The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
WILL STAY WITH
THEIR TICKET.
Present and Former Office
holders Practically Alone
for Republican Nominees.
INTERVIEWS ARE ANALYzED
ORGAN OF PARTY MAKES LAST
EFFORT.

The Republican organ added materially,
though unintentionally, to the hilarity of
the campaign yesterday morning. 1t
printed fifty-one short interviews, which
it says were gathered at random" In
which most of the interviewed expressed
preference for the Republican ticket
The ludicrous feature of the publication
appears upon a casual analysis. Here, for
a beginning. is a summary of the per-
sonnet of those who We're interviewed:
Former office holders .................... ,
Relatives of office holders ..-.....-......- 4
Republican committeeman .......,.......
L University professor .............!-. 49,.
Others, among them two non-Iesidents,
one unqualified voter, and one whose
name does not appear in the new city
directory .............. '''....'...'''..''.. Il
Total count 'em) 81
Office holders. U. Eldredge, jr., coun-
ty clerk; Harry s. Joseph. speaker of the
house of representatives; e. d. r. Thomp-
son. register of the land office; Jack May,
deputy county recorder; Willard Hanson,
county attorney; John A. GrOesbeck,
county treasurer; W. n. Williams, state
senator; p. o. Perkins, county recorder;
j. j. GreeneWaId surveyor of the port :
ceiver of the land office; NJ. A. Breeder.
attorney general DIR. Il. b. Beatty. secre-
tary of the state board of health; Il. IT.
Callister. collector of internal revenue;
Frank Higginbotham. county auditor; w
NJ. McCrea. deputy United States attor-
ney; William Spry. United States mar
shall: ]. G. Mcdonald. president of the
state fair association; John c. Cutler,
governor; c. s. Tingey, secretary OF state;
George B. Squires. assistant secretary of
state: Arthur Pratt. warden of the PEN
itentiary: James Christensen, state treas
urer; James T. Hammond, member of
code commission.
Former office hoIders-W. S McCor-
nick. Christopher Diehl. Albert s.. Reiser,
George Romney, Charles II. Wilcken, o.
H. Hewlett. Judge c. S. Zane, Charles
Cottrell. Charles S. Burton.
Relatives of office holders-Nrs. Fred
w. Price. George r. Emery, Thomas X.
Cutler, Freeman Bassett.
Republican committeeman - Howard
Garrett.
Professor at university (of which Plum
mer is a resent)-Byron Cummings.
Non-resdents-T. r. Cutler, Arthur
Pratt.
Can't vote-C. W. Whitley
Name not in directory--W. A Latham.
OF the other six interviewed. d. c. Jack
ling does not say he is going to vote for
Dr. Plummer. 1t is stated on good au-
thoI1ty that he has contributed to the
American campaign fund. A. W. Carl
son was nominated by the Republicans
last year for county commissioner. but
Withdrew from the ticket. And, by the
way, w. >. MCCORMICK does not say posi-
lively that he is for Plummer.
Some others who are probably for Plum
mer, and they are about all that are for
him, but whose names were inexplicabIy
omitted from the list of names gathered
at random are James II. Anderson.
Thomas Hull. George Sutherland and Ar
thur l.. Thomas, all office holders
1t is but natural that there should have
been laughter in political circles when
the Republican organs broadside was
fired. 1t is known that representatives of
that newspaper spent hours in telephone
ing to various residents of the city. Many
manv times they were informed by Re
puhlicans that they would vote FOR Nor
I1s this year. and it was only by going
over the office holders thoroughly that
any sort of showing could be made
Futile piffle" was the general verdict
And among the wise ones Ii was stated
that the whole play was scheme of the
office holders themselves to, try to make
it appear that they are for DR. Plummer.
in order to hold enough Republican votes
in line to assure the election of John S.
Bransford, which a majority of the in
terviewed unquestionably prefer to the
election of Richard P. Norris