The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-02
HELPS SMOOT
NAME TICKET
How the Independent Repub-
llCanS Were Beguiled Into
Support of Enemy.
FOOLED BY CUNNING TRICK
DEMOCRATS SELECT CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR TODAY.

Harry S Joseph. machine buster; Har
~ S. Joseph. insurgent; Harry S. Jo-
seph. manufacturer of independent states
1.-THE transformation of the former Smoot
follower seemed complete. There was
great rejoicing among the insurgents.
One of the most abject slaves OF the
smoOt machine had smashed his letters.
deserted his masters and Joined the in
surgents in the fight for political indie
pendence.
This was the announcement last Mon
day that filled the insurgents with joy.
Harry Joseph announced loudly that he
had been mistreated by the party lead
ers and would fight against them. He
advocated that a caucus be held to NOM
mate an independent legislative slate in
order to defeat the machine candidates
The caucus was held and Harry ;. DO
seph was made the chairman of the in
dependent caucus In the uniform of an
insurgent Harry S. Joseph apparently felt
as much at home as he did in the livery
of the federal bunch.
At the caucus came first the consider
alton of the proposed nominees for the
state senate. Harry Joseph insisted that
Sam Park be sacrificed, for Park had
said that he was opposed to both SmOot
and Joseph Also, Mr.. Park favored Sen
ator Sutherland, and Harry Joseph did
not. The result was that Carl Badger,
g e Marks and 5. J. StOOkey all stall
Wart SmOot men, were decided upon by
the anti-Smoot insurgents, all under the
handling o. Harry 5. Joseph, insurGent
pro tempOre.
But the master hand of the new leader
of the rebellion was best shown in the
selection of the candidates for represent
atives. Harry Joseph explained that the
Lest and strongest independent ticket that
could be chosen would consist of five
Mormons and five Gentiles. The idea
was received with acclaim and Mr.. JO-
seph then dictated the ticket. A ballot
was prepared by the joyous insurgents,
and the name of a Mormon put first, a
Gentle second, a Mormon third, Cen
tile fourth, and so on through the list.
Thousands of these ballots were print
ed and thrown about the convention hall
the following day.
The strange thing about Mr.. Joseph S
'insurgent'' ticket was that six on his
ticket were nominated by the convention,
five MOrmons and one Gentile-HuSh NC
Millin-and every one of them pledged
TO vote for SmoOL The four GentlleS
chosen by the caucus declined to pledge
themselves to vote for SmOOt and were
rejected by the delegates at the conven-
ton. insurgents and all. The four Sc
lected in their stead are all known to be
Smoot men. As selected the ticket con-
sists of eight MOrmOns and two Gen
tiles.
The Gentiles on the insurgent Joseph
committee who were rejected as not to
he relied upon by the Smoot men are
\. L. Lee, G. Stanley Price, DIR. George
Ellerbeck and Robert Porter In their
place were chosen Brigham Clegg. Bishop
William Mcmillan, +. Holman and Bish-
ops Counsellor Joseph NJ. Holt
And the insurgent Republicans are just
beginning to discover that Harry JO-
Seph's little game was prO-SmOot and
anti-Sutherland, and very much anti-tn-
surgent.