Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-22

-NA5AN iA4Nt SGtAIE4 the Strength
Necessary to ensure victory.
At ten minutes past eight tn
convention was called TO order.
Judge Powers mOved n vote O
thanks tc the retiring county com
rnittee.
GIeenwali moved to amend t.
make the vote a rising one
AdoTted and Powers motion pre-
vailed.
SNOW moved that chairmen O
delegations stand in their place
IN announcing the votes Of thei
delegations.
| Critchlow moved that if a reces
be taken this evening, II be at Il
O'Clock. Lost.
The chair stated that nomination
for county clerk We're in order.
Judge Powers nominated, in an
extayagantly laudatory speech, c
+. Alien.
( Il. G. Chambers moved to sus
pend the rules and nominate Allen
by reclamation. Carried. At this
the tickets having Aliens name,
were thrown in a shower over the
f, floor, there being no further use fol
them.
MEAllen then maIe q briefspeech
expressing his pride and grautud,
al being placed in the position ht
found himself in. He expressed
the greatest confidence that the
Liberal-'' would win the present
county election, ami that they would
send The next Gelegate to Congress
/ from Utah.
The chair next called for nOmina-
| lions for county recorder. There
Yas a long and ineXplicable pause,
. til G.. ". Bennett rose TO speak.
! He slid he was about 10
l name q man who had a national
, reputation; that he came 10 Utah
| when she was in actual rebellion
against the government, and
! brought order out o. chaos. His
! candidate had. he said, Established
/ the fort on the hill which had given
I Us peace. - and had put a stop TO In
+ dian difficulties IN this region; had
! first developed the mining resources
Z Of this Territory; had been identi-
fed with the Territory since 1852,
and had bcen chairman Of the first
"Liheral'' convention. In cOnclu-
/ sion Mr.. Bennett named Gen. p. l..
Common.
\. ID. EEIn made q speech second
Z ing this nomination, claiming 10
have known Gen. CounUr since the
/ speaker was a boy, and that there
was uo hlgmi-i on the character of
the candidate. He drew 4 COMPARE
son between General Connor and
: Gladstone.
Atthis juuCtIre there was great
enthusiasm for COnn0r. and mo
ton % nominate him 10y acclama-
tiuu was hailed with cheers.
\ member tried 20 place another
name before the convention, but the
chair ruled him out Of order, and il
looked as J.: COuuOr WAS about 10 20
i'm on a uiE wave Of sudden enthusi-
asGl. when Mr.. Bowman made the
point OF urlC. thai the convention
lad adopted a method OF choosing
DauaiLlle- 10y ballot, which cOula
ac set aside only 10y suspension Of
the rules, which had not been done.
The chair sustained Mr.. Bowman
aud ruled further nominations in
order.
The lius: halo. plainly showed
that General Conner had not in
reality any show NJ all. and that the
enthusiasm was nothing hu. a sham,
hollow and empty.
Judge Judd then nominated
Henry PAGE remarkinS that he MS
IN tine Union army while the
speaker was in the Confederate
army. and that they differed in poll
ties. But tHc speaker gladly lent
Mr.. Page his support. He related
the conduct of Grant at Apron
ma.tuN. and SAID Henry Page was
one o.. tire Onion oGicors there who
followed Grants n.asIsnimUus eX-
ample.
Z. j.. Stanton made an enthusiast
tie speech endorsing the nOmina-
ton NJ Col. Page.
Judge Cui.uIu made speech
rsc.uutiug the merits d his favUrite.
naming. Il. :. McCailum. He
asked. lis ur, the man who has ie-
voted his great genius To your cause
NOT entitled 10 rewlrj?' He
stated II some length the claims his
candidate had upon the "Liberal'
PARTY.
Jake GreeuwarI seconded the
ramira.iou Of NCClllum, say
iuz: His work is all there.
He's worker" The speaker
praised .he manner ia which his
candidate Eai swellei the reEistra-
-5au az i..- glay, ana said the cry
a-.dg>. asu was the Mormon
CRY. which some "LibCEa!s' were
liable o. take up.
Mr.. NaTlau rose TO speak, and was
ETea-=i with applause. He made
81 gTaGa!loqueut, speech pr
laTltyrv b naming his camdi-
Gate. who, he said, had been born
in [ tab under conditions which APP
pallci true Americans, and had.
alone, cmsucipateu himself, anu
~toui free American citizen. lie
had stood without reward. or hope
OF reward; had been a "Liberal''
when there was 10 Liberal party.
and had carried the ''LiberIl'' ban
n-r into the heart Of tine Mormon"
citadel. There vas a large quantity
ut additional talk ia this strain EN-
hraevd IN Mr.. Narian's speech, which
was wound up with TIE name Of
Frank l.. Kimball.
At this Powers rose for the second
timcanI complained Of Interference
I'm the proceedings 10y persons in the
galleries. w. a. Stanton. sergeant
alarms, declared that no person in
the gallery WAS doing anything
8mis>. After a threat by the chair
To clear the galleries, the business
sf the convention was resumed.
+. B. Stevens made a Mandatory
speech sccOnGiaC the nomination Of
r. d. Kimb9ll. He reminded the
convention that two years ago Kim
hall r2u over so ahead OF his tic
set.
Col. Ferguson said the candidate
whom he supported, PERHAPS I'M
fortunately, in view Of what had
been said. mad been born a frecAmer-
lean. lie h.Id never had 10 emanci-
pate himself. His parents were
free, amt SO had he been from his
birth. Il had not been necessary
for him 10 crawl out OF 4 Mormon,
cradle into the Liberal, camp to
obtain liberty. He WIS simply a
plain American. Col. Ferguson
closed 10y naming II. =. McCallum.
II. ". Lawrence made a warm
speech ia favor of Kimball, and
was followed IN the same strain by
T.. l.. Williams.
J.. Il. Clute made n speech in
favor of rJge. He said that when
the Mormon" hirelings came down
and demanded As public records
what were not. Mr.. Page had the
backbone 10 refuse the application.
J. X. Gillespie made an enthusi-
astic speech i'm support Of kimball.
Prot. Beuner endorsed the nOmi-
rE4ffuu OT X Fu1lfal s.N1p l. tn.