened. |
1t has been conceded that he would be
the lucky man from the date Hoyt
Sherman was announced as a candi-
date for the marshalship. But if Sher- /
man is retired and told to seek some !
thing else. it may be possible he /
viii again turn his attention TO the land |
Office place and if so it will be possible |
to note Hobbs and Sherman running
race for the same place. OF course /
there viii be complications Hobbs has
matters all adjusted and so has Sher- |
man. To make a change means there |
" i'll have to be a reformation all along /
the line. Applications would have to
be withdrawn and relied This would /
take considerable time and all that, /
but it is presumed time would be given. 1
At any rate should these rumors prove /
TO be correct it will be interesting to |
watch developments.
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In the meantime advices from the
front are TO the effect that the consuls
are still guarding the lines and that
not one has been lost thus far. Lea
and Lochrie, Myers, Katz and Thomp-
son are all there. Up to date Colonel
Tatlock has not received notice of ap-
pointment but there viii be a vacancy
in the war department very soon and
it is expected he will be called upon to
fill it.
Colonel Squires made a mistake last
fall. He should have worked and voted
for Mckinley. AS it is the colonel is
out in the cold and it is a long ways
from city election time for man TO
wait.
City politics, so far as the Repub-
leans are concerned, are in a chaotic
condition and the members of the Re
united Republicans as they dubbed
themselves after the double barreled
last fall. are in a quandary
rs to what they shall do to obtain pos
session Of the flesh pots this fall. The
statement is freely made that the wave
IF reform which is now sweeping over
the city was started in order to give an
excuse for a Citizens ticket" so the
Democrats might be shut out from get
ting the offices; or given so few that
they would not have control of affairs
Every speaker who is advocating NOR
Atty, whose politics have been Repub-
ican in the past, is advocating the idea
nat in municipal anairs one ought not
vote party politics, but for the best
good of the city. After a term of mis-
'ule on the part of the party in power
I IS now proposed to give them another
,hance by merely changing their politi
al robes and designating themselves
Is "Citizens" or as Taxpayers" The