The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-03
LOOSE YET FAR
FROM ELECTION
Many a Slip 'Twixt Cup and Lip
May BE Doughty COlonel's
Portion.
MORMON CHIEFS REQUIRE
SUBSERVIENT OBEDIENCE
LooSe's Baking of Last Spring
May BE Fatal to Chances
for Senate.

In all the talk that's going round
about the threatened appointment o;
George Sutherland 10 the supreme court
OF the United States. there is natural
outcropping Of the question. "Is IL GER
tain that Ed Loose viii 20 to the senate
in tho event that Sutherland is ap-
poinrcd?"
Strange as II may seem, there is moth
ing 80 absolutely certain about Looses q
selection people generally appear TO
think Instead OF certainty about Looscs 3
election. II is n question that the preS!-
don't OF the Mormon church will nsye
10 decide. and the deciding thereof viii
cause the hoary head of Joseph r. Smith
TO become hOarcr still.
The somewhat varicgatcd career OF
Colonel Loose in Utah church Republican
politics Is pretty = well known. II is
that service which Smool and tho Nor
mon church required of him. AZ nrsr the
service was performed uncomplaininely.
hut as Time went on Loose awakened 20
the fact that he was being made The
goat. with the result that. last spring.
Loose resigned as chairman OF ihe
church Republican state committee.
You see. Loose. long time ago, was
promised tho covcrnorshlp that was 10
he handed out two ycnrs ago. Unwri;ion
nistory IS that Joseph F; smiih. demand
cd that T.. H. Callister head OF the fed
eral bunch, be given the gubernatorinl
nominaiion. IL was made Ia apncar to
President Smith. however. tnat the Sc
lection of Caljistcr would he fatal mis-
take and WoVld surely result in disaster
The prophet saw the wisdom OF this line
of argument and agreed to let things
take their course !or the time being.
When spry Came In.
Just abou, this time there occurred
The now somewhat famous meeting of
sixteen" Al that meeting the names
were presented OF Loose, Callistrr and
sPiy Ia be voted upon by the Self-con-
YtrI ..fv =.
can party. The result OF the secret ballot
was that Loose received > votes. Calls
sc,S,in ,sr and spry . T;a, ya, was the r,' rs1l
boomed right merrily thereafter
Iocs" was pretty sore about Inc thing
but. on promise of being made senator
Whcu Sntherland's term expired, tae
Provo colonel was plscatcd and he put
up ms money once more, as had come
10 II" his custom. Hn was made chair |
man OF the church Republican state COM
INTO himself much glory and also was
given th" opportunity OF putting 40 tho |
money that was SIM needed after the |
brewers and liquor dealers had been
Wilkcd dry
Promise to Loose Joke.
Colonel Loose rested content and i,;dcd |
his time. FOR WAS not nc 10 become sena- |
ipr from the sovereign state of Utah In |
iall? Indeed he was. But Il so trans |
pred tDat the cards were stacked against |
Loose. and pretty soon great iight |
dawned upon him that the promise OF |
inc Hcpatorship was only Joke and |
lnai @ Sutherland was due for a return. |
Sutherland had earned The right To re- |
erection. you understand. because at no !
iime had be overlooked AN opportunity |
"iig"Htlr to serve the corpora tons and |
Smoot
When this soaked into Mr.. Loose's |
mead. he up and resigned the chairman
ship. lie was weary OF being The undcr
dog and he'd be Id il he was going
TO take the part OF a football any Longer
mr. Loose had good reason to be indis-
,Ht, nant he had been ins,lted right and |
iIsn- He had even been deprived OF hay
InS a voice In the naming of the posi-
master At Springville. in his own couutv
am nad been subjected TO many other
indlgnities. the chief OF which. however
continued 10 be his setting aside for the
pcrpctuation of Suthc rland '
Aier Loose resigned he went AWAY
'ie left word behind that under no cir
cumstances would no again accent Tho
cna,rlnanslnp OF The state COMMITTEES
Never Moreover, he wrote "A letter To-
10 run the church Republican campaivn
again. All Of this was itcrated and re-
mcrated at the Ogden convention, but
nouneemon, S peGpaf f5ai Mr ygad dd.o the an an;
once more been chosen cbair
iaann 9i me s'hte committee and had nc
Geptc9. And then they wondered how II
WAS 'hat man who had declared so hard
and so vigorously and so often Az had I
Colonel Loose that he would not accent
had indeed accepted.
Getting Sutherland Out Of Way.
just before Colonel Loose accepted. IL
OF Sutherland for federal district iudpc
ship Loose figured II out that such a
loD Tor Sutherland would be duck SCUM
Ior nimsci' so he conveniently forgot his |
oetcrminniion 10 refrain from being chair
man, for. with Southerland out of tho
way, le would. he thought. bc sure to be
spp1iniea si,,Snr,e by Governor Spry to take
Suthcriand place in the senate Then
lney boosted sutherland for member OF
The Interstate commerce com mission aud
now ivr ihe supreme court bench What
ever tney DO with Suthc rlnnd the mad
10 Inc senate Is clear for Loosc--maybe
" might have happened that Governor
npny n would have appointed Loose. but |
again II might have happened that Spry
might have appointed his dear friend
colonel Jacklng. Jacklng, being an in
Innate friend OF the governor. and also
snug deficit for the "Gmlet'' every month
was entitled TO some considerable lack
Ing friends thought. Loose, however.
was willing To take his chances against
.lackling with Spry. but he wouiJ nrs
fer 10 take them with the lcrisIntnrc
and now. II President Taft innicts Suth,
eriand upon the nation as n supreme
court justice. and does il Quick cnnugS
I.oose will have the opportunity OF yoinr
before the august body that makes n bufS |
Utah. ~
When Loose Baked.
How kindly the legisla turc will ,reat
i,oose remains To be Secn. Probably ~
the Legislature were left To it's own de-
VICES loose would be It's choice for sem
ator. hut there is every reason to 10
Iieve that the legislature will not bo |
Icft 10 It's own devices
The chiefs OF the Mormon church re-
call how Loose jumped the trIces onIv
insi spring and how lie refused 10 stand |
htcned until "A fresh bowl OF SOP was
sol before him. The chiefs VIII besi
rate with customary caution I'm sending
n man 10 the federal senate who has
shpnn HyniptoIus-rerc though the out
oreGh-os some individual irdepeudencc
1ne horuon leaders will take precious
good cs,-c that tho Utah legislature sends
a man To Washington who will in cvery
way be ut companion for the apostIe
senator and who Will be AS docilc IA |
George Sutherland has been II may be
tnui Loose made fatal mistake when
ne Haired up last spring. Time alono Will