Show UTAH AT CHICAGO Case of the Straight Democracy I flTTHT > NOONDAY CLEAR AS I All Unbroken and Invincible 1nbrolen Record of Regularity j THE TDSCAllORA SIDE SHOWS U1 Etirrlnjr Congressional nnrt Official Bncklnc Powers Tries to Hun UieHciiubllcan Convention Con-vention Tatlocks AilUSfivit The Das Developments at the Scene or Action HEADQUARTERS VICTORIA HOTELCIIICAGO IlL Juno 1SfSpecIal telegram to Tnn HERALD Another uvontyfour hours have passed and tho question as to who has the right to the name of tbo true Democracy Democ-racy of Utah is Btill undecided Contrary to general expectation the national committee com-mittee held no session today for tho rea ton that all the members are not yet here and Brico Gorman and the other giants are too busily engaged in figuring on presidential pres-idential complications to give routine duties du-ties much attention Judging by the cumbers cum-bers oturned away from hotels most centrally cen-trally located there are 10000 more people peo-ple in Chicago tonight than there wero last night and what the rush and riot will amount to when tho hour of noon on Tuesday arrives no one can surmise C S Varian who with his sons left for home last night said the Minneapolis rush was not a circumstance to the crowd in Chicago Mr Varian spent some timo at tho Utah headquarters today and I found him in a very complacent frame of mind I aver the LIBZRAL VICTOR IN MINNEAPOLIS for victorjTbo regarded It He said ho had fought in many political conventions but ever In one where it was such uphill ork as at Minneapolis The national committee was against tho liberals ho said and when through tho persistent work he and his friends did they succeeded in getting hal the ote ho said the effect on their opponents was electrifying I asked him how the LIBERALS CAME TO hELD having Salisbury put on the committee com-mittee and he said ho feared i they had held out McBride might have been retained re-tained Then too Salisbury was free rom objection to many liberal Republicans Varian gave it as bis opinion that straight Democrats hero have much the best fighting chance He thinks thero IS LESS LIABIL1TT of both sides being seated hero than in Minneapolis because there are fewer contests con-tests and the questions stands a much better ahance of being fully looked into Walter Almj J M Ricketts Will Young and Hugh Wallace were among to days callers at headquarters Hem John T Caino arrived this morning and pent most of the day at the Utah rooms Among prominent people who called while ho was present were Congressman John A Fellows Fel-lows Amos Cummings and Judge Tim Campbell Mr Caine Governor West and those gentlemen had an extended conversation conversa-tion ON TUB HOME RUrE BILL which a5 agree will assuredly nasa tho Reuse this session Tho batUo between the straight Democrats Demo-crats and Tuscaroras was principally con lined today to literary passages at arms The Herald this morning bad a column of Powers antiMormon ravings including an extract from a sermon of some person called Bishop Lunt said to have been delivered de-livered in ISbO und setting forth that the Mormous would always be united In politics tics and hold tho balance of power in western states and territories As far as can bo learned up till nightfall an extract from Godevs Ladys Book would have created an equal sensation Tho REMAINDER OF rOWBIls ARTICLE is madejup of claims that tho Democratic party is only organized in tho interests of Mormon priests an argument that is simply sim-ply laughed at in view of the presence hereof here-of Judgo Henderson Governor West P L Williams J L Rawlins and other Gon Wes of reputation and influence Tomorrows Tomor-rows paper will have an endorsement of tho THrn VTAU DEMOCRACY I ever tho Signatures of Senator Faulkner Representative Bynum and Chauncoy Black und Mr Gardner president and iccretary ot the national Democrat soc eties The straight delegation is waiting with curiosity to see in what category of criminals Powers will place these gentlemen gentle-men Every delegate seems to havo one of the pamphlets of the true Democrats Demo-crats and the Tnscaroras as well The regulars are issuing other literature liter-ature and they havo filed witlrtho national II committee pamphlets cndqrscments and affidavits such si In their opinion render there position impregnable 4J DEMOCRACY CASE The printed table of the Straight Democrats Demo-crats is a concise pamphlet of ten pages dated May 20 Ib92 from The Headquart ers of the Territorial Central Committee J of Utah and entitled The Record of the 1 Democratic Party In Utah It starts j i with the appointment of the central committee com-mittee at the convention in Ogden May 5 j I Ths K gives the minutes of theieoting ap pOlnt1 Merfitt and Norrel chairman and sPcretar1 rnunntes of the meetings of July 2 Septembers lSS when it was reo bOlved to call n convention to nominate a I delegate to Cong ss the next meeting of J JiinoSO J > 92 xvhofca Williams and Rawllns were chosen to fill the vacancy j ocul w tine waiy 4 Bend J I f d ii I Sheets and the death of G W Zane and where tho resolution was adopted 14 to 5 that tho Peoples party bal g dissolved all of Its members who desired to join be welcomed Into the Democratic party 4 also the other regular meetings of the committee down to the meeting in Ogden May 1 1892 showing I the clear unbroken line of its genealogy and its undoubted authority to call tho convention which nominated Henderson and Caine for Chicago I Tho pamphlet also contains a calm and dispassionate view of the claims of the I regular Democrats as opposed to those of tbo Tuscaroras cites tho bolt of the five I members from tho meeting where division vas recognized and their spurious organization zation of the committee of ten on April 2 152 Refers to tho number of newspapers news-papers In Utah published in tho interests 3f the regular organization and states that their opponents havo no organ whatever what-ever except the Liberal Republican sheet I gives the various platforms of the straight party and cites the vote of August Au-gust 1821 when the total vote polled was I 7l00 of which tho Democracy had 14167 liberals 7404 and Republicans 0039 Concluding Con-cluding the pamphlet asiis Can the National Democratic convention conven-tion hesitate to admit Messrs Henderson and Caino to seats in that convention on conventon the representations of tho only Democratic party in Utah Appended to the pamphlet is l the following follow-ing statement bearing the signatures given below MCMOKIAXi OF THE OFFICERS To the Democratic National Convention I The undersigned Charles C Richards and Elias A Smith chairman and secretary respectively of the Democratic central committee com-mittee of the territory of Utah and John T Caino and Henry P Henderson the delegates elected to the national convention ofthe Democratic party to be held at Chicago Chi-cago on June n 1S92 to represent the Democratic party of Utah territory respectfully re-spectfully show That the said Charles C Richards is the chairman and Elias A Smith is the secretary secre-tary of the territorial central committee of the Democratic party of Utah territory and that the said John T Caino and Henry P Herittorson have been duly elected by a convention regularly called to represent the Democratic party of Utah territory in the National Democratic convention to beheld be-held at Chicago Juno 21 Ib9 and that that they have forwarded a ouplicato copy of their credentials as such to the secretary of the national committee and that they now have in their possession a duplicate copy thereof to be presented to the said convention conven-tion and that they are the duly accredited and only delegates from the territory of Utah to said convention that for a particular partic-ular statement of tho proceedings of there the-re ularl1 constituted authorities of the Democratic party in calling said convention conven-tion and electing said delegates wo refer you to the printed statement herewith duly attested by the chairman and secretary secre-tary of the territorial committee which statement is true and correct That one William M Ferry was at the last national convention of the Democratic party elected a member of your committee to represent the territory of Utah thereon that bince said convention and during the last two years the said Ferry has left and abandoned the Democratic party in the territory of Utah ana is now acting in open opposition thereto and with what is known as the Liberal party that the said William M Ferry refuses to recognize the said John T Caine and I P Henderson as tho duly accredited representatives of the territory of Utah to tbo said convention to be held at Chicago but falsely and wrong fully pretends that they are not entitled to seats in saidconvention and on the contrary con-trary asserts that O W Powers and F J Kiesel are entitled to such seats as the representatives of the Democratic Demo-cratic party of Utah territory that tho said Wm M Ferry pretending to act as u member of the Democratic national na-tional committee has pretended to recognize recog-nize the said Liberal party and its representatives repre-sentatives as tho duly accredited representatives represen-tatives of tho Democratic party and that he openly avows his intention of delivering tickets which may be assigned to Utah territory and its duly accredited is representatives represen-tatives in said convention by the national committee and which may come to his I bands to the said O W Powers and F J Kiesel and to the representatives of tho said Liberal party and to deprive tho undersigned un-dersigned of the same Wo therefore hereby protest against the delivery to the said William M Ferry of any tickets of admission belonging to the I representatives of the Democratic party from Utah territory and we also protest against his being recognized upon said committee I com-mittee as the representative of the Democracy Democ-racy of Utah territory and in so doing we i hereby affirm that the organization of the Democratic party in Utah of which I Charles C Richards is tho chairman and Elias A Smith is secretary and John T Caine and Henry P Henderson are tho representatives to the Chicago convention are tho duly organized acd constituted Democracy of Utah territory and we hereby offer to mako good these averments by proof before jour committee We further to represent your committee that the Democratic society of Utah has been regularly and duly organized and that upon the organization thereof tho president presi-dent and secretary of the National association associa-tion of Democratic societies were present and organized the same and that the same Is organized as auxiliary to and recognizing recogniz-ing tho organization of the Democratic party as hereinbefore stated and that a great number of the county and precinct societies havo been formed throughout tho territory under the auspices of the said territorial society SALT LAKE CITY Juno 3 1S2 CUAELES C KiciiAitns ELIAS A SITU JOHN T CAINE HENRY P HENDEHSOK STRONG CONFIRMATION Accompanying the above is tho following straightfromtheshoulder endorsement Tne undersigned repectfuliy represent that they together in 1891 visited the territory terri-tory of Utah in the Interest of tho Democratic Demo-cratic party that the object of our visit was to examine political conditions and to organize the Democratic society of Utah that while we were in the said territory meetings were held at Logan Ogden Salt LaKe and Provo and each of said meetings was addressed by some one of our members that at Salt Lake City at a general convention held for that purpose tbo Democratic Society of Utah was formed that Henry P Henderson was elected president and A T Schroeder was elected secretary that said society was formed as auxiliary to the regular Democratic organization in the territory ter-ritory of which Saml A Merritt was chairman from the central committee and A G Korrell was secretary that from our observations in said territory we havo no hesitation whatever il declaring it to bo our belief and understanding that the regular reg-ular Democratic organization of the territory terri-tory is tho one of which Saml Merritt was formerly chairman and A G Norrell secretary but vho have been since succeeded suc-ceeded respectively by Charles C Richards as chairman Bud ElMs A Stuith ns secretary taryTho Tho party or faction calling themselves I I Democrats in the territory Utah who are opposed to this regular organization I are members of what in Utah is called the I Liberal party and their claim is that there should be no Democratic party in Utah They base their claim upon tha idea that the Mormon people have no right to be with the Democrats or Republicans Alter the Mormon church bud yielded polygamy and disbanded their church party and signified n willingness to join one or tho other of the national parties it became a question as to whether the national parties should not become reorganized and readjusted re-adjusted to meet this new condition the territorial central committee composed wholly of leading and influential Gentiles called a meeting to consider that question and by a vote of U to 5 they determined upon readjusting s convention = 23 called for the purpose of electing a new committee Wo have no hesitancy in say ing that in our judgment this was proper and right and we believe that the leading and influential Gentiles of tho territory have joined In this movement for party division VVa found the people In Utah as ready as anxious and as willing to receive Democratic Demo-cratic doctrine as any where else in tbo country and we believe that to deny the regular organization of the Democratic party admission to the Chicago convention would simply be turning the territory over to the Republican party and would insure it a Republican state when it shall be admitted ad-mitted We therefore most earnestly join in the annexed statement and protest Signed CIIACNCEY F BLACK LAWRENCE GARDNER CIA J FAULKNER W D BTAUM Tho following also forms a part of the documentary tesnimony COItCORANS OATH TERRITOT oF UTAH l I COUNTY OF SALT LAKE f j S8 I Phil Corcoran being first duly sworn upon oath say I am the person referred to in tho hereunto attached newspaper clipping clip-ping that I was a regularly elected and accepted ac-cepted member of the Democratic convention conven-tion that on Saturday May 21 1892 elected O W Powers and Fred J Kiesel as delegates dele-gates to the Democratic national conveh tirn to be held in Chicago that the annexed an-nexed newspaper account of a part of the transactions of said convention is a correct statement of the facts with this explanation explana-tion That tho committee on resolutions of which Mr Riles was chairman reported adversely on said resolutions which report re-port was accepted by tho convention PHIL CORCORAN Subscribed in my presence und sworn to before mo this U3d day of May A D 1S92 JOHN B TJMMONY Notary Public The annexed clipping referred to is a newspaper extract containing the resolutions resolu-tions Introduced in the Liberal Democratic convention by Phil Corcoran und unanimously unani-mously squelched by tho committee of which Ogden Riles Powers partner was chairman Tho resolutions as all Utah readers know afrm alliance to the Liberal party in local affairs but contain the proviso pro-viso that for the office of delegate to Congress Con-gress that being a national officewo pledge ourselves to vote only for a Democrat a proviso altogether too inflammatory and revolutionary in character for a Democratic convention for an instant to tolerate WHERE WEBB THEY FROM I At the same time was submitted a very significant affidavit sworn to by W W Woodring of Mount Pleasant Utab who says that both he ant Mr Abner Crane registrar of Sanpete county carefully examined ex-amined the list of registered voters of that county for the past two years and that they failed to find any of the names of the duly accredited representatives from Sanpeto county to the Liberal Tuscarora Democratic convention conven-tion on said lists The names are J I Denny J H Hammond T McCullogb and Louis Bamberger Furthermore officials say that after the most diligent Inquiry among tho 1200 voters of said county he can not find that said duly accredited representatives rep-resentatives were ever hoard of in the county Then comes the following breezy bit of private historv signed by the gentleman varlouscognomensfromIowa a lock To Whom It May Concern This is to certify that the undersigned was a delegate from Salt Lake City Utah territoy to tho Liberal Republican Tusca rora convention held at Salt Lake City on the ISth day of May 1892 and was at the some time a member of the Territorial Liberal Republican convention That tho said convention was called for 12 noon on the said date that after the convention had been called to order and the temporary chairman and temporary secretary bad been selected and some preliminary pre-liminary business done a recess was taken that tho delegates from the respective counties might consult together nnd organize organ-ize that the delegates from Salt Lake county were requested to meet in the dressing room at the rear of the stage of the theatre building in which the convention conven-tion was held that while said delegates wero on their way to the room designated for the purpose of such consultation and organization and while the undersigned was on his way to the same room he came In contact with Hon O W Powers C B I Gienn and some others of the so called Tuscarora Democrats who wero going in tho direction of the room designated I for the Salt Lake Democrats to meet in That either the said Powers or Glenn said in the presence and hearing of the other to the undersigned substantially this to suppose we are entitled to be present with tho Salt Lake delegates at this consultation Whereupon Where-upon tho speaker was informed by the undersigned that they wore entitled to be present if they were delegates to the Convention con-vention otherwise they were not and would not be admitted The undersigned reported to the delegates or some of them when assembled in the room for consultation consulta-tion that these men wero proposing to meet with the delegates in consultation and steps wore at once taken to prevent the said parties from entering tho room or taking part in tho deliberations of the said delegates Dated at Salt Lake City Utah May ° 6 1S9J E W TATLOCK MORE AFFIDAVITS QThe affidavits of Colonel SA Merritt and Judge A G Norrell chairman and secretary of the original territorial central committee elected by the convention of May 2 IbSS givo the retort courteous i not the Ho direct to Mr C W Hall This gentleman has an affidavit in the Hall carora pamphlet stating that he was temporary tem-porary secretary of the convention and that the central committee then appointed was chosen for the term of four years Colonel Merritt and JUdge Norrell positively posi-tively swear that no term was mentioned they further swear that the pamphlet entitled en-titled The Record of the Democratic Party in Utah is a fair true and correct statement and Judge Norrells affidavit recites the particulars of the meeting of the committee called by the chairman and secretary June 20 lfll when the motion was presented favoring party division when Mr Ferry was present and when the motion being regularly carried by a vote of 1 to 5 only 19 members of the cominilee being present Ferry and four others of Iho committee who had voted with him left the committee room and tendered ten-dered their resignations and refused to further fur-ther act with the committee Colonel Merritts humorous but forcible argument is that it really makes no difference dif-ference whether the committee was appointed ap-pointed for four years or not it could not be superior to the party that created It and to say that the committee had no power to meet before four years from its appointment appoint-ment was to say that it could have been tied up for forty yeai s or 400 yearn In addition to these papers wero submitted sub-mitted a copy of Tun HERALD of May 9 ISJl containing Willllam A Ferrys letter wherein he stated that when the Peoples party dissolved it would be time enough for the Liberal party to do the same thing the report of the majority of the Committee Commit-tee on Territories on the home rule bill a certified copy of Judge Zanes decision of Monday last sweeping the earth from under tho Tuscaroras certain editorials from tho organ of the Tuscaroras denounp ing the Democratic party as a dangerous party and lastly but not leastly the Tribunes Tri-bunes report of Colonel Ferrys speech In the Tuscarora convention wherein ho ro proclaimed himself a Liberal said there should be no Democratic party in Utah and in the name of the national committee after the manner of the tailors of Tooley street recognized O W Powers and F J Kiesel as the only representatives of the true Democracy THE TDSCAllORA CASE The Tusarora pamphlet is a book of twsntythrco closely printed pJges en 1 titled The Facts in the Utah Case I Is issued by Powers and Kiesel delegates and Tarpey and Cohen alternates It starts out with the Ogden convention of May 5 lSSS es the other pamphlet does but states that the central committee there appointed of which Mefritt and Norreil wee chairman and secretary was named for four years I carefully omits to mention men-tion the fact that tha five members who made up the new committee of ten walked out of the meeting of June 201S91 tendering tender-ing their resignations because they were downed by a vote of 14 to Son the question of party division but denounces the regular regu-lar committee for filling up the vacancies occasioned by the desertion The pamphlet gives a stenographers report of the meeting of April 2 1892 when the five bolters through Powers and other holders of proxies attempted to obtain recognition in the committee meeting meet-ing but wero incontinently bounced by Colonel Merritt then details how the five bouncees repaired to Judge Powers office of-fice and made up a new committee of ten why not twenty not a hint throw out All of which is told with as much calmness and assurance as if the bolters had been following the usual precedents and the regular order of succession At a rough estimate the book contains one thousand mentions of the word Mormon two hundred and fifty hands of the church one hundred and twentyfive priestly controls ono hundred usurpers fifty I born in a night and twentyfive forsooth The whole thing i as i it had been made up of a recipe on the housewife plan Take one thousand back numbers of the Salt Lake Tribune the farther back the better carefully cut out all the editorials now expunge the very frequent denunciations of the Democratic party the residue cut up in bits of uniform uni-form length and paste hit or miss style on the blank pages of your pamphlet add thereto the decision of Chief Justice Lochrie and the result will bo a very well boiled down statement of the claims of the Tuscarora contestants Lochrios decision takes just five and onefourth of the twentythree pages of the pamphlet in view of the decision of Chief Justice Zane completely knockiig this decision into smithereens it is difficult to see what the Tuscaroras expect to do with the large number of books they have already distributed prhaps they propose to call them in and insert an errata slip on thefiy leaf asking the public to kindly note that pages 1 to 1 inclusive should have been omitted The whole pamphlet concludes with the following declaration which I think will bo equally hilarious to Liberals Republicans and straightout Democrats In round numbers there are 10000 Gentile voters in the territory today who stand united upon all local concerns A conservative estimate of the Democrats supporting the regular organization Tua carora is as follows Sal Lake county uu hUUu 3101 Balance territory I uu 1617 Total uuh Uh Ail Among these men are the largest taxpayers tax-payers of the territory Appended are the signatures of the Utah Democratic Territorial Committee Messrs Baskin Hal Fisher Glenn Moran Mosby Webber Web-ber Ferry McLaughlin Carnahan Whalen Currier Devote Mount Krig baum Tone Wall Fiber and Williams The Tuscaroras are today limning all their bets to t HALF RECOGNITION They SPO the tremendous rush and poll mel of conflict among giants and hope that as at Minneapolis the party will say admit ad-mit go home settle yourlocal difficulties not tailing timoto look deeply into the merits of the struggle This is all they I hope for Regulars see the danger oj this and are landing all their endeavors to prevent a1 repetition ot the Republican blunder at I Minneapolis and nearly every national i committeeman in Chicago has been seen I and not ono baa yet said anything but that I Henderson and Caine have the ONLT TITLE TO RECOGNITION The Tuscaroras all agree that they have but the shadow of a claim and if only the national committee > subcommittee or committee on credentials will take time to look into the merits of the case nothing can save the cigarsign Indians from being routed horsefoot and dragoon Powers Tarpey Ferry and Cohen had a brief conference with Brice today On emerging their faces did not look exactly beatific and Cohen aid the case would come up in subcommittee subcom-mittee Opinions seem to differ Secretary Secre-tary Seerln told the Utah people that WHERE THERE WAS A CONTEST neither delegation was enrolled until after the matter bad been investigated by the committee on credentials William C Whitney secretary of the navy under Cleveland arid a central figure at Clove lands headquarters told me during a personal per-sonal interview today that it was probable neither one or the other of tho Utah delegations dele-gations would be put down on tho preliminary prelim-inary roll The one that was entered would take the seats until the committee on credentials had disposed of tho question ton A VARIETY OF VIEWS thus seems to prevail and readers of THE HERALD must take their choice at least for this writing So it is probable that tickets will be distributed to both contestants Should this not be the case and any attempt at-tempt be made to have Mr Ferry receive nil the tickets for distribution there will ben be-n vigorous protest and the TIGHT MAT BH ANTICIPATED in the National committee on this issue when if allowed the regulars will attempt to show that Ferry is a renegade from the nary and not only should matter and tickets bo taken from his hands but his seat in tho committee denied him Ferry Is working hard among his brother committeemen in the interest tho Tusca roras His sole ally so far is said to be Mr Tarpey of California brother of the Tarpeys of Utah Today the ICSGABORAs WENT OUT ON PARADE and attracted I great deal of attention Besides tho band who unfortunately have learned no new tunes for tho occasion there were but twentyfive men In line always headed of course by Powers A fantastically dressed negro and Indian brave carried the Tuscarora banner Qua Wood invaded tho Victoria hotel and with colors flying formed a circle and gave the usual yells then marched out again There The-re ular Democrats received them gpod naturedly but HASTENED TO UNDECEIVE THRONGS of astonished guests who supposed that they were part of the regular delegation I Henderson White Caine King Williams and Rawlins merely smiled Powers circus cir-cus display and while he paraded with his braves went on showing the various delegations dele-gations the true status of Utah affairs They are fully content to have the Tusca roras dispose of their time in that way Several members of tho Michigan delegation delega-tion were here at tho Utah headquarters when the Tu earora event took place One member said dryly that it was needless to look further into the case POWERS Borisn PRANKS told him oil be wantedto know of the character of tho Tuscarora crowd Another An-other said he had supposed Chicago was too near Michigan for Powers to show himself so openly and still another remarked re-marked that he bad taken the precaution precauton to don an Indian disguise bofore coming Ono doea not need to remain a life time in the Michigan delegation to discover thai his native heath will be about the last place where Powers will seek for aid or comfort The Utah and Idaho delegation will delegaton wi arrive ar-rive in the morning Judge Smith and bride arrived tonight the meeting today and that the converse idn of the president and Depew related almost solely to the manaeement of the campaign A gentleman on intimate terms with Denow said tonight it was absurd that Depow would sacrifice his business inter eats for a federal office no matter how high might be II I |