The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12
Democrats and Republicans
Each TO Hold a State
Convention.
FEDERAL GANG UNEASY
Principal Contest VIII Be
Over The Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman.

Utah politicians and politicians
will be busy this week. On Tuesday,
| in this city, will be held the Demo
cratic state convention. which will
elect delegates to the Democratic ma
tional convention III Baltimore and also
will elect national committeeman. On
Wednesday, at Provo, the Republican
state convention will be held for the
purpose Of electing delegates to the
! Republican national convention at Chi
| cago.
! At the Democratic convention, the
main fight will be over national COM
mittceman. an office which is being
sirennouslv sought by number OF the
leading Democrats of the state. Each
Of the candidates for the position is
being strongly backed and the fight
promises TO he an interesting one.
w. NJ. Roylance OF Provo, who has
been mentioned prominently In con
nection with thc office OF national
committeema, said to The Tribune yes
terday that he was not candidate and
could not accept the honor even were
it rendered to him unanimously. Mr.,
Rovlancc added. however, that lie would
like TO go TO Baltimore as a delegate TO
the national convention. AS compared
with this contest, the selection of dele"
gates to the national convention will
be Il tame affair. Wilson and Clark
arc the leading candidates for presi-
Dental support, with Wilson apparently
far in the lead, but so little interest is
being taken in the matter that il can-
not be accurately stated whether or
not the New Jersey man will land.
Federal Bunch in Dilemma.
There is promise of an unusually in"
tereStrng contest at Provo over the mat
ter Of iustructing the delegates. 1t is
we'll known that the federal bunch has
found itself in predIcament. While
Senator Smoot and the remainder Of
the congressional delegation should be
for Roosevelt, because of the fact that
he used his high office in order to pre-
vent Smoot from being thrown out of
the senate. they, together with the fed
cral bunch, have switched ostensibly
to Taft.
Anybody who knows anything about
the federal bunch, knows, of course,
that it is for Taft only Just as long
as it believes that Taft can be nom
mated, and. whether instructed or not,
if the bunch can prevail it would
switch to Roosevelt, or any other prob
ably successful candidate at the ma
tional convention, if convinced that
Taft could not be nominated. In view
of all this, the federal bunch is in a
dilemma. The bunch and its organ
have been insisting that the delegates
should be instructed for Taft, but this
was before Roosevelt had shown any
tion has changed and the bunch is in
a auandary. If it instructs and votes
for Taft in the national convention,
and Roosevelt should be elected, the
fat offices now held by the bunch and
its hangers on would last about one
minute after Roosevelt was inaugural
ed. The bunch. of course, Is abundant
lv aware Of this fact, and it does not
propose to be caught mapping. if it can
bunch will make bluff at instructing
the state delegates for Taft. after
W which it will indorse the Taft admins
tration, and leave the delegates free to
hop with the nimble cat at Chicago,
when it is ascertained Just how this
member Of the feline species proposes |
to Jump.
Borne Out by Fact.
This view is borne out by the fact
that the Utah delegation was instruct
ed for Roosevelt four years ago and |
switched TO Taft, despite its instruc
tons. when it became apparent that
Roosevelt was out Of the running. IN
his connection it might also be well
10 refer to the fact that w. d. Liy
pgStou, vice president of the Roosevelt |
,lub In Utah, who was then, as now, Il
Roosevelt supporter, had prepared 81
Ieconding speech, which he proposed
%, but did not, fire of at the national
This speech. which is said
% be tho "best ever delivered by Mr.
livingston is thought still to be in
MS possession, as good as new, and
nay yet come in handy
At the Republican convention it is
possible. but not probable, that a sue
lessor to Colonel G. T.. Loose, as ma
ional committeeman, may be elected
IS Colonel Loose has not resigned this
,flice, however, such action could not
De taken, without openly insulting him
md it is hardly believed that the fed
,ral bunch will 20 TO this length. Col
mel Loose has rendered his resignation
is chairman of the Republican state
committee. but his successor in that (
position will be chosen by the new Re /:
publican state committee and the state
Will have nothing TO do {
With the matter. I
The Democratic convention il this [
itv will meet at the Salt Lake theater {
i II o CLOCK Tuesday morning, with
:. G, Richards Of Ogden as temporary
hartman. The Republican convention
will meet in the opera house at Provo 5
1 the same hour Wednesday morning I
With Senator Carl A. Badger prcsid. :
ne.
Face Robbery Charge
On complaint Of a man who refused :.
0 disclose his name, Belle Maloc and f
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