The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-12
NOISY RIVALS
TO BANQUETERS
Battery Will Drill and Band VIII
Practice at ArmOry To-
night.
MORE OFFICERS TO RESIGN
PLAN TO FOLLOW oEoGHEGAN
OUT OF GUARD.

Republicans may indulge in oratory
al the National Guard armory tonight,
but meanwhile there will be within a
few feet the tramp of marchers and
the 'toot-toots'' and "boom-booms' OF
horns and drums. For the battery is
to drill and the band is to practice.
They will be driven out by the BAN
| queters, but they propose to go ahead
with their regular Monday night pro-
gramme just outside their regular
quarters. Furthermore, at least two
more officers of the National Guard
have determined to resign. They are
planning to follow Adjutant General
Joseph GeOghegan. who resigned last
week because Governor j. c. Cutler
overruIed him and voted to loan the
armOry tonight to the Republicans OF
Utah for banquet purposes.
Captain Hyrum A. Barton Of Battery
A and Captain Freeman II. Bassett OF
Company H. indicated last evening
that they would resign if nothing new
lcCmed up on the n. @. Z. horizon. Al
least one officer has already drawn up
his resignatiOn-SeniOr First Lieuten-
ant H. NJ. Adams of Battery A
although it has not been forwarded.
Captain Barton's resignation would be
followed by that OF his other Heuten-
ant, Richard Kane. and those of at
least seventeen batterymen, ii is de-
clared. The latter would not wait for
the forwarding Of Captain Bartons
resignation, but would request formal
discharges from him before he went
out of Office.
Captain o. H Hassing, regimentaL
aGjutant, admitted last night that his
resignation would be forthcoming
shortly although he assigned private
business and not the GeOghegan case
as his cause. The attitude of Captain
Z. L. Bourne has not been aScertained.
although this officer is a staunCh
friend of the adjutant general and was
a member with Colonel GeOghegan of
the armory board proper of seven
which drew up the resolutions against
lOaning the aTmOrX for private pur-
poses. This fact is taken to indicate
that consistency on Captain BOurne's
part would demand his asserting ale
glance to Colonel Geoghegan.
Two Armory Boards.
There are two armory boards. one the
executive board of three composed Of
Governor Cutler, Secretary of state c.
S. Tingey, and the adjutant general
The other consist of seven members.
and is composed of the adjutant gen
eraI Major W. G. Williams. Captain Z.
L. Bourne. Captain Barton, Captain
Dean. Lieutenant Adams and Lieuten-
ant Barnes.
The board Of seven decided last Sep
TENDER against loaning the armory.
The board of three which, according to
National Guardsmen, has no actual
control of the armory. decided to over
rule the order OF the board of seven, in
which is vested real CONTROL that is,
two-thirds of the board of three, Gov
ernOr Cutler and Secretary of State
Tingey, OVerruled. Colonel Geoghegan.
causing the latter to resign.
Will Drill and Play.
Now comes the important question.
a feature which ranks with the an
nOunCement of forthcoming resigna-
tons; regardless of the legality of the
thing. has there been any order issued
which the Guard or any portion of the
Guard is bound to obey?
mo" is the answer of practically
every member of the n. G. L.
Therefore unless Governor Cutler
hurries an order to BatteryA to call off
its drill the battery will assemble for
drill tonight; unless there is an order
cancel1ing band practice the band viii
meet and play tOnight-neXt room to
the banQueterS. Captain Barton is even
of the opinion that to disregard the
decision of the armOry board in case
no formal order is issued would bring
the naDlIJy OF court-ndrtial. He said
last evening that the battery would
gather tonight for drill; under ordf-
nary circumstances it would have the
space allotted TO the Republican state
machine; tOnight-if that formal,
authoritative, order is not forthcoming
it will seek knowledge of military
tactics in the basement halls or some
other part of the building. At any
rate, any scheduled military meetings
such as this must be held unless or
ders to the contrary are received. And
the decision of twO-thirds of the exec
utive session is not an order, say the
GUardsmen.