The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-20
ANOTHER PROTEST FILED.
OBJECTIONS TO LATEST ELECTORS
PETITION FLED.
Grounds Upon which it is Sought to
Upon the Ticket as Prayed For.

Yesterday Attorney Henderson filed
a protest against the petition filed by
40 electors praying that the names of
the Republican candidates for county
and legislative officers be put on the
ballots under the title and emblem of
the Independent Republican party.
The protest is q clear and logical docu-
ment which adheres to the contention
set up by the attorneys before to the
effect that the Independent Republic
an party has been recognized by the
secretary of state and by the county
clerk as party, and that electors can
not interfere with the affairs of that
party by separate petition. In other
words, the work of a party must be
done by convention of that party or
by agents which a convention shall
delegate to do such business.
The protest first gives a resume of
the petition and then states the
grounds Of protest. A summary of the
objections is as follows:
The petition does not conform to law
in that it is not legally verified.
Objection is made to the names be-
ing printed on the official ballot in con-
junction with the names elected by the
Independent Republican party for the
state of Utah for president of the
United States, William j. Bryan, for
vice-president. Arthur Sewall for the
reason that the names have been and
were certified to the clerk of Weber
county, Utah by the secretary of state,
clerks Office on the 18th day of Octo-
Der, 1885,. as the Independent Re-
publican party. of Utah.
The use of the beehive emblem and
the words ''16 to 1" is objected to on
similar grounds.
The fourth objection is on the ground
that all the candidates have been
\ party in convention assembled.
Objection is made to the use of the
/ word party in conjunction with the
i words independent Republican" for
the reason that the same is against
law, and that said political names used
by the said petitioners can be desig-
mated only as an electors ticket.
The claim is made that said petition
is illegal and void for the reason that
it does not specify the place of resi-
dence of each signor; that it does not
give the street numbers of the persons
residing in Ogden city, so that it can
! be ascertained whether they are duly
qualified electors of Ogden city, Weber
county, Utah; that it contains the
names of persons who belong to the
Democratic party. the Republican
|
I Republicans: B. r. Thomas, Nathan
Kimball, F. NJ. Whipple, B. NJ. Short
and Harry Bagley; Democrats, Will
| liam H. Smith, A. A. Wenger, j. +.
McCarron, J. M Browning, George
Carr, ]. Q. CritchIow, William Sullivan,
E. w. Smart, Stephen A. Coppinger,
]. c. Barker and Joseph Hall; Popul-
list, NJ. H. Thomas.
The final claim is that candidates
cannot be nominated by petition or
certificate of nomination so as to have
their names placed upon the regular
ticket of any party. or under the
adopted emblem of any party.
The protest is signed and sworn to
by w. ]. Clark who also signed the
former effective protest. Clerk Led
widge notified the candidates of the
upheld it will then be too late for the
names to be put on as an electors
ticket.
w. C. Sumner filed protest against
the name of A. B. Patton being placed
on the ticket as a candidate of the
Peoples party. His certificate of
nomination was signed by L. j. Reeder
and S. S. Smith, purporting to act as
chairman and secretary of the execu-
tive committee. The protest objects to
substituting Patton's name for that
of Joseph Parry, summary of the
reason being as follows: S. S. Smith
and L. ]. Reeder are not qualified to
make such certificate of nomination or
substitution for the reason that they
had previously sgned Republican
petition. The protest also denies that
the Populist convention delegated
such power to the committee, and that
the authority was not conferred upon
the chair to appoint such a committee
Sumner, the protestor, is one of the
most influential Populists of the
county.