The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-30

| DENVER, July 29.-By a vote Of 4S
/ to SO the Republican state committee
adopted the following resolution:
Believing that the best interests Of
| the United States as well as the state
of Colorado demand the election of
| William Mckinley as president and
GarreG a. Hobart as vice-president of
the United States as nominated at the
st. Louis convention. therefore, be it
! Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that this committee shall
| take such steps as are necessary to
place before the people of the state of
Colorado for their SURFACES a
straight Republican ticket headed
by Republican electors who will cast
their vote, if opportunity offers, for
Mckinley and Hobart
The meeting of the committee was
in many respects the most exciting
that body has ever held.
THE MINORITY,
or Bryan and Sewall faction. was led
| by A NJ. Stevenson, an ex-state sena-
| tor and one of the boiling Colorado
delegates at st. Louis. J. L. Hodges
spoke for the Mckinley and Hobart
Republicans. When the resolution was
! OIleIeu d DIIIGT DEBATE RnSQeQ III WHICH
personalities were exchanged by the
! warning factions. the minority making
I the open statement that money had
been used by eastern Mckinley mana
gers to influence the state committee.
1t was asserted that proxies had been
| bought. The minority also charged
much of the Mckinley sentiment to
Senator Wolcott and National Commit
teeman Sanders. The majority warmly
resented these statements and once it
was believed that
A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
would ensue when Mr.. Stevenson arose
and asserted that Mr.. Hodges was AN
old rascal Amid much disorder the
resolution was put to a vote and car
ried by ten majority.
| Another spirited discussion followed
when Irving w. How'oert, of Colorado
| Springs, who has been chairman of the
+ committee for two years, rendered his
resignation. Mr.. Howbert stated that
I he did not take the step in view OF
| the present difficulties, but because he
would be absent in Europe during the
/ campaign. The friends of Hodges i'm
mediately placed his name in nominal
ton for the craftsmanship, the minor
ity presenting John w. Lowell, of
Routt county. Mr.. Hodges was elected
> by a, vote of rs to q, some dissatisfied
/ members declining to vote. On taking
/ the chair Mr.. Hodges
CREATED A SENSATION
by announcing that Republican MEM
/ bers of the committee who were in
! sympathy with the national Democrat
] ic ticket and who proposed to work for
| it, would better resign and that his
rulings would be against them. The
Bryan and Sewall men refused to leave
and the committee adjourned in great
confusion.
/ The committee at last nights session
/ decided to hold the state convention at
( Colorado Springs on Sept. 80.
I After the meeting of the committee
! the Bryan faction circulated petition
/ for a call for another meeting. They
claim that the majority Of the actual
members of the state central committee
! is with them and that the meeting to-
day was packed, alleging that of the Sc
delegates represented, 46 were by proxy
in the hands of Denver and Colorado
Springs politicians. The Bryan men
further allege that it is the plan of
the Mckinley men to nominate Senator
| WolcCtt for governor.