The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22
DARMER WINS
BY SAFE MARGIN
Elected City Chairman at Snap
Meeting Held Yesterday
Morning.
CLEAVELAND WASN'T IN 1T
JUDGE WEBER GETS TWO VOTES
NEW SECRETARY NAMED.

AT snap" meeting of the American"
city committee held yesterday, ]. E. OAR
mer was elected TO succeed himself as
chairman. The rollers were put under
''Sanpete' Armstrong. He was succeed
ed as secretary by Frank R. Christensen.
AS forecasted by The Herald yesterday
morning, Mr.. Darmer secured seven of the
ten committee votes. He could have had
eight if he had needed them. because
he did not vote for himself. Neither did
he vote for anybody else.
The two Third ward committeeman cast
their ballots for Judge Andrew jackson
Weber, although they knew Judge Weber
that Judge Weber could not accept it
under any circumstances. The vote for
the judge was merely to show that there
was opposition to Darmer. The name
Of G. r. cleveland, very prominently
mentioned or Friday, was not presented
to the committee. Mr.. Cleaveland could
have had the two Weber votes if they
had been needed to EJECT him.
DR.. Henry A. LaMOtte. temporary chair
man. presided over the meeting. Dr.
LaMOtte later said that he had called
the committee together in order that he
might be rid as soon as possible of the
cares of the campaign. He much prefers
the practice of his profession to any
mingling in politics, although he is will
ing to stay on the committee and to rem
der such service as he can during the
to understand that he would be glad to
get away from the Craftsmanship.
Darmer's was the only name formally
presented to the meeting. When the vote
was taken it was found that there were
seven for him, two for Weber and one
blank In accepting the Craftsmanship,
Mr.. Darmer took occasion to renew his
fealty to the party and to declare that
he would leave no effort looking toward
the success of the tickets unused The
chairmans remarks were received with
many manifestations of approval, and
the ''Checkmeister'' has already taken up
his work.
While no definite announcement to this
effect was made it is understood that
Mr.. DaTmer and the committee will pay
off the obligation contracted in former
campaigns and never settled. With Cid
con Snyder as the nominee for treasurer
the fortune of the Snyder family will be
at the disposal of the committee. as will
the Lives, fortunes and sacred honor OF
a number of other very prominent mem
beTs of the American party. Those
holding accounts against the committee
are, therefore, urged to present them to
Chairman Darmer at the earliest possible
moment.
A meeting of the committee and the
candidates has been called for tomorrow
evening in the rooms OF the Young Men s
American club. On this occasion plans
for the campaign will be discussed and
the amount of the assessments agreed
upon. With the exception of Mr.. Snyder,
it is understood that the assessments will
be only 10 or 10 per cent of the first year 5
salary. In Mr.. Snyder's case a very much
larger contribution is expected, because
that was the understanding on which he
was nominated. (See Patriot t Ho-
mer, Z. b. Critchlow and others)
The canning of "Sanpete" Armstrong is
shrouded in mystery. Mr.. Armstrong re-
signed some months ago with Mr.. Oar
mer but il was the general understand
ing that both would be continued in Of
flee Mr.. Armstrong said yesterday that
he felt he had done all he could for the
PARTY, that he fe,t that he must now de-
vote some time to his private business,
and that he would give all the time he
could to the party anyway This was
after the committee meeting was over.
Before that time Mr. Armstrong; disin-
cIination for the secretaryship was not
very generally known.
However. if he wants to blame anybody
he can blame only Chairman Darmer, for
the chairman was given full authority to
select the secretary and he chose Mr.