The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10

FRIENDS OF SMITH
ARE VERY INDIGNANT
Claim That Two Years Ago
Emery Promised Not to Again
Be a Candidate.

G. Frank Emery, present Sheriff Of
salt Lake county, and, by the grace
of the Smoot machine, candidate for
a third term on tho church Republican
ticket, has a long, tortuous and rocky
road to travel before ho can again hope
to land in the Sheriff 5 chair, There
Is no question that a large part of the
church Republican convention, upon
which Emery was forced as a. third
term candidate, resented the action Of
the machine and did not consider it
good politics to renomipate Emery.
But, just as The Tribune announced.
weeks ago, the machine determined to
renominate Emery and that was all
there was to 1t.
There is, however, another side to
the story and most important side, so
Iar as Emery is personally concerned.
LII is proposition in which Emery's
personal honor is involved. Two years
ago, John Y. Smith, Jr, who was
church Republican convention, was
nomination, but according TO the
friends of Smith, he went TO Smith
after the convention and said: "Now,
Smith, I am the NOMINEES and | want
your support Work for me this time,
and it you want the nomination two
years hence myself and my friends will
help you get it.
Smith Swallowed Bait.
Smith swallowed the bait, aud he
and his friends worked vahantly for
the success Of Emery, and he was
elected. Emery, of course, might have
been elected without the assistance of
the point. The point IS that Smith
worked for Emery to the utmost of his
ability, relying upon Emery to make
his word good this fall, and that Emelv
has violated his obligation. 1t is fur
ther said that Emery has assured
Smith S friends within the past three
weeks that he tEmery) would not be
. candidate for renomination, and that
smith, believing that Emery Was tell
ing the truth, did not work for the
nonlnatloa az energetically as be would
have done had he known, as he now
knows, that Emery was deceiving him.
Sheriff Emery was, conveniently, out
Of the city at the time of the conven-
ton, and upon his return he will doubt
less be heard to say that he did not
seek the nomination, and that be was
not 10 blame for the fact that his
nomination was forced upon the con.
ventlon Had there been desire TO
withdraw Emery's name, however,
who could have performed that Office
for the absent candidate. Joe Sharp,
for example, the deputy sheriff and
stool pigeon, who was pushed to the
front for weeks as candidate for
the nomination for the sole purpose Of
keeping outsiders out of the race. while
the Smoot- Salisbury Anderson-Ca Callister.
Spry machine was doing its work,
could have withdrawn Emery's name
1oG he lnnrr-o bot biS oh iaf
candidate in every sense of the word
and was eager for the nomination.
Republicans, almost without excep.
tlon, admit that the nomination of
Emery was poor politics, and their only
hope of electing him lies in the fact
that he Is the church and Smoot ma
chine candidate and that Spry may be
able to swing enough church Democrats
into line 10 elect. The church, it might
be added, feels very friendly to Emery
He was Sheriff, ii viii be remembered,
when a warrant was issued for the ar
rest OF Heber j. Grant. Mr.. Grant left
the city, without the warrant being
served upon him. and is now a fugitive
from justice. Mr. Emery has made
40 effort to have him apprehended,
Mr.. Emery also was Sheriff when
warrant was issued for the arrest
of Joseph T, Smith, president OF the
mormon CHuFcn, recently aaQ Joseph
T. Smith been an ordinary individual,
in the eyes of Emery, he would have
been taken into custody and, In all
probability, thrown into jail and denied
the right TO consult an attorney, But,
the head OF the Mormon church, who
mocks at decency and the laws of his
country, was of different clay in the
eyes OF Sheriff Emery, and the arrest
was made without the slightest incon-
venience TO the head OF the Mormon
church. In fact, the warrant was not
served on Smith, but upon his attorney,
and, except from hearsay, the CHIEF
hierarch does not know that a warrant
for his arrest has been issued.
This Is the situation, at present. OF
course, many Republicans. who opposed
Emery's nomination, are declaring that
they will support the ticket, but many
of them will change their minds, If,