| Show FALSE RETURNS GIVE PRO SWEEPING VOTE Figures Juggled by Someone to Show Salt Lake County U nani mo t W JAMES SAYS ELDREDGE HAS CORRECTED ERROR ELDREDGE HOWEVER ASSERTS THAT HE DID NOT MAKE AN ERROR Open Ollen charges harges that figures were at the Republican state convention oi on Thursday were made malIc yesterday by if ir in insurgent leades It was pointed out tha Salt Lake county had bad I t votes and that it of this number Senator Reed Smoot am and Congressman C Joseph Howell each Belt rr rc r 13 while C e E B Loose of Provo Prove rt n r the entire according to th official figures John James secretary secreta of the conven conen convention tion proved that there was something back of the charges of irregularities wh who n u uhe nhe nhe he admitted last night that an error had been discovered in the time figures 1 In by bJ Joe Eldredge chairman of the Salt Lake delegation Mr Ir Eldredge he said had been told of the time error and had ro err cor it Secretary James declared that thaI the mistake did not In any way wa aff aU I Ithe t the results as shown upon the official record up to the time Mr Ir Eldredge Eldr dge was allowed to make his alteration Mr Ir James however insisted that Sf Si Sn n ator Smoot had hAil received 13 of the th total of 13 votes and that National Loose had laid received the time entire 13 Th Tb secretary after considerable feni r g stated that Mr Ir s count about 10 D or 3 votes more mon titan than the time t tai of I 1 allotted to Salt Lake county but buthe he Ime declared that he h was not in a po potion poj potion tion to explain just Juat how Mr Ir had Imail made his correction claiming th f v the tIme records of the time convention were lock 1 up somewhere som Declare Count Was False Leaders of the insurgents say that the th count of or the votes at the convention v w as a absolutely false fa I I and proves prove that the th mm m rhine chine against which they the have been hecim fig figl n ning i ing has stooped stoop to trickery to defeat th movement for independence in hm the time lican liean party If Mr e was allowed to make a correction it was waR said Mid it w I a not nol until after art r the Salt Lake delegation had dispersed and was in the nf f fa a H secret proceeding prO which should not ha been allowed Among the time Salt Suit Lake Jake J ke delegates were fifteen or twenty men who as el not to vote for Senator Smoot il ilan an insurgent leader yesterday Tin Thur r rno no doubt that there were many more mor wll i h did not vote ote for tor the head bend of or the time mai machi How then could Smoot have nl i i of or the time votes How liow did Loo e get et time the entire l J yI v f OJ when Just before the convention It v agreed among the Salt Lake dole a i that the vote ote of or this county count should to Weber county count as it was not proper to send two Provo Pro mn men to t F national Republican convention Sni r rand and Loose and leave Ogden rr r More than fifty of the th Sif S SLake Lake delegates who favored d the of oC Senator Smoot as one of the th dElet t desired to see Cee A R Heywood in mn the T I rt t delegation instead of Loot Loose What became of these votes If Jr M MEldredge MEldredge I Eldredge made an error it was w a ui in c extraordinary thins thing Delegates who h hben hr p been ben robbed of their votes would call can strange figuring bv by another name Honest Treatment Impossible The convention proved one ont thing In 11 Independent I dependent Republicans cannot hope f tr fairness or honest treatment in the time pr prent s sent ent party organization in Utah If It it Is Isa 1 isa 1 a fair tight fight a party part worker is willing to tobe tl tobe be beaten in convention and then work for forthe forthe or orthe the part s candidates at the polls but no 1111 noman noman man with a spark of independence In lis hs l makeup could endure to be tramped upon in the manner adopted by b the party ma machine machine machine chine In this style st le Thursdays convention has ha enlightened Republicans all over the t It lw hm h shown them that Senator Smoot and tr to federal officeholders control the party organization with a machine whose exit t tene once ence is dangerous The men who control this Oils machine are unscrupulous and jud juda judlin lug ing in by the light shed upon their met meth otis at the convention they timey will stop at nothing i The future for or the Republican part pat partin patI I in is very lr dark There will be many more desertions next fall fail There Ther are many men who attended the recent reent state convention who have announced that they will never again take part to tn n the party deliberation as there Is no hope for those tho e who wish to act independent Iv lv of the machine it was said that on Thursday morning mornin I about 9 about twenty of the Salt Lake delegation met and cho eho chose Joe Eldredge as chairman of the dele l I tion lion Later when the other delegates gathered at the time Salt Lake theatre artl arI learned that Mr Ir Eldredge had not only onh been made chairman but that It had been I agreed that the Salt Lake votes should be cast for tor Smoot and Loose both f cf f r Provo there was great reat dissatisfaction aM anI aMa anIa a new nw understanding was reached b h by which the time Salt Lake county votes otes were t tKO to KO go o to only one of the time Provo men Senator Smoot Phalanx of Postmasters When ln Eldredge announced the v vite te there was surprise and among amon those who had not been present at the delegation dele tion caucus but indignation did not swell to the time bursting point until the time delegates met tact and compared notes af after after after ter the convention As that the federal officeholders had resorted to machine politics to cor or the Republican party organization It Continued on Page 2 FALS RETURNS GIVE SWEEPING VOTE Continued From Page 1 was wag pointed out that postmasters from all allover allover over oel the state were among the th delegates some of them being chairmen of dele delegations delegations Arthur L Thomas postmaster of Salt Lake was chief mover in the early caucus of ot the Salt Lake delegation at which the election Of both Smoot and Loose was decided upon It Is said that while Mr Thomas was actually the dom dominant domInant dominant figure at the caucus he for some reason had Mr Eldredge made chairman Postmaster Jim Clove of or Provo Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master Ross of Lehi Lehl Postmaster James JamesD D Thorne of Pleasant Grove Postmaster Bill Glasmann of Ogden J J Greenewald collector of the port at Salt Lake United States Marshal Spry and other federal officeholders were active figures at the convention and their presence there be betrayed betrayed betrayed the workings of or the machine It Itis ItIs ItIs is said that the federal officeholders would have sent their henchmen to the conven convention convention convention tion had it not been for tor their anxiety concerning the strength of the independent Independent Independent dent movement and their fear of trusting others upon sue suc ha ticklish occasion The postmasters and other othet job holders were not alone It is said in this display of perturbation Bishops at the Bridge In many man of tIle the delegations there were the dignified figures of bishops of the Mormon church They were there it was said to tu beat down all opposition to Sen Smoot In the Salt Lake delegation were Bishop Hunter of the Eighth ward Bishop Iverson Ierson of the Sec See Second Second ond ward Bishop Christensen of the Tenth ward Bishop McMillan and President President President dent Nephi L Morris of the Salt Lake stake These churchmen were at the conven convention convention tion to fight said an insurgent work worker er They thought the task before them too to trust to other hands Another matter that was made clear at atthe atthe I the convention It is anid id was the de determination determination determination termination of Senator Smoot to use his i machine in making C E Loose governor i of Utah The senator It is said has I little use for Governor John C Cutler 1 and has slated him for a long period of profound retirement That Senator Smoot has chosen a Provo man for governor it Is said is shown In his having the ma machine machine machine chine make Dan D Houtz chairman of the convention Senator Smoot has no Intention of retiring from politics said the Insurgent insurgent gent Jent worker He Is rolling roiling up his sleeves for more work wo k He Is and In Intends Intends intends tends to remain dictator of the Republican Republican lican bean party in this state He Be has placed Provo men to whose devotion he can trust Into positions of power The mean meaning meanIng meaning ing is clearly clearl that Independent men In Inthe Inthe inthe the party part must stand aside It shows what a formidable power the machine has acquired and what we have to fight fights against As s proof that the count of the vote of the Salt Lake delegation at the convention was Juggled it Is claimed that many of the delegates were pledged for Thomas Sevy Sew Yet Sevey did not get Jet one vote froth from the Salt Lake delegates according to the official figures That count was an outrage upon the delegates and upon the Republican vot voters voters ers era who sent them to the convention said the Insurgent leader Mr Mistake John James Jamel the secretary of the con convention convention when questioned last night did not see anything to arouse amuse comment In Inthe Inthe inthe the scrambled figures offered by b the clerks of the convention Mr Ir Eldredge made a mistake and was allowed to correct It he said His at attention attention attention was called to the mistake he went of the away awa and apparently saw some Salt Lake delegates Then he returned I and made the correction The figures h he furnished are upon the record I II I have in my possession I do not know what has become of ot the ballots of the I I Salt Lake delegation They are probably in the possession of Mr Ir Eldredge or those who had charge chare of the counting of the votes of the Salt Lake delegation My ly I figures are those reported by b Mr Ir El Eldredge ElI I dredge as chairman of the delegation i ido II do 10 o not know whether the votes otes were re recounted recounted recounted I counted before Mr 11 Eldredge made his cor correction correction correction in the erroneous figures He lIe went away awa and came back What he did while he was away I do not know It Is said that Mr 11 Eldredge made his correction without recounting the votes It IE II asserted that he merely mere straightened 1 out the figures so that they would look smooth upon the record Mr Eldredge however asserts that he did not make an error Hard Face Bv Ih some extraordinary coincidence he declares that every ever Salt Lake newspaper made the same mistake yesterday morn morning mornIng morning ing in giving C E Loose 13 votes of the Salt Lake delegation although he had re received received received only 1 Each newspaper took the I vote as It was called out by bv the county chairman and then verified the figures by comparing them with the table of the clerk of the convention Yet et Mr lr Eldredge asserted most positively that everybody had made a mistake but himself As to Senator Smoots 13 votes Mr Eldredge absolutely correct says sa s the figures are Mr ir Smoot received all but one of the votes of the Salt Lake delegation he her said Mr lr r Eldredge remembered that there had been a mistake in the counting of the votes for alternates which he ha cor car carI corrected I The dissimilarity in the recollections of ofIr I Mr Ir James and MY Mr Eldredge it is under understood understood stood will require some further explanations explanation explanations I |
