Show A FORLORN HOPE Payson Liberals Nominate Men to be Slaughtered It is Done Merely to Test the Strength of the Party in that Flourishing Burg The Liberal party in Payson although in a hopeless minority have met and nominated nomi-nated for city officers the following ticket For MayorEdward Simons For Council W H Fairbanks A J Shores M E Judson Lester Taylor J M Boyle A Hancock i For Justices of the PeaceR T Smith Grant Simons For Treasurer George W Williams For Assessor and CollectorBeverly Harper For RecorderEli Good For Marshal DE Sargent The object of placing this ticket before the people is to measure the strength of the party and as some young men will be entrapped en-trapped to vote it by the persuasions of their compadions the party hopes to gain a few votes that can be again utilized in the future under the Liberal lash The Leader the Liberal weekly paper of Payson has not contained many abusive articles against the Mormons of late in fact the editor E R Powell a Kansas man is peaceably inclined and cant get the spirit of the Liberal party Owing to this st the stockholders of the paper recently met and removed Mr Powell from his position Finding that many advertisements adver-tisements were withdrawn owing to this action the stockholders again met last evening in the Wightman I hotel They had a stormy time conspicuous conspicu-ous in which was a wordy quarrel between the president of the body that owns the paper Rev R T Smith of the Ilift academy and Rev W A Hough the Presbyterian Pres-byterian pastor It seems that Mr Smith wishes to be editor What the quarrel will produce in policy the following numbers of the paper will show in the spirit of the editorials edi-torials Tha invitations are out for a grand suf fratro ball at the Payson opera house on February 10 with music by Brimhalls orchestra Payson can boast of skillful dancers and most excellent music and this party brings prominently before the people the fact that we have such an organization as a Womans Suffrage association T PAISOX Feb 7 |