The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-26
WISE Guy SHEDS
SCALDING TEARS
Way Brig Roberts Handed
1t to SmoOt Is the
Cause.
HE IMPARTS SOME
INFORMATION TO TRIBUNE
Wisey Was Next to What Was
Going to Be Done at
Saltair.

"Excuse me while I sluffs few
scaldin' tears,' said the Wise Guy to
q Tribune man on South Main street,
Saturday.
Tho Wise Guy put his handkerchief
to his eyes with mocked solemnity,
chuckled softly and continued well,
wouldn t it kill you the way Brig Rob
erts handed it into Reed ut the Demo
cratic doin S at Saltair7 Say, some Of
the gang almost had nervous prostra-
tion when they read it. But, you see,
they WASH t wise. OF course, I knows
all about it days before it was pulled
off. Reed puts me neXt, when he was
In town the first OF the week,
Wisey, he says to NE, 'somethin
is a-goin to drop at Saltair whom my
Democratic brethren meet out there
and want to prepare you for the catas-
ain't it9 l don't know what il means,
but / knows from the way Reed talks
that it is somethin fierce. Reed s
great on slingin' English. Well, Reed
looks at me and says: Now, Wisey,
let this percolate into your attic.
There's goin to be somethin' doing
at Saltair, and, as I am going to be
away. I wants you to be next, SO as to
Jim, or Curiey Callister, or Spry, or Hy
Booth, because it ain none OF their
business.
its just this way; Brig comes to
me and says that everything is goin to
well, I ain t goin' to say where, but
thinks so myself, and that the church
Democrats is got to get busy, or the
Brig flashes his scheme, which is to de-
clare that the church ain t IN politics,
and roasts me TO a frazzle. Well, /
didn't know before that Brig was that
slick-but l believes that Ashby Snow
hatched the scheme for him-and I falls
on his neck and says, ''Sure, boy, go
to it. 1t won't hurt me and it may do
you some good
"But, the Wise Guy continued, "I
strong and I don believe Reed will
stand for it. OF course we don t care
nothing about what Fisher Harris, Con
don, Jim Moyle and the rest of 'em
said, because they amt very strong
with the church, anyway.
Don t give me away, though, for !
don t want to break with Reed until
] picks out a good place to light; No,
don 7 say anything to me about Farley
in my side and it hurts mo to laugh"
"Minnehaha" Mathonihah Thomas,
called "Matt' for short, because no,
body can spell his first name, is said.
to have the Congressional bee buzzing
industriously in his bonnet. "Matt0
can make fair spiel from the stump,
would like to see him go after Joe
Howell g scalp this fall. Frank K.
Nebeker of Logan also is being groomed
by his friends for the Democratic nom
nation.
There is considerable speculation
among the Democrats as to who will
succeed L. R, Martineau as chairman
OF the city and county Democratic
has been elevated by the church Demo
Gratis to the position Of State chairman.
There is hesitancy on the part Of the
committeeman to discuss the matter of
the craftsmanship. for the reason that
If certain first choices cannot be secured
the next man up might balk, because
of the fact that he was not the selection
in the first place. 1t is believed, how
ever, that Will G.. Farrell will be the
city and county chairman, if he will
accept the place. II he does not accept,
Tommy F. Thomas, the irrepressible,
may be given a chance at the job
l. @. Thoresop, who in the old days
was wheel-horse Of Democracy in
Nsche county, mas been resurrected and
will, in all probability, be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
State Senator from that county this
fall. A g. Barber, the present Sena.
tor, it Is said, will be candidate for
denomination, while H. Bullen, .Jr.. a
red not Smootite, viii go after the Re-
publican nomination.
W. a.. wilkins, former clerk of the
Board Of Public Works under the Nor
rls administration, will probably be a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for County Attorney. .Mr. vii
kins's friends argue that if Willard
Hanson, the machine candidate, secures
tbs Republican nomination, wilkins
Will have walsover.
A. L. Hamlin, former member of the
Legislature, is being groomed for
County Commissionership nomination on
the Republican ticket this fall.
County Commissioner Miller is unde-
cided as to whether or not he will seek
denomination on the Republican ticket
this fall Mr. Miller is said to have
been carefully scanning the handwrit-
Ing Oh the wall and has about made up
us mind that nomination OF any
ticket, except the American, will be
an empty honor,