Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
DUBOIS Faction
IS RULED OUT
Supreme Court Renders Decision
Against Notorious Po-
IiticaI Acrobat.
THE OTHER TICKET FILED.
Employc Of Gas Company Has Fatal
Fall-Piano House Burns, Caus-
ing Loss OF $4,000.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
IN O1SE, Ida, Oct. by a ruling
* of the supreme court of this
state, the Dubois ticket has
been given It's quietus, and the
anti-Dubos ticket has been filed with
the secretary of the state after hard
fight between the warning factions AS
q result OF the supreme courts ruling,
there is much jubilation in the anti
DUBOIS faction, and considerable wall
ing among followers of the notorious
political acrobat.
The law, as handed down by the
court, is as follows: The court holds
that the primary election law enacted
In 1908 is mandatory, and that every
right conferred upon a voter Is a legal
right which may be protected defend
ed and enforced by appropriate meth
DDS In the courts OF this state. That
the court will not undertake to con-
troll the internal affairs of political
party unless the same encroaches
upon, violates or contravenes the law
In determining fractional disputes in a
political organization and the legality
of party primaries and conventions,
the court will go as far as the law
goes, and protect all legal rights con
ferred by law upon all persons par.
ticipating therein.
In q contest between two factions
OF q political party as to which is the
regular organization entitled to repre-
sent the party, the court will look to
the law, and If the matter is regulated
by law, the respective rights Of the
faction will be determined by law If,
however. there is no law governing
the rights of the contesting faction,
the same will be relegated to the party
forum. a party in state convention
fS moi In he Slillpynt. to ba Law pf tI,n
state, and neither can make rules and
7 regulations IN violation of the law, or
confer rights or privileges upon per-
sons not elected according to law, or
deny rights and privileges to persons
elected according to law.
TWO METHODS PROVIDED.
The primary election law of this
state provides two methods of clecting
delegates to a state conventions; first
bysa direct vote at such primary for
such delegates; second, by convention
composed of delegates elected at a
primary held under the law, and dele.
gates can not be legally elected to a
state convention III any other manner
thttli directed by statute. * minority
of legal delegates elected to a state
convention cannot combine with II
legal delegates and thereby constitute
such legal minority a legal majority,
and thereby govern and control the
convention and deny the rights to sit
and participate therein to delegates
ELECTED according to law. majority
OF, the legal delegates elected to a
state convention under the primary
election,law of this state has the power.
and authority to organize and control
tho convention to which elected, and
may take such steps and adopt such
methods not In violation of law as will
give to such majority a right to or
ganize and act for and as the conven-
ton. Under this ruling the Alexander
ticket was accepted by the secretary Of.
state. and the campaign will open
up at once.
$4,000 FIRE.
Shortly after midnight. fire was dis
covered in the rear of the basement
OF the Eller's Piano house on Idaho
street, causing n loss of approximate
" $4,000, the building sustaining about
$4,000 In damages. and the stock OF
musical instruments about $1,000, be-
fore the flames were eNtingulshed. me
fire was under a fair way toward de-
stroying the entire building when dis
covered by ]. Il. Moor. janitor of the
overland building; flames shooting out
+ If the windows of the main floor, at the
rear of the building. An alarm was
quickly turned in from the corner or
Eighth and Main streets, the alarm
being received at the central station
at 1915. The entire department re-
sponded to the call, some difficulty be-
ing experienced in locating the center
Of the blaze, from the fact that the
alarm had been turned in from Main
street and before effective work couiat
he done, the fire had increased to such
an extent that the volume Of smoke
greatly handicapped the fremen IN
their work.
Mr.. Dill, the owner of the building,