The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-26


party platform adopted at Chicago.
The committee favored the admission
! OF women TO larger spheres of useful
ness, but just what spheres were not
specified, and the matter remains in
doubt as to whether it was meant that
| woman should be permitted to work
in the rolling mils and toundries Of
the land or be eligible to positions on
| the police force.
Joseph Erickson Of Tooele cast the
! first firebrand at this juncture. He Of
! fered an amendment reading that 1t
be the sense of the convention that it
consider the financial issue the promi-
nent one Of this campaign, to which
all others are subordinate; that the
/ delegates to the convention vote for no
man who would not endorse this fea-
ture, and that no candidate be nomi-
mated for the state senate who does
not declare he is going to vote for
Bryan and Sewall.
! This motion agitated the members
from Box Elder exceedingly. They
I grew sick and faint at heart. One
4 could almost imagine that he could
read in the faces of the entire dele
! cation a thought which, crystaIlized
IN words, would read: Il wish these
damn reporters were not in the room
/ so we could fight this out without hav
ing the whole world know it,
1t so proved, too, for Pitt,
the leader Of the Box Elder
crowd came over to The Herald man
and asked if he did not think it would
be Well TO have the newspaper men re-
tire while they discussed the question.
The negative reply he received came so
quick 1T took the queSSioners breath
but he rallied and ASKED the Tribune
man the same question with a like re-
suit. The Box Elder delegation con-
I ferred together and decided they must
have Seclusion and q motion was made
TO have an executive session.
Captain Slower kicked and kicked
hard. He said he didn't want to have
any star chamber, u o'clock, midnight
session. He was a. Republican ere some
Of the members present were out of
the four-cornered garments of infancy
and he had never been ashamed TO
make his fight in the open. He did not
want the doors closed.
Mr.. Erickson protested against max
ing a Hoo-Hoo lodge of the convention.
He wanted the reporters present.
THE REPORTERS RETIRED.
But the Box Elder men with their
little Is votes carried the motion and
the press retired to the next bedroom
and listened to the proceedings over the
transom, which was conveniently open.
1t was a hot old debate, that made
on the amendment to the platform.
Pitt, who, by the way, is an energetic
youth, didn't want to do anything which
would split the party in two. He want
ed harmony with a big H. The plat
form adopted was Republican in all es-
sentia1s.
one person followed another until it
was finally proposed to take counsel
of Bishop Wrathall and a few other
people from Grantsville and vicinity,
but right there old man Slower got in
his work. He would not for a moment
entertain the idea of having any out
siders come into the executive session.
Then the party went at the amendment
and finally reduced, or diluted, it by
making it read that the candidate
should pledge himself not to vote for
any man for United States senator who
would not stand for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver above all
things.
The doors were then thrown open
and the press and few spectators
came in. The amendment offered by
Erickson was defeated by the Box Ell
der delegation and one or two Of the
Tooele delegates, and the amendment
offered by the Box Elder delegation
carried.
A BOLT.
Mr.. Erickson then stated that under
the instructions he had received from
the convention held in Tooele he would
not sit after the action taken. He
would withdraw. Captain Slower said
the men he represented would not
stand the work there and he, too, boled.
Judge Burris made a speech apollo
giving for remaining and then the con-
vention went into the matter of noml-
nations.
Burris nominated Charles R. Mcbride
of Tooele.
John B. Gordon presented the name OF
D. T. Powell Of Lake Point.
Then it was that the delegation from
Box Elder came in and f1ummigasted
the Tooele people. Pitt said that while
it was customary for the county from
which the candidate was to be selected
to present the person. in this case Box
Elder felt that grave duty rested
upon its delegation and would perform
it. 1t had a candidate from Tooele
county in the person of a man VINO
was understood to be for silver and all
other ills the flesh is heir to-that is to
say, he was for silver and protection
and reciprocity and the admission OF
women to larger spheres of usefulness.
He nominated John c. Sharp of Tooele.
SHARP WINS.
Sharp was elected by vote OIL 10 "
Is over Mcbride. This was funny, too.
The delegation from Box Elder, it will
be remembered, had the authority to
cast the full vote of the delegation, is
in ALL There were four of them pres
emit Inasmuch as it required ma
icrity of the four to cast the vote, Sharp
should have received II, if the vote was
straight on a majority proposition. II
the delegation was equally divided
Sharp would have received only g. The
fraud was so apparent on its face that
Ike Niebaur became disguised.
Gentlemen, slid Ike, Il came here
representing a constituency Of miners
who wanted to vote for the candidate.
But this monkey business makes me
sick. l want to say right here that
bolt
Ike's remarks did not reach the ear
of one delegate, who asked they be re-
heated. They were-with emphasis.
Then Ike added: And I shall take
great pleasure in voting and working
for-the other man." Then he went
away and the convention, or what was
left of it, gazed at itself.
Then it adjourned.
If any one should ask you, w. G.
Nebeker will be the next senator from
the First district, and will have a big
majority. He is a Bryan and Sewal
democrat and believes in the free and
unlimited coinage of silver before any
thing else and will work to that end.
.For years" says Capt. c. Mueller,
e.T have relied more upon Ayers Pills