The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-24
Long Wrangle Over Candi-
dates Results in Nomination
of Absentees, While Those
Present Decline the Honors.
REAFFlRM THE STATE
PLATFORM AT SANDY
Platform Contains Much That
Is Personal but Otherwise
Standing for All Doctrines
EnUnCiated at Provo Meeting
ATTENDANCE IS SMALL

"a convention devoid Of ornfory. hue
4 rePletc with delays and tnnEIc-
which kept the dctca-atc- af work
nnttl after o'clcct, lest night. thr
Democrats OF salt Lake count, uotnI-
mated fui county ticket nt sandy. tlIl-
lEchti3 picking up absent members OF
the party for candidates.
Prohibition was adopted without n
murmur Ia the county PLATFORM. she
state platform was accepted in toto. aud
Few additions were undc In bitterly
attacking everything local and offering
the Democratic balm for relief.
Because Of The trouble during the
afternoon. IL was nearly O'Clock be-
fore the work OF naming the county
ticket was started, aud each CauJidEts
was showed through 10y acciauatiul. 90
the nominees for county offices. five of
the eight were not present.
The ahSentecs who could not get I'D
and decline were stephen D. Eicnards
FOR attorueE. Thomas NJ Hotf Tor O.
cordcr. Milando Pratt for assessor:
Douglas a. swan FOR auditor and Bos-
coe Whitney Groo for sureyv,r
Joseph :. Pcery and W. r. Wallace.
named for state senatorial n,u-iuces.
were not present. or tho representa-
tives named. Mathou.lab TEnuas S.
Frank u. stephens and Itoces ,or go
seph n. Merrill We're NOT ~ hsnd.
And even "Fe~nie' FernSJrom was
not i'm the audience though a hur-
tried call was sent out o. one time from
the committee ON platform FOR las as-
sistance-
Attendance - small.
or the $50 delegates allowed. not quits
goo were present. but at that o. was a
I fairly good convention. uItil the work
started In the afternoon. Then every
thing went To- pieces and Cha .rmau Raw
NanCott could not pun matters to-
Eether The trouble arose in the NAM
( ing Of representative nominees. when
each district was allowed a. cast tho
i fun vote FOR the rs names presented.
/ Delegates did not know whore they be-
lonEcd. especially In the county. -u' aid
] not know TO which precincts they be-
. lonEcd. The confusion was general. but
I order was finally restored to- an cXteuc
] and the work was continued. uamfn K
candidates and shooting them throuran
] by accla ton.
ONLY two women were nominated y
/ the convention. and they were con- tna
J list OF ten representatr"S. They are
! Mrs. :. \. kcuner and Mrs Harry j.
/ Hayward. sir. Hayward was l-tcr
named FOR county commissioner. rut DID
] not receive single vote in tre county
and was badly defeated
Many Decline Honor.
The convention was 1otewortIv for
made. No one ever heard 30 many de
versiried excuses nor $50 beautiful 2
bunch OF apologies. But an those on
the ground were able 90 get out OF ii
II they did not care Co ruu--and the
delegates thrust the honors upon otuer
members OF the party who were not
present iu self defense.
\ very strong effort was made TO Get
VIII g. Farrell on FOR state senator
but nc buclSed and they finally dcsisted
on the pain % being roasted if his uame
went before the convention.
There was not word said IN eNien'
uation Of the platform. and D. was
adopted as read by Chairman samuel
L Thurman OF this committee.
10 stands FOR strict prohibition and
for every tenet Of the state platform.
] After the adoption OF this. Lunar
r Martineau showed another resolution
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