The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-09

After the forenoon session of the con-
vent,On, the caucus again gathered. But
it did no business.
Buncoed Country Delegates.
The Smoot-Salisbury machine. with
the court house gang to do its bid
ding, had fixed upon A w. Carlson
and j. B. Cosgriff for county commits
siOners- SmOot picked Carlson and
Salisbury named Cosgriff. Conse-
quently they did not wish a country
caucus to agree on a candidate and
upset the slate. Colonel Squires, with
the authority delegated 10 him from
the bosses, was equal TO the emergency
His eloquent plea against a slate won
the day, and the caucus adjourned
without tranSacting any further bust
ness.
Then the machinists trotted out no
less than five candidates from the
country outside the city to split the
country vote The result was that the
slate candidate had easy sailing. To
say that the country delegates were
/ hurt when they woke up to what had
been done to them is indeed
euphemism. They were not pacified
when five men from the country were
put on the legislative ticket and Camp
! bell NJ. Brown, who lives on the edge
of the city, was renominated for as
SCISSOR.
Commissioner e. D. Miller was turned
down because of his record on the no.
| torious bond deal.
Robinson, Boss or Bingham.
| Another development of the conven-
| ton was the settling of the long stand
! ing Bingham row. This resulted in a
complete triumph for Harry J. Robin
son, editor Of the Bingham Bulletin,
who for more than year has been
! fighting the old machine in Bingham
and building up an organization of his
own. Colonel Squires was the pacifi-
| Gator, although his work largely con-
sisted of finishing a task already be-
gun.
BY the new arrangement, Mr.. Robin
son is recognized by both county and
| state machines as the boss of Bingham.
His paper is to come into line for the
regular ticket. despite the fact that the
things it said OF the Smoot slate i'm
convention and nominees were "a
plenty" He is to be recognized in the
federal patronag e-such as the post
mastership. The county organization
| is to deal with him on Bingham ap-
pointments for such places as deputy
sheriff and road supervisor. And the
state and county machines. working as
one harmonious whole. proclaimed the
| loVe-feaSt by placing him on the ticket
strongly was the word passed by the
machine for Robinson that when two
or three of his old enemies in Bingham
tried to stem the tide they could do no
more than a broom against the ocean,
and Robinson got the highest vote of
all the nominees before the convention.
No Break Anywhere in Slate.
There was not a break in the slate
from start TO finish. SmOot and Sails
bury personally named the men on the
legislative ticket a few men who
would be satisfactory" if nominated
by any chance were allowed to run in
order to make it look like fight. But
nobody not on the slate had a look in
The county ticket was turned over in
its entirety to the court house gang"
There were many protests from the
writhing victims, but it did no good.
Every nominee on the county ticket eX-
cept the commissioners IS at present
a county officeholder Sheriff Emery
was renominated. as were County Clerk
Eldredge Recorder Perkins, Surveyor
Swenson and Assessor Brown, J. A.
GrOesbeck, jr., nominee for treasurer, is
a present deputy treasurer. Willard
Hanson, a nominee for attorney, is now
assistant county attorney. and Frank
Heginbotham is promoted one notch
in being nominated for auditor, being
now in the auditors office.
On the senatorial ticket, William n.
Williams. renominated. is a manager
of the Coop. Furniture store. Benner
! X. Smith is a lawyer.
OF the candidates for the lower
house, Harry S Joseph is mining
man. a notable feature of the conven-
ton was that he did not attempt to
make a speech. Mr.. Robinson, as
stated. is newspaper man. He is sec
retary of the Utah Press association
and secretary Of the Republican Edi-
torial association of Utah. c. r.
Marks Brigham Clege and Nephi
United States Centennial Jensen are
lawyers. Preston D. Richards is Il
school teacher in Sugar. John NJ Mills
is professor at the University OF Utah
John @. Critchlow was formerly man
ager of the Utah Credit Mems asso-
citation. Bishop Daniel McRae is a
farmer at Granger.
Every possible effort was made to
bring into the limelight the few nom
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