The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08
FAIRBANKS WILL
Be IN CONTEST
Vice President Announces His
Desire to Become Successor
of Mr.. Roosevelt.
NEEDS UTAH'S SIX VOTES
GIVES UTTERANCE TO HIS
"VfEWS" OF WEST.
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Especial 10 Inc HERALD
Provo, Sept. If Fairbanks is cold,
the state of Utah today was certainly
colder. If his mission had any polit-
ical end, it is certainly frostbitten. The
best that he could draw in the shape
of political chaperon was Jim Glove
Of Provo, who took two of the four
hours that the vice president spent
in this part of the state. He says that
Mr.. Fairbanks makes no cOncealment
of his desire to be the next president
of the United States, with the neutral
deduction that he would like the cleo
toral vote of the state q Utah. That
Mr.. Fairbanks delivered to Mr.. Glove
an important political message to Sem
ator Smoot, which, as ii was for Sen
ator Smoot, he was not at liberty to
divulge. Everybody is given one guess.
Vice President Fairbanks is return
ing from the national irrigation con-
gress at Sacramento, where he had a
long talk with Governor Cutler. The
official mouthpiece of the Utah Repub-
tenor. 1t was probably the sort of
conversation that Fairbanks and Cut
lie would be likely to have.
The Roosevelt Brand.
Fairbanks was preceded i'm his ad-
vent into Utah today by a telegram to
Senator Smoot, asking the senator to
| meet him at Salt Lake or at Provo
The inference in Provo seems to be
whether or not the T. R. brand would
be removed from the Republican par
" as a result of the Fairbanks-Cutler
conference in Sacramento.
Senator SmOOt spent the day in a
trip across Utah lake to look at some
clay banks. leaving Provo at noon, and
carefully returning half an hour after
Mr.. Fairbanks had left Provo. Vice
President Fairbanks left here at 7
o'clock. Senator Smoot got back at
7:25, so it really wasn't quite half an
hour. This evening Mr.. Glove is at
Senator Cmoot's house revealing the
secret message.
Delayed by Fire.
At Salt Lake City he was met by a
number of local politicians and a few
Indiana ex-patriots. James Glove,
postmaster at Provo, went with the
vice president TO Provo. The trip was
somewhat marred by the truck of No.
225 catching on fire. stopping the royal
progress in a field of sunfiowers some
where near Murray for about fifteen
minutes. The vice presidents lcar
maintained q cool temperature. The
| fiEe was finally put out by Brakeman
| Bill Smith with little red can. The
| train moved on.
| At American Fork the fire again
broke out, and the passengers prompt
| ly ducked from car 225. With the kind
advice of all the passengers of the
train, the crew pressed the local station
agent to put it out. There was a delay
of half an hour, and the train finally
arrived in Provo two hours late.
| IF left there SOOn Mr. Glove
weighed down by his weighty political
secrets, beginning with the Declaration
| of Independence and ending with the
Republican platform of 1904, stepped
off Mrs. Smoot and three prominent
citizens met the train and shook hands
with the vice president. The train
which will carry the vice president as
far as Pueblo left with one wheel
| slightly wobbly. hut not at the Fair
| banks end.
Fire Fails TO ThaW.
When informed of the fire, the vice
president made no effort to take off his
coat and plunge in. He talked in COM
mas. rs, the, the, fire, in, this, carp
he asked.
1T is not
THAT. is, good. Is, it, out?"
cit is"
/ tdly 49, very Satisfactory.
Having been unable to deliver a
speech in Utah, either to an audience
or to Senator Smoot, the vice presi-
dent got this off The audience was
The Herald correspondent and James
Glove, and the place the state room of
the Satsuma on the Salt Lake-Provo
train. In case anyone should think
| this were an attempt at burlesque on
what a presidential candidate should
] say or should not say, he is respectful
/ ly referred to Mr.. Glove, envoy extra
ordinary of the Republicans of Utah in
hiding. 1t was taken down in long
hand, and read by Charles Warren
Fairbanks and by him approved. Here
! 1t is. Now laugh. Mr.. Fairbanks has
been accused of uttering platitudes,
| consequently this interview is para
! graphed.
Some Startling Statements.
| Il have just been to the irrigation
congress at Sacramento. 1 also at
| tended their session last year in Boise.
1 note with great pleasure the in
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