The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-08

thirty proxies from the country, much
TO their disgust.
sThe gold delegation from the Forty.
seventh city precinct succeeded in con.
vincing the convention it was right and
barred the silver crowd out, while the
regular, or Hoo Hoo contingent from
Draper made a firm stand for itself.
The lull which followed the call ia
order at LII was broken by the sharp
voice of S. B. Westerfeld attempting to
get the Second city ward into caucus.
! Hearing Sam shout, the chair desisted
in proceeding and the band played
Home, Sweet Home while the country
delegates shed few quarts of damp
tears.
CREDENTIALS.
Councilman Stewart read the report Of
the committee on credentials, which be-
gan by declaring that no proxies should
| be seated in the event they live outside
the election district from whence the
same is issued.
The published list of dalegatesl with
the exception of contests, was declared
to be the list of the delegates. The COM
mittee announced that in the Forty
seventh district a, contest had been set
tied by seating both delegations, with
half a. vote each.
S. w. Morrison's motion to adopt the
report, brought Frank McGurrin to the
| surface. He declared he was one of
the members regularly elected and if
his delegation was entitled TO any votes
at ALL it was entitled to cast the full
strength. ''Otherwise, throw us out
entirely" The election was held in
due form and no objection had been
made until today. when some sore
heads come in and protest.
George A. Smith admitted that he
ought to apologize (but he didn'D, to
the convention, for not putting in a mi
nority report. But he had agreed with
the committee in the interests of har-
mony. with the temper of the con-
vention at fever heat he did not want
to precipitate a fight"
Stewart, chairman of the committee.
made a lame attempt to defend the acts
of the members, but made a miserable
failure of the task
Harmony, per D. c. Eichnor, George
NJ. Cannon and several others, held a
session and then the convention seated
McGurrin & Co.
This was COLDS first victory.
John T. Axton had a protest to make
against the report. He was there with
papa's proxy and he didn't live where
papa did. So he moved that the recon-
mendation of the committee relative to
proxies be stricken out.
George NJ Cannon lifted up his voice
in favor of the negative side and Johns
motion failed.
Draper had a contest which it aired
1t appeared that the primary down
there was not properly conducted and
Cyrus Smith moved to seat the con-
testants. Cyrus made a red-hot speech
in which he charged ballot-box stuff
ing, voting children and aliens and al
that, but the convention froze him out
Charlie Short appealed to the city
delegates to support a motion permit
ting proxies from the country to act
whether they lived in the district from
which the proxy was issued or not. He
argued that the city had the right an(
the country should be given the same
privilege.
Councilman Callister made poin
that Short had no right to speak, anC
was overruled. He appealed, and thu
convention sat on him.
Short continued his argument, but i
was of no avail. He was defeated an(
proxies barred unless the holders liv
in the same district.
The report of the committee wa
then adopted and thirty proxies walket
out disguised
| PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Chairman C. F. Emery reported 70
the committee on permanent organize
ton and order of business. The repor
recommended that Temporary Chairma
Critchlow be made the permanen
chairman. The names presented 70
the other offices were, first vice-chair
man, George NJ. Cannon; second vice
> chairman, Mrs. Rachel Miller; secre
tary, John E. Cox; first assistant secre
tary, R. A. Greenep; second assistan
secretary, A. II. Woodruff; readin!
: clerk, John T. Axton, jr. sergeant at
arms, G. D. Goodsel; first aSsistan
sergeant-at-arms, w. H. Stout; sec
ond assistant sergeant arms, A.
Short; chaplain, j. j. Williams, o
, West Jordan.
The committee recommended tina
| nominations for the Office begin witt
! county commissioners and proceed a
| follows: Attorney, sheriff, clerk, treas
urer, recorder, auditor, assessor, sur
> veyor, candidates for the state senate
candidates for the house of representa-
, tives The committee further recon
mended that a county committee b
elected, to consist of fifteen members
In recommending a method of ballot
= ing, the committee suggested that tn
" chairman of each election precinc
delegation hand the vote of his pre-
cinct to the chairman of the ward, i,
the city, and that the chairmen of tn
: country delegations hand the votes o
= their various delegations to the countr
chairman, the latter and the war
chairmen to present the vote so handle
them, TO the secretary, who should rea
+ the vote by election precincts.
Z The adoption of the report wa
! moved, when r. c. Campbell moved t
. amend by transposing the order c
:, nominations so as to bring the nomin
L alton of senators first and members c
. the house second, the county offices
follow in the order provided. The me
ton was not discussed and was los
overwhelmingly on a viva voce vote.
= George NJ. Cannon moved to amen
t the report by making the count
e committee consist of two members frol
e each of the municipal wards of the cit.
and one member from each commit:
l. sioners' precinct outside of the Cit,
= and that an executive committee
: chosen by the general committee to col
duct the campaign. He said in SUI
T. port of his motion that as the can
IS paign would be short It would be ne
IL essary to organize to the best possib
advantage, and he thought that a sma
I committee which could meet often cou
n better handle the campaign and that
lie member of the general committee /
Gated in every part of the county cou
n make himself very useful. The amen
e. ment prevailed and the report W;
If adopted.
is The permanent officers then took the
1t places on the stage.
THE PARAMOUNT SCRAP.
e Charlie Stanton, for the committee /
N resolutions, reported the following:
"We the Republicans of Salt Lal
;, county, in convention assemble
lie again proclaim OUT loyalty to the pr'i
u ciples of Republicanism as enunciati
in the Utah Republican state pla
e forms of 1894 and 1895.
- maintain that the free COMA