The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-11

sion. There was a fair sprinl6ling of
the usual crowd in attendance. Lou
johnson, Al Eklund, c. E. Allen, Louis
Hyams, Colonel Squires and a few more
ali presided over by the irrepressible
Harry McCallum. The absence of Joe
Y. Smith was keenly felt.
The club felicitated itself by listen
ing to the reading Of some two hun
dred names, which the chairman said
were applications for membership. At
ter the reading, a vote was taken, and
the names were declared those of mem
bers- 1t was noticed that no partic-
ular rush was made to sign, but then
most Of the people are supposed to live
outside the city.
The chair announced that the club,
in connection with the county commit
tee, would, on the 26th of this month
give grand excursion to Saltair. This
event, said the chairman, was to be
given in the interests of harmony. The
city committee was a little miffed when
it heard of the event and its members
declared that it should have had
chance in the matter. sc it had been
decided that, as the Oquirrh club was
not here for money, that the county
committee take one-half the net profits
and the club and tha city committee
would divide the balance.
Some faint applause greeted this an
nouncemenr Mr.. McCallum then
stated the membership of the club as
being in the neighborhood of 800, which
statement was the cause OF another
faint round of hilarity.
Great glee resulted when the chair
stated that an entire Populist club had
seeded and joined the club, 212 in
number; that of this outfit seventy-five
men constituted marching organiza-
ton which it was intended to uniform.
and on the Saturday evening before
the Saltair caddoie, Z was intended to
make q display.
c. f. Allen then disquisited on liar
mony' and the Importance of having
all Republican women register. His re-
marks were greeted with applause I'M
til the matter Of registering the women
came up, and then there were great
Sobs OF grief strewn around. 1t APP
pears the club has the city organized
into districts and each has Q, captain
man who goes around canvaSSlng.
Several of these captains reported ap-
athy prevailing among the Republican
women; they did not seem to care
whether they voted or not, as a rule,
While the exception was that they
don't want to be registered even. On
the other hand, the Democratic ladies
are said to be all alert and working
like beavers. This kind of news was
not i'll the least cheering, and Peek-a-
boo Camp, of the Second precinct, arose
to offer a plan which he was using in
the Seventh ward with good effect
Camp declared he was socially related
to the women in his part of the coun-
try and what the Seventh ward done
was all right, because the Seventh ward
was the Seventh ward and as the Sew
enth ward was the Seventh ward that
all wards ought to do as the people
who live in the Seventh ward do in the
Seventh ward. This suggestion met
with unanimous approval and was
spread upon the minutes with q trowel
Colonel Squires arose to say that
this matter of registering women was
a serious thing for him. Mrs Squires
is a Democrat. and while she might
vote part of the ticket Gn the event of
the colonel getting the nomination for
secretary of state) he had grave doubts
OF its being policy for him to make any
extra eXertiOn. John T. Lynch sugges-
ted the club indulge in prayer for the
recreant and erring lady and see if
divine intervention would do any good
but this suggestion was not greeted
the midst of the discussion over Mrs
Squires. the club adjourned to meet
next Friday, when some more names
from Cottonwood will be proposed.
Two members of the Tribune staff
were elected last night which leads to
the suspicion that either the outfit is
working the club or the club the Tri-
bune.