The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-27
BULL MOOSE PARTY
G|RDS FOR ACTION
Third Ternners viii Hold First
State Convention at
Provo Today.
STATE TICKET PROBLEM
.All-lmportant Question to Be
Settled; Eight Delegates
to Chicago.

Today is the day when the Bull
Moose party in Utah will ''do its do. =
Today is the day for the state CON
vention at Provo, where the delegates
TO the Chicago convention on August
5 Will be selected, and whore the still
moro important question will be decid-
ed of whether or not the third party
win put complete ticket in the field.
Incidentally, the third party in Utah
will be officially born today.
The Provo convention is scheduled to
begin at IL o'elock this forenoon. a
special train from Salt Lake, carrying
this eounty's 15s delegates, will leave
the Denver & Rio Grande station here
at p.3o o'clock. This train, too, will
CARY TO Provo the Weber county dele
delegates from the other northern coun-
ties. 1t is the prediction of Roosevelt
enthusiasts in Salt Lake, that IN addi'
tiop TO the delegates. there will be
large number of "rooters,' for the new
party.
Will Send Eight Delegates.
It is likely that, instead of electing
only four delegates-the number TO
which Utah is entitled--eight will be
chosen to go to Chicago and take part
in the Roosevelt ratification The eight
will have half vote each. Among
those more prominently mentioned for
jobs rs delegates arc F. A.. Sweet,
chairman of the local Roosevelt band
n. A. Robertson, J. l.. Lewinsohn, Mo.
ROM Heiner, Wesley X. Walton, who is
the state chairman of the Roosevelt or
gauizatiop in Utah; !. II. Mays, Allen
T. Sanford, Glenn Boutwell,. ", D, biv-
ingston of Sanpcte county, William
Glasmann Of Ogden and Mssrs. Hush
and Carpenter Of Provo. There will be
others, no doubt.
The convention will be called to or
der by Wesley X. Walton, who is one
of the pioneer Rooseveltian., In Utah.
a temporary organization
will be effected and thereafter again
q permanent organization. The chair
according TO tho outlook last
night, will be divided between ". D;
Livingston Of Sanpete county and
William Glasmann of Ogden.
The convention will have a few more
than 900 delegates.
Full State Ticket Question.
The only question upon which there
seems likely to be division is that OF
the advisabihtv of putting full state I
ticket in the field in Utah. There is
q strong sentiment among Roosevelt /.
followers that the new party should !
20 after everything whole hog or r
1one.' they say, '|what's S the use of
lE
There are others, however, who think >
he state will be lost to the colonel : :
( the new party Tbutts into state d
,olitics This faction contends that the S
,nly way Roosevelt electors can be h
'hosen in Utah is 10 keep out of the 0
tate muddle. From present indications =
here is every reason to believe that =
he latter wing will find themselves in b
he minority today
Local Men Ambitious.
The mass convention held in the Gar 0
ick thcater Thursday night dema manded I
n its resolutions, that there should be !,
full state ticket and directed the v
'alt Lake county delegates TO work c
there are any number of local aspir- Q
nts To office who demand county =
icket. They say there is a good 4
hance Of the third party getting the n
tflces in Salt Lake county this fall,
the Bull Moose will but put his ant.
ers before hirn and push through.
1t is the. expectation now that the 3
onvention today will complete its work o
Y 4 o'clock, and that the special train h
NIL return 70 Salt Lake early in the n
venjng. l
Henry j. Allen of Kansas, who deliv
red an address at Thursday night IS a
netting, !, booked to make another T
ak at Provo today. o.