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Show Vol 2, No. 3. SALT LAKE CITY; UTAH, SEPTEMBER 27, 1902.. u . ' r i -- V In the Political Arena!. Price ! : ; . ... . - - . 5 Cents - - but it was seldom, oh, bo seldom! When that all were before the convention. the smoke had cleared away and the . i but- there was a flood of oratory. tellers had footed up; Moritz had 339 Oh, One man was nominated on the Kearns votes,1 Williams 314, Critchlow 193 and ' REPUBLICAN state ticket. lad him . in the legislature two years Smith 170,. Then the, Kearns crowd ticket, because he branded his sheep with a slit under one ear and a slash adjourned and went to lunch. For Congress, Joseph Howell of ago. Brink will go with the push. : Cache. under the other. Theodosius Botkin 7 777 For Justice of the Supreme Court, When. Dan Wenger .was chosen as v In the afternoon ' the machine men pleaded with the- convention to select Wm. M McCarty of Sevier. )ermanent chairman of the convention, circulated the following as its slate: A. H.Nash because he, (Botkin), and democratic state ticket. the Sutherland crowd smiled."; They Willard Done, B. F. Redman, Thomas he, (Nash), were with Phil Sheridan on For Congress, William H. King of magined they had the world by ' the Hull, James N. Haslam, John J. Stew- that memorable day when Little Phil Salt Lake. a down 'with hill ail, pull. Lindsay art, Albert. H. Nash, Walter Fraser, rode down to Winchester twenty miles For Justice of the Supreme Court, beamed of Lake. Salt Rogers complacently upon his Heber A. Smith, James W. Cahoon and away and sent Early flying down the Richard W. Young fellow beings and E.' B. Critchlow Daniel McRae. Quietly and . without .valley a licked man.vll. II. Voss hurled COUNTY TICKET. REPUBLICAN ... chunks bf African wisdom at the looked as generous as a monarch on the ostentation the. managers of the push large For County Clerk', John James' on behalf of his editorial convention his coronation, When the .re- distributed these ballots. By the time . For County Treasurer, W. O. Carbis. day, of W. W. Taylor.. Charlie candidate, For Sheriff, C. Frank Emery, . ; port of the committee on permanent the. convention was ready to settle down Short pleaded for .education and its For County Auditor, I. M. Fisher. and order. of business. was, to. business every, man, was provided champion. Nelson, and the convention organization For Assessor, Ben R. Eldredge. and it was seen that the cpunty. and knew how to vote. As is. the cue- - cheered all of them. This man was For County Recorder, Walter J. read, sndvthat man endor&ed. Anp . " officers were to bq nominated firet,- - the tom; when the people are, fighting a syn- seconded Meeks- - jV'.-.- : M. Cannon sang, the .praises of gus For County Attorney, George Wesn men .behind George Sutherland .wre dicate,, the people went into the fight Kenner and incidentally mentioi ed that tervelt. because Kenner was at one time a Democrat. to was or. little There they they pleased,' 'thought all shot pieces. the For, County Surveyor, Joseph B. saw victory ahead. But alas for human no that settled all . the hash By way, system about the methods of those Kenner had title to. Then Swenson. ... they voted. Kearns. One ticket-waFor County Commissioners, W. W. hopes. Likethe famous cascarets, the opphsed-t- o of the machine 'landed on thp Eight Wilson of Sandy, for four .years; Jas. Kearns forces .worked while they printed at a late hour with the names first ballot. Done, .Hull, Haslam, SteH. Anderson and H. N. Standish for slept and the sorrowful tale of Suther. of Lewis M. Cannon, J. E. Clinton, wart, Nash, Smith, Cahoon and McRae two years. t lands defeat and Kearns', victory., is Charles Brink, T.' D. Lewis,' Sam Park, were all there with enough and to , REPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE TICKET. written in the names of the ticket Daniel CE. Marks, A. L. spare. 'J . Harrington, ft ft. ' selected for the legislature; What did FOR STATE SENATE. John A. Houghton and Hiram But in the meantime quite a booth the machine care for the county offices? Hamlin, William N. Williams of the Third They are only a sop for the voters to E. Booth, which was supposed to repre- had set in for Lewis Mi Cannon. It was ward. quarrel over.- - It is true the members sent the men desired by Sutherland; about that hour when Harry Joseph Jacob Moritz of the First ward . of the combination took occasion to Then came the scattering fire; the poand a few others of the old Liberal knock down and drag out Parley P. litical FOR THE HOUSE: which pleases no bushwhacking party discovered 'the brethren were Christensen by way of getting even with candidates nominated the one WiHard Done of the First ward. except him for past favors, but it was the legisgetting away with the buns. Of the A. L. Hamlin of the First ward. except the lative ticket they wanted and they got and does no one any 'good' eight selected, five were Mormons. Thomas Hull of the Second ward. it. It was in vain that organized labor syndicated strength which wants to Then the city precincts began to maniJames N. Haslam of the Third ward. raised its voice and pleaded . for recog- shut out its enemies and gets aid and John J. Stewart of the Fourth ward. nition at the hands of the delegates: It comfort from such sources by reason of fest signs of alarm. ' The cry went up the weakening effect it has upon the for Hamlin and Brink. Redman and Albert H. Nash of the Fifth ward. was in vain that the negro element What good did Cannon were Heber A. Smith of Draper. the convention to nominate a lines of its opponents. running neck and neck. of nomination Airicanus the James W. Cahoon of Murray. Scipio man from its ranks; it was in vain that Kearns? Hamlin was nominated. On the next Daniel McRae of Granger. this class and that one urged the claims Kenner do any one, except Charles Brink of Bingnam. of its particular candidate. They were Whoprofited by placing the name of ballot Cannon withdrew in favor of Taylor before the convention? Redman, thinking to conciliate the not on the slate and they went down. W. W.was ' aided by the votes which were i i who grad- Who Franklin Redman, Benjamin Kearns rules the Republican politics uated in the for the war worn veteran, Captain Gentiles. Pandemonium reigned supolitical school conducted cast of the county. The Sutherland forces by his father in the Eighth ward of the Frank Jennings? What good end was preme for a time. The county deleby placing the name of gates got a hustle on. They wanted have been routed and shattered. The city of Omaha, and Dr. Walter Fraser subserved before the assem- Brink of Bingham. Well, Brink got M. teahouse S Serge machine is on top, Aided by his lieu- were the only two men on the Kearns bly? What was gained when John W. there. But Jake Greenewald and the slate who failed to connect. took up the time of the con- balance of the Kearns crowd from the Mullahey tenants, Perry and Joe; his sergeants, ft vention with fifteen minutes of star central districts of the city stood by Callister and Reiser; his corporals, contest for the state senate spangled platitudes, in shooting the their colors .to the la9t. They . went The Greene wald and Eyrick-anhis chaplain the lay of the land. Benner X. name of Frank P. Piatt at the assem- down demanding Redman. The conJohn T. Axton, with a right smart showed bled multitude? Who profited by the vention selected the county committee Smith and E. B Critchlow were the senanomination of H. L. Nelson? What and adjourned. There was joy at' the of the sprinkling privates, junior while Jacob man candidates, reaped reward because Thomas Kearns residence Tuesday night. There tor administered such a 'walloping . to were the N.. Williams W. and Watkins was nominated? No one, save was mourning among the Sutherland the opposition as will cause it to stanc Moritz men selected by Kearns. Orson Hew- the machine.' Had the fight come up forces. Now look out for the knives tied for a time. It was a pretty piece the slates, Sutherland would which were unsheathed. Watch out was a candidate on his own merits. between made a better showing, but as it for the. cutting and. carving. If the have of wora too. A master hand directed lett merits netted, him 81 votes. was, his opponents merely shot his Democrats have sense next week, the the affair throughout. The victory was Orsons But the manner in which Smith and ranks into pieces by these kind of election in November will not be such practically a complete one. But for a Critchlow were defeated was some- tactics. a one sided affair after all. Mormon-Genti- le ft fight in the city and a ft ft The machine awe inspiring. demand from the county precincts on thing ' The machine crowd worked it fine. inciThere were several delegations voted like a lot of men set the west side that Bingham be recog- apart to perform a solemn duty. - The 'They nominated' their men here and dents at the convention.amusing One was. nized, the entire slate would have gone cheery voice of Fred Leonard announc- there, from various sections of the when Chaplain Axton of the regular and through . Hamlin and Brink owe their ing fealty of his district to the lord to so as avoid A. U. S. arose to second house, suspicion. of the Salt ..Perry army, of the master Republican party nominations, not to any efforts of their stentorwith warmthless the his Mcsat of was nominatioh his Heath, smile, by only eclipsed friend, Bishop particular friends, but to circumstances. Lake Had it not been for the fear that the ian tones of Judge Jamison Eyrick, tell- inhisloge and .watched the innocent Rae. He got the laugh all --over the ticket would be top heavy with Mor- ing the convention that his crowd was opposition destroy itself by nominating house. Plenty of delegates remember mons, neither would have landed. Anc doing the bidding of the ruler of their a lot of dead ones, and checked off the the time when the mention of the term In a while a Sutheralthough Hamlin was not on the slate, destinies. Once would cast a solid vote, names on his little ballot to make sure Bishop would have been as a red rag district he will vote with Kearns, for Kearns land - . ; .- - , . . '7 . - y - . ; . . 4 . . - : . ' . . s . - . . 1 . . . . be-seech- ed : . anti-ma- chine |