The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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THE Nellie Boyd troupe are at the
Chapman House.
COLD, drilling, n1onotonous rain for
the Liberal convention v4s ~
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mack arrived
from the north this ifoFhsdlg.
Hon. L. w. Shurtliff and lady came
down from Logan this morning.
+ IS. IRs. PARKINSON superintendent of
the Franklin Coop, IS in the city.
THE D. & R. G. was two hours late
last nights andthe G. r. delayed start
Ing until lts7arriyals r -,
CHIEF 3ofythe railway mail service,
Orchard, informs US that 200 sacks of
mail matter are transferred by the pos
tai employees Of this city each day. /,
D, The Leap, Year dance at the Broom
Hotel occurs next Wednesday evening.
The ladies are making elaborate pre-
fParations, intending gtltatithiS bali shall
he the event of the season, + ro
<. Asthe Northern rallied JIM, this. morn
ing, four. happy faces stepped off the
train. Their smiling t6untenances at
tracted attention. and betOkehed Il that
something unUsuall had happened.
Your reporter by,dipt of inquiry ascer
tanned that they were returning from
Logan, Where they had been Joined in
the holyrbonds of wedleck. They were
respectively, Mr.. Haskell Shurtliff and
Miss Anna FOlkman, and Mr., John Y.
Bluthe and Miss Anna Farley.
AT. 3 o'clock this !" afterrn9oo5nn, the
County Convention of the liberal Party.
of Weber Couht5ft6Onveneds Nathan
Kimball was elected ohairm2A, and E.
! A. Mcdaniel isecFetarys The chairman
i,stated that 9they had met together for
kthe purpose offs electing tenfdelegates to-
1.-The Territorial Convention which meets
son3the 9Th instr The following gentle
men } were placed lin nomination
and elected as delegates :-,r KimbalI ;
Bean, Mcdaniel, Skeen, Beardsley
stephens, Salisbury, Preshaw, Silva and
tQuirks Z. A. Mcdaniel then arose and
lmoyed thatthe delegates be instructed
! present a, resolution to the cenyen-
tionI setting forth that it was. the desire
of the Weber County Liberals that a
i candidate benoninated to run in oppO-
sition to the 4pFiesthood's choice
4 PeiYee Quirk, a couHty-delegate, thought
i Mcl9anieRs resolution was quite anus
ing, and wanted to know why they
I
! Lake ;. if 1t was not the; intention of the
Territorial convention to run a candi-
datefop Congress. :MeDaniels explained
| that some OF the, Liberals realized that
| their chances were, So terribly hopeless
| that they did not favor the nomination
of a delegate. The m9tion was then put
ton the convention and, carried. Mr..
| Mcdaniel next made the startling sug-
tgestion that the delegates be empowered
to present a resolution to the IeOnyen-
! tons fayering a change in the name OF
| the, grand oldparty under whose ban
! ners- they We're to ride to victory
ratrthe X coming election, and to
recommend that 5he name Liberal be
discarded, and the, more glorious prefix
/ of American be adopted Captain Smith
approved the change, because the name
Liberal might be rIpiscOnStrued, to mean
free thinkers, % General Kimball opposed
! the motion, and said the name Liberal
was peculiarly appropriate to the party.
4 Major Stephens stated that al patriotic
and loyal citizens would be more, than
! anxious -toceproll themselves as one OF
! the American party. =, Mr.. Hprd; doubted
| the proprietY of the change, because it
would undoubtedly bring down upon
! their heads, the fury and wrath of tie
llhe. felt ,sppremely indifferent to any
\ thing that the Ogden Herald might say
and furthermore, that the, distinction
| between. the. Peoples party, and the
American party was synonymous with
the difference between an American
citizen and a-Mormon. Mr.. McDahiels
| had, given the question eopsidera-
! tion,, and had, arrived at the de-
! termination : that the word Liberal
Ibid. not embody all, the dignity and
elevated ideas for which the party was
! so widely celebrated, Discussion being
ended, the motion, was placed before the
convention, and carried. a motion to
adjourn was. next made and carried
unanimously -..r ~ ~. 49, VIVIAN. b
OGDEN, October 2, 1884. tad