Show > ALIBERAL POWWOW The Territorial Republican Central Cen-tral Committee Meets AND ENGAGES IN A FAMILY FIGRT Arthur Pratt Who Holds the Proxy of Arthur Ar-thur Brown Is Excluded to Promote Harmony A HERALD reporter presented himself at the headquarter of tho savory Utah commission com-mission to take down the proceedings the Republican Territorial Central committee com-mittee which met yesterday afternoon but he was not admitted The committees evidently desired no report to be given to the public that had not its own partisan coloring Nothing baffled however he waited until adjournment and then waylaid way-laid Colonel Page for an interview But that gentleman didnt know anything for publication i was Mr Dooly who knew It all When tho latter was accosted he referred the reporter back to Page who was said to be grand keeper of all the secrets of the mooting Returning he found the cleric of the Utah commission < 1 uuuveuiuuuy uuaent bull pursuing his quest for information the emissary of THE HERALD discovered I one gentleman who was also reticent but not wholly silent and from him learned that among tho members present were C C Goodwin John Witbeck of Nephi Hector W Haiijht of Farmington J E Dooly of Salt Lake A 13 Emery of Park City and Arthur Pratt who hud the proxy of Arthur Brown Colonel Page representing represent-ing James McGarry of Beaver and several sev-eral other proxies They were called to order at 2 p m The presence of Arthur Pratt however did not seem to be conducive to harmony and when Mr Dooly had rapped for order Mr Pratt was promptly asked by what richt he appeared there thereBy By virtue of Arthur Browns proxy was the reply 1 move we adjourn until 4 oclock said Judge Goodwin The dispersed motion was carried and the committee REASSEMBLED I Promptly at 4 p m the committee reassembled reas-sembled and when Mr Dooly had once more dropped his pocket knife on tho desk and uotcc the absence of neveral members the fun commenced The chairman said that all the proxies presented werein regu lar form This brought Judge Goodwin to his feet and he objected to the recognition of either Arthur Brown or J H McBride That Brown he said had done everything possible pos-sible to disintegrate and disorganize the Liberal part and was even now on his way to Washington to work in tie interests inter-ests of tho Mormon Republicans of the I territory with McBrides proxy as 0 member mem-ber of tho National Republican committee in his pocket As to McBride he had shown a lack of assimilation with tho Liberal Lib-eral party for two years or more and was absent from tho territory Mr Prattthought Goodwin was assuming assum-ing 1 great deal How did ho know that Brown carried McBrides proxy 1 had been intimated in the press that such was the case but this did not prove it Goodwin thought he had good grounds for the statement made Mr Pratt said that i this was a meeting of the Republican committee all right Mr Brown was absent and could not be heard in his own defense but if it was merely a Liberal powwow neither the speaker nor the gentleman whom he represented repre-sented would have anything to do with it I the meeting was a Liberal one be would withdraw with pleasure and ho knew Mr Brown would do the same thing under tho circumstances as he did not care to bell be-ll a with that nrimnizjiMnn Then Witbeck arose He had almost made up his mind that it was time to divi eon e-on party lines and ho knew many Mormons Mor-mons in his own town who were just as staunch Republicans as those before him Ho told these people he said that the territorial ter-ritorial central committee was about to meet and offered to turn over his proxy to any one whom tho Republicans of Kephi might see tit to name in his place but they refused saying they had already recognized the territorial central committee and had no sympathy with this which was nothing more nor less than a Liberal committee for which reason he would vote to expel McBride and Brown Mr Pratt wanted to know whether this was a Republican or a Liberal meeting Mr Goodwin assured the gentleman that i was both Liberal and Republican and when tho editor had thus defined its character char-acter Mr Pratt introduced the following PROTEST The Republican party of Utah having been regularly organized by a territorial convention ended for that purpose nnd said organization being In full working order and this committee 1 aving refused to work with the Republican jarty has no standing in said party and as every Republican owes his first allegiance t the Republican party irrespective of al other parties this committee while posing as Re jubllcan has seen flt to give its tirst allegiance lothe socalled Liberal party of Utah and has worked In its interest to the detriment of tie Republican party therefore as a Republican Republi-can having in view tho best interests or the party I protest against any assumption of au warty on tb2 part of this committee as speaking speak-ing for the Republicans of this territory or any action being taken on its part which would tend to advance the Interests of the Liberal party to the detriment of the regular Republican part of Utah The only duty which this committee con legitimately perform is to adjourn sine die dieMr Mr Pratt said he did not introduce this protest on behalf of Mr Brown but on hs own responsibility The ChairAnything you do is for Brown You expressed him At this announcement Goodwin ruffled his brows Dooly coughed in his sleeve and nnhn > maln I wish you had presented this protest before I sufficiently explains wny we do not care to have Mr Brown or his proxy present If our committee is dead we bhouid be allowed to select the pallbearers pallbear-ers and we should choose those who would at least not be offensive to the corpse I want to say however Mr Pratt I that you have performed your work have introduced your protest in a less offensive of-fensive manner than would have characterized character-ized the man whom you represent I He understood that Brown had McBrido lroxy and while ordinarily he would not believe any statement that Brown might make in this case he did believe him The editor then moved that both Brown ind McBride be expelled from the com uittce Mr Pratt demanded the ayes and nay on the subject and the roll being called abut a-but himself voted in the affirmative and he arose and bade the committee good day 4 jonx WIT ECK was in bed when the reporter called upon him late last night but he was compelled nevertheless to submit to an interview He said I was present at the meeting this afternoon after-noon of the territorial Republican central committee as a delegate from Juab About all that was done was the filling of two vacancies Mr Varian and a Mr Daggett were selected A set of resolutions very strong on the local situation was adopted The sentiment was unanimous in favor of not yet dividing on national party lines There was a great deal connected wit the meeting which it would not be policy for me to express It was a testimonial meetinga regular priesthood meeting in fact and we just whooped it up After the Kickers had been removed or olenced harmony settled upon tho assembly assem-bly and the further proceedings were disturbed dis-turbed no more Democratic Meeting Tho Scandinavian Democratic club will bold a meeting in the Social hall tomorrow evening at S oclock Gustave Kroeger and Peter Johnson will be the speakers Mandolin Man-dolin quartette solos and duetts will be rendered Everybody invited P J NELSON Secretary A Colored Aspirant I is understood that one Ben Nesbitt a colored barber aspires to be the rpresen tativo of the G O P from Utah at tho national na-tional convention and he is now circulating circulat-ing 3 petition among the faithful for in dorsements |