The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-22
DEMOCRATS
WILL CHOOSE
MEN TODAY
State Convention at Logan to
Name Ticket and Adopt
Platform.
KNIGHT BOOM INVAOES
ALL POLITICAL PARTIES
CONTEST FOR CONGRESSIONAL
NOMINATION LIKELY TO BE
A FEATURE.
On TO Logan.

On 10 Logan
! Today is Democratic day in Utah and
the prelimnaries will be arranged for a
Democratic celebration on November 4.
the day after election. Last night all the
delegations from the south had arrived
who will travel by special train 10 the
Cache capital today The train will leave
/ at 100 o clock this morning. Ii is expected
that at least 400 persons will make the
| trip.
While there was much talk yesterday
| OF prospective candidates. the net result
Of the volumes of conversation was little
change in the sentiment as TO the avail
1 ability OF the men under discussion. Uncle
Jesse Knight Will have no opposition In
1 the convention for the principal place on
/ the ticket. and il the expressions of men
who ordinarily are anything but Demo-
Gratis can be relied upon as indicating pub
/ lie sentiment in the state. he will have
! little opposition at the polls. Republicans
and Americans" equally with Demo
Gratis. joined in the prophecy of victory
| for him and in the assurance OF their sup
/ port
Uncle Jesse Badges Please.
During the day "Uncle Jesse badges
! made their appearance down town and
soon hundreds of them were visible. Some
enthusiast took bundle of them into the
! mining exchange during the afternoon
call. He began pinning them on members
| and soon the call had 10 be suspended I'M
| til the members could be supplied.
unique feature of the use of the Uncle
Jesse badge was given by a number of
| Republicans who used Taft buttons TO
| hold the Knight ribbon. Independent Re
publcans generally expressed the belief
that Mr.. Knights nomination would be
| followed by a rallving to his support of
| all members OF the Republican party who
have grown weary Of machine control OF
the state. They believe that Knight can
| be elected and they intend. they say. TO
help in the good cause to the extent of
-. chi sNfrr lnaH
election would tend to clear up the poliii-
cal disorder that has long injured
Utah.
First Campaign Song.
One of the incidents of the day was the
appearance of the campaign poet. which
is always a certain indication to- plenty
OF enthusiasm is on tap. w. j. Phillips
OF this city is the man who broke into
verse He prepared song to &c TO the
tune In DAYS of Old II runs:
In days of old,
When knights were bold.
They held sway DER land and sea
The man of the hour for governor
Is Uncle Jesse.
This reads all right and is a fair met
rical production. Also according TO Judge
Powers and Lyman Martineau. both OF
whom are graduates of correspondence
school singing class. il viii make a hit
as a musical production. Judge Powers,
who is a Welshman. is going to try to
have it sung at the Eisteddfod-
Nomination of Senator.
Shall a candidate fer United States SON.
ator be nominated by the convention This
was the real puZZler of ,.Ie day. Appar-
emily as many favored the affirmative as
the negative though last evening the IN
dica lions were that no nomination would
be made Judge w. H. King. James II
Moyle. Judge o. w. Powers and Samuel
Newhouse were all discussed for an in
dorsement. should one be made by the
convention. The frienus Of all of them.
it was said. would prefer that no selec-
ton should be made by the convention
and this attitude had dampening effect
on the ardor of supporters of the nominal
The indications pointed last evening TO
the nomination of the following by ac-
Secretary of State-Harden Bennion of
Justice of Supreme Court-H. H. Rolapp
of Weber
Superintendent OF Public Instruction..
H. Robinson OF Sanpete-
Pretty Contest for Congress.
For congress State Chairman Lyman r.
Martineau. Frank r. Stephens Of Salt
Lake and National Committeeman Frank
K Nebeker OF Cache are still being H.
dustriously doomed by devoted ADMIRERS
Mr.. Stephens personally would prefer 70
/. be a candidate for presidential flector
while the nomination of Mr.. Nebeker
would probably necessitate his resigna-
, ton from the national committee. This
contingency is provided for by his SUP
porters who say this would afford the
party an opportunity TO confer an honor
. on John Dern At all events It's still a
matter of conjecture who will be named.
For auditor ]. W. Nixon OF Emery coun-
tv has the Endorsement OF all the coun-
ties in the Seventh judicial district-car-
hon. Sanpete Emery. San Juan and Cin-
tab. w J. Korth of this city is also a
candidate for the nomination.
From Logan the Information came yes
terday that Aquila Nebeker would be Civ
en- the support of the north for place
on the electoral ticket. Former Chief Jus
, tice r. N Baskin of Salt Lake. James
Andrus of Washington and John Seaman
of Weber are also under consideration.
Three are to be nominated.
Some Idea of the Platform.
The platform has also received much
! consideration and many of the delegates
both here and from the south have pre-
nared planks on various topics. Some OF
those likely 10 be adopted deal with the
: following subjects:
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