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Show The Republican Convention. The Republican delegates to the Sixth Council District convention met in the District courtroom at 1 o'clock yesterday. Dr. Simmons called the meeting to order and was elected temporary chairman. chair-man. John Dixon was elected secretary. Committees on credentials and permanent per-manent organization were appointed by i he chair. On motion of J. J. Fuller the plat-I'Ttn plat-I'Ttn adopted by the county conven- .lon was adopted by the Council convention. con-vention. The secretary read the platform. The committer on permanent organization organ-ization reported, recommending Don C. Johnson as permanent chairman and .!. D. Dixon as secretary. Mr. Johnson assumed the chair and called for the report of the committee on credentials. The committee reported, re-ported, recommending the following named gentlemen to seats in the convention: con-vention: J'rorn Firs! Ward L Holbrook, C D Glazier, C S Thompson. I'rwt, Secowl Ward R II Do.ld, Chaa DeMoisev, W R II Paxman. i'mro Third WardW J Tavlor, v S Holdaway, II II Bean. I'iuio Fourth WacdV II Simmons. J 1) Dixon, John Gr'n-r. !', E D.idk-v. i':-v FiOh Ward-J.J Fulhr, Ben R EMieilge.'H S Pyne. Benjamin Bachman, alternate for Mr. Eldredge. j.riiKjriilel) 0 Johnson, F G IJoyer, Pi chard Thorn, Moses Johnson, E P Kriiuon. Robert Miller, L J Whitney, j Luke Shore Jas. Aiken " j ,'(.( Vien Samuel Bunnell. 1'roro Bench Jiinvs Adams. Lehi Olev Ellingson. Geo Evans, J G Gibb, S YV Uuss, Geo Webb, alternate. alter-nate. American Fork .T B Roberts, Harry Tiinmins, J II Wooten, J F Pribyl, James Grant. l'Uiu.ant Grore1? Beers. J D Wadley, Win M Frampton, Alex Bullock, Arte-mus Arte-mus Ilolmaii, alternate. Alpine -Eph lleaiy, Lincoln Carlisle. Draper C J Irw in, J W Smith, J E Day, J H Smith. Son-It Jordan Win Holt,. Albert Holt. JUeerlon Edward Rushton. Bhifd -ic Rh! us Xell. The report was accepted. The chair announced that nominations nomin-ations for a representative to the Legislative Legis-lative Council from the Sixth Council District would be in order. I Lr. Simmons, in a neat speech, offered of-fered the name of J. E. Booth as nominee nomi-nee for that office. The. nomination was made by acclamation. accla-mation. A committee was then appointed to go out ami hunt Mayor Booth and bring him into the convention. In the meantime the Chair made a short speech, in which he congratulated the convention for their excellent nom- 1 imition, saying the Democrats had put up a good man. and that it, therefore, behooved the Republicans to put up a better, and he thought they had done so. It required , the Republicans to trump the Democratic King with a Republican Re-publican ace. J. iv Booth came forward and said he had just heard of the nomination, but he hoped that there would be as much cause for rejoicing on August Ith as there was at the present time. He claimed that he had always been a Republican, and had never been a Democrat either bv word or act. and he defied anyone to point to a word or act of his that would proclaim him a Democrat. Dem-ocrat. The speaker referred to some talk on the street in reference to Geo. Sutherland Suther-land having signed the petition for the disfranchisement of the Mormon people, which was circulated in Utah. He denounced this as false, but, he added, it being false didn't cut any j figure with Democrats. 'Mr. Booth then talked on the work he had done in the Legislature, claiming claim-ing that he had formulated more of the laws passed by the late Legislature than any other man in that body. lie had framed the bill on bounties on home manufactures, and worked it through both houses. The governor had not vetoed any of his bills. The one on bounties had caused a circulation of 300.000 in Utah county alone. He tlif-n dilated a while on ttift superiority of the Republican party over the Democratic- and thanked the convention for the honor conferred upon him, concluding con-cluding by saying that he felt perfectly sure of the election now. Mr. Timmons, an individual from American Fork, said he had been to Santaquin and had been surprised to see the l;rge number of Republicans there. He told how he had dow ned J. II. Paul in all the arguments he made, and how he liad succeeded by his marvelous mar-velous logic in converting nearly all the Democrats in the southern end of the county. He scored The Distatcii lor spelling his name wrong (terrible crime!) and also for saying he used bad grammar. (You ought to hear him!) In liix blustering way he knocked out all the Democratic arguments that had ever been advanced, after which the meeting adjourned. |