The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24
OGDEN DEPT.
HERALD eRHNCH OFFICE.
5l3 UTAH LOAN & TRUST BUILDING.
Ogden, March "a.
THE COMBINE WINS.

Yesterday was the day set apart for
the Republicans of this county to be
let into the secret, and find out what
the combine had in store for them.
The assembly was called to order by
Chairman Meighan. at the city hall.
The first business in order was the
liquidation of certain Indebtedness.
which Mr.. Meighan said must be pro-
vided for before he retired. One cute
fellow suggested that a committee be
appointed to raise the needed cash and
let the business proceed. Meighan did
not propose to be put aside with
committee. Spot cash was what he
wanted, and as it was very apparent
that the curtain would not rise for the
first act until the crowd put up, there
was no help for it, and committee
was appointed then and there to raise
the necessary funds to pay the ex-
penses Of the last campaign, and in
few minutes the amount required
some S200-was planked down and Mr.
Meighan said: ut is WE'LL
1t was then in order to proceed to the
selection Of a chairman of the county
committee and an informal ballot was
prepared and ordered.
Before the vote was taken, Judge
Bishop presented a resolution. max
ing it a misdemeanor, punishable by
decapitation, for any member of the
central committee to aspire to office
AS the penalty did not extend to the
power behind the throne, Mr.. Glas-
mann, who was perched in a window,
like a bald eagle on mountain peak
surveying a valley full of game, all of
which was his meat, bowed his head,
and the resolution went through.
The voting was then proceeded with.
Late Friday evening it had been noised
I'll ~ tive mo
would be agreeable to the combine as
chairman of the committee. The gen.
tlemen mentioned were City Attorney
Whipple and George J. Kelley. When
the votes Of the informal ballot were
counted it was found that these two
were decidedly in the lead. the vote be-
ing about equally divided between
them. The mex. ballot elected Whippie
over Kelley by one majority. The master
stroke of the combine was a solid shot
fired at the Tribune. It will be remem-
bered that the Tribune was the first to
herald the fact that Chairman Crane
had taken a hand in the settlement of
affairs among Republicans in this
county. 1t accused Mr. Crane Of want
ing to place his political partner, Glas-
mann, in charge here as chairman of
the county committee. The Tribune has
had considerable to say about the mat
ter recently, and it was evident that
the combine proposed to fire back.
Selectman Wade arose with manu-
script in his hand that bore every In
dication of having come direct from the
Standard office, which he read as fol-
lows:
Whereas, Certain papers IN Utah
have for reasons unknown to this con-
vention, made the charge that Hon.
Charles Crane. chairman of the terri
torial Republican committee. has at
tempted to dominate the selection Of
a chairman Of the Republican COM
rnittee of Weber county, through Sc
cret and underhanded methods, and
whereas there is no evidence that such
charges have any foundations; there
fore. be it
Resolved, That the representatives
of Weber county in convention assem-
bled, after due inquiry, find that such
charges are without foundation; and,
be it further
Resolved, That this convention de-
clare its disapproval Of the action of
such papers in making such charges,
whereby dissension and division is
created in the ranks of the party"
1t will be noted that the resolution
recites that the charge against Mr..
Crane has been investigated, but it
ing.
Mr.. Haywood, who ran afoul OF the
Standard last fall and was scored as
the leader of the gang" took the
floor as the champion Of the resolu-
ton, saying that it was foul SANDER
to intimate that Mr.. Crane wanted to
control affairs in this county or had
even attempted it.
The bald eagle bowed again and the
resolution went through.
OF course, the combine did not con-
troll matters yesterday-control is not
the word. The opposition was SO thor
oughly done up that it was not neces-
sary to control it. Everything flowed
one way. 1t was the first battle Of the
coming campaign for state Office NOM
nations in the Republican party. Who
was victorious? Mr.. Crane wants the
nomination, a great many Republicans
don't want him to have it In weber
county Glasmann represents Crane;
his paper supports Crane for governor.
Yesterday the opposition surrendered
to Mr.. Cranes lieutenant.