Show makeTHBAITEE THE AFTER CLAP The Liberals More Dissatisfied Than Ever Many Members of tho Committee Threaten to Refute to Jiecocnlzo the Action of the map Conference The snap conference did not quiet the spirit of dissension in the Liberal ranks but rather augmented it A member of the Tuscarora society was heard to eay that ho would no longer be used to perpetuate oneman power in Utah Tho performance to his thinking too much resembled tho old tabernacle conventions when as he said all hands went up on the same Bide of every ques question The boast that every proposition carried without a dissenting vote when it is known that the Liberal party is torn in two looks too much like a prearranged result Men with any self rcspect and independence indepen-dence left the convention for good the first day of the meeting They were disgusted with the way that Powers stuffed the correspondence and followed this up by recognizing only the men who would speak to his aide of the question Tom Reeds tactics were honest and fair beside them A few men that were so big and strong that Powers las afraid to refuse them a hearing got a hearing but tho men from the outside counties were never fortunate enough to catch tho speakers eye The gag rule was never more successfully suc-cessfully put in forco than by Powers scheme of recognizing the next speaker before tho present one was through aud frequently he had two or throe speakers chosen ahead successfully shut out those seeking recognition whose views he was not sure of In this way ho ruled motioas to adjourn out of order until he was forced to relent More outrageous still was to keep a man on the stage to put motions for the speaker Objectionable as these features were the chief outrage and the one which a free people will not submit to was the scheme of holding a mass convention in Salt Luke What chance did Utah and Weber counties coun-ties have If they had sent 500 representatives representa-tives Powers could have caned outGOQ Tus caroras to vote them down by crooking his little finger The outsido counties cannot expect a hearing in any mass convention inn in-n city of 50000 people An illustration of this Fred Schulze tho janitor of the Progress building outvoted out-voted Utah county Schulze is a Tuscarora and got his orders from Powers He stood on Main street and when ho saw a Tuscarora he said Come on boys they aro going to take the vote tonight In this way he took more men to the convention than Utah county had in attendance The janitor of the Progress Pro-gress building in thirty minutes could have outvoted Summit Weber and Utah counties coun-ties This was the farce that was called by Powers to give binding instructions to the Liberals of Utah territory 1 Dr Iliff who took the pains to write his ballot protesting against putting up a delegate dele-gate for Congress did not have it counted at all The doctor ha i the good sense to absent himself from tho convention bat he should have also had the better settee to have remained silent like hundreds of other Liberals did The reputed conference was a mob When Van HorDe attempted to speak he was jeered and louted until all tho more timid illssentors were bullied into keeping quiet It is those features of the snap 1 conference con-ference and the attempt to override tho powers of the territorial committee that makes the members feel ugly and a number num-ber of them threaten to pay no attention to the farce but to govern their action independently in-dependently of it At least they will insist that they will not be bound until a regularly regu-larly constituted convention with properly elected delegates shall be bold The conference con-ference when called was to advise with the committee 1 but before it was half over Powers construed that it was to direct the committee But several members ot the committee will refuse to be bound by a convention packed by tho Tuscarora society |