The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-16


dent of that county, was better able
TO represent his county than a resident
! OF Salt Lake, that he be empowered
| TO vote the proxy of Mr.. Dorrity in
stead of Mrs. Ferguson.
| Farley L. Williams inquired the ma
ture OF Mr. Dinniny's objection, TO
which that gentleman replied that the
proxy had originally been issued to
Judge Powers who had subsequently
transferred it to Mrs. Ferguson He
held that a person to whom a proxy
| had been issued had no authority to
! transfer it to another person and au-
I thorlze that person TO vote it. He
! said he did not know what might be
! done, for he saw that a great majority
! or those present were Sc by proxy. and
did not represent the sentiment of the
counties for which they hela proxies.
| But whatever was done he lid mot he
lleVe any one present would attempt to
say there was any righteousness in al
lowing persons TO hold proxies in that
way.
Mr.. Williams took objection with
every objection of the gentleman. He
held that when a member of the COM
mittee sent his proxy TO another per-
son he intrusted the power to vote and
act for him. When he did that he
intrusted the power to transfer the
I v.
held that Judge Powers, being the
proxy of Mr.. Dorrity, was Mr.. Dorrity
himself so far as all usages were con-
cerned, and the committee had no right
TO deprive him of any Of these ages,
which had always been recognized.
Colonel A. D. Cash of Utah county
argued that the committee had no
more power to create a proxy for Mr.
Greenwood than it had TO create one
for Mr. T0nec of Utah oo he 4
sent any proxy. If it would be proper
to appoint Mr.. Greenwood as Mr.. Dor
rlty's proxy, then it would be proper
to appoint proxy for Mr.. Zones. He
asked MIR. Dinniny If he thought it
would be proper TO appoint proxy for
Mr.. Jones, and Mr.. Dinniny replied:
Yes, if you are from his county"
Mr.. Cash thought Mrs. Ferguson
should be entitled to vote the proxy
she held
Mr.. Dinniny took the floor again to
say that he could not believe anyone
would contend that it was right TO
allow strange person to represent a
county when there was a member of
the party present from the county.
John E. Hansen, representing Grand
county, spoke in favor of Judge Pow
ers, after which the motion was put
and lost with but very few votes in
its favor
Mr.. Dinniny renewed his efforts by
moving that Mrs. Ferguson be not
permitted to vote the proxy, but that
Judge Powers be required to do SO.
Joe Cohen raised the point that the
motion was not in order, but the chair
held that it was, when J. r. Letcher
moved to lay the molten on the table,
which carried. The action defeated
Mr.. Dinniny on his chief point, for had
he been successful in throwing out the
Willard county proxy he would have
followed it up with objections Of the
same kind to other proxies Which had
been issued to Judge Powers and
transferred by him TO other people, in
each case under the Instructions so to
do from the member however.
BRYAN woRKINGMEN.
AT this juncture Fisher Harris called
the attention of the chair TO the fact
that delegation of the working
mems Bryan club of this city was out
side and wished to be heard for a
minute. Consent was granted and the
gentlemen filed, in. President Ben Har-
bour of the club, acting, as spokesman,
said that the Working1nens Bryan
club proposed to support the Demo-
cratic ticket and felt Tor that reason
that they were entitled to be heard
one choice for chairman, and that was
o. w. Powers.
Mr. Harris interrupted to ask the
speaker if the club proposed TO sup
port the whole of the Democratic tick
ct, or only the head.
Mr.. Harbour replied that he was not
authorized to say, but thought that
the majority of the members of the
club were entirely non-partisan at
this time, and that large majority
would support the full ticket, although
they would use their own judgment
aside from the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Harris informed the gentleman
very courteously that MS great in
terest in seeing the whole ticket elected
was his sole excuse for asking the
question, and the delegation retired.
PROCEEDINGS CONTINUED.
Following the interruption, Chairman
Powers read the call for the meeting.
He also read letter from W. F. Crus-
selIe, manager of the weekly depart
ment of the Atlanta Constitution, Of
fering to send the weekly edition OF
the paper to the people of Utah II the
committee would send in a list OF
names to whom it was deslrou5 OF
having them sent.
POWERS ABDICATES.
Trdoa Powers then announced that