The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-04

OF salt Lake county in the year 1910
Afternoon Session.
1t was 2:l0 clock when the gavel
OF Chairman Loofhourow fell and the
convention was in order During the
noon recess it dnwned upon the fed
era! bunch that the county committee
had overlooked the fact. or rather for.
gotten that in all G. o. P. conventions
there was always a minister present
who would offer an invocation and
ask for blessing upon the delegations
or the convention. In his haste and
hurry and the fact that an executive
order barred him from taking part ia
or officiating in political conventions
Eidredgc overlooked this fact and the
morning session was not opened with
prayer.
During the moon recess Pecwec
Thomas discovered the omission and he
got busy. Had not William Thurston
Brown, who presided over the church
TO which President Taft belongs when
the chief magistrate was here, aban.
doncd the Unity church to deliver So.
clallssic lectures, he would have been
called upon. However, the Jack Nor
mon end of the federal bunch, know.
ing that it would not do to have the
prophet. seer and revelator present,
called upon Rev. DR.. Short and this
minister offered an invocation. RI was
a feeling prayer In the Most High to
watch over and guido the persons pres
ent as delegates and as spectators anil
the pastor asked tho blessing of tho
Supreme Ruler upon all
Japs and Hawaiians Present.
Part of the non-uniou band, the
white portion failed to show up, but
the Hawaiian and Japanese part was
present The latter had the tcmerity
TO break out in song while the chair
man was in the act Of announcing a
vote and the result WAS that the brown
skinned musicians were shown the way
out from the theatcr and there was no
more music during the afternoon by
musicians. There was oratorical pyro-
technics, however, galore Harry g
Joseph, Fred Price, Jake Greeucwald
and Joe Movers furnishing the most of
the fire. although Parley Christensen
and A, B. Irvine, both Insurgents, took
II hand as did Elder George NJ. Cannan
and Elder Steve Lovc-and they did
talk.
Cart Goes Before Horse.
When the chair asked for the re.
ports of the several committees no
chairman was present to report. There
was a hull in the proceedings and the
committee on credentials not being
present, the committee upon order Of
business and permanent organization
through Fred Price, its secretary, sub.
mitted report. 1T was putting tho
cart before the horse, but what did the
church G. o. p. care? The machine
had been creased, the cogs were all
working and things were going along
just as the bunch had arranged. But
hn
with both feet and Mr. Price read the
report.
This report recommended that the
temporary organization be made the
permanent organization and that The
following order of business be carried
out:
First-Rcport Of committee on crcdcn-
tials.
Secoud-Nominaton OF two county
highest vote providing il wns a majority
of the convention, to bc the nominee for
the long term and the second highest
TO be the nominee for the short term.
Third-Nomiuatlon of county clerk.
Fourth-Nomination of county sheriff,
Fifth-Nomination OF county recorder
SiXth-Nominaton OF county assessor.
Sovcnth-Nomlnatlon OF county auditor.
Eighth-Nomination OF county treas
Nlnth-Nomination OF county attorney.
Tcnth-Nomination OF county sur
vcvor.
Observation-Disclosures Of senator's
Twelfth-Nomination OF ten represcn
tatives. ,
Thirteen th-sclecting county commit
tcemcn. .
Fourtcenth-That speeches be limited
to three minutes each.
Fiftcenth--That all resolutions be re-
fcrred 20 the committee on resolutions
without reading.
This read, Joe Meyers, who had been
cspecially set apart to make motions.
moved the adoption Of the report. Then
there was war.
Farley Christensen Enters
Pending the motion 10 adopt the re-
mort Parley Christensen, insurgent
loader of the progrcsslvcs, late candi-
date for congress. made his appearance.
His handsome face was flushed and
he was angry. real angry, and with a
big A. He was chairman of the com.
mittee on credentials and when the
chair recognized him he declared that
tho convention was doing an unheard'
of thing; that was the permanent or
nnnization of a convention before tho
Lndy knew who were entitled TO vote
Ue likewise declared that the commit.
tee on permanent organization and
order of business had swiped part OF
the report Of his committee, lie tneu
moved an amendment TO the report be-
fore the convention as follows;
That I'm voting the num6er Of each
6fsfr.ic, he called and that every delegate
shall when The district is called, deposit
bis ba lot in the convention ballot box
nnd that these ballots bc canVassed and
"nuntcd by three tcllers 10 be appointed
| by the convention.
Like Red Flag.
This was like shaking q red flag il
tho face Of a mad bull, Mr.. Chrsten
sen declared that he believed the ma
ioritv Of the delegates desired 10 rep
resent their constituents, that all SHOULD
| have the same right in the convcn
| tion. that no vote should be announced
nnfiI the ballots had all been counted
and that the convention should follow
The plan adopted By the New York G
! q f. convention recently held IN Sara
topa. as in that convention there wa
Individual representation; it was mod
crn system. an ideal plan Of rcpresen
Itativc government.
This amendment was opposed h'
Fred Price. who declared that Mr.