The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-17
CANDIDATES ARE SELECTED
WITHOUT DISSENTING VOTE

II was $40 o'clock when Chairman
Powers called the afternoon session 20
order. He said the first business was
the report of the committee on ere
dentials.
Chairman Game of Salt Lake City
said there were no eontesting delega-
lions, but added that Kane. Rich and
Wayne counties were not represented.
He said the committee recommended
that each delegation be given the rep
resentation provided I'm the call.
After the report had been adopted, q.
man from Kane county announced
that he had just arrived and wished 10
be recorded present. The committee
report was amended to show that Kane
county was present.
W. II. Dale, chairman OF the CONS
mittee on permanent organization and
order of business. reported the perma-
nent officers as follows:
Permanent Officers.
county.
First Vice Chairman-Frank K. Neb-
eker, Cache county.
Second Vice ChairmRn-W. w. Cluff,
Summit county.
lHlfQ vice AudlT D GicNN6
Bullock, Utah county.
Fourth Vice Chairman-Mrs. II. ].
Hayward. Salt Lake county.
Secretary-Henry n. Hays, Sewer
county.
Assistant Secretary-Nephi Palmer,
Davis county.
sergeant-at-A rms-Joseph Phillips
Juab county
~ a.
Gordon. Box Elder county.
Chaplsin-John r. Miner. Utah
county.
order of Business: First-Report OF
the committee on credentials.
! second-Report of the committee on
permanent organization and order Of
| business.
Third-Report of committee on reso-
buttons.
Fourth-Adoption OF party emblem
Fifth-Nomination of a candidate for
! justice of the supreme court.
/ Sixth-NominatiOn Of a representa-
| tive in congress.
seventh-Selection of a state COM
/ mittee.
Powers Introduces Cannon.
After the report had been adopted,
/ Permanent Chairman Frank j. Cannon
was introduced TO the convention amid
! burst of applause. showing his popu-
/ larity among the delegates. When the
! enthusiasm resulting from his appear
ance upon the stage had subsidized. the
retiring chairman turned the gavel over
! TO the new officer with the following
happy remarks:
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mem
bers of the Convention: When the Re
publican party abandoned its principles
and drifted under the control of those
who are not in sympathy with the peo-
pie, II left those who had sustained
those principles, and who were true u
the Declaration of Independence, 10 the
/ principles Of the constitution of the
| United States and 10 the advocacy Of
| those things which are with the people
and Of the people where the Democrat
&c party in the grand convention OF
1896 picked them up and adopted then
in their ranks without their abandon
ing those principles which they had
adopted in the past. One Of them
have the honor Of introducing-the Hon
Frank J. Cannon, a Democrat"
When the applause brought out by
the remarks OF the retiring chairman
{ i2GQ suUSAuEls AudiINlAn 1dAlul
stepped forward and spoke as follows
Nv Friends. Democrats All-There is
[ but one political issue in this world to-
daY. and that Is whether government Of
the people. for the people and by th'
Z people shall perish from the face OF th'
earth. Indeed. we are met here in sol
ernn protestauon against the effort o.
combined syndlcates IN Utah and the IA
ton 10 take awav the authority from
Gods children TO govern themselves.
Hanna and Kearns.
Mark Hanna is the Republican party
or the United States Thomas hearns ],
the Republican party Of the state o
Utah applause. Laughter and cheers
TO the support OF Marx Hanna over IN
United States are gathered. oh. thos,
mighty forces OF capital and selfishnes
which can make his authority m2sniIl
cent in the most sOrdid sense OF the WORD
To the support OF Mr.. Kearns IN ttal
are aggregated all those influences wnicl
il would be better we're left out OF poll
tics. Each man IS mighty In MS way
and each man represents 4 great force
But those people Of the state and OF TIT
nation who recognize that un5cndins
manhood and glorious wOmanhOod anG
I hopeful childhood are OF more importance
TO the republic than business c0mbina
tons or the triumph OF one individual
/ over another Ia politics VIII choose L
follow some other banner than that OF tn'
| personal rulers OF mighty syndicates Wn
I make The government a mere instru
! mentality Of their own viii and their owl
| selfishness IN the nation are ne no
/ controlled bv trusts? What man 50 pow
! erful within the last four years. Wha
1 man so magnificent within the E,Apuolt
/ can party which is the dominant eieInen
in CIR political life but that ne IA.
] Welded his viii and his conscience AK
the keeping OF the masters OF capital!
Refers TO Mckinley.
The man who is lost We all lament, 70
il is a sad thing that any good mai
/ should be struck down in the midst o
his career: that man called the ideal o
| Christian craftsmanship. that Christian
| gentleman. President Mckinley, va
! OBLIGED in the fun flower OF mis- caree
and in the United States while hosoin.
the authority vaster than that OF the CA
| trusts In the Porto Ricsn case. as yol
| weIl know. We have boosted In tn
| wears gone BY that our rule was that o
! peace throughout the world: that neve
! would We take from one human creatur
| the rights We had demanded for our
| selves and vet al the instance Of n
! trusts and the exploitation OF capital
W. have witnessed until the conscienc
| OF the country demanded its re5uke, a
| officer al the United STATES. wearing IN
| Uniform OF the army. but appointed b.
/ the trusts. give voice 70 this dEIEl eaicf
Lay waste the land Of the Philippines
| STAY all creatures over 10 wears OF re
I WHAT rights OF the people Of the DnIte
states have been thus SllbzerEeoE wi
sons one tel me how You have beel