Show fr SILVER IS PARAMOUNT I Enthusiastic Democratic Prima lit ries Held in This City SOME RINGING RESOLUTIONS ATTITUDE OF THE PARTY ELS J CLEARLY DEFINED q Straight Silver Men Will Be Chosen to Represent Utah at the National Nation-al Democratic Convention Brief Addresses Made By Party Leaders The aicetiiit at Murray q The Democrats of Salt Lake City and county held rousing primaries last night and declared in favor of Hon Moses Thatcher Hon J L Rawllns and Hon O W Powers as delegates to the national convention Silver was defined as the paramount issue and a line of action governing the Utah delegation dele-gation was decided upon Everywhere the utmost enthusiasm prevailed and a feature was the number t num-ber of ladies who attended the meetings meet-ings First Precinct The First precinct Democratic primary pri-mary nvas held in the annex to the Ninth ward school house last night The meeting was largely attended and continued till a late hour listening to such stalwart Democrats as Fisher i Harris and J M Denny expound the principles of Democracy and free silver sil-ver The delegates were instructed to vote for Moses Thatcher 1 L Rawlins and 0 W Powers for delegates to the Chicago convention A motion was carried directing the delegates to instruct the delegates S dele-gates to Chicago to vote as a unit on all questions that go before the convention con-vention The fallowing delegates were elected E P Newell S E Allen G A Alder Mrs Margaret A Caine James Castle P Maycock Mrs Julia GOlighty My McCullough J M Denny A T Webb Walter Murphy H S Laney H J Dininny E W Wilson Fishjer S Harris Alternates W Musser M Proctor Proc-tor C A Lund Stephen Tucker Emily P Weiler Mary Irvine W E D Barnett Bar-nett Mrs Morris Mrs J T Kings fb bury O H Pettitt G A McLain J I T Strong Alex Mitchell J B Walden Wald-en C W Penrose A call was read for a caucus of all I the delegates and alternates to be held at the city and county building Friday afternoon at 2 p m A precinct committee consisting of the following was named S E Allen Al-len Bertha Wilkin G A Alder Mrs M A Caine F Coalter Mrs Fanny Smith F J Rawlins Miss Annie Lynch F W Follatt Miss S Gillett t J S Darke Annie Maim A Mitchell Mrs W W Gee A meeting of the committee is called for Friday evening at the residence of 1 Mrs Margaret Caine 732 Fifth East street I Second Precinct Democrats of the Second precinct turned out en masse last evening and filled the hall on First West between Fourth and Fifth South to overflowing overflow-ing It was a lively meeting too and an intense interest was manifested in the silver issue Every one who was selected se-lected as a delegate or an alternate was pledged before the meeting to work for silver first last and all the timer t The meeting was composed of ladies and gentlemen the members of the fair sex turning out in force so that the two elements were about equally divided di-vided Hugh Watson was selected as chairman chair-man and C M Jackson secretary The latter selection was made because the scribe had plenty of paper and pencils SILVER PARAMOUNT As soon as the meeting was organized organiz-ed Morris Sommers arose and offered 4 a resolution concerning the action of the primary in choosing delegates to the state convention which was as in11nn Whereas It is of paramount importance impor-tance to the masses of our citizens and of the citizens of every state in the Union that the cause of silver be i advanced And Whereas it is manifest that the will of the masses of the great Democratic party is for the furtherance of the cause of silver to the end that a law shall be enacted giving every holder of silver bullion the right to have it coined at any mint in the United Uni-ted States without charge at the ratio ra-tio of 16 to 1 And Whereas the enemies of silver sil-ver are using every means in theirS their-S power to defeat the will of the rank and file of the party therefore be it Resolved By the Democrats of the Second precinct of the City of Salt Lak assembled for the purpose of electing delegates to attend the state Democratic convention so that they may select delegates to the national Democratic convention that it is the sense of this convention that each person per-son elected a delegate to the state convention con-vention shall after his election declare de-clare whether or not he or she is in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and also declare his or her purpose not to vote for any person as delegate to the national convention who is not fully in accord with the cause of silver and be further Resolved That any delegate soS so-S elected who hesitates or refuses to I pledge himself or herself unqualifiedly J to support the cause of silver as hereinbefore here-inbefore indicated shall have his or her name stricken from the list of delegates del-egates and another immediately elected elec-ted in his or her place be it further Resolved That we send greeting to all our Democratic silver workers and extend an imitation to the silver exponents ex-ponents of all parties to join us early and at the same time reminding them that the triumph of our cause depends on the vigilance activity and unity of Its advocates At the conclusion he moved the adop t4on of the same which ivis seconded from all portions of the house The resolutions were not adopted without debate however Judge Nor rell who has recently moved into the Second precinct said that while he agreed with the sentiments which were expressed in the document he believed they were longer than the occasion called call-ed for and that he would offer a substitute sub-stitute which he did in the shape of a shorter resolution which covered all the points in the above N V Jones agreed with Judge Nor rell that the resolutions ought to be cut down and then there was a debate de-bate in which Sommers and Norrell clashed although in a good natured manner over the purpose of the document docu-ment offered by the former Judge Cherry said it was evident that many delegates were there loaded with resolutions reso-lutions but that he did not see the necessity for sing so much language to express whA everyone present believed be-lieved in James A Williams was sure the resolutions reso-lutions were all right that it the sub Htitute resolutions and declared the convention could not be too careful There were gold bugs in the Democratic Demo-cratic party men who had been leaders and in the coming struggle it was essential es-sential that the men selected to go to the convention to select delegates to ithe national convention should all befriends be-friends of the white metal v After some more talk had been in ulged in the resolution offered by T c 4 C I c a Sommers was adopted and the substitute substi-tute rejected Judge Norrell then moved that a committee of seven to be composed of ont from each ward in the precinct and one from the annex be selected to present seventeen names to the convention con-vention tobe I voted upon The motion I met With opposition at the hands of I Mr Sommers or rather at the accents of Mr S mmers He declared that there might be men there who were newcomers and who did not know the people of the precinct as well as the people aforesaid themselves and he should regret to see anything of the kind happen Mr JOnes moved to amend the motion mo-tion by giving the committee the power to apportion the number of delegates to each bishops ward and the annex which was objected to on the part of I James A Williams who wanted all the lines of the bishops wards obliterated obliter-ated and wiped out and the primary to do the work itself Finally the amendment of Mr Jones prevailed and the following committee was selected Fourth ward E S Kearsley Fifth J L Hutchinson Sixth X E Taylor Seventh John Shea Fourteenth Morris Sommers Fifteenth N V Jones who was made chairman annex Judge Cherry The committee reported the apportionment appor-tionment as follows Fourth ward 2 Fifth ward 2 Sixth ward 3 Seventh ward 3 Fourteenth ward 3 Fifteenth ward 4 The annex was left out James A Williams made a motion to give the Fourteenth four delegates 1 instead of the Fifteenth but the Fifteenth Fif-teenth had too many voters there and his motion was lost I The following were selected I Fourth Ward E S Kearsley Walter Ryan AlternateFred C Bobo Fifth WardJ L Hutchinson I Archie Buchanan Sixth WardHugh Watson F P Everett P Frederick Goss I Seventh WardA G Norrell J W Whitehead jr Henry Tribe Alternates Alter-nates John Shea R E Miller I Fourteenth WardJames A Williams Will-iams H D Folsom Frank Harrigan Alternates Mrs S LT Goss B E West J F Crowley I Fifteenth WardJ H Murphy Thomas P Lewis William Lewis Ben jamin Guiver Alternates V Jones Daniel Howells Mrs D P Brown The following notice was read Salt Lake City Utah May 30 1S96 Hon A G Norrell City My Dear NorrellKindly announce at your caucus that the Salt Lake county delegation will meet at legislative legisla-tive hall fourth floor of city and county building at 2 p m Friday for the purpose of organization and consultation con-sultation and to take such action as the delegation deems proper Yours very truly O W POWERS 1 Chmn State Com I The following precinct committee was elected Fourth Ward Ralph Van Gilder Mrs John Haigh Fifth Ward Alexander Buchanan jr Mrs Reeves Sixth Ward Mrs Alice Butterworth Thomas Greene Seventh Ward Henry Wallace Mrs R K Thomas Fourteenth WardH D Folsom Dr Mattie Hughes Cannon Fifteenth WardBenjamin Guiver Mrs J J Van Steeter Annex Van H Brown The convention then adjourned Third Precinct The Third precinct primaries were well attended and the meeting was absolutely ab-solutely harmonious The delegates were elected in auick order and a reso lution declaring unequivocally for free coinage was unanimously adopted The meeting was called to order by J Bull jr and Bishop W P Preston was elected chairman and J Bull jr secretary sec-retary Delegates at large for the precinct pre-cinct were then put in nomination and elected as follows E E Rich B F Lloyd O W Moyle Alexander Edward Ed-ward Joseph Pugsley Mrs Sina Reid H J Hayward J T Raleigh Mrs John Rummell J A Halverson H A Smith J W Snell George C Riser Mrs A W McCune R P Morris and Richard Collett When the balloting for delegates at large was completed the following alternates al-ternates were elected Mrs Arthur Frewin J Bull jr Mrs Elizabeth James Thomas Morris John Bach Mrs Caldwell and Mrs George Horn The members of the campaign committee com-mittee chosen for the ensuing year were E E Rich J Bull jr J Hal verson John M Pike J F Raleigh John Bach H J Hayward and B F Lloyd John Hansen of the News presented a letter from Judge Powers notifying the delegates that a meeting of the county delegates will be held in the house of representatives hall in the joint building on Friday at 2 oclock I for consultation < and to effect organization organ-ization The meeting adopted the following resolution without a dissenting voice Whereas We the Democrats of the Third precinct Salt Lake City do fully realize that the first steps toward to-ward increased prosperity of these United States is the remonetization of silver at a ratio with gold of 16 to l without awaiting the action of any other nation and Whereas This would bring back the original bimetallic constitutional currency cur-rency of this nation so much needed by the people for the exchanging of I the products of their labor therefore be it Resoled By this meeting that our delegates are hereby instructed to sustain sus-tain no one who does not frankly promise prom-ise to give their unqualified support to this silver measure of benefit to all the people I Fourth Precinct The Democratic primary of the Fourth precinct was held at the Burlington Bur-lington school house last evening A I large number of ladies and gentlemen were nresent Hon John T Caine was I chairman and George E Blaire secretary secre-tary Mr Caine upon taking the chair made a brief address advocating the taking of an unqualified stand on the silver question and electing for delegates dele-gates only such men as were known to be for silver first last and all the time This advice was acted upon and sliver was the slogan A motion by Judge Powers that the delegates to The state convention be directed to instruct the delegates to the national convention to vote as a unit on all questions that go before the Chicago convention was carried unanimously A motion by J M COhn instructing the delegates of the fourth > precinct to support for delegates to the Chicago Chica-go convention Hon Moses Thatcher Hon J L Rawlins and Hon O W Powers was carried with a hurrah Judge Powers made a few brief remarks re-marks thanking those Dresent and stating that he had not definitely decided de-cided whether < to lead the fight or not on account of Drivate business but that he would make a final decision before the convention met and took I this means of informing his friends present in case he decided not to lead The following delegates were elected J T Caine J L Rawlins Mrs F S Richards Colonel A C Ellis E D Hoge Mrs Alfales Young D L Mur dock O Hodgson W H Dale Mrs J F Smith H J Faust Mrs E B Ferguson Fer-guson AlternatesG E Blair Mrs N W Clayton W H Bramel W C Dunbar R W Young H T Ball C Danger field F V Houghton and P J Moran Mo-ran A motion by Judge Powers that the precinct committee consist of nine members three from each ward was carried and the following were elected elec-ted Eighteenth WardJ E Caine Robert Rob-ert Patrick jr and Miss Kate Burton I Bur-ton r 1 Twentieth WardW P Jennings JC c1 11 i if George Romney jr Mrs Alfales Young Twentyfirst Ward W W Calder H F Ball and Dr E B Furgeson Judge Powers announced that there would be a caucus held in the legislative legisla-tive hall city and county building at 2 p m Friday Fifth Precinct The Democrats of the Fifth precinct will bank heavily on the woman vote in the coming campaign as was evidenced evi-denced by the proceedings at last nights primaries which were held at the Thirteenth ward school house The meeting was largely attended and lasted over two hours during which the situation which the party will have to face this fall was thoroughly canvassed and action taken which will give the female voters as nearly as possible equal representation on the precinct committee The meeting also declared in strong terms for free coinage coin-age The meeting was called to order by Chairman of the Precinct J W Hamm P J Daly was elected chairman and C S Wilkes secretary and the balloting bal-loting for delegatesatlarge was proceeded pro-ceeded to without delay resulting in the election of P J Daly G G P Jackson C C Dey J W Hamm A A Gibson C S Wilkes M E Mulvey J L Welsh F F Gilmartin and C J Pence The election of alternates followed fol-lowed these being elected J H Moyle Martin Lindsey Homer Duncan and Amanda J Hook A motion to reelect J W Hamm chairman of the precinct committee for the year being made that gentleman was retained in office by acclamation When it came to selecting the precinct pre-cinct committee J W Welsh moved that the committee consist of four men aside from the chairman and five ladies la-dies In support of his motion Mr Welsh said that the ladies would cast as many votes in the next election as the men and it was only just that they should have equal representation representa-tion besides as much work would have to be done among the female a3 the male voters J C Ivins was alive to the justice and necessity of the ladies being thus represented but counseled caution In the selection that the best workers and most Influential ladies be chosen Charles J Pence approved of the idea of five ladies on the committee I but questioned the expediency of the primary selecting them He moved as an amendment that the male contingent contin-gent bt selected and that they be given power to elect five ladies as an auxiliary aux-iliary to the committee Mr Welsh accepted ac-cepted the amendment but before the question was put Henry Ryan suggested sug-gested that the five men be elected and that the names of twenty ladies be chosen and they be requested to get together and elect the five Some further debate onthe subject followed during which Mrs Amanda J Hook took occasion to say she thought Mr Pences amendment embodied the best idea advanced The question being put it was so ordered Gerald Jackson rut this point arose and put in nomination for a place on the committee Martin Lindsey paying a tribute to that gentlemans services in the last campaign Mr Pence seconded sec-onded the nomination and moved that Mr Lindsey be elected by acclamation Mr Lindsey begged to be left off the committee pleading excessive business responsibilities but his popularity was too great The chair announced that his was but a ministerial duty and that he would be compelled to put the I motion and Mr Lindsey was elected M E Mulvey being nominated was elected in a like manner and also under un-der protest J L Welsh moved that nominatiohs for the remaining places be opened which carried and numerous gentlemen gentle-men were named the ballot resulting in the election of J C Ivins and C S Wilkes Mr Welsh then moved that the delegates dele-gates be instructed to vote for no person per-son for delegate to the national con ventiion who was not a pronounced advocate ad-vocate of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 irrespective of the rction of any other nation the motion carrying with a shout Judge Powers notice of the meeting at legislative hall Friday was read and the primary adjourned At Murray The Democrats of all the precincts in the county outside of the city met in convention at Murray last evening for the purpose of electing delegates to the Democratic state convention The primary was called to order by Mr Spencer a member of the county committee Joseph S Rawlins was elecfed chairman chair-man and Joseph Spencer secretary D O Rideout A B Dyer and Samuel Bateman were appointed a committee on apportionment A Spencer George Tay lor and Dr W H H Sharp the committee com-mittee on resolutions The following named delegates and alternates al-ternates were elected Pleasant GreenIsaac Coon alternate Mr Jacobson Pleasant ViewAugust Nelson RivertonO P Miller John Hanson jr Sandy Herbert VanDam H T Greaves alternates Abel Johnson R Anderson South Jordan John Holt Sugar HouseW C A Smoot sr Mrs Orson Russell alternates C E Sorenson Mrs C Alston West JordanSamuel Bateman Agnes Cutler alternates Joseph Hibbard Geo D Gardner Big Cottonwood A Carter Francis McDonald Bingham B Quinn alternate Mr Bodell of Herman precinct Bluff Dale Joseph Mousely Brighton and Granger M R Porter alternate Mrs Mark Murphy HunterW L Ridd DraperW B Ennis Nellie Brown alternates al-ternates H Day Matilda Boberg Farmers G Dyer Ed McLelland alternates Mrs A B Dunsford Ray VanCott South i CottonwoodNathan Towne W H Atwood Andrew Thompson Mrs Mary Rawlins alternates Henry Bird Josephine Hanson Wm Atwood Union John W Sharp A H Rork alternates al-ternates Mrs 11 A Smart H C Mon tur turMill Cr George Taylor John Morgan Mor-gan Wm Hamilton alternates A J Hamilton Mrs Edward White North JordanA Spencer alternates Ir Nettle Benner The committee on resolutions offered the following which was adopted with ringing cheers Be It resolved by this convention That the delegates elected from the precincts of this county outside of Salt Lake City be instructed to cast their votes for men as delegates to Chicago who are uncompromisingly un-compromisingly in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 1C to 1 without waiting fo any other nation na-tion ton Be it further resolved That Moses Thatcher Joseph L Rawlins and O W Powers are our unanimous choice for delegates to the Chicago convention The statement was given out that Chairman Powers desired all the delegates dele-gates to meet with him at the county building in the legislative rooms at 3 oclock p m next Friday afternoon The convention then adjourned I must be said that hereafter the Democrats Dem-ocrats of all the outlying precincts will enter a vigorous kick against attending attend-ing a mass assemblythey will insist on holding the regular precinct meetings where they property belong Had Chairman Chair-man Dunbar been present he would have been apprised of this sentiment than and i I there The Rapid Transit company has no service from there after 930 p m and no cars from this city after 635 save one car at 835 p m From this it will be seen that people do not take kindly to the new order of things invoked without their consenttheir consent for a repetition repe-tition will not be obtained either Taken as work a whole the convention did splendid |