The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-19
patriots" MEET
TO NAME TICKET
'AmeriCan" City Convention
Scheduled for This Morn
ing in Grand.
SLATE HAS BEEN PREPARED
SNYDER FOR TREASURER AND
cRITcHLoW FOR ATTORNEY.

This seems 10 be the American Sldle
for the city convention in the Grand the
atre today:
For mayor, John S. Bransford.
For treasurer, Gideon A. Snyder
For recorder. J. B. Moreton.
For auditor. Rudolph Alff.
For attorney, Z. b. Critchlow.
The convention will be called to order
by Herr Checkmeister Darmer, city chair
man. D c. Dunbar will be temporary
chairman and G. r. Cleaveland temporary
secretary. These selections We're made at
q meeting of the committee held Tuesday
night and kept quiet. for reasons best
known to the committee, until yesterday
The slate will not go through without
lot of showing. There are those who say
1t Will be badly cracked before the fes
tivities are over. The first effort at
cracking will be made when the treasurer
ship nomination is reached. The word has
been passed along the line that Frank
SWenson, incumbent, must be shelved to
make room for Snyder. The indications
are decidedly in favor of the nomination
of Snyder. This on the theory that he
VIII be a stronger candidate than Sven
son, 1t being admitted that Swenson pulled
through solely by reason of the lucky COM
blnatlon of two years ago.
SWensOn's friends. and he has d great
many of them, insist that he is by no
means out of the running. His name viii
undoubtedly be presented TO the conven-
ton and hard fight for his nomination
waged- To the unprejudiced observer
however, il looks as if it would be back
10 the clothing store for Frank after the
ballots are counted.
The attor leyship race will furnish the
other fight Up TO the middle of the aft
ernoon yesterday every indication pointed
TO the nomination of II. ]. Dninny. for
lack of a better candidate, by reclamation
Then came the CritchIow boom. Mr.
Critchlow is not in any sense a candidate
Tor the nomination. He SAYS so himself
4 tai will he
lie added:
You may say I will accepts.the nomina-
uon If nobody else wants it"
1t was pointed out to Mr.. Critchlow tina
somebody else. tO-wit, H. j. Dininny does
want the nomination, and wants it badly
Mr. Critchlow would not say that he
knew this already. Neither would he say
ne dld not know 1t. All he would saw was
as above stated, that he would accept the
nomination if nobody else wanted it. This
is understood by the politicians to mean
tna maj mE; Cfitchl0w viii accept the nomi-
nation If it is offered to him by the CON
Nention today And he is fairly certain
TO be offered it.
There will be no contests for the other
places Mayor BranSfOrd will not be here
10 accept the mayoralty nomination. In
company with COuncilmen Tuddenham
and Mulvey, whose expenses are being
Pald IN part by the city and Councilman
1iolIey VINO IS paying his own expenses,
the mayor left at noon yesterday for a
tour of eastern cities TO study municirN
proDlems. lie Will be away at least two
weeks Inc understanding among Mr.
BTansfOrd's friends is that as soon as no
comes back he will find another excuse
10 run away again. for he emphaticaIlv
does not desire to actively participate in
the campaign.
All opposition to the denomination of 7
Is Moreton for recorder, at least all real
opposition, petered out yesterday after
noon; Unless all signs fail Mr.. Moreton
VIII be renominated by reclamation. The
same situation prevails with regard to the
authorship. Mr.. Alff will never win anv
medals In bookkeeping contests. but none
OF MS Fellow party men cares to take the
responsibility of campaigning against him
The plan IS to call the convention to or
der promptly and rush the business
through to an early adjournment