The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05
Appoint Committee.

As result of the action of the or
ganiZation an executive committee Of
twenty-five members will be called to
meet Monday evening by State Chair
man S. K. thurman. This committee
has been authorized to call a state
convention of Democrats early in June
for the purpose Of nominating state Of
ficers. The committee will issue the
call Tor the convention and for prlma-
ries for the selection of delegates. The
apportionment of delegates will proba-
bly, be one to every seventy votes cast
for the Democratic candidates in 1912
Among the other things done by the
organization yesterday were the au-
thorization OF the appointment Of a
committee to prepare suggestions for
the Democratic platform to be formu-
lated at the convention, arrangements
for reorganization of the party and
census of the voters Of the state,
and the formal establishment Of
party organ with an initial capital Of
$4,000 and a circulation of several
thousand copies.
Those i'm Conference.
the Democratic state executive com
mittee- Those attending the meeting
were members of the state committee,
the state executive committee, the
county chairmen and the precinct chair
men of tho party. They represented
practically the entire machinery of the
Democratic party.
There were about ESQ officers OF the
Democratic organization at the meeting.
Every county in the state and almost
every precinct in the state was repre-
sented at the meeting. The Democrats
appeared sanguine over the prospect of
victory and from every county in the
state there were predictions Of Demo.
cratic success.
Judge Thurman, as chairman of the
state committee, called the meeting to
order, and r. B. Thurman, acting secre
tary of the state committee, read the
cali for the meeting. Judge Thurman
outlined briefly the purpose for which
the meeting was called. He spoke of
the necessity for a complete reorpani-
zation of the party In every precinct
in the state and the need for canvass
OF the voters of the state. He smoke of
the advisability Of an early convention
for the purpose of naming candidates
named for United States senator would
be elected beyond question. The Judge
said that the party had gone on record
In favor of n nonpartisan judiciary and
the nonpartisaD administration of the
educational affairs of the state. These
declarations, he said. should be consid.
cred by tho party in nominating can
didates for supreme court Justice and
state superintendent OF public iustruc-
tioln,
Party Organ Issued.
Judge Thurman called attention TO
the fact that the Democrats had issued
the first number of what was destined
TO be the official organ of the party. he
urged that the Democrats patronize il
literally and subscribe both for stock
in the competny which is to publish the
paper and for the paper itself.
With reference to fusion, Judge Thur.
man said that without discussing the
merits Of the proposal he wished 70 say
that the Republicans OF the state were
extremely fearful that the progressives
Of all parties would unite and make
common cause Of tho defeat OF the Re
publicsns at the state election.
Former Senator Simon Bamberger ad
dressed the convention on the need of q
Democratic organ, and at the conclusion