The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-19
SMOOT BUTTING IN
ON CHURCH TICKET
Church Republicans Maxine
Every Effort to Fuse With
Citizens-DemOcrats.
ATTEMPT is MADE TO
DlSPLACE W. E. ylGUS
Fusion is Effected in the Fourth
Ward Between the Church
Parties.

WANTED-N FEW luGH.cI.ss
scers. rcvciatogs. clairvoyants and onss nas
romanccrs, who individually or coec-
tively. can dgurc out. or make q birIii a,
0crrring out. what tic church Rnm,hin, III
cans and the church Citizens Domncrn,,
will eventually do on fusion Tho riyL,
man. or men, VIII have u clnch Plen1,,
of mazuna. Apply TO church RcpublIcags
headquarters. Citizens Democratic heal
quarters. George Wilson. Sam King Tn,.
Fitzgerald stephen Stanford. or mos,
anybody else in the church parties,
Possibly but not probably, some limo
between now and November >. tho dav
of the election, The general public vii;
he made acquainted with the counc;l
manic ticket which the church Reuubl;.
can and the Citizens Democratic parties
propose 10 rnn.
At thc present time nobody dares ven.
turc n guess I'm spite of the fact tha,
the SmoOt contingent IN the church Re-.
publican city committee has declared
time and time again that il did not
propose 10 fuse with ANYBODY, the toolr
of the apostolic ambassador to Wash.
ingtou are still doing their utmost lo
effect combinations wherever possible
and their actions prove concnsiyely.
that their protestations are not on the
square.
I nc IJ'l - AIldl sNut''l JbBEIF0l- are
doing their utmost 10 effect fusion
wherever ther eau secure the better Of
the deal. hut in this they arc sadly
handicapped by the insurgents. who
virtually control the situation and WIN
would rather 90 down to defeat with
straight Republican ticket. miriam,
meled hv tho pcrnicIoUs Influence Of
Smooi, than 70 win with a hybrid or.
ganlZation.
Answer Is Apparent,
Monday an effort was made TO dis.
place w T.. Nigus. in the Second ward.
and put George T. Burbidge in his
place. NiguS IS Gentle. who served
two years in thc city council. Bur
hidgc is q Mormon. There is the
answer, when IL is explained that Bur.
hidgc j. the Citizens Democratic nomi..
nee in the Second ward. When the al
tempt WAS made on substitution there
was hollcr that could be heard a.
block. and Nigus is still on the ticket,
The hollcr was made by the insurgcnt
element on the city committee and il
went -
Fusion. however. between The church
parties has been effected in thc Fourth
ward. The itiZcuS-Democrat met Mon
day evening and substituted Joseph
Kimball, short term candidate for the
council. for Judge o. w. Powers. long.
term candidate. who had resigned, and
endorsed W. r. AtlSin, short-term caUdi.
date. nominated by the Republicans.
An effort also was made to get Ia
eether in the First but no decision wss
reached The candidates in the Second
are Frank j. Hewlett, substitute forI.
II. Murdoch, OIL both the Republisau
and Citizens Democratic tickets, and !.
G.. McAllister. straight Republican can
didatc. The Democrats want Joe Hyde'
10 succeed ono OF the other NOMINEES,
but there was d deadlock and the mat
ter is still IN the air. Another meeting
will he held nj noon today, at which
decision will he reached.