The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-25
OFFICERS WILL HOLD OVER
Huntsville Will Have No Election
This Year, as There Are
No Candidates.

Huntsville, in Ogden valley, will have
no election this year.
Huntsville is a town of about 1000 peo-
pie and is, perhaps, the most important
precinct outside of Ogden in the county.
For a long time there has been trouble
among the inhabitants of the peaceful lit
tie hamlet, but the crisis did not come
until the primaries were called for the
present city election. Heretofore the city
has selected its candidates without re-
gard to politics. Mayor Nelson having
been elected on the Citizens ticket as
against the candidate of the People s
party This year, however, they decided
to divide on party lines and meeting
was called, but the Citizens and People S
party idea was still strong and a unique
scheme was adopted. 1t was decided to
nominate two candidates for each office,
one from each party, and then draw cuts
to see which of them should be the noml-
nee to vote or. For instance, IL Bill Jones
was the Republican selection and John
Doe was chosen by the Democrats. the
two names were to be thrown into hat
and the one that come out tirst was 10
be the nominee to be voted for by all
But there is many slip between the
cup and the lip, and they had failed to
reckor-rwith L. NJ. Nelson, the present
mayor of the town. Nelson is what might
be termed a straight. He makes his plat
form and he stands upon it and there Is
no equivocation about him in any sense
of the word, so when the nominee for
mayor withdrew and they asked him to
run instead ne politely declined. This
caused more trouble and then this was in
tensified by the knowledge that the whole
business was Illegal and that it would be
necessary to call another meeting. This
they did and last Monday evening they
got together in secret, but did not inform
Mayor Nelson or his friends. The meet
ing was a somewhat heated one, so much
SO. in fact, that the town marshal and
the constable were kept busy trying to
keep the peace. After a long and excit-
able session Nelson's friends invaded the
meeting and took part in the delibera-
tons. The result was that all former
actions were rescinded and the matter Is
left as it was at the beginning and there
are no nominations for office.
Behind all this there is something that
is. as yet, unkn OWN to the general pup
lie, or even to the citizens of Huntsville
City Recorder Schade who attended the
meeting, is friend of Mayor Nelson.
After the meeting had voted to rescind its
former action ticket was nominated in
the regular way and an effort was made
to find the recorder to have it filed before
midnight, but Schade was not to be found.
In vain they searched but all to no avail
and the stroke of II sounded the death
knell of their ticket Had anyone been
searching the side of q certain hill in
the mayors pasture just north of town
ABOUT that time. they might have learned
something, as the recorder was perched
on that eminence until nearly ! o'cIoc k
before he returned to town and then he
said it was too late and he could not GER
tify to the ticket.
The result is that the old officers will
hold over as there is no one to vote for
and Mayor Nelson and his friends will
hold over for the next two years
Bishop RenstrOm caused somewhat of q
row IN connection with the matter. ac-
oording to the statement made to a Her
aid man by Mayor Nelson and City Re
corder Schade 1t appears, so they say,
that the bishop on hearing of the meet
ing, called upon c. Fred Schade, brother
of the recorder and waxed exceedinp
wroth He informed Mr.. Schade that he
or they had no right to meet and frame
a ticket without taking counsel: that they
must not make any selection for political
oifice without asking the advice of the
plshopric- 1t appears, however, that the,
BISHOP got but little Satisfaction