The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-16

w nereaS, Inc propositions for harmony
submitted by this committee to the exec
/ ut-ve committee of the Republican state
/ central committee and the Independent
/ Republican provisional committee have
/ been accepted by the former and reject
/ ed by the latter in submitting a counter
I proposition in the alternative, and
Whereas, Such counter proposition is
| in the minds of this committee not feas-
! ible. therefore, be it
! Resolved, That we deem it ineXDedient
! to further continue negotiations looking
I to the calling off of either the Ogden or
Salt Lake conventions.
A. H. PARSONS. Chairman.
I Secretary.
The above resolutions were unanl-
mously adopted by the harmony COM
mittee appointed at the Knutsford
conference Friday evening, September
Ii, 1885, consisting of George L. Nye,
A. S. Geddes, George Buckle, Fred G..
Waite and A. H. Parsons
The peace committee had evidently
decided there was no use submitting
! the ultimatum to the state committee
for consideration, so disposed of it in
the foregoing report, and as there was
nothing further to be done, the meet
ing adjourned.
THE FINALE.
The finale Of the overtures for peace
came in the evening, when the peace
conference of last Friday night, which
had been adjourned to last evening,
me- at the Knutsford to receive the
report Of the peace committee, which
had been by 1t appointed to endeavor
to reconcile the warning elements.
There were only twenty-three people
present, but that was enough to
squelch another attempt on the part Of
Assistant County Attorney Waite 10
disrupt the provisional committee.
Hon. George NJ. Cannon called the
meeting to order and presided and e.
H. Scott was chosen secretary pro tenn
in the absence of Arthur H. Parsons.
Chairman Nye of the peace committee
reported, submitting the resolution
which had been adopted at the con-
clusion of the afternoon meeting and
explaining the circumstances attend
ing it.
WAITE GETS IN.
Coroner Ofenbach moved that the
report be received and the committee
discharged, which carried after which
Assistant County Attorney Waite once
more produced the resolutions he en-
deavored to have adopted at Friday
nights meeting. He had prepared
this preamble to them:
Whereas, The proposition formulated
by the committee Of five appointed by this
meeting on Friday evening, September
II. 1856, and presented by said committee
to the executive committee of the state
Republican central committee and the
self-constituted and so-called provisional
com rndttee of the Independent silver Re-
publicans met with the hearty and unan-
imous approval of the former body and
was unqualifiedly rejected by the latter,
and
Whereas. We believe that the action
n nd a. Of ffa.o
of the state Republican central commit
tee was dictated by an honest and earn
est desire on their part to reconcile the
differences existing between the ReDub-
attitude and action of said provisional
committee of the independent silver Re-
publican committee tended and was in
tended to further disrupt the Republican
party in our state;
Then followed the choice collection of
land whereases,' supplemented by the
therefore be il resolved which consti-
tuted the resolutions and which de-
clared that it be the sense of the silver
Republicans that the provisional COM
mittee did not represent them, and rec |
commended that the silver Republicans
Of the various counties elect delegations
to the independent convention, instruct
I'd to prevent the nomination of a can
1idate for congressman by that conven- I
ion.
Mr.. Waite spoke at great length in /
support of the adoption of the resolu- T
ions, charging that the members of the {
committee were self-consti- /
.uted and asserting that they did not
'epresent the great majority of silver
but were posing is their
eaders and endeavoring to thwart their |
purpose. He charged Mr.. Varian and
he provisionalists, whom he termed a
lalf dozen of his following, with in
ncerity and said he did not believe thy
wanted harmony. He said there was
way to get harmony by fighting when
overtures failed and he
bought the time had come to fight.
He was alone.
The other gentlemen declined to tune
heir vocal instruments to chord with
dr. Waite and he was in due time
permitted to take his resolutions from
he table where they were laid, and put
hem in his pocket for safe keeping.
Fred J. Dennis opposed the adop ion
f the resolutions He did not believe
n so small a number of people as was
resent assuming to speak for all the
liver Republicans, and while he was
lot satisfied entirely with the action
f the provisional committee, he did not
avor creating still further dissensions
n a badly demoralized party by fight
ng .he committee.
Judge Mcdowell interpolated the
uery if the silver Republicans would
e bound by the action of the indepand-
Mt convention in the event a fusion
andidate were nominated.
Mr.. Dennis replied tht he did not so
onsider it.
Colonel Squires took issue with Mr..
Waite in very vigorous speech in
yhich he said he thought Mr.. White
lore's assistant would repent running
p against Mr.. Varian. He had had
ONE experience fighting Mr.. Varian
/ the constitutional convention AM had
ound him bad man to fight. Colonel
quires offered as his solution of the
ifficulty, when asked by some one for
remedy, the proposition for silver Re ,
ublicans to stay away from the Og {
en- convention entirely or vice versa, {
ne independent one.
Mr. Nye stated that he had been :
pposed to the resolutions from the ]
ist, as he believed their adop ion would |
ut the two factions of the party still
arther apart. Mr.. Nye explained the
orm of resolution he believed the
leeting should adopt and being re- '
uested to do SO, drew such r III ion I
Thile he was engaged in preparing it I
udge Mcdowell moved that Mr..
7aite's resolutions be laid on the table /
nd the motion carried unanimously. >
Mr.. Nye's resolution was then pre- :
snted and adopted. It was as follows: /
Whereas. The plans for harmonious c
elton by all elements of the Republican S
arty submitted by the committee of .
lis meeting to the state central com !,
ittee and the independent Republican :