The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-04
SMOOT FIGHTS
SHY OF TALK OF
denomination
Hints That Republican Party
Has Say Concerning the
SenatOrShip.
MUM CONCERNING LO0SE'S
CHANCES FOR GOVERNOR
SENATOR THROWS HIMSELF A
BOUQUET ON ACCOUNT OF
DRY FARMING BILL.

| Senator Reed Smoot arrived in Salt
Lake last evening from Washington
Reed Smoot, the Provo merchant. has
apparently ceased 70 exist. Polished in
the school OF senatorial diplomacy.
| Reed SmOOt is now evasive ana tact
full. He does not announce his can
! didacy for reelection to the United
States senate. 1t is remotely possible
that he is not a candidate TO succeed
himself OF course. if the party should
wish his services in any position that
he might fill Well, Reed SmOot is
the servant Of his party and his peo-
pie.
With gentle modesty Reed Smoot ad-
mitted TO a Herald reporter last even
ing that because the Utah delegation in
congress was alive to Utah's interests.
il has accomplished much good for the
state. When he was asked about the
/ local situation the senator said he
thought the state needed more parks.
When asked who would be his-that is.
/ the epublican-candidat for governor
OF Utah. he declared that he found even
/ the present disagreeable weather Of
/ Utah preferable TO the sultriness of
/ Washington. With reference TO the
| prospect of his returning TO the senate.
/ Reed SmOOt declared that an autOmo-
/ bile road from Ogden to Provo would
/ be an excellent improvement.
/ Accompanying the senator are his
wife and family with the exception of
/ Miss SmOOt, who remained in Chicago
| to visit with the family of Represen-
tative Madden until after the Republi-
can national convention, when she Will
l return TO Provo with the senator. Mr.
SmOOt and his family stopped last
night al the home Of Mrs. q. A Ed
I redge. 216 East First South street They
viii leave for Provo this afternoon over
/ the Salt Lake route.
Finds Utah Cool.
cts much cooler here than in Wash
ingtOn began the diplomat when he
was interviewed last evening. The
{ closing days Of congress were exceed
ingly sultry The foolish 6libustering
of Senator La Toilette. added 10 tine
/ disagreea bIeness of the weather of the
/ closing week made the week very tire
/ some. During the fibustering 1 acted
as the Republican whip 10 keep a quo
rum present and for fOrty-eight hours
/ did not get wink Of sleep.
''The filibusteTing, 1T must have been
apparent from the outset, was doomed
I to be Intellectual and worse than use
less. The only purpose Senator La Fol
/ lette had in organizing this filibustering
was to advertise himself. that he might
be a drawing card i'm his Chautauqua
/ lectures. We could have stopped him
early i'm his attempt but we did not
want to do anything that might be con-
strued TO be unfair. we did not want To
let him get the sympathy Of the coun-
try at large 10 any extent and for that
reason we let him have his way.
AS soon as il was apparent that
there was 10 be a flibustering we sent
kilograms 10 all Of the absent Repub-
! lican senator's and called them back to
the capital Our aim was to keep a
quorum present all of the time so that
! Senator La Toilette. with the slight as
sistance he had from Senators Gore and
Stone, might soon wear himself out"
Possible Stampede for Roosevelt.
Politics. 1 take it. was warm in
Washington when you left?"
Not to any great extent. The pos
/ sibility Of ROOseVelt's nomination for
the presidency was being discussed cas-
ualiy. / think that there is but little
question but that Taft viii receive the
nomination. Taft is gT-r-reat,
str-r-rong man. He viii make
gr-r-rand president. The only posi-
bility, I think. of the nomination being
given 10 Roosevelt would be in the
event that Taft were not nominated on
the first ballot. This might result IN
/ stampede for Roosevelt. If this were
the case. I think the president would
be forced TO accept the nomination.
"Utah's delegation viii be, of course,
for Taft. If there should arise in the
convention any circumstance that
pointed to a chance to give Roosevelt
the nomination, the Utah delegates
would go to the president"
who is the favorite for vice Presi-
dent?"
1T has been discussed very little
Fairbanks. DOlliVeT. Governor Chill
and CortelyOu have been named as the
most likely possibilities. Fairbanks
/ makes an excellent vice president lie
is a strong presiding officer. careful ana
conscientious, an excellent man. I do
not think he has any chance to secure
| the nomination for the presidency
Still, he would make an excellent PRES
ident, most excellent"
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