The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-25
SMOOT STAYS OUT
OF THE CAMP A|GN
Provo Man Not Spending Time
Here Beating Thompson
With LYNCH" This Year.
PLUMMER OUT OF RUNNING
WELL INFORMED REPUBLICANS
4 ADMIT PARTY DEFEAT.

aenator Reed Smoot viii not take an
active part In the Salt Lake City cam
paiAn this year. The lamentabe failure
madts by the gentleman from Provo two
yearS ago has not been forgotten. Then
he took personal charge of the Repub-
hca,f campaign. He used all of the pow
erful agencies at his command. he en-
couYaged the work of the whisperers who
Went through the city with pretended au-
lnrrity from the heads of the Mormon
cnArch urging the people of that faith
lP vote for Lynch TO defeat Thompson,
and his party failed TO carry a single
ward in the city, failed to elect a single
Councllman, failed to carry fifty-tWO out
of the fifty-three voting divisions, as the
city was then divided
And Senator Smoot had the amazing
effrontery to say the other day:
Morris is a weak candidate. | came
down here two years ago and spent my
money and did all | could to elect him
and then he couldn't win
The memory of the Salt Lake public
certainly dates back at least two years,
and everybody knows that Senator Smoot
not only was not for Morris but that
through his individual efforts Morris was
defeated and the American ticket was
elected. Republicans and Americans
concede the truth of this statement 1t is
not disputed by any sane man or woman
who is at all familiar with the history OF
the campaign of two years ago.
pihOpl - uut VI the campaign TINS veal
perhaps because he. too, remembers his
miserable fiasco. perhaps because he has
been told he must keep out Certain II
is that though he has made frequent Wis
its to Salt Lake City during the last
few weeks. he has never once been seen
inside of Republican headquarters He
has said repeatedly to his close friends
that he is going to keep his hands off.
And this is one of the things the Demo-
Gratis want. for it removes another OBJ
stacle to a fair. square campaign, cam
paign on its merits. With such cam
paien the Democrats say they can hardly
lose the fight They believe a majority
of the people of Salt Lake City, irrespec
tive of party. favor the election of Rich
ard p. Morris.
Said a former Republican who is going
to vote the Democratic ticket this year:
In their hearts the Republicans know
they haven't a ghost of a chance to win.
II they had believed for a moment that
they could elect DR.. Plummer they would
never have proposed fusion with the
Democrats on the cOuncilmanic tickets
They would never have withdrawn the
names of one of their candidates for the
council in each of the five municipal
wards and substituted the names of Dem
Ocrats for them, and this over the protest
in at least three of the wards, of the DEM
ocrats.
THE Republicans cannot, by the wild
est stretch OF optimistic imagination.
hope to elect more than three members OF
the council The real situation is that
they cannot possibly elect more than TWO,
one each in the First and Second. The
Democrats will have one councilman from
the First one from the Second. two from
the Third and two from the Fourth. They
have one hOldOVer member. making a to-
tal of seven Democrats, two Republicans
and six Americans
'Dr. Plummer. in the event of miracu-
lous election, would be confronted at the
outset and throughout his term with an
adverse majority. What could he hope
To accomplish with only two members of
his own political faith in the body that
really governs the city?