The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
ISSUE AVOIDED
BY INSURGENTS
important Anti Smo0t Meeting
Presided Over by Editor of
Shoots Newspaper.
MANY MEMBERS ABSENT
DECIDE TO ADJOURN FOR WEEK
TO AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS.

At the meeting" held last evening
in the Wilson hotel there appeared a
deal of side-stepping on the part of a
lot of the insurgent Republicans who
had been most fierce and hostile in the
| beginning.
/ The meeting called for last evening
really didn't meet, except in a very
small and inferior way, principally be-
cause there weren't enough of the re-
belliOus, 'rampageOus" ones to form a
quorum. Nobody in the meeting said
| Just how many there should be in a
quorum, but evidently there weren't
enough, so it was decided to adjourn
until next Saturday, when the cour
ageOus buCkers say they will do things.
Last evenings meeting was held in
/ the rotundd of the Wilson hotel There
was no secrecy about it, save the great
est of all safeguards that can be cast
about meetings, the innate reluctance
| of persons to butt in" Thus it hap
pens that whatever the Republicans
said was not 'piped off" by any caves
choppers.
Those who were present at last even
ing'S meeting were six in number of
the original committee of fifteen anti
! SmoOt men. They We're w. o. Ride
out of Draper, David Mattson of Og-
den, and A. B. Irvine, John James,
James Devine and Leroy Armstrong of
Salt Lake. John Weaver and Assistant
| County Attorney Carlson assisted the
| committee members materially from
time to time with apt suggestions,
which were undoubtedly well intended,
but scarcely ever~acted upon.
Armstrong is Chairman.
| In the absence of John O. Critchlow,
who has been the head and front of the
| insurgent movement, Leroy Armstrong
was chosen chairman of the meeting,
and David Alattson was chosen Secre-
tary. Mr. Critchlow, ii was stated,
was unavoidably absent in American
Fails. Ida, which was considered by
d some to be a safe distance from the
scene of possible activity for the chair
man 10 be. Other names were called
without response thereto. showing con-
clusively that there was business to be
attended to outside the insurgent meet
ing that was of supreme Importance.
Some of the committeeman even went
to the trouble of sending kilograms, it
was said, expressing their deep regret
at inability to attend.
Many are called, but few are chOs-
en- remarked audibly one of the
group.
Mr.. Armstrong is the editor of Sem
atcr Shoots newspaper and conse-
quentiy, is regarded as a staunch, if
not, indeed. a virulent Smoot man.
Why he should have been chosen chair
man OF the meeting was a mystery to
those who stood about until a little
bird came down out of its nest and
whispered, so he couldn't talk: chair
men can't take a very great part in
the argument, you know"
And, so far. as the gossip goes, Mr..
Armstrong didn't talk. Results proved
that he didn't have to.
An Open Meeting, Never.
Colonel Irvine was responsible for the
nomination of Mr.. Armstrong. Colonel
Irvine did it in the interest of har-
mony and unity. Colonel Irvine also
was responsible for the resolution
which was introduced to the effect that
the meeting of last night adjourn un-
til next Saturday, and that all Repub-
leans be invited to attend.
"'Twould be a fine thing for unity
said Mr. Irvine.
'Twould that, to be sure" said Mr..
Armstrong, quietly, but this is a
meeting of a committee, and not a
mass meeting"
Therefore, it happened that the reso-
luton was so amended as TO read that
there would be a meeting of the COM
mittee next Saturday, and ''all Repub-
licans who are in sympathy with a
, movement for unity are invited to
meet with the committee"
Letter Not Forthcoming.
Carefully prepared and carefully
: concealed somewhere about the per-
sons of the CTitchloW committee. or Sc
creted in the archives, there is a letter,
it is said. This letter, so the running
, yarn goes, is an address to the Repub-
licans of the state of Utah, and is a
sort of manifesto. 1t was to have been
: read last evening if there had been
more business in town to claim the
presence of the CritchlOw committee
men and less outside work to attend to.
1t wasn't read.
} There has been talk, too, of turning
the Critchlow committee into a Lin
coin Roosevelt clUh-they had it Roose-
, velt-Lincoln first-but there wasn't
. anyone present at the meeting who
I had the temerity TO suggest it.
One of those who lowered about the
outer edge, and upon whom the spirit
= of Dickens was heavy, remarked, in
| disgust, They're all waiting for some
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