The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
CALL IS ISSUED
FOR CONVENTION
Democrats of Salt Lake Will
Nominate City Ticket on
Tuesday, Sept. IL.
WILL SELECT COUNCILMEN
AT MUNICIPAL WARDS CoNVEN-
TIoNs TO BE HELD SEPT. 10.

The Democrats are first IN the field
with their call for a city convention. The
convention will be held in the Grand the
atre and wilI- comprise a grand total of
1892 delegates. The date is Tuesday, Sep
| TENDER II, and the hour is 10 o'clock. At
this convention thAre will be nominated
candidates for mayor. recorder, treas
urer, auditor and attorney The conven-
ton will also adopt platform and select
from each of the five municipal wards
three members of the joint city and cOun-
ty committee to serve for two years.
The municipal ward conventions viii be
held on Thursday, September 10, at S
o'clock, at places later to be designated,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
for cOuncilmen. one candidate will be
nominated in each ward for the twOyear
term and one for the four-year term.
District Primaries.
District primaries are to be held on
Thursday, September u. The district
chairman will designate the places Del
egates chosen at these primaries Will
serve at both the city and municipal con-
ventions The ratio fixed is on basis
of one delegate for every twenty votes
cast for Richard P. Morris for mayor in
1905 and one delegate for each major
fraction. This will give the following rep
presentation in, the convention:
First Ward-First district, delegates;
second district, 10 delegates; third dis
trict 7 delegates; fourth district, dele
gates; fifth district. II delegates; sixth
district. IL delegates; seventh district, :
delegates; eighth district, 10 delegates;
ninth district, delegates; tenth district,
9 delegates: eleventh district, 9 delegates
second Ward-Twelfth district, dele
gates; thirteenth district, delegates;
fourteenth district, delegates; nTteenth
district s delegates; sixteenth district, .
dele
gates; eighteenth district, 10 delegates;
nineteenth district, S delegates; twentieth
district, delegates; twenty-first district
delegates; twenty-second district III DEL
egates; total. 50 delegates.
Third ward-Twenty-thir district, 1S
delegates; twenty-fourth district, 9 dele
gates; twenty-fifth district, delegates;
twenty-sixth district, 8 delegates; twenty
eighth district IA delegates; twenty-n1ntE
district delegates; total. 81 delegates.
Fourth ward-Thirtieth district, II dele
gates; thirty-first district, 10 delegates;
thirty-second district, II delegates; thirty
third district, 10 delegates; thirty-fourth
district, Is delegates; thiTtyfifth district,
IL delegates; total, 70 delegates.
Fifth ward-Thirty-siX district. . dele
gates; thirty-seventh district, delegates;
tbirty-tighth district. delegates; thirty
ninth district. delegates; forueth DIS
trict delegates; forty-first district. del
egates; total 49 delegates.
BEGINNING at o'clock, the primaries
will remain open for at least one hour. In
each district primary there will be Sc
Iected one to serve as a district chairman,
one as a secretary and three others TO
act as the district campaign committee.
The Democrats invite all who desire
clean city government to cooperate with
them in bringing about this desired end
The call of Chairman NJ. Z. Cunningham
and Secretary Perley A Hill concludes
with this frank invitation:
"All Democratic voters and all other
voters who desire to act with the Demo-
Gratis for a clean, progressive and eco
nomicaI administration of the affairs of
the city arc cordially invited to parici-
pate in these primaries and conventions