| Show Iwo STATE CONVENTIONS Republican State Committee So Decided Yesterday THE PLAN FOR HARMONY TIED 3IKIMEY 3IECT HAD AX OVERPOWERING I POWERING MAJORITY View of the Silver Men Ignored Entirely En-tirely McKinley Men Ruled With an Iron Hand Proxy Holders Passed on Their Own Credentials One Convention to Be Held to Nominate 3IcKinley Electors nnd Elect a State Committee at i PIcoMint September 24tli Another An-other to Nome ai congressional Candidate at Qsdcn the yOtli Democratic County Committee Meet Makes Preparations For IJeKinninpr the Campaiam Caair limit Power Appoints Part of His Executive Committee and a Silver Conference Political Po-litical Prattle A decision to call two state conven fentions one to nominate McKinley and Hobart electors and elect a state committee and another to nominate a silver Republican candidate for Congress Con-gress was the net result of the meeting meet-ing of the Republican state committee yesterday By this action the committee fulfilled what had been expected of I for several days so fa as the expectation that a plan would be adopted having for its object the harmonizing of the silver and McKinley elements on the state i ticket was concerned but the expected compromise between the contending factions In the committee was not effected ef-fected in the result reached I had teen supposed that the silver men would I be given a voice in formulating the j plan ultimately decided upon or that the silver element of the party would I at least be given some recognition of j the views of their representatives on j i the committee but such was not the < I case The McKinley men had an overpowering i over-powering majority and refused to listen to the silver men who represented the great mass of the Republican voters Instead they carried things with a high hand and in the action finally I taken said in effect to the silver men Although you represent a great many times a many people as we do we know best what is for your good I The action of the committee was in no sense a compromise between the two elements a i was voted through by a strict factional vote the McKinley I men voting for and the silver men dead against every proposition The division of the McKinley forces on Brown and a ntiBrown lines which many anticipated did not materialize and in fact much that occurred was contrary to what had been foreshadowed foreshadow-ed Up to the evening previous to the meeting Senator Browns generals had been urging that nothing be done beyond I be-yond issuing the customary call for a convention supposing that the twocon vention idea found its origin in the affinity between the Tribune as leading the silver sentiment and Chairman Dooly and his chief aid exGovernor Thomas all of whom were to be considered I con-sidered as antagonistic to Mr Brown Late that evening however a new light shone across the path of the Brown generals They saw by it a way to combine the full McKinley vote and by deft management still contrive to hold I the winning hand in the end by supporting sup-porting the twoconvention plan and not allowing i to appear that they had anything in view beyond harmonizing the party They accordingly abandoned the straight convention plan and got into the twoconvention wagon glad of the opportunity for it was unknown to i them that the silver men with the exception of a few of the leaders favored fa-vored one convention believing they could elect a majority of the delegates and head off the nomination of McKinley McKin-ley electors Hence the action of the meeting a it transpired 9he formulating formulat-ing of a plan for harmony but on very different lines than those originally staked out resulting virtually in a victory vic-tory for Mr Brown for by it he expects ex-pects to dominate the selection of the new state committee the thing he most ardently desires to do Judge Goodwin was expected to be present to lead the silver men but he failed to put in an appearance l was supposed he had learned that the silver men would be given no quarter and decided de-cided to hold himself aloof In his absence Hon Thomas Kearns and Dr C W Clark held up the silver banner and worked hard and faithfully for the cause Mr Kearns spoke often and with great earnestness and his little following voted with great regularity but they were to woefully in the minority mi-nority to make any impression The attendance was much smaller than was anticipated a was also the presence of members by proxy more frequent There were nineteen members mem-bers represented nine in person and ten by proxy and of the number four only were on the side of silver while the rest were straight out for McKinley One Illustration of Chairman Doolys fairness of method of conducting a campaign for harmony was the manner in which the rule was abrogated early i in the proceedings which has heretofore been adhered to in meetings of the Republican state committee wherby persons to be entitled to sit on proxies prox-ies have been required to be resident of the counties they represented Presley Pres-ley Denny of Beaver moved that the old rule be adhered to inasmuch as it had been observed in the past and though six of the nine members who were present In person voted to sustain sus-tain the rule they were defeated by Chairman Dooly permitting the proxies to vote on the mat TH MEETING Chairman Dooly called the meeting t order shortly before U oclock stating stat-ing briefly its purpose The roll call showed the following to be in attendance attend-ance Beaver Presley Denny Box Elder B H Jones proxy for John F Rich Cache V Rapp proxy for Joseph A Smith Carbon James A Harrison Emery H S McCallum proxy for Orange Seeley Garfield W L Tomas Tom-as proxy for Thomas Sevy Iron L R Rogers proxy for John T Mitchell Juab C W Clark proxy for Hugo Deprezin Kane W D Candlond proxy for J F Brown Millard O L Thompson Rich Wesley K Walton Salt Lake R A Campbell proxy for George f Cannon Sanpete John Low ry sr Summit Thomas Kearns Too ele William Spry Uintah J C Gr ham proxy for R S Collett Utah H 1 Dougall Wayne Dennis Clay Eich nor proxy fo N L Sheffield Weber Edward W Wade EXECUTIVE SESSION After Secretary Julia Farnsworth had read the call Presley Denny of Beaver moved that the rule hitherto observed in Republican committee meetings be enforced whereby a person per-son holding a proxy to be entitled to sit be required to be a resident of the county represented and that such other persons as held proxies be not permitted permit-ted to sit Hon Thomas Kearns seconded sec-onded the motion but the chair requested re-quested that the motion be withheld until the minutes of the last meeting could be read This done and before Mr Denny could got the floor O L Thompson of Millard moved that the committee go into executive session and that the members of the executive committee com-mittee be permitted to participate Mr Denny called for his motion and took the floor to speak to it He had hardly commenced when Mr Thompson raised the point of order that his rised pont orer mo II tion was the question before the house and that Mr Denny was not speaking I to the question Mr Denny insisted that his was the first motion Chairman Chair-man Dooly said he had heard no second sec-ond Mr Keas of Summit jumped up and informed the char that he had seconded the motion but Mr Dooly w evidently afraid some dirty party linen was going to be washed or else did not care to have the outside world in which would be included the rank and file of the party make acquainted with the inner of the innel workings committee mittee for he held that he had heard the second to Mr Thompsons motion first notwJthtanding that Mr Kearns second had been plainly audible in all ports of the room Mr Denny insisted on speaking to his motion but Mr Dooly put that of Mr Thompson and declared it carried QUALIFICATION RULE ABROGATED ABRO-GATED Mr Denny renewed his motion and in support of it said he could see no good reason for doing away with an old established rule He thought if i was good once it was still for he could not see how strangers to a community com-munity could better represent its sentiment sen-timent now than other strangers had formerly been considered unable to do Besides i might be desirable to invoke in-voke the rule at the next meeting Mr Kearns favored invoking the rule He said he did not think a person per-son who did not reside in a county could property represent the senti ment of the people of the county Wesley K Walton of Rich advocated sustaining the rule and was followed by National Committeeman Lindsay R Rogers who advocated admitting all proxies Mr Rogers held al a proxy for Iron county ExGovernor Thomas and Dennis Clay Eichnor explained that their proxies had been sent to them and said they felt they should be permitted to represent the counties from which the proxies came Mr Rogers moved to lay Dennys motion on the table which carried after some further discussion dis-cussion by a vote of 12 to 6 Those voting in the negative were Denny of Beaver Walton of Rich Kearns of Summit Clark of Juab Lowry of San pete and Harrison of Carbon all actual ac-tual members except Mr Clark who is a resident o Juab They were defeated de-feated bY Chairman Dooly permitting the holders of proxies to vote and thus pass upon their OW credentials but two actual members having voted in favor of the motion moton COMMITTEE ON PLAN Mr Denny moved the appointment of a committee of five to formulate a plan for holding the state convention suggest the time and apportionment and recommend the dates for holding the county conventions The motion carried and the chair appointed Messrs Denny Rogers Thomas Thompson and Campbell TOOK A RECESS A1 recess of fifteen minutes was taken to enable the committee to report re-port at the end of which time further time was asked for and the main committee took a recess till 130 THE REPORT I At 130 the committee on plan etc was still unable to report and it was 2 oclock before the main committee reconvened re-convened At that time the committee reported recommending that two state conventions be held one on September 24 at which three electors should be nominated who i elected should cast their votes in the electoral college for McKinley and Hobart and to elect the members of the new state committee that a second state convention be held on September 26 for the purpose of nominating a candidate for representa tire In congress that the apportionment apportion-ment of delegates to each convention be on a basis of one delegate to every forty votes cast for the present chief justice of the supreme court which would give the conventions a mem bership of 532 that the committee se lect the place of holding the conven tions ana that the committee commitee recommend recom-mend to county committees cmmltes that the primaries to elect delegates to county conventions be held not later than September 16 FOUGHT THE REPORT Exeuitive Committteemani Charles Meighan of Ogden moved t adopt the aopt te report Dr rplrt Clark of Juab spoke at some length ridiculing the twoconven tion idea He declared that the plan contemplated a unRepublilan and moved to amend the report by author izing the chairman of the committee cmmitt to coil a straight convention He spoke earnestly in favor of the amend moist and was ably seconded by Ir Kearns who asked the McKinley men i they were afraid to trust the people if they were afraid to take their chances in one common convention of securing the nomination of McKinley electors Mr Meighan opposed the amendment and advocated adopting the adotng report as submitted His theme sbmite was evidently that the plan was in the Interest In-terest of harmony a tw word was ployed used more often than any other he em J C Graham made a speech in favor O the report taking the silver men severely to task for assuming to scerel tsk fo t oppose op-pose the nomination of McKinley electors by a Republican convention although nothing to that effect had been heard to come from a silver bee hed t fr slver man Messrs Raipp Thomas Eichnor and McCallum all opposed the amendment and i so doing advocated the original report after which R S moved to amend the Campbell aed amend j fJ If i ment by authorizing the issuance of a call for a convention to nominate three electors who i ei tea should cast their votes fo McKinley and Hobart Mr Kearns offered a substitute which was in effect the same as Mr I Clarks amendment The substitute was discussed at great length nearly every member on the floor tang 3 hand Meanwhile Mr Kearns and his handful of followers plied their McKinley Mc-Kinley opponents with questions which stumped them in many instances to answer Mr Kearns punctuated the remarks of every speaker who opposed the adoption adop-tion of the substitute with the interrogation interro-gation a you afraid t trust the and all replied people to which they one r plied that they were no but that they considered it in the interest of harmony har-mony that two conventions be held mOY conventolS quite obvi The McKinley men were quie ously bent on putting it beyond the the power of the silver men t prevent nomination of McKinley electors however how-ever much they trusted the people for after everyone ho had his say Mr Walton moved the previous question and the question being put the chair announced the substitute lost on aviv a-viv anounced voce vote Mr Kearns called foe and which resulted four the ayes nays resuled thirteen two not for and tiren against voting The four silver men voting ir the affirmative were Mesers Kearns Clark Lowry and Harrison The Lowr question recurred upon the which was amendment of Mr Campbell ws withdrawn the chair holding that Mr Clarks amendment ha been passed substitute Keanrs the defeat of Mr upon on defet 11r Ker the question come up on stitute and quesUon cae sttute the adoption of the original report chang Mr Rapp moved to amend by ing Rp move t the 25th and 26th which lost and the report was adopted Whchlost defeated that factional vote by the same fariona vo1e tha1 feated the Kearns substitute to the places of The question a te holding the conventions then came up of the various cities of and the claims varous ctes te the state were set forth A committee headed by J A Hyde of Nephi was permitted to appear and present the I claims of that city and after considerable cams decided siderable further discussion it was cided to furhell tie p a for holding the cded Pleasant and at Mount Plesnt first convention w lOnl the second at Ogden and secretary were The chairman secer authorized to issue calls for the conventions conven-tions and the meeting adjourned o 4 The Salt Lake Democratic county meeting yesterday central committee held a meng hed cll cmmdee I terday afternoon in the Jennings afteroon te steps toward block to take the preliminary ward opening the campaign cmpagn full attendance of the There was a ful attendnce committee which was called to order Chair in the afternoon by at 4 oclock atenon ocock Dunbar The first order of man D C frt orer O of vacancies business was the filling oi vcnces of several caused by dearth or removal members Ben T Lloyd was named in place of Joseph Watson deceased C Car in of H Taylor George Taylr place lisel absent and John M Cohen t represent rep-resent the Fourth precinct The committee as now constituted consists of D C Dunibar chairman Ben T Lloyd vicechairman Will C Jennings secretary A M Cannon jr W J seca 11 Cohen Albert Spencer Taylor W B Ennis Draper George Taylor Mill Creek These gentlemen will act a the central cen-tral committee until the meeting of the county convention PRIMARIES SEPT 15 I was decided thatprimaries to se I to the county conven loot delegates t cunty cnven I tion be held in all the new election vot ton ing districts on Tuesday Sept 15 at 8 p m and that the ratio of representation fixed at the uniform appor tation be fxed r urfor apo tionment of five delegates for each of such districts COUNTY CONVENTION SEPT 19 The committee agreed upon Saturday Satur-day Sept 19 at 10 a m as the time and Salt Lake city the place for holding hold-ing the county convenition COUNTY OFFICERS As alt Lake county is one senatorial and representative district in addition to nominating a full set of county offi also five state sena cers it will name fve ste and select torn and te representatives let delegates to the judicial convention conven-tion to be called and the state convention con-vention t be held at Provo Sept 24 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE In view of the fact that so many cifti zens of all the various political organizations the county ganizations throughout cunty have indicated a readiness to support the Democratic candidate for president and t work in harmony witch those who advocate the silver cause it was deemed advisable t select a committee commit-tee on conference with full power to communicate with and aid in unifying all the silver supporters in whatever form of organization they may now stand As such committee James H Moyle Albert Spencer and W H Dale named were named CHAIRMAN TO ISSUE CALL The chairman was instructed to issue is-sue a coll along the lines indicated for the primaries and the convention which will appear in a day or two WORK TO BEGIN In th interval of two weeks until the primaries it will be the purpose pmrie the Demo of the committee to aid all crats in the eighltyeighit election districts dis-tricts of the county in getting together a5id learning their new duties under the Australian election law First of ala al-a carefully prepared map showing each district will be sent out in order that the voters may know what constitute consti-tute tei geographical boundaries The great advantage of having the primaries prima-ries held by this method is t acquaint the people with the new arrangement under whch they will be compelled to vote at the general election in November ber and to secure the organization of suitable committees in each of the new divisions The old precinct and ward lines for ths purpose have been obliterated oblit-erated and henceforth the voter must know his district by its number and street boundaries DEMOCRATS AWAKE The cession of the committee was attended at-tended oy several of the best known and most active workers in the party In addition ad-dition to the committee there were present Hadley D Johnson O W Powers chairman chair-man of the state committee Parley L Williams Judge A G Norrell late chairman chair-man of the Utah commission J B Tm mony and J R Letcher I 4 Chairman Powers is organizing the Democratic state executive committee and has thus far decided upon the following fol-lowing members of the committee Hon Richard Mackintosh Salt Lake Hon Francis Armstrong Salt Lake Hon J W Burton Salt Lake Hon O W Moyle Salt Lake Hon FS Fernstrum Salt Lake Hon Thomas D Dee Weber Hon Solon Spiro Summit Colonel A D Gash Utah The balance of the committee will be named this week and it will then meet for organization The ladies will be given due representation Chairman Powers also issued the following follow-ing yesterday In accordance with a resolution reso-lution of the Democratic state committee authorizing me to appoint such committees commit-tees a I might deem proper I hereby name Hon C C Richards of Ogden Hon John Tyler of Ogden Hon J R Letcher Hon Henry J Henderson Hon J L Rawlins and Mrs Mattie Hughes Ca non of Salt Lake and Mrs Electa Bullock Bul-lock of Provo Democratic members of committee of conference for the state of Utah to consult with the supporters of William J Bryan in Utah belonging tooth to-oth organizations with a view to consolidating con-solidating and unifying the silver forces The committee will meet on call O the chairman 0 W POWERS Chairman Democratic State Com This weeks TJtahian will contain page articles on the sliver question written by Judge C C Goodwin Judge O W Powers Hon A G Merrill Hon C E Allen and Hon Frank Cannon ac The ScandinavianAmerican S Central Silver League of Utah will hold a large meeting in St Marks hall opposite city hall tomorrow night at 8 oclock The hal will be nicely decorated and good silver speakers and other entertainment will be provided for both in the Scandi T m f navian and American language All Scandinavians are invited to attend The Democratic headquarters for the campaIgn were secured complgn Ue yesterday They are at 46 East Second South the whole of the first floor They will be fitted up by Tuesday at which time they will be thrown open for the campaign |
