The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-24
DELEGATES COME
ON EVERY TRAIN
MaTag.rs Take Great In.ere, t
in Them.
NEW HEADQUARTERS OPENED
RACE FOR GOVERNOR BELONGS
TO ANYBODY.

Delegates coming in for the Republican
convention tomorrow might easily be par
dOned fer q belief that they are. one and
all, leading men. not in their own COM
munities alone but in the sta-e. If not
the nation Warm handciasps and smiles
that look as il they would never come
off. greet them on all sides. The softest
chaifs, the latest cigars. the kindest
words in the headquarters are for them.
The surprise some Of the delegates feel
at learning how well known ard how well
remembered they arc is plainly expressed
IL their faces. This is especially true OF
the delegates who are delegates for the
flrst time The veterans know 3he gaine-
They know just how 10 look and what to
say when the mana gers greet them at
the GOOr, they know Just how To depOrt
/ themselves when usheTed into the pres-
ence OF the great man in the rear room;
they know Just what to say about the
situation and they know just how to
describe their position without committing
themselves and without arousing ami
Delegates arrived in numbers yesterday
and many moro viii be in today. They
were in yesterday from Washington,
Kane, Juab Grand. Carbon. Sewer. Beav-
eT. Utah Iron. Weber and other points.
Most of them made the rounds of the va
TiOUS candidates headquarters and heard
the words of hope that met them at each
place Most of them encountered on the
streets at one time or anOtner the
worker" who made the proper course
for them 50 clear.
Situation is Unchanged.
Tho situation. as viewed from the diff
ferent headquarters, remained unchanged.
The claim agents of every camp worked
increasingly and achieved the same old
results-cinch for everybody. II any of
the candidates. received bad news they
kept the manifestation OF II out OF their
faces and out of their works.
The race for nomination for governor
continued to overshadow the other con-
tests, although aspirants for other posi-
tons on the ticket were muen in evi-
dence.
I'VE win on the first ballot. We have
tried to figure ourselves out Of II and
can't do it. I wouldn't be surprised to find
Cutler had q clean tWo-thlrds o. the con-
vention," said the Cutler man.
Never looked better than IL does to-
day We ought to win on the first bal
lot We have had no occasion to reduce
our estimates and We are discovering
strength in unexpected quarters. said
the Wells men,
1T won't be settled on the first bal
lot We are in shape to draw from both
the other camps and We are gong TO do
IL. We find our strength holding together
and have no room to complain, said the
Hammond men.
The Hammond headquarters opened in
the morning in suites % and 81 Of the Gull
len The Wells branch headquarters
oDened in suite 81 of the same hotel while
continued to be the raliying point for the
Cutler adherents. All three Tere busy
during the day
The Finishing Room"
There is a mysterious "other r. ON in
connection with the Cutler headquarters.
It is located somewhere in the Kenyon
hotel and is designated by outsiders as
the finishing room ParfOr Z IS where
the public is welcome, but the public
doesn't get into the finishing room
Even its location is kept secret. although
its existence Is not DENIED. Every once in
a while one of the Cutler Heutenants will
take a prominent delegate from some
part of the state in charge and The pair
vanishes- They disappear suddenly and
so effectually that those in parlor y do
not miss them Then, Il develops. they
are in the other room Efforts to
ascertain who or what is i'm the finish
ing room are vain Only the elect know
and they never tell what they know
Congressman Howell was IN from Cache
yesterday and viii open his headquarters
in the Wilson hotel today The congress
man and his lieutenanJs profess no worry
at the suggestion that the opposition has
a candidate to spring against Howell
Nevertheless. the anti-Cutler forces are
giving { he subject serious Thought The
man viii be Hammond if either Wells or
Cutler are nominated. unless the OppOsi-
ton discovers Cutler. Howell. CT al. to
Wit: Shoots in absolute control Of the
convention As stated by an snti-Cutler
man the proposition is this; ''If Wells
wins he viii want togo the limit by beat
ing Howell with Hammond If Cutler
wins both viii be sore and they VIII get
together TO try to beat Howell so there
is a good show to make il not for Howell
either way.
May Hoist Anderson.
The tenure of Anderson IS state chair
man is contingent on Cutters success
II Cutler wins he viii keep the Pussy. I'M