The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-11

HIS name is GlendlnnlnS.
IT, Republican city convention yes
-o,.5a,, delivered itself, horse, foot ana
7~oooons 10 the Tribune outfit, ana
terminated the Tribune's second choice
for mavor. 1t turned down the Oqurrh
Climb and left Harry NIcCallum a SAD"
der and wiser man.
rhe fight for the nomination began
-,rlv Yesterday morning, when all the
forces were out doing some lively log-
rolling for the various candidates. AT
that fine Evans was the favorite, but
&C the 5av wore on his forces melted
as the snow before the warm sun. He
came up in the convention, however
with fifty votes, a surprising number
considering the fact that on the night
Of the primaries his strength was only
nominal
Tba Mason and Glendinning forces
!. however hammered away uncedSins-
- and before the hour of nomination
came if was clearly evident that the
ipht Law between these two men, with
Fl7e chances in favor of the latter
Doremus made a strong pull, and the
Third was ready TO trade anything 10
nut him into office, as all the boys
MAJ. been promised rewards If he were
1-ictorious L. e Hall and a lew
others of the Eighteenth ward were
7ushing Spencer ClaWsOn on a bust
ness proposition, but did not make
much Roadway.
In the convention itself the contest
was lone and bitter, but from the first
Mason and Glendinning were evidently
the favorites. When the final test
came the balance of power was in the
hands of Doremus' friends, who were
ready to trade. The day before Dore-
mus had entered a special denial that
he would trade or that he would make
any attempt to become city engineer
on the strength Of his vote in the con-
veDtion. Yet when the test came his
support was offered to Mason if he
would consent to make the engineer
appointment as the Third desired,
whether Doremus sanctioned the offer
or not
Mason could have had the nominal
ton Doremus could have given it to
him, and would have given it to him
If he had been enough of a politician
10 pledge himself at the critical mo-
ment. He was not He gave Dore-
mus a curt refusal, and the latter
went elsewhere. As it was, John T.
Axton turned the tide. He has long
been a candidate for the city record
ership. He ran two years ago and was
defeated by the present recorder, and
he has been laying his plans ever
since. He has been working hard for
GlendfnninC. however. and when he
was told that his withdrawal from the
race would result in the DOremus
strength going TO Glendinning he
promptly withdrew and ended the con-
test. Of course he will get a soft
snap if Glendinning wins
oquirrh Clubs Death Blow.
OF course the Oquirrh club is gone.
It's revenues have been paralyzed for
some time past. It's conduct in the
county convention, when it openly
championed Arthur Brown, its con-
duct in the judicial convention when
1t openly championed +. D. r. Thomp-
son, and its conduct in this conven-
ton, where it openly champiOned NJ.
r. Evans, has proved its undong. Men
belonging TO other factions in the Re-
publican party have disagreed with
this course and have deserted, leaving
the club to get along as best it could.
It clutched at the mayorship as the
last straw. 1t could have lived il it
had controlled the patronage of the
city. AS it is. the Oquirrh club will
soon be a thing of the past. It's mem
5ership roll. its great claims. its great
organization, will disappear from the
public view, Harry McCallum will re-
turn to mis- law practice and give up
politics. and the memory of the pyro-
technics Of the Tub will be pleas
ant but dim one
Lippman's Brilliant Play.
There was a little side play not down
on the programme that has served to
intensity the differences in the Twen-
ty-first ward. Il viii be noticed that
Judge Colborn did not allow his name
TO go before the convention. He would
not enter the race against Glendinning
unless the chances were against the
latter's nomination.
Colborns friends, however. had in
sisted on holding him as dark horse,
with the intention Of running him if
It was seen that no other man from
the Fourth could be nominated. In
view of this they arranged that when
the proper moment came the Twenty
first ward. with its solid seventeen
votes, should suddenly come out for
CJclborn This was TO touch the match
to the mine. 1t had been agreed that
Colborn's friends all over the house
should then stampede it for him and
make him go in with a rush.
On the second ballot GIendinning lost
seven votes, and it looked as though
he might lose more. Mason and Do
rejrus were Both coming up and the
occasion was thought suspicious. It
solid ward delegation for the third bal
lot as the signal Had he received
1t on the third there is no doubt that
the fourth would have seen a perfect
stampede for him, as the Glendinning
Tforces had only held their own and
tMascn would have been seen going