The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-16
HOWELL STAR
GROWS BRIGHTER
congressman From Logan Has
Big Lead in His Fight for
denomination.
FARLEY P. Is FADING FAST
MACHINE CLAIMS FORTY DELE
GATES FROM WEBER.

Adherents Of the Smoot machine and
Arlehds of Congressman Joseph Howell
assert that as result of the Republic
can primaries held Friday in Salt Lake.
weber and Utah counties. his renom-
1nation is practically assured. The
howell men say they are absolutely
eT'aln OF forty votes from Weber coun-
" OUT or total OF fifty-seven. and be-
.iSHe they viii have fifty. The fact that
Dill Glasmann. Howelrs Weber coun-
~ manager was defeated personally
VI ueIegate they assert, is no indica-
Nioh OF the general result. The Howell
zen claim also practically solid dele
Adloh or sixty votes from Utah coun-
~. cache county. where he lives. gave
MN big majority of it's delegation
yesterday
ABOUT the only development in the
Tituatlon yesterday was the fact that
farley +. Chrstensens strength in
GWeoer county was Overestimated when
N,ne returns first came I'm, and that his
strength In Salt Lake county was un-
oerestimated. While there seems to be
out little doubt that the Howell men
WIFI have big ma iority of the 40 del
esates from this county. ii is neverthe-
less a fact that Mr. Christensen has
more delegates from this county than
ne was first given credit for. There
seems 10 be a substantial basis for his
claim that he has the First precinct of
SaIt Lake almost solidly. Moreover. he
mas scattering delegates from else
where i'm the county.
Fight Badly Handled.
Christensen's fight i'm this county was
not well mar aged. This Is shown by
the fact that where he did put up
hard fight. as I'm Bingham and adjoin-
in, fho lie
frict, where he lives, ne was success
ful. The trouble was that he did not
have his workers organized in enough
districts. and where he did not have
them organized, the delegates were
captured either by the Howell men or
by friends of one or the other candi-
, dates for supreme judge. Although
: Christensen has never been regarded as
strong candidate here I'm his home
county, the ore or two holly contested
fights which he did win shows what
might possibly have been done against
the SmoOt machine with a more popular
candidate and good organization.
An anomaly OF the situation I'm Salt
Lake county is that men who have
been identified hitherto with the Heber
NJ. Wells faction, and who succeeded
In securing places on the state delega-
ton. prefer Howell to Christensen as a
rule. Notwithstanding the fact that
Howell is the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
wledged-candidate OF the Smoot
machine. Prominent Wells men on the
delegation are Conner Thomas, Angus
NJ Cannon, Bishop F. s. Tingey.
George y. Lawrence, Louis NJ. Wells
w. a. Lee. NJ. i. Cummings, W. H
POLAND, +. r. Morgan, Harmed Pratt
George NJ. Cannon and Stephen H
Love. With the exception of Conner
Thomas. II is said, every one of these
Te.r ~v.
sen.
Much Dark Horse Talk.
The fact that so many Christensen
men and the sprinkling of Wells men
succeeded in getting on the delegation
has revived the talk of springing a
dark horse. The list OF "eligibles" in
Cludes Heber NJ. Wells. State Chair
man J. T. HammC nd, Benner Y. Smith
and George n. Lawrence. None of
these men, it is claimed is willing to
make the race. /
The anti-machine organization start
ed by G.. ". Lawrence and s. H. Love
is TO meet Monday night in Judge
Diehrs court room. Ii Is barely posi-
BILE that steps may be taken there to
bring out dark-horse candidate for
congress: but if no such action is taken
then. the probabilities are that none
will be brought out from this county at
at the last moment at the state con-
vention, Mr. Howell Will win i'm a walk
If the situation does not change rad
icalfy between now and the conven-
ton MI. Howell will get the nominal
ton. etr
\ Has Nearly Majority Now.
If the Howell claims on Salt Lake,
Weber. Utah and Cache counties are
substantially true. those four counties
will give Mr.. Howell within fftyfour
votes of enough to nominate. and he
will have the other twenty-three copn- |
ties OF the state to pick up the neces- !
sarv ffty-fOur votes i'm. Eighty votes |
out Of f4O from Salt Lake, sixty from !
Utah forty out of fifty-seven from |
Weber and thirty Of thirty-nine from
Cache will give him 21O votes. The |
necessary number for nomination is |
264.
n is still impossible to tell who will
have a majority from Salt Lake county /
for supreme judge. but indications are |
stiII cropping out that Judge J. f. Frick /
is not as distasteful to the Smoot ma /
chine as he was. Among those work.
ing openly for him is i. II. Smyth, !
chief deputy I'm the Office of United |
states Marshal William Spry.
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