Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-30
MUNICIPAL HONORS.
The Inspired Convention Distributes
the 0fIlcial Rewards To-Day.
Francis Armstrong Nominated for
Mayor by Order OF MikadO
j. Taylor.
A New Marshal from the Ranks OF
the KnOt.Hole Brigade.

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a sprinkling OF visitors present-all OF the
Peoples party.
T. V. Williams nominated 7. G. Web
Der for chairman, and the motion was
unanimously sustained
Mr.. Weber acknowledged very briefly
the honor thrust upon him, and assumed
the chair.
Mr.. @. L. Wilcox was elected secretary.
j. II. Parry, II. p. Richards, A. E..
Hyde, T. V. Williams and John N. Pike
were appointed committee on creden-
tails, and proceeded to discharge the duty
of that office.
A term of silence followed until the
committee offered its report, when on mo-
ton the Secretary called the roll of the
convention, which showed full attend
ance to man. The temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent, and Charles
Grove elected doorkeeper and Bishop
John Tingey chaplain.
A motion was made by Eli A. POLAND
to exclude everybody from the conven-
ton but representatives and one reporter
for each paper. John N. Pike, T. ".
Williams and A. E. Hyde opposed the
| IuOtlOu anu IL WAS WltiiuTuWH.
The alternates, on motion of j. N. Pike,
were accorded voice in the proceedings,
but no vote.
Chaplain Tingey offered prayer.
A motion by II. j. Richards to appoint
a committee Of seven on nominations was
supplemented by an amendment to have
the committee composed of two delegates
from each precinct, and another to add
one alternate to the committee to make
it eleven. j. N. Pike, III. j. Richards
and 7. V. Williams urged the adoption of
the original motion, and Councillor Dean
spoke in favor of having The nominations
made viua voce. A standing vote was
called on the amendment and it was car
ried by a meagre majority.
The original motion as amended was
then put to the House and received an
almost unanimous vote on the a.firma-
tive. During the consideration OF the
question Joseph Hyrum Smith Parry
and one or two others got horribly mixed
up and called for several explanations.
Il. F. Parry moved to consider the mo-
ton and was promptly sat down upon.
The chair announced the following
committee: L. M. Weller, II. j. Rich
ards, III. A. Woolley, j. II. Parry, Geo.
F. Gibbs, Alonzo Young, John Tingey,
I. V. Williams and E. +. Parry, and
these gentlemen repaired to the ante
room to make up the ticket.
During their absence "The Hon. } oseph
9. Rich" was called for by r. r. Irvine
for n speech, but the Bear Lake Demo-
crat considered it out of order, as he was
not a representative. After some talk
back and forth, Mr.. Irvine explained that
he did not believe in sitting like num-
mics, and had thought "any kind of q
speech would be better than none."
This remark convulsed the entire assem-
blage except Mr.. Irvine, who made the
remark quite innocently, and Mr.. Rich,
who failed to appreciate the joke.
A. w. Carlson responded in the first
speech OF the occasion, which was devoted
to recitation Of the point brought up at
the primary in his precinct in reference
to the deplorable state of the streets in
that part of the city. The meeting there
instructed its delegates to nominate men
for the City Council who would consider
this. Mr.. j. N. Pike arose and COM
mented at some length on this subject,
asserting that the Councillors from the
precinct he represented (Third) had not
done their duty in the matter of influence
ing the work on the streets OF that local
ity.'
| Mr.. Dean, who is City Councillor
from the Third precinct, defended both
himself and the Council from these as
PERSONS and stated that one-fourth of
the entire city taxes are expended on the
streets. He contrasted the taxes of Salt
Lake with those of Omaha, which were
SO per cent, while our own are only half
of one per cent. Besides this he said
ex-Mayor Feramoz Little while in
Omaha had inquired of the Street Super
visor there, as to the manner of raising
the funds with which to meet the big ex-
penses involved in paving and grading
the roads OF that city. The reply was
that the expense was met by special
taxation levied on the property along
which these street improvements were
made.
Mr.. Eli A. POLAND made very spirited
speech, calling attention to the objection
able state OF the street along which the
Utah d Nevada runs. He said there
were some stagnant pools in that locality
which could not fail to produce dph-
iberia, and demanded that the matter re-
ceive the consideration of the incoming
Council, asserting that he would cast his
vote Tor men whom hefelt confident would
urge this matter. His speech was the
and was greeted with a round of an.
plause.
George ]. Dent from the fourth precinct
expressed his endorsement of the re-
marks on city taxes and city streets. and
regretted that the nominating committee
DID not contain person interested in the
Dry Bench water question. He with
most OF his constituents had suffered
hardsbips for the want OF water, and he
hoped that something would yet be done
TO secure for them some favorable influ-
ence IN the municipal government. Mr.
A. IL. Hide suggested that the last speaker
be permitted to visit the Nineteenth ward
and get wet once.
AT this juncture the committee on
nomination returned and handed their
report to the chairman, who in turn an
announced their discharge after the re-
port had been accepted.
The following is the ticket as made up
by the committee and adopted by the
convention, each name being put sepa-
rately before the meeting and thus voted
upon. The only name excepted TO was
mat OF Junius Il. Wells, for whom the
name OF j. Fewson Smith was substi-
tuted by James Evans OF the Fourth pre
cinct. John N. Pike and several Others
favored the change, but when put 10 n
vote the effort was defeated by healthy
majority;
THE TICKET.
Mayor-Francis Armstrong.
Aldermen-First Precinct, w. W
Ritter; Second Precinct, +. q. Webber.
lhird Precinct, Francis Cope; Fourth