The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-25
IDAHO POLITICS
The Democratic Hosts Are GATH
ering Today.
THE THIRD PARTY's CONVENTION
POeateliO VIII Greet the Democratic Coaven.
ton TOday-Plenty of Good Tihr
Der for Chicago.

PocATELLo, Idaho, May 24.-lSpecial t.
The HERALD. The busy sounds OF
preparation for the Democratic convention
are heard on every hand and by noon of to-
day the stalwarts OF the party will be here
In force to attend the meeting; to lay down
a platform, TO choose the six delegates to
: Chicago, and to take steps to strengthen
and cement the party throughout tbs state.
Pocatello will do herself proud in enter
tanning her visitors, who conc from every
one of the eighteen counties of the state "a
give greeting to the latest town which en-.
rolled itself on the side Of the Democracy
90 many names are heard as probatl.
timber for Chicago, that 1 shall not ven
ture tonight to name them; but the great
number ana the strength and popularity OF
all show splendidly the excellent shape in
which the party finds itself this year.
The convention will be called to order at
noon tomorrow and Will consist of ninety.
six delegates. About one-half the number
are already on the ground and all day the
most animated and busy of conferences
have been going on around the hotels and
on the street corners.
As fast as delegates arrive they are
taken in tow by a reception committee
named by Mayor Bennett, and every spare
room in the city has been booked by the
committee. The hotel corridors are filled
with cots which will be occupied by the
delegates and visitors for whom 1t is i'm
possible to secure room.
The following gentlemen comprise the
reception committee: H. b. Kfmpers,
chairman: G. b. Wheeler, n. P. Nielsen,
Thomas Terrill, j. B. Mulliu, A. N.
Stevenso OF, J. c. Brashear, A. w. Woodin,
Frank Bean, r. P. Sims, T. Holcomb
John Milton, w. Rouse, J. c. Corners, r.
L. Schudy, G. r. Kimport. A. N. Bagley,
L. D. Wilbur, S. J. Robinson, W. NJ VIM,
Thomas Watts, E. B. Hamilton. Z. Gillett,
T. F. Kane.
So many names are heard tonight as
candidates for Chicago that it would be I'M
possible to make any forecast with any hope
of naming the right ones. Besides the big
delegation from Boise consisting of SUCH
men as Ainslie, Hawley and Stevenson Will
not arrive until morning on their special
/, Pullmans, and certainly no slate would be
thought of during their absence.
Ainslie Hawley, Mayhem, Burke, Ben
nett and Wilson are names that are fire.
ouently mentioned.
Frank Bean of Blackfoot is prominently
named for a member of the nationa- com
mi.tee. 1t is said the permanent chsir-
man will be given to the northern part Of
, the state At least one of the gentlemen
named in the list of probable delegates
may be regarded as mot IN it,n that is if
the assurance of members from his own
7 county can be relied on. This is the law
yer, Albert Hogan. who is said
to have been a strong probability
I until he espoused the side of the mine own.
ers against the miners in the Wallace
trouble. The Shoshone delegation is
against him and is working hard to secure
> his defeat
] Among the prominent Democrats already
e on the ground are Alexander Mayhem
: John Burke, Phil. Tillinghast, Frank Bean
: E. B. True, ]. w Eden, w. G. Lane, A
= Aulbach, s. p Donnelly, n. U. Murphy
9 and R. L. Wood. Mr.. Aulbach is the Demo
cratic editor at Wallace, who was enioineC
5 from publishing an editorial which Re
q publican Judge thought was going to ex
2 press sympathy for the striking miners
: He denies most vigorously the report tele
graphed THE HERALD from Boise tina
miners had stopped a train load OF so
''scabs" John NJ. Burke and Hon. Alex
Mayhem confirm him, and all say the re
ports from Wallace as to the need Of troop
" are utterly without foundation and alto
gether sensational and false.