The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-08
Having No Standing as a Par
ty Before the Law, Citizens
Can Do Nothing With the
Candidates of Other Parties.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
HAVE VERY BUSY NIGHT
Long Letter Is Evolved After
Hours of Effort With Charit-
able Desire to EmbanaSS
City Republican Party
"A LETTER TO LOOFBOUR0W

At a meeting of the Democratic and
Citizens committees last evening a
fusion of all tickets was decided upon
with the Citizens ticket still in the
field.
Under the law passed by the last
state legislature the Citizens party
cannot endorse any candidates on
any other ticket.
The Citizens party is not a recog.
nlzed party in any sense of the word,
and cannot endorse candidates of
other parties either by convention OF
by petition.
Under the law it is necessary that the
political party cast at least . per cent
of the total vote at the preceding cleo
ton in order to have the right to NOM
mate by convention, Unless the party
has cast 2 per cent of the total vote at
the preceding convention, it is neces-
saTy under the law that nominations be
made by petition. ANY nominations may
be made by petition, but no candidate
of any other party, nominated at an
authorized convention on one ticket,
may be nominated on any other ticket.
The universal adoption of the law to
the present campaign is that the Repub-
licans. the Democrats or the Americans
may nominate who they will, whether
on any other ticket or not, but that the
Citizens party, with no standing under
the law as a political organization,
can nominate candidates for office by
petition. but cannot name among its
candidates any of the candidates of any
regularly organized political party.
Conference Committees Meet.
In an attempt to come to some under
standing. the Republican conference
committee met with the conference
. committees of the Citizens and Demo-
cratic parties yesterday afternoon. The
Republican committee submitted to the
other committees the first tangible fu-
sion proposition vet offered by anv
party. It was that the Republicans
name the candidate for mayor and that
the others choose one office from the
other four; that from the remaining
three offices the Republicans choose one
and from the last two that the Dem
ocrats and Citizens have their choice.
In view of the splendid organization of
the Republican party and the excellent
chances for victory of the Republican
party. the proposition was considered
decidedly fair. The Democrats and
Citizens parties not only turned down
the proposition, but requested the Re
publican conference committee to with
draw from the meeting.
Meetings of the city committees of all
three parties We're held last night The
Republican city committee heard the
report of the conference committee and
accepted ii without comment and prO-
ceeded to attend to the details of the
city campaign as though the subject of
fusion had never been preached. The
meetings of the Citizens and Democrat
ic city committees lasted until after
midnight, and fusion was the only ton
&c of interest. At the conclusion of the
Citizens committee meeting there We're
present at the meeting T. II. Fitzgerald.
Joseph Kimball and Joseph Y. Haslam
of the Democratic conference commit
tee, and William r. Wallace. candidate
for mayor on the Democratic and CTti-
Zens tickets.
A Long Session.
The joint conference committee of
Citizens and Democrats was in session
until almost / o'clock this morning
and finally evolved a letter of about
600 words addressed to Fred c. Loot
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