The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-26
PRIMARIES TOMORROW.
COUNTY DEMOCRATS PREPAR-
ING FOR ACTION.
Getting Ready For the Convention of
July General John Lu Taylor
Says the Republican Party Has
No Head.

Democrats outside the city are pre-
pairing for the convention which will
be held July Z, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a candidate for the position of
superintendent of county schools. Calls
are being posted throughout the county
and some have been forwarded for pub
lication.
The Democrats of Sugar precinct will
hold a primary on Monday evening.
June q, at the Central school build
ing, for the purpose of selecting seven
delegates, and urge every Democrat in
the precinct to attend the primary.
The Democrats of Forest Dale will
meet in the Forest Dale schoolhouse
the same evening. June 81, for the pur
pose of elscting six delegates and also
request a full attendance.
There are two or three candidates for
the place, Superintendent Van Colt
and Professor Paul being prominently
mentioned. The convention will be he'd
in the Murray Opera House.
GENERAL TAYLOR SPEAKS.
General John Lu Taylor, mentioned
as candidate for congress, takes a
very gloomy view of the Republican
situation in this state, and intimates
that there is no chance for the success
manner in which business has been
manipulated. General Taylor has writ
ten a letter to The Herald, in which he
sets forth his views as follows:
Editor Herald: In your issue of the
23rd, in the Political Arena" you say
that 1 am out of the race for congress
and all on account of my recent family
troubles. Now you are mistaken. l
would not let little thing like that
in
tons were right. 1 do not think that
my enemies could make it much more
unpleasant for me than I could for
them. l would be willing to take my
chances on that at least.
l am out of the race, however, for bet
ter and more substantial reasons. In
fact, the very best of reasons, and those
are that the branch of the Republican
party to which 1 have always belonged
has no official head, or organization in
the state, and therefore, unless the
party should be organized and given
head L could receive no nomination or
recognition which would entitle me to
the support of my party. The Dooly
wing, or faction, of the so-called Re
publican party in this state is not the
sort of Republican party to which 1,
or faction, is the aggregation to which
Glen Miller, United States marshal,
Postmaster A. L. Thomas and White
more belong. All three of these ignored
the national Republican platform in
reference to the financial plank in 1896.
Thomas was the chairman of the COM
mittee which brought before the con-
vention at Mount Pleasant a report re-
fusing TO adopt the financial plank of
the national platform and Glen Miller
and Whittomore both supported il and
defeated the few true Republicans in
the convention, who sought to have the
financial policy of the party in national
assembled, endorsed. My
position on the question in the con-
vention, and during the campaign, is
we'll known. Then again, Whittemore
labored very ZealouSly on the day of
the Ogden convention to induce myself
and others to support Mr.. HolbrcOl1, !
the Bryan candidate for congress, !
which we refused to do.
If this kind of Republicans can build
up and establish the Republican party
in this state, by this kind of work. then
they must do it without the aid of true
and stalwart Republicans. They must |
do it by the aid of such pretended Re |
publicans as are fawning, sycophantic !
honest men and true. The fact of the |
matter is that u stalwart Republican |
has no place in this state nor will he |
have for years to come. My advice to |
al true Republicans is to keep out; |
hands off and let the dog eat dog |
light go on undisturbed, until such time !
as they may destroy themselves. Keep |
your hands off and away from the rot
ZEN. putrid carrion. Give them plenty |
If room and you will see them eventu-
ally landed in the depths of everlasting