Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-22
DESPITE URGENT PROTEST.
Provo Mining Man Does Not Want
It, Claiming Private Business
Takes His Time.
sccncs on Tic Road to Gathering Of
Delegates ii, cncI,c couMs Capt.
tal--Judse Powers speech.
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Logan. Sept % With every member
Wearing an "Untta jesse badge. The
Uncle Jesse Democratic special ar
. rived at LEAD oclots today from Salt
Lake. And Uncle Jesse Knight was
brought along, protesting all tho way.
i tnHi politics was not his business, that
he vas at,gold man. chat he had his
heEds fun in his mining enterprises
and that It WIS not fair 10 him to force
Z him Into the field as q political candi-
date.
What Uncle jesse will do with tho
3l nomination remained all along the
z route theEbig auestionFof the hour As
& the special pulled out from Salt Lake
~ was begging the party leaders not
Ito nominate him. One after another
Judge King, Judge Powers James II.
z Aloglc, and brigham II Roberts--ap-
Z preached him on the train put the case
before him. urged that with him as the
Z PARTY Leader.the party would be within
striking distance of success for the first
time IN years. And to them all Uncle
Jesse returned tosthe same arguments
that he knew himself better than any
sorss else knew him. and knew he could
not stand the work of the goveinorship
without sadly neglecting other work
that needed lis whole strength and
time.
@ AsSthe train pulled into Logan depot
the. leaders were still around him, urg-
Ing him not to refuse. and the program
was adopted III spite of his protests OF
nominating him. and then leaving his
future course for the future to decide.
ABEL j. EVANS SELECTED.
Abel John Evans, a delegate to the
tt.,t,.
WHO came With Uncle Jesse" all the
K Wa from Provo, was. prevailed upon
{ to make the$nonlinating speech. He
Will do So this afternoon in spite Of
all protest NJ
E;veryore Wax surprised at the Num-.
& Bor5sof I)enrefat is t,legS train picked up,
Ecil gpout g to Loga N. III Leaving Salt Lake
3;tt $50 o'clock, there were seven.
coaches on the train, carrying. 36s peo-
sfle. including 29aayomtn. almost all of
them delegates. At Ogden over a hun
#dfed people were added, and three
coaches. Beyond that point deIega-
tons from Boxclder county boarded the
tfainin such numbers that there We're
fully 600 aboard when it pulled into
the Logan depot at 1l:40 O'clock, a lit
tie behind schedule time.
WELCOME AT LOGAN.
The warmth of Logans reception be-
came evident from the minute the train
pulled into the depot. a brass band
aud reception committee made things
lively all the way To the deliberately
decorated convention hall, the Audi
torium skating rink. into which by Has
o'clock the convention members had
assembled. The hall was beautifully
decorated with flags and bunting, and
the procession en- route to it made
line Of march Il full half mile in length.
OPENING OF. CONVENTION.
STATE Chairman Lyman r. Martineau
raped the convention to order after
which John T. Game offered the inyn-
cation and j. e. Clark. read the call
Lyman Martineau then recalled his
5boyhood days in Cache, declared that
iii returning he felt to be In the hands
of his friends, said he was a Demo-
crat to the marrow of his bones, and
hoped that the convention would nut
up such a ticket that the state and ma
ton would be proud OF, and that could
not fail of election.
Temporary officials We're then an
snounced with Orlando w. Powers chair
man, Moses Thatcher, first vice chair
man; j. r. Tolton, second vice chair
man. s. S. Smith, third vice chairman, |
George Dern. fourth vice chairman,
and Mrs. II. j. Hayward, fifth vice
chairman
Andrew 3. Morgan was announced
as secretary; D. III. Morris of Washing |
ton. assistant secretary, and A. j. |
Lewis OF Sewer, second assistant sec
Tetary.