The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-10
The Convention Held In Davis
County Yesterday.
FISHER DELEGATION WINS
THE BoLTING GRANT FACTION
IS SHUT OUT.
John Fisher For Representative-Th
County Ticket-How the Delegates
to the State Convention Stand
Ten Favor King For Congress If
he Will Accept.

Pennington, Sept. 9.-The largest
Democratic convention that ever met in
Davis county convened at 10 a. m. to-
day in the court house. Hyrum Stew
art, county chairman. called the con-
vention to order, and named Thomas
F. Roueche as temporary chairman
and Perry c. Fisher was elected sec
rotary, with Nephi Palmer as assist
ant.
The usual committees were appoint
ed, the one on credentials consisting OF
IL members, and the permanent organ
ization and order of business committee
having five members.
The credentials committee had some
heavy work to do, inasmuch as there
were two delegations from Bountiful
precinct, each demanding seat in the
convention The split in Bountiful is
due to the contest for representative in
the legislature. John Fisher OF Boun-
tiful and ]. H. Grant of Woods Cross
were candidates, and a faction in East
Bountiful repudiated Fisher and deter
mined to secure the nomination FOR
Grant. The precinct primary elected 10
Fisher men, and the opposing forces
bolted and sent up another delegation
1t took five hours 20 decide which
should have the but at 4 o'clock
this afternoon the invention decided
to seat the Fisher delegation. The
other 10 walked out, declining the Of
/ fer of a privilege of participating in
I the debates.
Those who left the convention seemed
to take with them all of the sentimeKr'
in favor of ]. II. Grant for representa-
tive His name was not mentioned
when nominations for the place were
made.
The temporary organization was
made permanent. and John Walsh was
elected as vice chairman. Nominations
were then proceeded with.
For representative John Fisher was
placed in nomination, and the rules
were suspended while he was voted in
by reclamation.
The county ticket was nominated as
follows:
For county clerk, Thomas H. Phillips.
/ by reclamation
For sheriff, L. E. Abbott, by accla-
nation.
For treasurer. Henry H. Blood. by
reclamation.
For recorder, David Thomas. by &C
clamation.
For assessor, Israel Barlow. jr.. Of
West precinct; Phlander Hatch OF
South Bountiful and ]. William Evans
/ of Layton were nominated Barlow was
| declared the nominee on the second
ballot
W. H. Streeper, jr., and David o.
Wiley, jr., were nominated for county
attorney Streeper won by vote OF
/ so to 90
] For county commissioners w. JACOB
Parker of Syracuse, Schofield Kershaw
of Layton and Joseph L. Holbrook OF
Bountiful were declared the nominees.
Seth c. Jones of Kaysville received
the nomination for county surveyor.
The convention this evening named
as delegates to the state convention:
H. B. Civilian, South Hooper; James
Warren, Clearfield; Schofield Kershaw,
William B. Miller. Layton; ]. g. M
Barnes, George Swan jr., r. w. Barnes.
Kaysville; z. A. Cottrell, L. E. Abbott,
Pennington; N. T. Porter, Centerville;
John Fisher, Mary Day, Cyrus Page
Bountiful; 1. Barlow, jr., West pre-
cinct; P. Hatch, South Bountiful.
Alternates-W. H. Miller, Antoine
Christensen. ]. Z. Layton. E. C. DID
BILE, F. B. Williams, Mrs. Hyrum Stew
art. T H. Phillips, ]. S. White, jr., Jed
Abbott, Thomas Harris, Mrs. A Hol-
brook. Mrs. S. F. Howard.
A partial polling of the delegates
shows ten who favor King for congress
If he will not accept Roberts will re-
ceive at least eight votes and perhaps
ten. Two delegates are for Harris and
more may go to him. Only six of the
Is would openly declare for Roberts
as first choice.