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Show Vol 2, No. Pihce SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEETEMBER 13, 1902. 1. In the Political Arena.. Howell, of For Congress Cache. For Justice of the Supreme Court William M. McCarty, of Sevier. friends had to do some work. It would never do to let Beveridge get away without delivering that speech. Why, the Tribune and the Herald had it in So did the Ogden Standard. type. They reminded him of this. Beveridge reluctantly consented to stay. In the committee on resolutionsHeath It is all over and the junior senator knows what it is to be defeated. The methods combined to opposition to his and he left the congive him a flaying' vention defeated on every hand. The opposition to the senator's reciprocity the convention from plan prevented and the platmaking any allusion to it, form of the party stands for protection, to the be made the choice of the convention for 1904. That did settle it. That stealing of the Kearns thunder was the last straw. From that time on the Kearns push didnt care a continental who was selected or what happened. Just as Truth predicted, in all the essential points Sutherland ran the convention. The committee on permanent organization placed the supreme justice's nomination first. That action was fatal . . Parley P. Christensen, who has ably and con8cienciousiy filled the office of county attorney for the past two years, i ne is a candidate for has conducted the affairs of the office with faithfulness, discretion and ability and except routine matters all important business lias received his personal attention. The relation between his office and every other department in the county government are perfectly harmonious. No incumbent of the office since the organization of the county has spent more time in the service of the county than Christensen.-- ' Sinco called to the chairmanship of the cen. tral committee his first attention is given to the County Attorneys office, and he never leaves his post until the work for the day is arranged for, or disposed of, and during the time he spends elsewhere, he is in communication by telephone with his office. The time spent for the Republican party is the time ho would otherwise use for his private business. There have been more opinions handed down than during any previous term because of the increase of business in the county, and not one of these opinions has been over-rule- d, disapproved one suit has been or contested. Not brought against Salt Lake county growing out of the actions of the county attorney, except Dr. Andersons claim for professional services as a witness, and the position of the county attorney in this particular was approved and sustained by the board of county commissioners. Any attempted violation of the labor laws has been vigilantly prosecuted. The Glann Construction company was prosecuted for working its men over eight hours a day. The company paid the fine and complied with the law thereafter. Every infraction of the labor laws brought properly before the county attorney has been prosecuted successfully. For the first time, so far as the records show, the books of every justice of the peace have been examined carefully by Mr. Christensen himself with great gain to the county. County Attorney Christensen inherited, among others,: two very, important civil cases in the fcsu- . was. would be so made up that even But Suthprocity would be endorsed. the senator. erlands friends checkmated committee They got to the executive 7 to 2, inof vote a nd that body, by speak formed the Indiana man he could the made This S .at in the evening. had he visitor warm, for it appears was to adbeen given to understand1 he o clock, and dress the convention at comraitt-e was when the decision of the declared he read to him, he pouted, and ?oback would pack his playthings Then it home on the afternoon train. and his was that the junior senator him 85. T. M. Cummings, who nominated him, seems to have been a poor judge of a band wagon. Dan Harrington claimed he would bo selected on the second ballot. The convention never reached a second ballot, but Dan got 7 votes on the first. Truly were his Fred Leonard, forces well organized. who was packing the George A. Smith boom, lost it somewhere on the road, for George was never placed before the Fred convention. explains that him asked to withdraw Pa George's the race from and yielding to George the importunities of the fond father, he reluctantly withdrew the name and thus was George lost to fame. ft ft polwith no reference whatever in relation to Cuban icy of the president tariff relations. Summed up, the Sutherland crowd ar.routed the senator, horse, foot and was accomplished tillery. D The result of work by some of the prettiest pieces and the ever performed at a convention on fact that none of the fights were had the floor, but all took place prior to the or in the rooms opening of the meeting, orof the committee, shows how well to .the machine ganized the opposition Sutherlands friends began work by of the Kearns knocking out a plan where they forces, before his men knew were at. For weeks we have read with bated breath that the great spell binder Bev of the Republican party, Senator was coming here to eridge, of Indiana, Refire the first gun of the campaign. alike have publicans and Democrats waited his coming with interest. Tom and his friends conceived a pretty plan. It was to have the senator address the So they made arrangeconvention. 1 ments for him to speak at o clock, comwhich would be about the time the mittee on platform and resolutions would report. Beveridge is a strong of the supporter of the reciprocity plans his seen by reading president, as will be conspeech. The Kearns managers cluded that Beveridge could stampede tlie delegates and that the platform reci- Cents 5 5 COUNTY ATTORNEY CHRISTENSEN. for and Kearns made a hard struggle incorporated. the plank they wantedcrowd was too Sutherland But the heavy. They knocked the proposition platform came in galley west and the with no reference to even reciprocity. conWhen the committee entered the dethe that vention hall, it was seen acbeen had feat of the Kearns forces complished. to But this wasn't all. To add insultthe before speak, just injury, sowasto about to be accepted, Mr. platform to the floor, and down Sutherland went Roosevelt President arose to move that to the candidacy of Judge Jacob Johnson. W. D. Livingston made a very earnest; a very flowery; a very able speech in his behalf, but it didn't go. The convention nominated McCarty on the first ballot and that too without the assistance of Salt Lake which was slow in announcing, its vote. McCarty had 300 votes or nearly so, before Salt Lake got its breath. Thursday morning James Devine was claiming 270 votes. According to the were 112 liars in official figures-therfor Jim got only 158 all the convention, Lake Salt which of county gave told, |