The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-05
question. Unoficially, it is known
that anti polygamY will be espoused :
owing to the action Of Mormons in en-

D convention held In the territory, VINE
9 delegates were elected in dozens frol
4 the hall after failing to answer the cal
8 ehism of dyed-in- the-wool Demo
J Gratis, who were not to be i'm
+ posed upon by any speciou
returns from the alleged gprimsrieS
, Utah is here with an object and will
| not squander time in passing thei
; claims on the convention.
, "The Territory has sufficient popula
, ton TO demand admission as State,
said Mr.. r. @. Chambers, chairman o.
the delegation, "but we insist that they
do not rank as citizens as they cling
to the Peoples ticket. which rs nomin-
ated by the Mormon element
and refuse 10 accept Democratic
or other doctrines that are
not approved by their elders. At on,
last convention, held in Ogden, the
Mormon delegates were rejected when
subjected to cross fire from our COM
mittee on credentials. They made q
clear backdown and resolved to cling to
church. All we have to do is to fight
in the convention to prevent an inter
meddli"g Congress from interfering in
our affairs, OF which it knows absolutely
nothing, We want to prevail on Re
publicans and Democrats to recognize
Utah in its true light and open their
| eyes to the fact that the Mormons have
not politics outside of church and
are not entitled to citizenship"
| Mr.. Farley l.. Williams will represent
the Territory on the convention resolH-
| tons. He is armed for the fray with a
library of statistics, and will essay to
force on both political parties the anom-
alous situation which exists in Utah
according to his assertion. He
objects to the usual polygamous
plank which appears in the Republican
and Democratic platforms every cam :
paign and will make fight on differ :
| ent issue. The Mormon or church ele-
achieve their aim, the polygamous fac
ton has striven to secure recognition as
o State under a constitution which they
think would secure free religion,
| the privilege of perpetuating Mormon
principles. The Democratic delegation,
| assisted by Col. Ferry, the national
| com mitteeman from Utah, is opposed
TO admission and will demand from the
convention an expression of repug-
| nance OF polygany when coupled
| with an application for citizenship.
From the first; there has been some
thing queer about the altitude of the
Ohio delegation. 1t has talked for
Thurman, but has not been enthusiastic
in his behalf, and the matter was dis.
cussed for more than an hour in the
meeting of the delegation this after
noon. The result was the endorsement
of l thurman, though it was with much
difficulty that any OF the anti-Thurmsn's
were won over. A resolution was offered
by Delegate Baker, pledging the Ohio
delegation to vote for Thurman if his
name was presented to the convention
This was in the nature of a compromise.
as maj GRITTY of the delegates wanted
TO make Thurman the Ohio candidate
to be presented by the State while
others opposed them outright. Forty
four delegates for the resolution and
two delegates did not vote. Now
York and many other States were
Ohio would take and at their meeting
this evening joined the Thurman pro
cession. Governor Gray, the manager,
probably will not put the favorite
name before the convention. If the
nomination of Thurman, which now
seems foregone conclusion, is not
satisfactory to the hundreds OF dele
gates, who have been impressed by the
talk concerning his age and infrmity,
the cry of the Gray boomers You
want Indiana in Noyembe don't you?
How are you going to win without
Indiana, and how are you going to carry
Indiana without an Indiana man on
the ticket? have been used with
so much effect that many delegates be-
lieve serious mistake is eeing made by
the nomination of man rs years old,
who lived in State which is generally
regarded as reliably Republican. Cor
mans abandonment of Gray means a
good Geal more than the nomination of
Thurman. 1t means truce between
the two factions Of the party which
have been skiImishing before each
others position for two or three days.
The forces were led on one
side by Congressman Scott, rep
resenting the Administration, and
on the other by Senator Cor
msn. The latter was supported
by German, Barnum and several
nat onal committeeman who wanted
the platform of 1884, affirmed
without any embarrassment of the Pres.
ident's messages or one SO moderate
in tone as not to offend the high tariff
voters of the east. German wants to
be chairman of the committee On res
olutions and made an earnest canvass
for the place among the verious State
delegations. His argument was that
the party would lose New York
and other eastern states if the
platform was made too strong in |
the direction low tariff, and that the
platform which carried the country in
1884 was certainly good enough to carry |
it with in 1883, At the same time, Cor |
man made feint at supporting Gray in
opposition to Thurman, and succeeded |
in bringing on so much of reaction |
from the wave of Thurman sentiment |
that there was little uncertainty as to
lis final outcome. Desirin peace
above all things, aud being o
little worried at the show of
strength which the opposition was
Scott, to-day, committed to
com promise. This compromise is IN the
nature of wholesale arrangements of
business which the convention was
called 20 transact. The temporary
craftsmanship IS TO go to Inc California
candidate, Governor White. General
Collins is to be permanent chairman.
German is to go on as chairman of the
committee on resolutions. The traffic
platform is to be repetition of the
blank of 1884, the President being en-
iorsed as wise and faithful and patri-
,tic executive in another section of the
document. Scott is to be chairman OF