The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-08
AMERICAN PARTY
CALLS CONVENTIONS
State Convention Will Be Held
Friday, September Fl, in
Salt Lake Theater.
COUNTY CONVENTION MEETS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
First One VIII Be Mass Meeting;
County Will Be Composed
of Delegates.

vention, TO be held III the Salt Lake
1neater on Friday September 81. This
action was determined upon at meet
ing held Friday afternoon by the State
committee.
The American county committee at
a meeting held Friday decided TO issue
a call for q county convention to be
held in the Salt Lake Theater on Sat
urdav. September % The convention
will contain about 650 delegates. The
official call will be issued today giving
the apportionment, The primaries to
select delegates to this convention Will
be held in the several election districts
on Wednesday evening, September ~, at
clock. The ten precincts outside of
the city will meet at s p. M. September
90 for the purpose of nominating candl,
dates for Justice of the Peace and
Constables. The delegates from the city
will nominate candidates for Justice
and Constable on the night of the
county convention. The meeting of the
committee was most enthusiastic and
the plans for the campaign were dis
cussed at length. Those present were
cock, Henry Cartright, Abe Little,
Daniel Wostenholm, J. P, Cahoon, A.
e. Short, W. r, Vincent, II. X Nord-
berg. Jerome Bougard j. f.. Darmer,
Henry Heath, S. p Armstrong. Chair
man Darmer has already a thorough
organization throughout the county and
affairs are well in hand. The cam
paign will be n most vigorous one, and
Of the result in November there is no
question victory will perch upon the
American party.
There is one thing about The Salt
Lake Tribune that has become a pro-
verb among its readers. That is that
what appears in its columns is true.
ence there have been a number of per-
sons who have sought the aid of the
courts to test the truthfulness of state"
ments printed in The Tribune. This
newspaper has always been sustained.
Mutton Bill Jones was the latest per-
son to question the statements made
in Tribune columns. He appealed to
the courts. The result is we'll known.
The truthfulness of The Tribune was
sustained. Mutton Bill is out of a
job.
On Labor day the American flag on
the Federal building in Salt Lake was
unfurled upside down. The Tribune
printed the facts. Postmaster Thomas,
custodian Of the building, when inter
viewed upon the subject by a reporter
for The Tribune, admitted that Old
after walking out to the street and
finding the flag all right, said: "Well,
it's all right now 1t was corrected
as soon as it was discovered. Had
it not been unfurled upside down what
was there about it to be corrected9
Since the publication of the facts on
Tuesday morning the organ of the
dlsprove the statement made by the
postmaster and to show that The Trib-
une was in error. To do this it has re-
sorted to wilfull and deliberate lying,
if not forgery.
The chief janitor of the Federal
building gave signed statement to The
Tribune, which was written in the Office
of the custodian of the Federal build
ing upon sheets of paper bearing the
mont That statement, the original of
which is now on file in The Tribune
Office, is as follows:
Editor Tribune Regarding the artiole
which appeared in the columns of your pa
per Tuesday morning regarding the Stars and
eral building: after talking with your rep
resentatiye I hnd that the whole matter was
due TO a misunderstanding.
The flag, after it was run up the mast.
head. was caught by tho wind, and hung on
the pole In such manner that anyone sec
ing it from the street would have thought
the blue field hung below the stripes and
this made the mistake most natural one.
! do not consider for g moment that you
meant TO do myself or anyone else an In.
Justice, and feel that you wore simply msled
by the statements OF several people who made
very natural mistake, as we'll as BY people
who could have given you the correct in.
formation, but would not, and did not
wish to thus exonerate Tho Tribune from
has been fair and impartial
Furthermore, when 1 made out my state
ment, | did not give il TO the Intermountain
paper over my name not my statement,
and was run without any authority whatever
from me
Salt Lake City, September S,
The Tribune prints facts. Its state.
ments are true. The people know this
and demonstrate their faith in it by
giving it the greatest business it has
ever had in its history. If its in The
Tribune we can prove it. That's all.
Chairman ], u. Eldredge, Jr., of the
Smootite County committee, has OBJ
tanned the rooms 101 to los in the
Atlas block for the headquarters of the
committee.
Douglas Rodebeck, president of the
Young Men s American league Of Utah,
has announced his candidacy Oh the
<hhiriiNtu pdiOy tithSb lOJ IcpIeSCH-
tative from Salt Lake county to the
Seventh Legislature. Mr.. Rodebeck is
one Of the well known young men of
Salt Lake, enjoying spotless reputa-
tion and great popularity, and will
make most vigorous canvass for the
election if successful in securing the
nomination sought.
The Greatest Copper Camp Of Utah
is adding little more to the trou-
bles of Congressman Joseph Howell in
return for his absolute disregard for
the wishes OF the people in the selection
of a postmaster, The row at Ogden
over the Glasmann deal and that of
Grand county, where the Logan man
appointed Bishop D. A. johnson over
the protest of the people, are mere rip
Piles on the ocean of Howell's troubles
compared with the howls of public senti-
ment going mp against the attempt to
nut Atha Williams in the Bingham