The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20

cinity "Sit down. who tried to get
! the floor. He, however, subsidized while
Mr.. Westervelt remarked, HE does not
try to answer the question [ would
| put to him y
c. j. O. Irwin of the Sears contest
ing delegation tried to get the floor,
! but the chair held he was not yet a
member of the convention. The chair
was Kissed by the Mckinley men, and
tumult again reigned, While half a
dozen excited delegates tried to get
the floor and the chairman raped
the varnish off the speakers table
trying to get order
i Colonel Squires finally succeeded in
getting the floor and after the noise
had quieted enough for him to be
heard, he said he did not think it was
the disposition of any delegate to re-
fuse TO hear the gentleman even though
he was not an accredited delegate. He
moved that Mr.. Irwin be heard briefly
to enable him to state his delegation S
side OF the case. While the motion was
being put Joe Swenson got up to turn
around and DR.. Ewing, who had not
yet recovered his equinimity, yelled
sit down" while the convention went
| off into roar of laughter.
The motion at length prevailed and
Mr.. Irwin, being given permission,
moved to amend the report of the ere
dentials committee by seating the
Sears delegation and unseating the
Bowdle men. Speaking to his motion
he said that a meeting had been held
in the Fifty-fourth precinct of which
the voters of the Fifty-tllird were not
notified, and of which they did not
dream for some time afterward, at
which a precinct committee had been
chosen for the Fifty-tilird which had
called primaries and elected a delega-
ton to the convention. He further
stated that when the call for the county
conventions was made the leading Re
publicans of the precinct had organ
lied regularly a precinct committee
| and held primaries for the election of
delegates. He held that inasmuch as
the other delegation from the Fifty
third had been elected under the direc-
ton of a committee chosen in the
Fifty-fourth, the Sears delegation was
the one which was entitled to be seated.
! +. Bowdle, the leader of the OPP
posing delegation took the floor to re-
pay. He said the preceding speaker
was the one who was in the dark. He
explained that when the county COM
nissioners divided Farmers ward into
voting precincts, a, meeting duly called
by the old precinct committee had
been held in which the Republicans of
both the Fifty-third and Fffty-fourth
precincts participated. Acting separ-
ately the representatives to the two
precincts had elected separate precinct
committees, and that though the meet
ing had been held in the Fifty-fourth
the voters of that precinct had taken
no part in electing the committee. He
said the committee chosen there for the
Fifty third had conducted the primar-
les at which his delegation had been
chosen, and that hence his was the
properly constituted delegation.
Mr.. Mathews moved the previous
question on the amendment and the
chair tried to put it. The confusion
that had been kept up constantly rat
tiled Mr.. Love somewhat and he got a
little mixed as to how to put it. Be-
fore he got Strengthened out and de-
manded shall the previous question
be now putt" a dozen delegates were
clainoring for recognition and the tu-
multi became terrific. John Lu Taylor,
C. J. o. Irwin and R. H. McKaig yelled
"Mr. Chairman" in chorus and kept it
up while Mr.. Love strove manfully for
order. He informed Mr. Irwin that the
purpose of the motion under which he
had been permitted to be heard had
been served and he could not be heard
again. John Lu then tried again to
get the floor but was informed the mo-
ton did not extend to the whole con-
testing delegation. Still all the while
the most disgraceful scene was in pro-
greSs and the aiT was filed with yens
of "sit down." put 'em out etc.
Order was finally restored sufficiently
to enable the chair to put the motion,
which resulted unfavorably to the
amendment to seat the Sears delega-
ton.
JOHN LII TAYLOR FIRED.
A great yell of approval went up and
John Lu again jumped to his feet and
frantically yelled "Mr. Chairman. The
chair ruled he was not a delegate and
not entitled 10 the floor but he per-
sisted. The chair ordered him to sit
down, but he refused and shook his
fist at the chairman. Riot let loose again
in a minute. 1t seemed as if every
delegate in the convention was yelling
some thing the tenor of which was
meant to shut John Lu up, but he
wouldn't shut. The chair at last ordered
the sergeant-at-arms to put John Lu
out. Even then he showed fight and