Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-26

srha hattle Is over anu tle sinVhe H"'
"a away. And out OF II all comes
.,orv OF one OF the most spirited
Wv ,ontions in the history Of Utah poll
~. A summary is found In the names
w. :, mo nominees which precede this ar
tide o., a..
TN. nomination OF John c. Cutler for
nrror was more Of a blow against
senator Kearns than 1t was against
eov wells himself; for the truth ",
,sbtly or wrongly, the impression was
'a.srread that the latter was In some
~, attached to the senator's political
,,,cea II was a club that his oppon-
.n,. welded most effectually. OF
sonrse he also had the third term han
S,can 10 contend with. and In view Of
,bst fact and OF the further fact OF be-
lpr pitted against tremendously
strong competitor in the person OF Mr.
cutler, the wonder II that he made so
snendId a showing. Altogether It was
about as glorious as defeat can be.
There is another sequel to the out
,ome Of the convention struggle, And
hat is that In the test OF strength
baween the senior and Junior senators
tbe latter won most decisively-that Is,
he won so far as he was interested. He
had bis favorlte candidate for COVER
nor, and that candidate was victorious,
The senior senator had his candidate
for the same exalted office, and his cam
dIdate was defeated. The same condi-
lion viii be found to apply more or
less 10 the other nominees on the tick
eL OF course, there are one or two
EXCEPTIONS, but that Is all, There Is
no question that 1t was Senator
Shoots day.
A notable occurrence In the conven-
ton was the desertion AT a critical
juncure In the gubernatorlal fight Of
some OF the Weber county delegation
from Wells to Cutler. or course, the
incident was the occasion of great ju-
bllatiOn In the one camp ana OF de-
spar in the other The Wells men
say that It turned the tide and planted
defeat where the standard OF victory
was being placed. Accordingly they
waited their turn. II came In the
evening when Moyes made his race for
treasurer. The Wells supporters had
been bIding their time and they went
after the ogden man good and hard
with the charges of bad faith hurled at
him right and left, When the ballots
were counted, Mr. Moyes was down and
out, and Chrlstlansen Of Sewer hal
been nominated. From that period to
The close Of the convention the dele
gates who had remained loyal TO the
governor through the whole hittet
struggle remembered Weber county in
such manner that when the work OF
the night was over Weber had no place
whatever upon the general ticket, and
then there were sore spots I'm other
places than IN the governors camp,
There were many features Of inter-
est IN the convention, but they were
mainly associated with the fight for
the gubernatorial nomination. There
were but two men named by acclama-
ton. They were Congressman Howell
and State superintendent Of tnstruc-
ton Nelson. The effort TO nominate
Hammond for Congress against Howell
was either strangled or permitted TO
die Of its own accord IN the knowledge
that II could not be made TO succeed.
Had the forces OF Governor Wells been
IN decisive control OF the convention,
there would have been some encourage
inent to have carried out their inten-
tons, but the ginger was all taken out
OF them early In the contest in the de-
feat OF the executive and they never
thoroughly recovered their lost
strength The convention chronicle fol-
lows In detail.