The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-13
WHY GOV. WELLS
EXPECTS TO WIN
Replies to Charges Made
Against Him.
MAKING AN AGGRESSIVE RACE
GIVES POSITION AS TO LABOR
AND THIRD TERN.
MAKING AN AGGRESSIVE RACE

Governor Wells came home from
Ogden yesterday. greatly cheered over
his prospects for a reorganization He
WAS found AZ his headquarters IN the
Alias block with a number of young
henchmen running back and forth
keeping him posted as to what was
going on on the outside.
The governor, although expressing
confidence in the outcome of the
county conventions was toe old a poll
1iCian to tell where he expected to set
enough votes TO bring about his nomi-
nation. he Was Informed that his op-
y0nents were circulating the report
that organized labor was against him;
that the people opposed him because OF
the thiTd term idea, and he was
charged with being in a combine with
United States Senator kearlIs- Re
plying to these charges Governor Wells
said:
Confident of Success.
1T appears that my. candidacy is
being attacked on three grounds. It is
said that il nominated I would lose the
labor vote, that the third term argu-
1nent viii prevent my nomination, and
Ehat 1 have entered into an alliance
with Senator Kearns-
in the first place. let me assure you
that 1 fully expect to be renOminated.
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wholly, but is justified by the facts so
nearly as 1 can gather. Every report
that Is brought me adds encOura ge-
17eat aud puts a brighter face on the
outlook
Not Enemy of Labor.
Vow. as TO the organized labor
feature That is Tuse often used
without reason. Why 1 SHOULD be op-
posed by abOr organizations / do not
hat hoy nm ] do
not believe. DO the gentlemen who
raise this bugaboo stop TO reflect that
the State Federation of Labor, when
Il meets in September, has decided not
10 discuss politics. ] am the friend OF
organized Ia Dor and no one knows that
better than the laboriRg men, One Of
my first official acts as governor was
10 sign the eight-EOur law. what they
are coutending for in Colorado right
now. I took such steps in the recent
trouble as I thought would prevent a
loss OF property and possibly of life.
and I did this on the old theory that
prevention il cheaper than cure. The
adjustment was easy and satisfactory
ell around and I believe it has justified
the measures taken. If I shall be re-
nominated ] know I viii be elected.
The labOring men are my friends and
will honor me with their regular party
vote. / wish YOU would interview the
other candidates for governor and ask
them if they do not approve my
counsel. am willing to leave it to
chem.
Third Term Chat.
The third-term chan has been
thTeshed over so often that ] have lost
interest in that argument While / am
not ungratefully unmindful Of the hon
o. which the Office affords, at the same
time [ have learned by two terms ex
sanriaur.e that the r,rrhHfa officer fc the
public servant Ny theory is that I
have improved in my eight and half
years service and am a better servant
now than I was at the times of my pre-
Vious nominations. Il is not necessary
10 carry that argument further. That
s. is used against me is, III fact. very
1attering, as an indication that my
opponents have no serious fault to find
with my two administrations.
Not Running For Senator.
My friends who persuaded me to go
Before the convention for third term
took no heed of the third-term obiec-
ton and I am taking their advice
As TO my relations with Sena tor
1<earns, / have only TO state that the
charge OF an alliance is false The
senator and ] have not discussed our
relations. Neither have our friends
made in our stead any sort Of trade /
am not mixing in the senatorial contest
at all and I have no evidence that
Senator KeaTns is taking a hand in the
EubeTnatorial hCht. Some of my best
friends and most influential supporters
are also warm friends to Senator
kearns. Some Of them are with Mr.
Sutherland, heart and soul. I do not
expect TO say to either class that they
must abandon my cause because the
opposite senatorial faction objects
There is no use continually forcing that
issue into this contest. I am running
g campaign for governor. not senator.'