The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-09
Order of Business.

Der county.
For chaplain, John B. Miner Of Utah
county.
Order of Business.
Prayer by chaplain.
Reports of committees.
Nomination of a candidate for cleo
| ton TO the Fifty ninth congress.
Nomination for governor.
Nomination for secretary of state.
Nomination for attorney general.
Nomination for state auditor.
Nomination for state treasurer
Nomination for superintendent of
| public instruction.
Nomination for judges OF the supreme
| court.
Nomination for three presidential
| electors.
| Selection Of a state committee.
1t was provided in the report that the
| counties Should vote in their regular
order and that no county should be
passed, but should record its vote when
| reached on the roll call
The report recommended that roos-
| ter be adopted as the party emblem. II
/ was unanimously adopted. This was
followed by the permanent officers re-
lieving the temporary officers of the
convention.
| Address by Permanent Chairman.
In taking the chair, Judge Thurman
made a reference to the Republican
/ dissensions.
I'VE find them this morning opening
| UP a new departure he said. and
associating with them men, one Of
whom welded the gavel here today and
| says he believes we will elect the en-
! tire Democratic ticket next November
and another, Of whom telegraphs from
| the far east for the Democrats of Utah
! 10 get together and stay together We
don't care what troubles the Republic
cans may have, but we don't want
! them TO drag clean Democrats into
| them. We are here to nomiAate men
| who Will become officers OF the state
| of Utah. Let US elect men who will
| not violate their oaths of Office Let US
not elect men who will spend part Of
| the time for which they are paid a
salary by the state in figuring how
they can increase that salary. 1t is
/ better to be defeated and be right, than
| to be victorious and wrong. Let US
| lay aside factiOnal feelings and nom
! mate men whose election will vindicate
! our Judgment in the eyes of the people,
| and on the 1st Of next January Utah
i will begin to go forward as Demo-
! cratic state"
Following prayer by the chaplain, J.
| Is. Miner Of Utah county, the report
| of the committee on platform and res
olutions, signed by the chairman,
| Judge Thomas d. Dee of Weber. was
| read by its secretary. c. N. Jackson,
| and unanimously adopted The reading
! of the platform was Interrupted by
| frequent bursts of applause as the va
riOus points in the party's declara ton
were brought out.
The reading and adoption of the re-
| port of the committee OH resolutions
| was followed by prayer by John b.
| Miner, chaplain of the convention.
Powers is Nominated.
This was followed by a call by the
| chairman for nominations to the Office
OF representative in congress. Judge
! A. ]. Weber, to whom fell the honor
| Of nominating Judge Powers, was rec
ognized. In response to a general de-
| mand. Judge Weber assembled the plat
| form and spoke as follows:
! Not on behalf of Salt Lake county,
| but in the name of all the gallant
! Democrats of Utah; ia the name Of
those who believe i'm the JefTersonian
/ doctrine of equal opportunities for all
I the children of men; in the name of
those who till the soil and dig in the
| mineS-in the name OF all the toilers of
] Utah who need a true friend and an
| able champion at Washington; Ia the
! name Of those who want repoSe. con-
tentment and peace I'm our splendid
! commonwealth, and who want TO BAN
| ish turmoil, discomfort and strife-in
! the name OF all who love fair Utah,
! nominate for congress that peerless
| leader among men-Orlando w. Pow
ers.
He needs no encomfums from me.
| You all do know him well. You and
| I admire him for his ability, his elO-
| Quence, his integrity and his Democ-
racy. The people of Utah, regardless
of political belief or religious creed,
have 4 special love for him because of
| the enemies he made at the mining
| congress at Portland.
His candidacy viii pat hope and
! courage into every Democratic heart;
It win attract TO our party hundreds
yea, thousands, OF thinking Republic
| cans who are tired of cant and fraud,
! disguised with hypocrisy and corrup-
| ton and satiated with Sm0otism and
Kearnsism.
within twenty -four hours after
Judge Powers shall have taken his
| seat in congress, he VIII be recOg-
nized leader among those who will sup
port Alton Brooks Parker in his work
| of retrenchment and reform in federal
| affairs. He viii be a representative
| who viii DO more than to merely re-
spond to rollcalls--a representative who
viii represent Utah's best interests
! with signal ability and constant fdel-
ity.
II urge upon you TO nominate by ac-
| clamatfUn and with unanimity the
| great commoner of his adopted state
the grand old man Of Utah-O- ".
| Powers"
Great Enthusiasm For Powers.
The first mention of Judge Powers
name by Judge Weber was the signal
for an outburst of applause such as
seldom has been witnessed iii a Utah
convention. ~ majority of tie dele
gates arose 10 their feet and with
/ waving arms, and hats made the build
ing fairly rock with their shouts and
cheers. At the conclusion of the nom
! mating speech Judge Thurman found
| it difficult TO restrain the convention
long enough 10 permit seconding
speeches, but at length JOSEPH, NJ. Co
hen of Salt Lake was recognized. IN
| the course of his speech Mr.. Cohen
said:
Two weeks ago l am convinced,
Judge Powers would not have accepted
this nomination. Events OF tie past two
| days have led him TO come forward TO
| declare he is still a Democrat"
| A motion to nominate Judge Powers
! by reclamation was made by John 7.
Game Of Salt Lake. but before it was
put Major Samuel 4. King Of Utah
! county was recognized. He began b.
saying that two years ago he was de-
MED the privilege of nominating Judge
/ PowerS for congress. but that now it
7 was his privilege and pleasure TO sec
/ ond the motion of Mr.. Game.
| In congress Judge Powers will not