Show REPUBLICANS NAME NABEE WEAK TICKET Ephraim Oct OcL 20 The Republicans of this city held their thell city convention here her last night and placed their candidates in nomination for city offices Thee The ballot box stuffing which characterized c Z their rsc ff I convention V I two years rs ago was evidently id still fresh in their minds for or immedi immediately Immediately after the organization of or the con convention City Justice ChrIstensen Christenson secured the floor and read that portion of ot the statutes which provides a penalty for illegal me 1 voting at primaries There were half halt a dozen candidates for mayor but Adolph dolph W V T Jensen present county clerk Was vas easily the choice of o tho the convention and he was elected on or the second ballot For I or councilman n Alfred Dahl Dall Joseph E Anderson J P Christensen Andrew Thompson jr and Andrew were chosen Louis Peterson for recorder and Henry Thompson T s for treasurer were anno nominated by acclamation It took but one ballot to nominate A 4 C Boson Bosen for justice of the peace Then came the fight of or tho evening for tho nomination for marshal There Thero were six candidates for this place and all of oC them were present with their friends Two ballots were taken without result and then the convention began to drop off olf tho the low man each time until the tho race narrowed down to Parley Hanson and Peter tho the former winning by a narrow margin Taken as a whole the tho ticket Is de weak Some of the candidates are strong men but their strength Is not sufficient to offset tho the general weakness of oC the ticket The farming element elem nt which Is greatly in the majority In this city is not represented represented seated on the council ticket at all and this fact will cause caul e serious trouble on onel election el day Already Alread the mutterings of discontent are heard about this feature of the ticket C W lV Peterson took a force of or men over to Juab to open up his recently i found marblo quarry this week I |