The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-12
FIRST PRECINCT CONVENTION.
Slate Went Through and Proceed
ings We're Harmonious


1t took the Republican delegates of
the First precinct less than an bour to
do the business which called them to-
gether. The usual preliminaries were
put through with a rush, and the cam
didates for councilmanic honors were
chosen by reclamation and hair-raising
Whoops. The slate went through as
though everything had been creased
for the occasion. The only semblance of
contest was in choosing committee
men.
The convention was held in the an
mex 90 the Ninth ward meeting house.
A temporary organization was effected
by electing Alvin Y. Taylor chairman
and George H. Ingham secretary. These
were afterward made the permanent
officers of the convention. To save
time the list Of delegates as published
in The Herald was adopted as the roll
of the convention.
Bouquets For Buckle.
When nominations for candidates for
places on the precinct council ticket
were called for, Sam Westertield took
the floor to propose the name of George
Buckle. Although George has been a
member of the council two terms, Sam
gave it out cold that his mans record
has been "A shining mark the past two
years of affliction with the Democratic
administration of city Affairs Sans
eloquence is of the mild-mannered
kind. but the unexpected applause
which greeted his panegyric almost
floored him. He ventured the assertion
that the weekly scraps in the city coun-
ell had done more even than the Phil
ippine war issues to unity the Repub-
licans of Salt Lake. He wanted to say
something more for his candidate. but
dismissed the effort by reminding the
fnsk hnd
forced Buckle out of the mayoralty
race and adding the remark that the
incident demonstrated that Buckle
thought more of party and less of self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The convention took this sally as one
of Sans jokes. and applauded until a
motion was adopted suspending the
rules and nominating Buckle by accla-
nation.
Hewlett and Thomas Farr.
George l. Nye nominated a man
successful in his own business affairs |
and. therefore, one who would make a
splendid councilman j. Hew- |
lett.
With a whoop and yell Hewlett was |
made second man on the ticket Il. B. I
Critchlow voted loud no" 10 make 1
the selection unanimous.
Il had been previously arranged that /
q non Mormon should be -chosen to bal !
ance the ticket, and w. A. Lee suggest
ed that John J. Thomas had all the !
qualifications for the place in addition
10 residing in the annex, which has !
never Yet had a councilman. A goodly (
number voted against the motion TO
make the nomination of Thomas unan-
imous.
Joe Weller precipitated a scrap by !
proposing that the members of the
city committee from the First precinct
be named by the councilmanic candi-
dates. Farley Christensen, Colonel
Kaighn and Jake Moritz opposed the
proposition, and A. T. Lawson and H.
r. Watrous favored it. Colonel Kaighn
made the point that il would be bad
politics and open the door to tempta-
ton TO trade off the general ticket for
support TO the council ticket if Weiler's 4
motion were adopted,
As soon as Weiler's motion was
buried the convention proceeded to bal
lot for two names to be recommended
TO the city convention as members of
the city committee from the First pre-
cinct Out of eighty-one votes. Sam
Westerfield scored forty-siX on the first
ballot The others in the race were
Walter J. Meeks, with thirty-slx votes;
A. +. Lawson, with thirty-five; A. /.
Hamlin, twenty-nine, and George b
Ingham, sixteen. Another ballot gave
Lawson As; NIeeks %; and Hanlin, II.
Placating the Boys.
Walter Meeks was then chosen unan-
imously as chairman of the precinct
campaign committee.
For members of the precinct commit
tee II. V. Van Pelt, w. II. Farnsworth.
A. u. Parsons, Thomas Borlase, o. II. ]
Hewlett, Joseph Oberndorfer, L. c.
Kelsey, ". J. Meeks, H. c. Wallace. Il.
W. McAllister and A. II. Atkinson were
chosen
A L. Hamlin was pacif1ed by being
slated to serve the First precinct in the '
city convention as member of the conn
mittee on credentials. The honor of be-
ing a member of the committee on per- {
manent organization and order OF bust I
ness was given to A. II. Parsons. and !
d. Z. Walker, jr, was piacated with a J
on the committee on
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