The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-04

lg-Term County Commissioner.
who nominated Mr.. Groesbeek, be-
spoke for him his hearty and earnest
unanimous with rousing cheer for
| both the successful and the losing can
/ didate for the nomination.
Out for Legislature.
| Nominations for the ten representa-
tives OF the legislature brought out a
| Held OF % candidates and. although the
convention. by tacit unders landing,
| limited nominating speeches for the
legislature TO one minute, there were
a few who could not tell the virtues of
their favOrites in that time, and il took
more than an hour to get the field
started.
Brigham Clegg was the first man
nominated; his name was placed be
! fore the convention by Andrew Smith,
| Jr. Then the nominations were made in
| the following order. w. II. Tobias, by
\. II Tanner; T L; Holman, by Thee
| dOre SWeitZer; c. G. Grape. by w. w
Wilson; Frank L. Hines by J. j. Meyers;
! John NJ. Hansen, by Heber c. Iverson;
J. A, Ekman. by Fred Price; Joseph
NJ Holt, by ID. o. RideOut; Fred A. Ell
lis. by Alfred Bowman L. Dahlquist.
| by William Edward; Karl ID. Hardy, by
| w. Ii. POLAND; David y. Cook and
Harry B. Cole, by H. 5. Joseph; Joel
| Nibley, by John Bowman; Daniel Nc
Rae, by W. NJ. McCreas J. n. Haslam.
| by J. NJ. Hayes; William Mcmillan, by
F. NJ. Lyman, jr.; Ray Sermon, by 5.
A. stanford; c, T. Barnes, by George
Buckle. ST; Thomas q. Page, by
George a. Smith. Joseph NJ Holt with
drew his name before the vote was
taken.
The county candidates for the legis-
/ lature, as decided on by the caucus.
were nominated by George NJ. Cannon,
as follows: T. l.. Holman of Bingham,
Daniel McRae of Granger, Thomas p.
Page of the south end of the county,
and &. g. Grape Of Sandy. Z. j. Eardley
was nominated by j. j. Meyers. H l.
Nelson by A. b. Irvine; Claude Y.
Russell, by j. J. Devine: II. a. McMil-
lin, by A. H. Steele; Frank II. Rudy.
Ey II. 5. Joseph; John w. Currie. by O.
b. Kelley; +. NJ. Sheets. by Thomas Ash
worth, and J. ". McHenry, by William
Atwood.
While the tellers were tOtaling up
the votes for representatives, Harry s.
Joseph wanted TO make a speech to
| ltven up the weary ones who had re-
was thought this would interfere with
the work, and the speech was put OFF
until later in the campaign.
But. through motions made by MI
/ Joseph, the county committee was
given the power TO fill all vacancies on
the county ticket-if any vacancies
occur-and upon his suggestion the
party emblem was again made the
eagle, perched upon the beehive.
The convention accepted the follow
ing as the county committee: First
precinct. a. II. Steele and George c.
Buckle; Second. Joseph f. Burbidge
and William Leatham; Third. George
A. Davis and William Il. Edward;
Fourth, W. 5. Hlgham and Frank NJ
Eldredge; Fifth. John NJ. Hayes and w.
II. POLAND; county, A. V. Anderson of
Bingham, Seth' PiXtOn of Riverton, r.
G. Bagley of Cottonwood. Warren H
Lyon of Murray and Nephi Jensen of
Chairman Loofbourow called the
convention to order at 2;lO and imme-
diately asked for the report of the COM
mittee on credentials appointed at the
ParleV p. Christensen. elected chair
man OF the committee, was not ready
TO report, but he appeared on the stage
Immediately after Fred W. Price sec
rotary Of the committee on permanent
organization and order OF business
The first scrap" of the convention
arose over the report Of the committee
on, order OF business as read by Mr.
Price.
Their report, signed by F. r. Morgan,
chairman. provided that the nomination
OF county commissioners should come
first on the list, with the following or
der for the other nominations: County
clerk, sheriff, RECORDER assessor, au-
ditor, treasurer, attorney. surveyor.
senator's and representatives Then
the selection OF the party emblem was
TO come ana the selection of the county
Republican committee was next In or
der The committee also reported in
favor of limiting the nominating
speeches to three minutes each
The portion of the report which
brought about discussion was the rec
ommendatiOn that in voting for candi-
dates the vote OF each district be an
nOunced by each district chairman as
the roll was called.
Vote by Ballot.
Farley p. Christensen, representing
the Fifteenth district, which had gone
on record as supporting the Saratoga
plan" moved an amendment providing
that as the roll was called the dele
gates from each district proceed TO
the ballot box and cast their votes in
dividually Mr.. Christensen spoke his
/ three minutes "and then some" and he
was called 10 time, while there were
calls for the question from all parts
CT the house. He said he believed the
Saratoga plan" was the only one in
which the delegates would be free 10
represent their constituents fairly and
that by adopting his amendment TO the
committee report the convention would
| be prevented from climbing on the
| band wagon" and thus changing votes
along towards the last or the rOllcall.
| The adoption OF this amendment, he
said, would be the nearest approach 10
the Australian ballot that the conven-
ton could procure, and it would result
in an untrammeled. individual and free
vote OF the delegates present.
Fred Price, opposing the motion, said
| that il would take all night 10 trans
act the business of the convention by
that method Asking how long the
theatre had been engaged. he received
| the reply from Chairman LoOfbOurOu
that the theatre had been engaged I'M
! til daylight the next morning. Mr..
Price came back with the reply that