The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-28

Seven Republican women had an ex-
hIbition of practical politics in their
party yesterday, and it is not likely
that they viii forget their experience
i'll a long time. The seven women were
Mrs. W. S. Mccormick, Mrs. Jesse W
fox, Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, Mrs.
tx{Gilmer, Mrs. G Z. Allen, Mrs. Jennie
IA. Froiseth and Mrs. John Henry
Smith. They were in the midst of
set Of quarrelsome men, presided over
by a man who was mad to the core,
with no means of escape and no desire
to stay
1t was The warmest meeting Of the
Republican county committee that has
been held in great many long, weary
months. That is saying a great deal.
The Republican county committee has
been the most belIigerent body in
these paris ever since Chairman James
took hold and proceeded TO put har-
mony entirely out of the question. 1t
was in session three hours in the
/TempIeton hotel parlors, and the oc-
1 casionaI visitor wondered if he had
16und a meeting Of anarchists or wild
western cowboys.
No Quorum Present.
The whole row was over the plan Of
primaries adopted d week ago Satur-
, day at a supposed meeting of the
county committee. At that meeting
there We're only fourteen members
present and the irrepressible Jake
Greenwald raised a point Of no quo
rum, saying there must be q. majority
y of the thirty-seven members. The
James crowd, however, was in the ma
joIdty and II was decided TO go and
transact the business before the commit
tee The first thing that was done
was 10 add TO the committee the
names Of the seven leading women
mentioned
Then the committee proceeded to
adopt the Tribune style Of primaries
with the Kentucky trimmings, Aus
tralian ballots, checkers, challengers
judges of election and all the other
things that had been decided on and
put before them in Chairman James
best Spencelian style of pennanship
They adopted this with the fun howl
Is edge that there was not a quorum in
tattendance and over the protest OF
SGreenewaId.
Jake Sent Il Fighter.
That is what caused the row in yes
terday's meeting. 4 full quorum was
on hand this time. Jake Greenewald
could not be present, but he sent
fighter with his proxy in the person of
Arthur Parsons. y number of the
city members and chairmen, as we'll
as several from the outside, were also
there. The big three. Chairman
James George NJ. Cannon ard s. H
Hill, We're there In addition there
were :he seven women, who had come
10y special request to be initiated into
the mysteries of political work Their
initiation was more than expected. A
e-raoial R1na n ~,
mings. was provided for their benefit
Everything was peaceful until
george NJ. Cannon began 10 read the
minutes of the previous meeting, al
Ihich all the impor ant business had
1zfbeen done.
> Arthur Parsons was on his feet in an
instant with the question as to what
constituted a quorum of the county
{ committee. Chairman James saw what
was coming and he tried TO sit down
on Parsons peremptorily by saying he
was GU of order during the reading
OF the minutes.
james Tries 10 SqueIch.
Nothing can he DONE" he said,
until the minutes are approved or dis
approved"
Parsons Immediately moved to dis
approve the minutes of the last meet
ing as a whole, and then the fight !
began. Colonel Squires. John Axton /
]. G. AIcAllister, WaddelI. of West !
Jordan. and others fell in behind Par /
sons. They claimed that the meeting
had not been duly called, as number |
had not received notices to be present. |
and insinuated that there was a desire |
TO work something through without a 4
full consent Of the committee. This |
brought UP Hill and Cannon in defense /
of the action that had been taken anI |
a claim that there had been no desire |
30 do anything that was not for the |
best interests of the whole party
james Proceeds TO Crate.
Chairman James had been getting |
angrier and angrier all the time, and |
al length. surrendering the chair to
Hill. he arose and delivered one of his |
chara cteristic speeches, full of origi- |
nal grammar and rhetorical combina- |
tions that are found in none of the
text books. He proceeded to descant
on the arkable good to b done /
rSzT his proposed primary system, until |
ne was cut off by d point Of order. |
Hill, Of course, ruled that he was in
order and az appeal was taken from
tt seemed that the appeal We sus-
tanned. James. for vindication OF
himself, demanded a division, and the
appeal was Withdrawn. Again James
Insisted on a division and the roll was
called. James and Hill passed their
names. When AXtons came next he
refused to vote as there was nothing
WOrdy var between James and him.
which ended in a victory for Axiom
ana 4 cessation of the calling of the
roll.
During all this time the women of
t1e committee had been sitting to-
gsbther listening TO the wordy war
IN with in-concealed feelings of en-
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