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Show POLITICO - PERSONAL ( With two substantial, solid, vote-getting tickets tick-ets in the field, the American party is ready for November. Never in the history of Utah have there been two such conventions as those held at the Salt Lake Theater Monday morning, afternoon and evening, when Americans placed before the voters of the state and Salt Lake county the candidates named above. Enthusiasm swung in early on the crowds that filled the theater, and by afternoon was at fever heat. Fights for nominations were sharp, hard and friendly. Seldom, if ever, have the church politicians of Utah received so severe and terrible a condemnation as that given them by Frank J. Cannon, Joseph LIppman and other speakers at the two conventions, state and coun-' coun-' ty. They were cheered to the echo. The adop tion of the state platform brought out an ovation the equal of which the old Theater has probably never known. When the delegates broke up, after af-ter midnight, Monday, history had been made for Utah. The state ticket is given above. Judge John A. Street is nominated for governor, and it would have been difficult to have found a stronger man for the race. Down on through the list, Little-field Little-field of Ogden, Hiles, Thompson, Welsh, Park, Sweazey and Douglas, the whole ticket is strong, and with the race fairly started the church politicians poli-ticians have one of the hardest fights on their hands that has ever been given them. Whatever strength the American vote will show for the state must be judged principally by the showing to be made in Salt Lake county in November. That the churchmen have ruled the county politically for the last time is certain. It will go under the leadership of IE. B. Critchlow, I W. W. Armstrong and George J. Gibson as nomi nees for the senate. In the race for sheriff, Charon took the place from Fitzpatrick at 311 to 210 votes. After two ballots had been taken, W. O. Norrel took the nomination for auditor from T. W. Armstrong Arm-strong and H. A. Mercer. Charles W. Lawrence was nominated for recorder after the splendid campaign he made. M. E. WUson was nominated for county attorney by acclamation, and Joseph Ulmer took the county surveyorship from Holman and Wight after a hard fight on the convention floor. A. L. Brattain carried the nomination for assessor over Barney Quinn by a vote of 313 to 229. The platform on which the nominees go before be-fore the voters of the county is clear, well-defined and solid in every plank. Salt Lake county for Americans! There have been mutterings from many insurgent insur-gent camps within the Smoot ranks in the past, but combined the echo has rolled on and on until it has become a sullen roar, and with each new recruit the handwriting on- the wall becomes plainer and plainer to the Provo apostle. For anyone to say he is not worried is the height of absurdity. Conservative men are now estimating that at the very least, Salt Lake county will go American by two thousand votes mostly American votes with the number augmented by hundreds of young Democrats and enough insurgents from the Smoot party to make a victory not only a certainty, but a slaughter. What about Steve Love and his strong following? follow-ing? What of Parley Christensen and his friends? What of Sam Park and the strong men who are with him? What of hundreds of others, more or less prominent? There isn't the slightest doubt of the way they will vote, once they go in the booth, and though they may profess to be Republicans, Republi-cans, and probably are on national lines, it would be worth seeing when they pull the levers on election day. Really the only danger that besets the American Amer-ican party in the county campaign is the possibility possi-bility that Harry Joseph will flop and declare that he is one of us. Blustering, bristling, bellicose an,d belligerent, Harry is out with a new street car and curb campaign, cam-paign, assuring the populace in no uncertain tones that he will get certain scalps, which heretofore he counted among the most lovable in Zion. Harry is mad clear through, and his predicament predica-ment is the most amusing incident of the campaign cam-paign up to date. It was early in the week when the Hon. George Sutherland, who had evidently been assigned the pleasant task, took the Joseph person to one side and gently whispered that he was a load on the party, and that the rest of the church would greatly appreciate it if he would move some distance to the rear and be seated. For a moment Harry just gasped. Momentarily he couldn't comprehend the enormity of the affront af-front which the masters had given to one who had been so faithful in their service; and when it dawned upon him the storm scene from Cleopatra Cleopa-tra by comparison was a summer zephyr. Straightway he called an insurgent meeting i m HgfjH think of the Joseph undesirable calling an insur- 'ill fnfjH gent meeting which accomplished' nothing; but P Kh his street car platform campaign has been a vigor- jJ K H ous one, and if he does all the things he says he 11 Wa B will, something sensational may be expected from yl B H this worn out tool of a once triumphant ma- H chine. h ySgfl It is not so long since the Joseph person as- I j BuH sured the curb that he would be a state senator mjj flH this fall, and to be passed up so ruthlessly by the uty Hffifl gang he has hung onto with such tenacity, was a jj! nBH pill too bitter to pass the Joseph thorax. 1 1 1 HhH But no one cares but Harry, unless he should 1 1 jSBfl take it into his head to shout for the America? L jfl cause. In that event it would be serious, but not HH for the Joseph perse j H - W' m The nomination of Judge Dana T. Smith on ! j H the city judicial ticket meets with as much favor t HH as any American nomination of the campaign. : I jg Judge Smith is one of the best-known and most fwl j capable attorneys affiliated with the American H;j party and he will unquestionably go into office in 31I j HH November by a handsome majority. His record IjH as justice of the peace is of the best and with Wkj flH his personal popularity his success at the polls ;j ajfl should prove one of the most satisfactory fea- ju flH tures of the American campaign. He deserves the Mr.' aHI support of every man in the party. $vi 'B9 J. E. Darmer is also well fitted for the place j' KB of city judge, and through service faithfully per- j ' fifl formed is deserving of the honor given him by his f K9 party; for in the case of the city judgships, a 1 MM nomination on the American ticket is equivalent j ' itffl to election. . W3M Possibly, too, in view of past performances, ',p H the city will not suffer from the change of admin- ) B istration. J- j HI It is a pity that as good an attorney as Frank '" 1 H J. Gustin, with as large a personal following, 'J) ( Hn should be nominated for a judicial position on the J rafl Democratic ticket. When he has a nomination of j flfl that kind it ought to be where he would have a . 'H9 chance, in a place where his friends could elect ri HI him. And more's the pity, because at heart Frank J H9 Gustin is the best kind of an American, and will -V MM probably vote that way in November, excepting, '", MM of course, that part of the ticket which includes j the judiciary nominees. 1 Bgfl !i H The county machine of the church Republicans , HB struck the first rough weather of the early cam- ' MM Jl , 1 palgn Tuesday, when, after a day and night session at the Salt Lake Theater, the Smoot slate for the county went to pieces and a general row precipitated among the delegates that led to accusations ac-cusations and charges Jof plc(dge-breaklng and broken promises by the score. Mrs. Margaret Zane Witcher is on the ticket for county clerk and Job Lyon for county attorney, attor-ney, against the orders of the gang. Mrs. Witch-er's Witch-er's defeat of Farnsworth and Basset was spectacular, spec-tacular, for it was not supposed that she carried enough strength to endanger the chances of either of them. Scarcely had her nominating speech been concluded, however, than a wave of enthusiasm swept over the convention floor and with demands coming from every portion of the theater that her nomination be made unanimous by acclamation, a motion to this effect was put, and with the nomination announced the delegates gave her a great ovation. The gumshoe workers of the machine sat glum and ill at ease through the demonstration, for it meant explanations and whyfors to them. The nomination of Mrs. Witcher is really the only strong nomination that was made at the church convention, and as the position is the most Important on the entire county ticket, the hardest fight of the campaign in this county will probably j center on the clerkship. Frank R. Christensen, who received the nomination nomi-nation for the position on the American ticket, is as strong a candidate as any party could put up; Is a tried and true American, and has served the party faithfully for a number of years. The personal popularity of both candidates will also be a feature of the fight, which from any standpoint stand-point will be -decidedly interesting. Carlson was the machine candidate for Wil- ' lard -Smirking Hanson's shoes, and the jolt the machine received when Job Lyon was put before the convention was nothing to the second jolt that came when the convention delegates went to their feet and put Job on the ticket with a ten-minute ten-minute ovation thrown in. The speeches in which Lyon's nomination was seconded contained sev-eial sev-eial very caustic remarks on the manner in which Hanson has run his office the past two years. The machine men are evidently very bitter tow- J ard Hanson for some of the blunders he has 1 made. After a nice, quiet, ladylike convention, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the Democrats of the county are out with their county, judicial and municipal tickets. The slate had been prepared before Conven-J Conven-J tion Chairman D. W. Moffat rapped for order on 1 Wednesday morning, and went through with scarcely a hitch. Every once in a while someone forgot himself and applauded a nominee. He was quickly quieted, however, by fellow delegates, and the solemnity of the occasion restored. The only ' fight of the convention occurred on the adoption of the platform. The local option, good roads and. direct primary planks went in without trouble, but the committee shelved a plank denouncing church interference in politics. It was James H. Moyle's Logan plank, and after a warm discussion went on the table, to give place to an amendment amend-ment calling for separation of church aud state J in politics and declaring that political parties 1 must cease Interfering with church affairs. A half-hour's oratory put this amendment on the table with the original plank. John B. Burbldge is on the ticket for sheriff and while having no chance for election is a strong candidate. Burbidge is popular throughout the county personally and has an excellent record back of him. The judicial ticket, composed of Charles Baldwin, Bald-win, Oscar W. Moyle, Ray Van Cott and Frank J. J Gustln for district judges, and Wlllard Hamer for district attorney, is probably as strong a ticket as T the Democrats have ever put in the field for the district bench. The platform adopted by the church convention after half a dozen delegates had roasted the platform plat-form oemmittee on its effort, is a worlc of art. It says nothing, stands for nothing, and is about as U backboneless and meaningless as was possible to j" make it and still call it a platform. Joe Sharp has been picked early in the game for sheriff, and what little strength was evidenced during the convention by W. S. Naylor was lost when the move was started to nominate Sharp by acclamation. With Fred J. A. Jacques on the ticket for recorder, re-corder, Frdnk Heglnbotham for auditor, A. S. Gabbot for assessor, J. A. Groesbeck for treasurer treas-urer and J. B. Swenson for surveyor, the convention conven-tion wound up its work shortly after midnight without any further breaks in the slate. |
