The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-01
THIRD PRECINCT PRIMARY.
A Rather Turbulent Meeting
Held Last Night.
THE COUNCIL CANDIDATES
Two OF the Citizens Nominees Were
Endorsed.
j. T. Overall Takes the Place of W. s.
Mccormick on the Democratic Pre-
cinct Ticket-Delegates to the
City Convention Elected.

ing IN Sandberg's hall for the purpose o
nominating three candidates for the citl
council and thirty-five delegates to tn,
Democratic city convention. to be helc
October9.
w. A. Hodges, chairman of the Third
precinct Democratic organization, called
the meeting to order. j. n. Pike wal
elected chairman and Charles E. Silver.
wood secretary. Before the chairman
could take his seat John Green was or
his feet demanding that all those in the
meeting who were not Democrats of the
Third precinct should withdraw. The
demand was greeted with shouts o.
derision and requests that the speaker
name those whom he wanted elected. The
chairman, when order to some extent was
restored, made request that those who
were not legal Democratic voters of the
Third, woaid retire, but no one moved
or showed any disposition to pay any at
tention 70 the request.
Moroni Gillespie moved that the meet
ing proceed to nominate three council
men.
E. A. Smith amended the motion TO
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ate three councilmen and that three tel
lers be appointed to count the votes cast
for the motion.
w. A. Hodges made an amendment to
substitute the words 'sthirty five dele
gates" for the words "three council
menu
TO ENDORSE THE INDEPENDENTS.
Elias A. Smith hoped the meeting
nf1I Ind -
men, but would endorse those nominated
by the Independent citizens.
John r. Hansen offered the following
resolution:
"Whereas, in the interest of good gov
eminent large number, presumably a
majority of the citizens of Salt Lake
throughout the various municipal wards,
without respect to political faith, have
by one concerted movement brought
about the nomination of full set of city
and precinct officers, and
Whereas. we, too, favor reform
throughout the legislative and executive
departments of the city government,
therefore be it
Resolved, that we do not at this time
nominate candidates for the city council
TO be voted for at the November election
OF this year, as we believe that general
victory will be more easily achieved by a
united effort to support the independent
citizens movement.
The chair held that Mr.. Hansen's res
olution was out of order and refused to
entertain it.
The resolution as amended by Mr..
Smith, was put and carried.
Then a big squabble lasting three
quarters OF an hour followed as to the
of the resolution which had lust
been passed.
Mr.. Smith held that it meant that the
three tellers were to count the votes on
the motion to nominate councilmen, and
Moroni Gillespie and his following in
sisted that it meant that the tellers were
TO count the votes cast for the councilmen
when they were put in nomination and
voted for.
s. w. r. Brown moved to reconsider
the whole matter. The motion to recon
slider was put and the chair declared
it lost. A division was called for. At
this iuncture attention was called
to the fact that the house was
packed with parties who were not Demo
Gratis and who did not reside in the pre-
cinct, and
ONE ]. L. EoKE
ex-assistant superintendent of water
works under Billy Ryan, was pointed
out as a Liberal and not resident of the
Third precinct
Mr.. Hoke who was somewhat inebriated,
fatty declined to withdraw and stood on
his rights as an American citizen, claim
ing that his citizenship clothed him with
the privilege of participating in the pro-
ceedings.
IL was moved that sergeant alarms
with five assistants be appointed to clear
the hall of all who were non-residents of
the Third precinct.
&. E. Rich moved that all who had
participated in the Independent Citizens
be also excluded but the chair
held that all Democrats residing in the
precinct would be allowed to vote whether
they had taken part with the Indepen-
dents or not. The motion to appoint the
sergeant-at-arms prevailed and the chair
six who commenced operations
by turning out Mr.. Hoke who by this
time had become very noisy. The chair
then requested that all those not entitled
under the ruling to participate would
to the south end of the hall and
remain as spectators only if they
so wished or retire altogether.
About twenty persons rose and betootx
to the quarter indicated, The
sergeants-at-arms then commenced their
work and weeded out about fifty more.
who were reluctantly compelled to retire
to the back ground. Several police
officers were present and the chair called
on them to help preserve order as the
meeting by this time had
ASSUMED THE ASPECT OF BEDLAM.
After comparative quiet was restored
and the sheep and the goats divided. the
motion to reconsider was taken M again
snd after half an hours hard work the
tellers announced that the vote stood IS
for reconsidering and 66 against Bv this
time 1t was $3.50 O'Clock, two hours hay
ing been spent in getting back to the
point at which the meeting started.
Then somebody moved THAT we nomi
nate three councilmen' and somebody
else moved THAT we do not nominate
three councilmen' and both motions
were seconded.
RICH IN THE ARENA.
Z. 3. Rich then stepped into the arena
and said, "There seems to be disposi-
ton here to spend the evening and do
l hold that any one who has
endorsed another ticket should not be
permitted to break up the meetings.
JUDGE SMITH ANSWERS HIM.
e. A. Smith, want TO reply TO Mn.
Rich and will say that accusations have
been made against Mr.. Rich that he has
tried to pack this meeting and any one
who objects to fair method of countino
should go out and l hold that any Demo-
srat of the precinct has a right to vote in
his meeting whether he has attended the
independent meeting or not and the chair
has SO ruled and that settles it,"
THE NOMINATIONS.
The motion to nominate three council
men prevailed, 50 voting aye and 66 nav.
The following were then put in nomina
ion: e. E. Rich, Il. p Morris. Joseph
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