The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-08

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THE committee on resolutions can
finish its work by half-past twelve
o'clock, came the prompt announce
ment of Colonel William Nelson one
OF the appointed members on that
committee.
The convention seemed to take the
| hint that the platform had already
/ been prepared and would only need to
be submitted TO the committee for en-
dorsement, and took recess until ITO
! O'Clock in the afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
1t was 1:SO o'clock when the com
mittee got together in the afternoon
| The report of the credential commit
tee was at once called for.
Chairman Kirby read the report
! showing that twenty-five of the TWEEN
! ty-seven counties in the state were
represented. Emery county was not
represented. but ]. w. Seeley, a resi-
dent of that county, was given a seat
in the convention and thereafter cast
its eight votes.
Millard county was entitled to thir-
teen votes, but had only nine delegates
present. Under the recommended atoms
of the credential committees report,
! the delegates present could not cast
the full number of votes the county
| was emitted TO.
E. B. Critchlow, of Salt Lake, stated
that he held proxy for D. R. Stevens
of Willard and asked that he be per-
mitted TO vote with that county's del
| egation.
No sooner had Mr.. Critchlow made
! the request when half dozen mem
/ bers of the outside delegations clam
! ored wildly for recognition and de-
nounced Salt Lake county as want
ing the whole hog or nothing"
Nor did the objections come alone
from outside delegations. Sam J.
Kenyon, of Salt Lake, led a vigorous
fight against Critchlow and for a mo-
ment the scenes were tumultuous The
chair raped for order, but everybody
wanted to talk.
! The Kenyon faction wanted to know
If the proxy came directly from Millard
county or if Mr.. Critchlow had writ
ten it himself. Mr.. Kenyon himself
thought if there was not sufficient Re
publican patriotism in the people of
Millard county to attend a convention
in person the county should be without
representation.
Bagley, of Weber, champicned Mr.
! Critchlow's cause and the latter fol-
lowed by calling attention to the fact
that no great principle was involved ::
that it was only a factional fight within
/ the delegation
The motion to allow Mr. Critchlow to
vote the proxy from Willard was then
put and the chair announced that it had
carried.
This caused passage at arms be-
tween the chair and delegate from
| Salt Lake. The latter demanded a roll
call on the motion.
out of ORDER sternly returned the
chair.
Can you tell me of single Republi-
can convention where such proceeding
was in order?" returned the delegate
with much vehemence.
Yes, sir; the first Republican con-
vention in Utah." came the firm reply
of the chair.
Delegate-Do you mean to say that I
have not the right to demand roll
call?
Chair-Yes, sir; but you can't have it.
daughter and applause.)
PERMANENT EXAMINATION.
The report of the committee on Gre
! dentials was then adopted, after which
| J.. z. Richie, chairman of the COM
mittee on permanent organization and
/ order of business, came forward and
read the committees report, which pro-
vided for the following permanent of
fcers:
Chairman, Arthur L. Thomas, OF Salt
Lake; secretary, Mrs. Bessie Gragin, of
Utah; assistant secretary, John Natter,
of Sewer; sergeant ]. ]. Green
valid, of Salt Lake; assistant sergeant
| alarms, Charles D. Goodsell of Salt
Lake; vice-presidents. Mrs. Lucy A
Clark, of Davis; Mrs. Mary Henrickson,
off Cache, and Mrs. NJ. A. Cazier, of
Juab.
The order of business provided for
was the reports of the three standing
committees-the credentials, order of
| business and resolutions-in the order
named, prayer by the chaplain, to fol-
low the report of the committee on
order of business. and the election of
six delegates and an equal number of
| alternateS after the committee on plat
form had reported.
/ The report was adopted without oppo-
sition.
Before Chairman Booth introduced
Arthur L. Thomas he read two tele-
grams which stirred up some enthusi-
asm.
FROM CONGRESSMAN ALLEN.
The first was from Congressman Clar-
ence E. Allen and read as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 7.
The Republican Convention:
1 believe it the duty of Utah to speak
in clarion tones in behalf of silver and
protection. No equivocation by presi-
! Dental candidates or by parties should
have our support. We can win this
fight for the people only by using
every weapon given u.s. Stand for sill
yer at the old ratio and we shall pre-
vail and restore prosperity to our COM
mon country. Free coinage and pro-
lection, not one. but both.
CLARENCE E. ALLEN.
SENATOR BROWN HEARD FROM.
The other was from Senator Brown
and read as follows:
WASHINGTON u q Anil G