The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-19

called for the purpose of electing a new
committee. We have no heeitancy in say
ing that in our Judgment this was proper
and right, aud we believe that the leading
and influential Gentiles Of the territory
have joined in this movement for party
division.
We found the people in Utah as ready,
as anxious and as willing to receive Demo
cratic doctrine as any where else in the
country, and we believe that to deny the
regular organization of the Democratic
party admission to the Chicago convention
would simply be turning the territory over
TO the Republican party, and would insure
1t a Republican stale when it shall be ad-
mitted.
We therefore most earnestly Join in the
annexed statement and protest. Signed,
CnAUNcEY +. BLACK,
LAWRENCE GARDNER,
CHAs. j. FAULKNER,
w. ID. B7NUM.
Tho following also forms part OF the
documentary testimony:
coRcoRAN's OATH.
TERRITor OF UTAH,
COUNTY OF SALT LAKE. 3D.
/, Phil Corcoran, being first duly sworn,
upon oath say. l am the person referred to
In the hereunto attached newspaper clip
ping; that / was regularly elected and ac-
cepted member of the Democratic conyen-
ton that on Saturday, May q, 1892, elected
o. w. Powers and Fred j. Kiesel as dele
gates TO the Democratic national conven-
tirn to be held in Chicago; that the an
nexed newspaper account of part of the
transactions OF said convention is correct
statement of the facts, with this explana-
ton: That the committee on resolutions,
OF which Mr.. Hies was chairman, reported
adversely on said resolutions, which re-
port was accepted by the convention.
Phil CoRcoRAN.
Subscribed in my presence eud sworn to
before me this 23d day of May, A. D. 1892.
JOHN b. TIMMoNY, Notary Public.
The annexed clipping referred to is a
newspaper extract containing the resolu-
tlons introduced in the Liberal Democratic
convention by Phil Corcoran and unani-
mously squelched by the committee of
which Ogden Hiles, Powers partner, was
chairman. The resolutions, as all Utah
readers know, affirm alliance to the Liberal
party in local affairs, but contain the pro-
viso that "for the Office of delegate to Con
gress, that being q national office,we pledge
ourselves to vote only for Democrat 9
proviso altogether too inflammatory and
revolutionary in character for a Democratic
convention for an instant to tolerate.
WHERE WE'RE THEY FROM!
AT the same time was submitted very
significant affidavit sworn to by w. w
Woodring of Mount Pleasant Utah, who
says that both he and Mr.. Abner Crane
registrar of Sanpete county, carefully ex-
amined the list of registered voters of that
county for the past two years
and that they failed to find sny OF
representatives from Sanpete county to
the Liberal Tuscarora Democratic conven-
ton, on said iists.n The names are j. NJ
Denny, j. H. Hammond, T. Mccullough and
Louis Bamberger. Furthermore officials
say that after the most diligent INQUIRY
among the 1900 voters of said county he
can not find that said duly accredited rep.
resentatives" were ever heard of in the
county.
Then comes the following breezy bit Of
private history, signed by the gentleman
of various-cognomen Tatlock
To Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify that the undersigned
was delegate from Salt Lake City, Utah
territoy, to the Liberal Republican Tusca
rora convention, held at Salt Lake City or
the 18th cay of May, 1892, and was at the
same time member of the TerritorIa
Liberal Republican convention.
That the said convention was called fol-
II noon on the said date; that after the
convention had been called to order and
the temporary chairman and Temporary
secretary had been selected and some pre-
liminary business done, a recess was taken
that the delegates from the respective
counties might consult together and organ.
ize; that the delegates from Salt Lake
county were requested to meet in the
dressing room at the rear of the stage OF
the theatre building in which the conven.
ton was held; that while said delegates
were on their way to the room designated
for the purpose of such consultation and
organization, and while the undersigned
was on his way to the same room, he came
! in contact with Hon. O. w. Powers, c.. B.
Glenn and some others of the so-called
Tuscarora Democrats, who were going in
the direction OF the room designat
for the Salt Lake Democrats tc
meet in. That either the said Powers
or Glenn said in the presence anG
hearing of the other to the undersigned
substantially this: ''to suppose we are
entitled TO be present with the Salt Lake
delegates at this consultation" Where
upon the speaker was informed by the
undersigned that they were entitled to b,
present if they were delegates to the con.
vention, otherwise they were not. anc
would not be admitted The undersigned
reported to the delegates or some of them
when assembled in the room for consulta
ton, that these men were proposing II
meet with the delegates in consultation
and steps were at once taken 10 prevent
the said parties from entering the room o,
taking part in the deliberations of the saic
delegates.
Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah, May 26
1897 h. w. TATLoCK.
MORE AFFIDAvITs.
1.-THE affidavits of Colonel S. A. Merritt
and Judge A. G. Norrell chairman apc
secretary of the original territorial centra
committee, elected by the convention OF
May 2, 1888, give ''she retort courteous. y Il
not 1.-The lie Direct to Mr.. c. w. Hail
This gentleman has an att1davit in the Tus
carora pamphlet stating that he was tenn
porary secretary of the convention. anc
that the central committee then appointed
was chosen for the term of four wears
Colonel Merritt and Judge Norrell posi-
lively swear that no term was mentioned
they further swear that the pamphlet en-
titled THE Record Of the Democratic
Party in Utahn is a fair true and correct
statement, and Judge Norrelps affidavit
recites the particulars of the meeting OF
the committee called by the chairman and
secretary June 20, 1891, when the motion
was presented favoring party division
when Mr.. Ferry was present, and when
the motion being regularly carried by 8
vote Of Il to 5, only 10 members of the
committee being present, Ferry and four
others of the committee who had voted
with him left the committee room and ten
dered their designations and refused to fur.
Their act with the committee
Colonel Merritt's humorous but forcible
argument is that 1t really makes no diff
ference whether the committee was au.
pointed for four years or not, it could not
be superior to the party that created it.
and to say that the committee had no power
to meet before four years from its annoint.