Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-12
UTAH,S SIX VOTES
SOLD FOR TEDDY
so DECLARES NATIONAL COMMIT
TEEMAN LOOSE
With Roosevelt Out VIII Be Cast for
Taft or Hughes-lndependent
Smelters Must
Come

Col Ed. Loose, political and business
partner of Senator Reed Smoot Of
Provo, Utah, and probably next COVER
nor of Utah, is at the Angelus for q
short stay. He came here on business
with Harry s. Jc seph. a mining man OF
Salt Lake City. They have been con-
spicuous in the movement to organize
another independent smelter in Utah
and their visit here may have some
relation to that subject. AS to this
they are silent, however.
Col. Loose is regarded as one of the
most astute politicians of the Mormon
state, and is now its member Of the
Republican national committee. That
he is in line for the gubernatorial NOM
nation is conceded by all Utah politi-
clans because he has been one of the
big men of the Smoot machine. When
asked last night how Utah's six votes
In the next Republican convention will
be cast Col. Loose said:
Utah is Roosevelts friend and will
be for his denomination If there is any
possibility of such a thing There Is
no question as to this sentiment. It Is
spontaneous and enduring"
with Roosevelt out of the ways
would the state be for Taft?"
"If there is no chance for Roosevelts
nomination and 1t should follow in the
lines of that friendship have spoken
of that Taft was the choice, Utah will
be for Taft. If it was found that
Hughes was the man Utah viii be for
| Hughes"
And there Col. Loose stopped and
crunched the big black cigar with a.
| firm set jaw as good as to say land
that's the limit
Col. Loose says Utah will select her
| six delegates the last of May or early
| in June and he adds that they will be
| dyed-in- the-wool Roosevelt delegates.
| 1t has been manifest ever since the
| federal administration lent assistance
| to the seating of Senator Smoot Utah
would follow Teddy wherever he went
| Speaking OF the mining and smelling
situation in Utah, which now has
abundant troubles, Col. Loose says the
day has come when mine owners must
provide Independent smelters to get out
of the tentacles of the smelter trust. In
| Utah the mine owners held meeting
at Ogden last week in an attempt to
use available territory in that region.
| Before the meeting had hardly adj
| journed, he says, there was an indig-
| nation meeting of farmers to prevent
smelters of any kind, anyway.
"The great smelters of Salt Lake
valley" said Loose, must leave. The
| farmers are 1mplacable and the only
thing for the smelters to do is to seek
| the desert regions where land is worth
| only $3.50 an acre and acquire all they
need to prevent injury to agricultural
| regions. The farmers are foxy and lay
| low until the smelter starts and then
| they lay on the whip for damages"
| When told that there was an effort
making here to establish a smelter
near Los Angeles Col. Loose said: Let
them learn a lesson from Utah. IF the
mining men of Los Angeles would es-
tablish a smelter, or more than one, let
| them find an area where there can be
no chance of injury to animal or vege-
| table iifc, for Il they don't they will
have enough lawsuits to keep them
busy. Shelters are built to make
money, and they can't make money
paying damages to farmers nor buy
| ing land at 5000 an acre."
Utah now has one independent smelt-
| er. isolated from agrarian regions,
which is soon to start. 1t will treat
the ores from the Tintle region. Loose
predicts that there will be several in
dependent smelters in the state.