| Show RITCHIE IS NOMINATED I I Republicans Select Him as Judicial Judic-ial Candidate T D LEWIS WAS ROT IN IT I I RITCHIE HAD TIlE SUPPORT OF I THE LADY DELEGATES I I I Lewb Youth Was t Fncior iu the Selection Strpcf Nomination l y 1I 1 I a 1rfVioun Contention Continued I Jake GreeriTvaM Wan in Ideare nUll Paid His Respects to Mo > er I The Old Committee Selected Proceeding Pro-ceeding of a Very Tame Convention j I C Conven-tion Morris L Ritchie was nominated by I the Republican judicial convention I yesterday morning on the first ballot defeating T D Lewis for the same I place by a vote of nearly two to one i I I I wasnt a very enthusiastic gather j I ing although there was an attempt i at marshaling all of the old hosts Fred Leonard was there and Jake i i Grtenwald also Moyer Glen Millers i < piping voice was heard 1 through the din and the accents of Judge Bowdle smote the airat times Big George Olsen was on hand and so was Lou Johnson The latter was loaded with a set of resolutions which he wanted to get before the convention but the i i members sat on him and Lou retired home to cogi to his ouiet and happy tate whether he would vote for Me Kinley or not j George W Moyer called the convention conven-tion to order This is an exoflico p 1 rosative which George has on account jot j-ot his having been chosen chairman of the committee many moons ago i when the G O P did not realize what it was doing It was 1030 when the gavel of the I I chairman f 11 I fell two or three I times ere any one paid any attention tmes would have been falling a this i writing had not the chairman of the committee raised his voice in saying Gentlemen will please be in order whereat the two lady delegates who were in order congratulated themselves themsel-ves on being members of the fair sex The chairman made a sort of Tom Reed f of himself and counted a quorum after which he announced that the several members of the delegations would as asemble in the enclosure which divides litigants and attorneys judge and jury from the common herd The showing not being alarmingly larsrc George displayed a degree of solicitude about the welfare of those i l elected to make a selection which was pathetic to listen to Are we all here i Will some one please cJose the door This was probably a measure designed to keep any one from escap ins inbAre there any delegates in the hall The last question being addressed to a deputy sheriff who had come Into court to make 2 return on a paper reurn he did not catch on for a moment and j when the Interrogation was refired I at him he looked blank for a moment and said something which sounded like damfino and went away I guess there are none murmured gess the chair sotto voce afterwhich assertion as-sertion he requested our own Sam Westerfield to read the call which Sam did In the style for which he is so justly celebrated This completed Charley Morse was elected temporary chairman on motion of Fred W Leonard Leon-ard ad ardMr Morse thanked the convention for the honor said he did not come to make a speech that the convention ha mae a lot of work to do and asked what the further pleasure of the delegates was vasake Greenwald wanted Sam Wester field elected secretary but Sam said he did not care for anything thank dd no you and a compromise was effected by the selection of C F Emery for the place I being Mr Leonards convention a spasm of stillness reigned until he d the appointment again arose and moved of the usual committees which carried with the exception of a man with a pine tree emblem on the base of his > kt brain who raised his voice in a vociferous t vo-ciferous No although why he voted that way no man can tell The committees as made up were composed of the following Credentials I Creden-tials PenneJl Cherrington of Tooele John Lu Taylor and Glen Miller of Salt Lake and D C McLaughlin of I Summit Organization and Permanent Order of Business James Ivers of Summit I John B Gordon of Tooele and Fred Leonard of Salt Lake i I After a short recess during which the committee on credential met in I the jury box and the committee on permanent organization mot in the room at large the committee on credentials I cre-dentials made a report which seated I every one present and gave all the delegations a chance to vote the entire t strength of their organizations whether whe-ther the members were present or net i This programme disturbed the equanimity equan-imity of Jakf Greenwald to the extent of a speech and Moyer a reply which was rut off by the convention declar ing for the regular ordr The permanent organization committee commit-tee declared In favor of making the temporary officers the officers of the convention and when this had been decided upon Hon George F Goodwin I arose and nominated Morris L Ritchie chie In a speech wiilch set out the legal abilities of that gentleman in an argumentative argu-mentative and convincing style Judge Bowdle en behalf of Farmers ward seconded the nomination and I asserted that all the horny handed I sons of toil who had any litigation on the slate were In favor 0 Ritchie I The First precinct per Jake Green vald raised its unanimous voice for Bltchle and the Fourth through the medium of Glen Miller also endorsed him 4 himI looked like a onesided affair until un-til Albert Reiser of the Third precinct pre-cinct Cooke at some length on the merits of T D Lewis The speech was a good one and Lewis would have run Ritchie a close race but for the fact that GeorKe W Moyer endorsed in him a paraphrase of the Latin maxim Pot nascltur non t vith judge inserted in the place of poet pe John Lu Taylor urged the youth and inexperience of Lewis and the fipewis dom of Ritcl ie in his speech endorsing the latter which was controverted in James H Haslams address in behalf of Lewis who was he said a man who would adorn the United States senate and grace thebench of the supreme court of the United States Grant Smith seconded the nomination nomina-tion of Ritchie and then the audience and delegates grew tlred and some one moved a ballot Ritchie was nominated on the first ballot the ladies voting for lilm solid th < r were twb The ballot was Ritchie Lewis First Precinct S o Second Precinct 2 9 Third Precinct 0 G Fourth Precinct 5 0 Fifth Precinct u 8 0 County Precinct h U 5 10 Summit County 13 0 Tooele Bounty 4 7 6 0 Total 4 2 On motion of Mr Reiser the nomination nomina-tion of Ritchie was made unanimous and then Jake Greenwald took o ¼ sion to give Moyer a roast for not at V e tending t business and moved that he and the balance of the committee be thrown out of office The motion did not Drevall but had the desired effect as Moyer made an attempt to square himself which tickled Jake immensely John Lu Taylor made a motion that Inasmuch a the nomination of JohnS John-S Street was irregular a made by the previous convention that he b declared ed the nominee which carried and after af-ter selecting the old committee to serve during the ensuing four years the convention con-vention adjourned 1 |
