The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-04


tend the county convention of the dis
united Republicans, which win be held
IN this city on Wednesday next, were
targets yesterday for every candidate
VINO could get to the city and there
were many of them. They were pulled
and hauled from point to point and
got no rest for the soles of their feet.
From indications it appears that
Hardy has the lead for sheriff, al
though Adam Paul is perpetrating a
joke by announcing that he has IT'S
| votes on the first ballot, something cal
| cuiated TO make every one who hears
II laugh. Hardy has a good lead in the
city and VIII have the delegates from
Bingham, Sandy, Farmers, Silverton
and Sugar House, the statements of a
morning paper to the contrary not
withstanding.
Egan, Gamble, Geddes and Perry are
still in the lead for county commits
sloner, the others being away behind in
the race. Knudsen, of Big Cottonwood,
was in town yesterday endeavoring to
bolster up his chances. John C. Mac
key is also in the race, so he says, and
will do all he can to win.
The balance Of the battle is about as
reported in The Herald of yesterday,
although the friends of John James de-
clare he is gaining steadily and will
run Al Reese a close race. Bert Ray
bould, Frank Shelly and Mont Fisher
have another man in their fight in the
person of Arthur Persons, who yester-
day declared himself in letter to all
the voters whose addresses he had at
command. Up to date Fisher has been
considered the head man in the race.
but of late Raybould and Shelly have
been working hard and unless Mont
gets on the street he will get badly
left.
Colonel Macintosh returned from
the coast yesterday and says there is
every reason to believe that Bryan and
Sewall viii carry California. He
thinks that San Francisco may give a
majority for Mckinley, but it will be
so small that the big returns from the
state will overcome it and the Demo-
cratic ticket viii win.
g % @
Elmer B. Jones is going east tomor-
row and for two weeks will stump the
states of Iowa and Nebraska in the
interest of Bryan and Sewall. He is
going to pay his own campaign eX-
penses and declares he will make
q g g
Hon. Thomas Kearns and Hon. G. e.
Allen will leave the city this morning
for Nebraska where they will work in
the interest of Bryan and Sewall for
the next twelve or fifteen days. They
expect to do some good work while
away Kearns is a former Nebraskan
and has a world of influence down
there and his presence win count in the
campaign.
P. ". Nelson desires the announce
ment made that he is not a candidate
for the legislature on the Republican
ticket because he has not the money
nor the inclination to make the cam
paign. He was announced by num-
Der of friends and while he feels fiat
tered at the compliment, he does not
care to run.
Harry Joseph is the only man on the
Republican ticket so far who has had
the temerity to announce himself as a
candidate for the Office of county sur
veyor against Charles Wilkes and it
looks at this writing as if he was going
to get there by reclamation on the first
ballot.
A delegate-elect TO the convention
1re8L wednesday, ySStelNdS o@iliNOuAASCu
that he had been offered $40 for his
proxy. which indicates there is going to
be a. fight somewhere during the pro-
ceedings.
One question which will agitate the
convention next Wednesday will be that
of resolutions The gold men do net
want any resolutions and the silver men
do. The latter want this county, and
especially the members of the legisla-
ture, to define exactly where they
stand ere they are placed before the
people AS a result there is going 10 be
a scramble in the meeting which may
result disastrously for some one. The
officeseekers, as a rule, are with the
Mckinley men on this point. because
the arguments are likely to affect their
chances. Inasmuch as the convention
will be made up chiefly of officeseekers
it is very likely no declaration will be
made, even though the fight is a bitter
one.
1t was rumored yesterday that Col
onel Nelson would contest the seat in
the county convention to which P W.
Nelson was declared elected. The ma
jority was only one and the contention
is made that reporters were run in at
the primary, which is true beyond a
doubt.
There will be no colored candidate
in the convention save W. W. Taylor.
who is going to make the race for the
legislature. Taylor IS a brighs young
man, the editor of the Plain Dealer, and
will have good support in the conven-
ton and is almost sure of being selected,