The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-04
4 PARTISAN FIGHT .
Arrogant Attitude of First Pre-
cinct Liberals.
QUEER ~SoS-PARrIsANs IDEAS.
The Minority Party Insists that Dukes Sue
cessor Shall Be LiberaI-Third
Precinct Caucus-

The Liberals of the First precinct enter
tain some very unique and highly original
ideas Of non partisanship. F'or two hours
last evening they wrangled and wrestled
with the echool election problem, ana the
result OF their deliberations was that they
would support non partisan candidate
provided he was g LIBERAL And this in
the face Of the fact that at the recent cleo
ton they were in the minority in that pre-
cinct by e. votes. The upshot Of their ar
rogauce win probably be 8 partisan con-
test in that precinct
City Treasurer Duke is the present
member of the school board from that
precinct and his refusal TO serve another
term aecessitates the selection OF new
man.
The meeting was held in the basement Of
the Walker house and 1t had been arranged
that tue Liberals should meet committee
Of four each from the Republican and
Democratic ranks ana If possible decide
upon some scheme whereby q non partisan
nomination could De made. The meeting
was called TO order by j. j. Greenewaid
and ". +. Shelton was elected as secre-
tsry, Mr. GreeneWald acting as chairman.
After the usual preliminarles CON-
nittee OF three, consisting OF Messrs-
Elchnor, AIorltz and Shovel, was ap-
pointed to notify the Republicans and
Democratic committees that the Liberals
were ready to confer with them.
The committee Was soon on hand, ana
George w. Snow, chairman of the Demo-
cratic committee, made a statement of
what he considered the most feasible plan
OF accom- plishing the end in view. Mr.
Snow favored the three committees getting
together aud deciding from which party
the nominee was 20 be chosen. When their
choice was made the committee represent
ing that party should drop out and the re-
naming committees were 70 choose the
nominee from the ranks Of the other yarty.
This, he stated, would prevent collusion
ana insure Doa-partisan nomination.
MIR. WhittemOre, chairman Of the Repub-
lcan committee. favored letting a COM
,mittee Of fifteen from the three parties get
together and choose the nominee, with lit
ness for the position as the only qualihca
ton and leaving political atiliation en-
tirely to one side.
Then after some Immaterial suggestions
from ali three parties the Republicans and
Democrats retired and the Libarsls began
10 consider the propositions submitted.
Mr.. Aft opposed Mr.. Shows scheme.
He thought the Liberals didn't need to ask
favors from either Of the other parties,
as they were strong enough to elect any
man they desired irrespective of collu-
sions.
Mr.. Wantand favored having the com
mlttees of i've meet, but thought that the
strength Of each committee should be
determined bg the total vote Of the respec-
tive parties at the recent election.
Dir. Denny didn't agree with MIR. Want
land, and urged that Wantland's scheme
would not pc non-partisan one, as
i would give the Liberals a walk-over. He
favored Mr.. Shows scheme TO q certain
h,r OF 10 mo calanta1
would not be the choice of his own party.
Mr.. Denny was also under the Impression
that man could readily be found in the
Liberal party vino could ably represent
the people as q member Of the school board.
Mr.. Kinney was confident that the Lib
erals could elect their man in spite OF any
combination, and was afraid the Demo
Gratis a3d Republicans would swamp them
IL any COMMITTEES scheme.
a committee OF five was then appointed
co confer with the other committees in
order to see II an agreement could be
reached as to the best mode of choosing the
nominee The committees were composed
OF the following gentlemen: Liberals-J.
j. GreeneWald Joseph Moritz, j. M. Denny,
ID. c. Eichnor and c. b. Mainland Re-
pubiicans - G. O. Whittemo~e, Judge
Breeze, Fred Bassett, A. Il. Parsons and
T. W. Tatlock. Democrsts-George w.
Snow, A. Z. Webb, George A. Alder, Sam
The conference lasted about fifteen min
utes and the Liberal committee then re-
turned with their report. MIR. Greenewald
stated that the committees had arranged to
meet at Il O'Clock this morning at the
Walker House and place someone In nomi-
nation, twelve votes OF the fifteen being
necessary for g choice. Mr.. Greenewald
then stated that he thought the Liberal
committee should be instructed TO vote
unanimously for c Liberal
Balloting was then to detetmIne who th
Liberals were 70 vote for. Judg 4. B
Sawyer, J. A Pendleton, in, and c. )
Kinney were placed in nomination and Mr.
Pendleton was chosen on the third ballot
and the vote mad5 unanimous. II was
then decided to vote for Judge Sawyer as
q second choice If Mr.. Pendleton could not
be nominated, for Mr.. Kinney as third
choice, and for any other good Liberal if
neither Of the first three named could be
nominated.
This brought Mr.. Denny to his feet and
lie stated ii the Liberal committee was 10
GO into the convention as a unit on some
Liberal he wished 10 Withdraw as a mem
Der OF it. 1--WE have agreed, y said he, ito
20 into this convention as non-partisan5
and yet we are now instructed 10 vote
unanimously as Liberals. AS the matter
now stands, If / saw that il was impossible
te nominate q Liberal would not have the
right 10 vote Tor any good man in either of
the other parties. 1t is unfair to the other
committees and refuse to act"
After some further argument for and
against Mr.. Denny's stand, he was allowed
TO withdraw and MIR. A4oritz was chosen in
his stead. The meeting adjourned.