The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-25
Smith by Two to One.

Thirty citizens braved the stormy ele-
ments and treacherOus walking 10 attend
! the Second ward convention OF the Amer
/ lean" party to nominate a candidate from
| the district for the coming school election.
! George s. Smith carried off the honor.
| getting twenty votes TO ten for DR.. W. A
! Wade.
Evidently the gloomy weather outside
/ dampened the ardor of the gathering, for
/ the convention was noticeable for lack of
enthusiasm, though Colonel William Mel
son. who presided. did his best to inject
| spirit into the meeting. Frank Kimball
served as secretary and s. p. Armstrong
made himself known at every possible &C
| casion by figuring in every move. motion
and discussion.
Colonel Nelson. in a spirited speech. ex-
hOrted the voters to band together and
fight hard TO bring victory to the party
banner. He called attention TO the fact
that the present Salt Lake school board
was composed of six Mormon and four
Gentle members, and that the '-Ameri-
can" party. by hard. concerted work, can
reduce this majority in favor of the Cen
1 tiles in the next election.
s. p Armstrong was made permanent
chairman of all the committees of the
ward organization, which had been pre-
viously appointed. though he was reluc-
tant to accept. Mr.. Armstrong was also
I elected as chairman of the committee on
organization. The committee on finance
which will raise money to carry on the
ward fight was notified to meet next Sat
\ committee on information consisting
of ". J. Mclaughlin. ". J. Frazer and
! A. y. Jarvis was named. The duty of the
committee will be to get out a typewrit-
ten sheet of the American" party ticket
and mail copies of it TO every voter in the
ward.
No One in Third.
The meeting in the Third ward was to
have been held in the residence of j. l.
McGiniy, county chairman of the Amer
U -.
city and the two persons who gathered
decided to postpone action. While il is
I possible that another meeting may be
held later by the Americans TO nomi-
nate a candidate from this ward. IL
seems probable that there will be no one
selected to oppose the reelection of Oscar
w. MOyle. who has been chosen as the
non-partisan candidate from this ward.
Bismarck Snyder Chosen.
The meeting in the Fourth which was
neither very large nor very enthusiastic
resulted in the selection OF Bismarck Sny-
| der to run against Mathonihah Thomas
for member of the board from that dis
trict- The meeting was called TO order by
Dr.. Henry La Motto. American" party
chairman from that precinct. and r. NJ
Wilson was named as chairman with n
J. Reeves secretary. J. Walcott
Thompson made brief speech. nominat-
ing Mr.. Snyder and his selection was
made unanimous
Mr. Snyder made a short talk pIedging
/ himself. TO work for the good of the
schools and to show allegiance to no
party in the conduct of the affairs IL he
should be elected Short speeches were
made by Allen T. Sanford and W. Mont
Ferry. who said the women were better
workers in school election than the
men, and that they realized more fully
| than the men how much depends on the
school system of the country. Jos Lipp-
( man. who also spoke of the work of the
women and expressed the hope that they
would be active in the present campaign,
Mr. Lippman complimented the present
/ board on the good work they had done.
and said he thought that as a whole
/ they had served the people we'll and faith
fully.
Mr.. Wilson from the chair said that the
people Of the ward should be shown that
/ the schools of the city were TO teach the
| principles of American citizenship and not
TO be turned into Sunday schools for any
one church. H. c. Mcmillan and C j.
| Crabtree also made short addresses. Mr.
Crabtree began with the statement:
We was defeated last time. We was all
/ 10 the battle but we was beat bad
| The campaign is TO be left 10 the pre-
| cinct chairman, and his aides who will
provide funds.
Oberndorfer Is Euloeized.
4 handful of the more enthusiastic
members of the American party In the
Fifth ward met in the patrOlmen's room
OF the police station to nominate j
Oberndorfer to succeed himself as a mem
/ Der of the school board. The fact that
/ the ''non-partisan" party had nominated
him the previous evening, was taken as