Show n AMERICAN PATRIOTS NAM COUNTY TICKET Former F oriner Senator Kearns Names Sena Senatorial Senatorial tonal Candidates and Nominees for the th Legislature J ii T Lavery Disowned by His Labor Organization One Oneota oi Conventions Leaders a I i AMERICAN COUNTY TICKET For State Senator J W Cahoon of Murray Rep Allen T 17 a San Sanford Sanford Sanford ford of Salt Lake Rep I IFor IFor IFor For Representatives M H Wilson oc Thomas WatkIn W Soc A AJ AJ AJ J Charon Rep R G Skater Sleater Rep B B Heywood Rep Tony Jacob Jacobson Jaco son Dem G M Sullivan Dem Oem Douglas Rep J N Spalding Spalding Spalding ing Rep Arthur A Sweet Rep County Attorney A J Weber Oem Dem For Sheriff Thomas ThomasD D Pitt Rep Salt Lake For County Commissioners Long term A J Jacobson Dem of Alta short term Samuel B Westerfield Rep of Salt Lake For Clerk Frank R Christensen Dem Salt S lt Lake For Assessor Barney B Quinn Dem of Salt Lake For Treasurer J William Edmunds of Salt Lake For Recorder Joseph M Cohen Dem Salt Lake For Auditor Harry A Mercer Rep Salt Lake For Surveyor L O 0 Wight Rep Salt Lake j CITY TICKET For Justice of the Peace Dana T Smith Rep For Constable Thomas Fowler Dem v Above are arc the candidates named at the tho American party county convention held in the Salt Lake theatre beginning at 10 1 0 o lock yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day morning and ending at 1 23 this morning The two nominees for state senator are the Kearns slate Joseph Lippman and Ben B Heywood his lieutenants of old engineered it for him and the was able to put the slate through without difficulty difficulty difficulty culty The principal feature of the convention was J T Lavery who is isnow isnow isnow now awaiting trial in the district court for embezzlement Lavery is out outon outon outon on bail and consequently was able to take part in the convention A week ago he was denouncing the capitalistic American party Yes Yesterday Yesterday he was loudly trying to deliver to it the labor vote The exact cause of his sudden reversal is being kept I ept a secret by the custodians of the American campaign fund fundA fundA A deal was made by American party bosses Friday evening where whereby whereby whereby by certain men who claimed to be able to control the labor unions and the labor vote agreed to head off putting a labor ticket in the field and to deliver the labor vote vot to the American party As part consideration consideration consideration tion three labor men were ta tJ t be placed on the legislative ticket The selection of these men was not to be left to the labor unions un ons but to be made by the men who claimed to be able to deliver them In I n their anxiety to capture the labor vote beyond question the trie party bosses pushed it further and put on five men who Vho claimed to represent the workingmen of the city But they turned down Edward Haggerty who was supposed to be on the slate The five labor candi candidates candidates candidates dates on the ticket are M W Wilson Thomas Watkins A J Charon R G Sleater and J N Spalding Lavery noisily tried to do his part yesterday in delivering the labor vote He voted the district delegation and was conspicuous u ous throughout the proceedings When the legislative nominations were made he delivered a noisy speech in which he endorsed the labor can candidates candidates candidates placed before the convention and bespoke the labor vote There are many labor men however who refused to be delivered by a man under charges of embezzling from his fellows Lavery was arrested May 28 last for taking funds belonging to the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers union He Ht was held to the district court and andis andis andIs is now awaiting trial disowned by his h is union the rank and file of which refuse to be purchased in a block by the American party slush fund Daniel I Elton secretary of the Utah Ut h State Federation of Labor said sard last evening these men on the American ticket had never received the endorsement of the federation J N Spalding one of the nominees is in Niagara Falls and his name was put on without authorization Mr Elton said he would call a convention for Sunday Sept 30 to nominate a genuine labor ticket George W Laverys loudest speech yesterday by striding down the center aisle and vociferating at the top of his voice The American party cannot win wi n this fall without the labor vote Which does not look rosy for the American party The scrap of the convention arousing most interest was over the nom nomination nomination nomination for sheriff Thomas D Pitt led from the start with Joseph H Raleigh not far behind George R Hancock third and A H Little and A AH AH AH H White trailing in the rear Pitt got Hancocks strength on the sec see second second ond ballot and was named by acclamation later It took three ballots to settle the county clerkship nomination Frank R Christensen finally pulled ahead of John W Pike who was crowding him hard H R V Meloy was third The nomination for treasurer required re three ballots to settle J Wil William William wilham liam ham Edmunds had a slight lead on the first but W Penn Lynn and andT andT andT T R Wimmer were pushing him He pulled up with each ballot until the third landed him After the State band had been play playing playing playing ing for some time to draw the dele dela delegates gates Co ty Chairman J E Darmer called the Convention convention to order at 1030 Secretary S P Armstrong read the call for the convention and then Mr Darmer introduced the temporary chairman Judge John A Street Judge Street began by recalling the meeting two years ago in the Auerbach building when men organized the American party He denied that they represented any faction and declared that they organized Uta to bring to an end the instruction of voters by a priesthood The speaker then entered upon a de defense defense defense of or the American city adminis administration admInIstration administration He denied extravagance and maintained that there hail had ha been more progress under this administration than there had been during the last fifteen f years Street Pleases Sheets The streets of Salt Lake City are safe at night now he declared Ap Applause Applause Applause by Chief of Police Pollee George A Sheets and others The speaker went on to praise Sheets for closing gambling and declared that because of the American party lithe the business men meno of the nation are ready to put money into this city lity They are to It day offering for an interurban railroad and we have h ve a new gas com corn company company pany to compete compote against the church trust Judge Street Str et maintained that all aU ex ox except 5 per cent of the Gentiles were ware w ro in the American party and that many man adherents of the Mormon faith wore in sympathy W E Walker was announced as tern tem T chairman Joseph Lippman ap thought tho there had been be n enough oratory and he offered a mo ma tion for the appointment of commit tees He was persuaded to defer It however to allow Allen AlIen T Sanford S in as an orator to burst f rth Sanford Indulges I in Oratory The American party has bas a mission for the Mormon people whose leaders have betrayed them lie he declared It is the duty of the American party DartY to prosecute the leaders and preserve and protect the masses We want to put nut ut in prosecutors and judges who will en enforce enforce force the laws a ws against the leaders leader and put them th m in jail jan Mr lIr Sanford proceeded to attack the Utah Light Railway company comp ny charging that the car service was wa poor poor and the controlling interests go east Ii t Continued on Page 2 I 1 AMERICAN PATRIOTS NAME COUNTY TICKET Continued from Page 1 and get money for improvements and then milk it of dividends and discourage discourage discourage age people from coming among us Taking up tho the Utah Sugar compa companies companies nies he said saidI I doubt If any company has more water in its stock sto lt than han the sugar com corn company company pany and the water has gone to the church I IThe Tho The speaker announced that he pro pre preferred forred Reed Smoot to Jon John Jo n Henry Smith or Heber Hober J T Grant but it was not hot Reed Smoot who was being fought but the system Mr Lippman was then given a chance to renew his motion for the tho appoint appointment appointment ment mont of committees He suggested that Hint each committee consist of or seven members one from each ward and two from the county outside the city After some discussion dur during durIng during ing thich P J T Donohue tried to get through a 0 motion to have County Chairman Darmer name a 0 committee which would nominate the legislative ticket Mr motion pre prevailed prevailed vai ed Committees Are Named The convention took a re recess recess recess cess to allow the th delegations to cau can caucus cus eus The following committees were then announced Credentials t Ward Soren Saran X Christensen Second SecondA A R Carter Third Joseph Fourth A H Fifth B 13 BL I L Corum county C C Buckle and H 13 F Mathews Permanent organization First ward Thomas Homer Second J 3 J T Corum Third Thira X J r T Raleigh Fourth Joseph Jo eph L Lippman Fifth Firth T R Black D z W VY and nd W K IC I Boden Bodon Resolutions First ward George M Sullivan Second George Ross Bess Third W VT A Holman Bolman Fourth W Mont Fer OJ ry Fifth Filth Charles Mostyn Owen coun county count county ty t Smith Parker and D Burns Joseph M lr Cohen charged that the tb C banner locating the Eighth district del delegation delegation delI had not been properly placed I This evoked an indignant protest from fron r rJames James OReilly who told how he had hai 1 been working all the morning with Earl Eat 1 R RIpley putting up the banners And ClAnd I aint gettin no pay from the th e American party he wound up ur wherein he seemed se med to be somewhat unique in the convention An adjournment was taken until 1 o clock in tho the afternoon LEGISLATIVE TICKET IN THE AFTERNOON Li d It was p m before business was wa S waa resumed just two hours and seventeen a minutes after anel the hour set Even then the the committee on permanent organization organization organization tion was not ready to report The re ic report report port of or the committee on credentials credential was las read There were no contests The Th number of delegates was announced to tobe tobe t be The report was adopted with an a i amendment allowing the delegates delegate dol gates present in each district to cast the en entire entire entire L tire vote of the delegation Secretary Thomas Homer then read rca d the report of the committee on perma permanent permanent nent organization which was unanimously unanImously unanimously L adopted The permanent officers were as fol follows follows 0 L lows Judge Cherry Is Chairman Chairman Judge A N Cherry herry first firs vice chairman Matt Daugherty second vice chairman G A Black vice chair chairmen chairmen men Mrs tIrs Join Jolin Jo Shea Mrs Mc Mrs Mr q Frank L Hines Mrs Kate Farrell Farrel Mrs Isaac Hadley Mrs S Parker Parke r Mrs H Warren Smith secretary B BF BF I IF F Johnson assistant secretary W E I j Walker assistant secretary Frank Fran k Crocker reading clerk Joseph M tI Co Cc Cohen Cohen hen J J T G Morrison assistant George J J T When the namo name of Mrs Smith w was LS read somebody yelled Which Mrs tIrs smith I There was a laugh The n announced It was the American party part y Mrs Smith Judge Cherry the permanent chair chat chairman chairman r man was introduced He began by re referring referring r e ferring to the Republican state conven convention 1 tion and the delegates sitting therein They surrendered their liberty he l proclaimed They surrendered their the ir manhood and most moat appropriate ot of all an a 11 they have surrendered the American Amerie Ln flag Judge Cherry maintained that tho tl 10 American party was not lighting fighting the tho ti re Mormon Morion people but b t that the th fh heir lid r archy should be taken taleen out behind d the tho woodshed this fall faU He claimed for tor forthe the American party all credit for the prosperity in Salt Lake City and de declared declared dared the only knocker was the tho gov governor of tho the state The report of o the committee on plat platform platform platform form resolutions and emblem was read and adopted It la 15 published elsewhere In full County Committee Named The delegations on county committeemen The results announced were as follows First t Ward W G R Cleaveland J T M tI Cohen Second Ward WardS S P Armstrong Hen Hon Henry Honry ry 17 Cartwright Third Ward Samuel Barlow Bartow R B G C Sleater Fourth Ward W Mont Ferry W H i Fifth Ward G A Sheets j 1 E Dar Darmer Darmer mer flier County A E Short Murray F Kent Smith BIngham Ross E Arm ArmbUrst Armburst bUrst Alta Alto H P Johnson Sandy Henry Simons Simona Waterloo The ball ban on the nominations was started rolling The state senators came first J T H Stratton of Murray first got the eye eyo and ear of the chair He nominated J W V Calioon of or the smelter r city Other nominations were B H Crawford Allen T Sanford and George GeorgeJ GeorgeT J T Gibson I Dalys Man Beaten Before the balloting had proceeded far it was evident that Sanford and a d Cahoon had an overwhelming major majority majority majority ity P PT J Daly interrupted the calling of the districts to withdraw Gibsons name and move that Sanford and Ca Cahoon Cahoon Cahoon hoon be nominated by acclamation He was forced to wait until the was completed Then he renewed his motion which was carried unanimously unanimously unanimously Nominations for tor representatives were then taken up A boy orator named Douglas k Soren Soron X Christen Christensen I sen nominated Tony Jacobson who I made Alta W H put forward I R G 0 Sleater Colonel M A Daugherty I ty tried to square himself for his anti Roosevelt talk in the tho state convention Friday by telling how he had worked for tor McKinley He told how in Nebraska N Nebraska ka when he had been beaten for con congress congress congress gress as the Republican candidate G GM GM GM M Sullivan had worked against him He Ho returned the compliment by nom norn Mr Sullivan this time There followed a storm of a man C R Berry J T R H Lewis Ben L Corum and Ben B Heywood He were named in rapid succession D C Dunbar inti intimated Intimated intimated mated strongly that his candidate if it nominated would come through with witha a handsome hands me contribution He named Arthur A Sweet C B Leigh brought out C O 0 Ellingwood Matt H Wil Wilson Wilson Wilson son A J T r Charon J T N Spalding H P Mason and Thomas Watkins were nom noni mated One Nominee Who Run Mrs M Joseph M l Cohen was named but she withdrew A Richter thought A H had bought so many chickens from the farmers he would run well Thomas Homer named Ed Edward Edward Edward ward Haggerty J T T Lavery who is Is s out on bail ball hav hay ing been arrested for embezzling union funds gained the flood He started out to make a speech seconding the nom of each of the labor candidates Time came the call when he was pouring out a torrent of words No yelled a salubrious man near Lavery Others joined the cry and the speaker was allowed to go ahead George W Mover Moyer talked for Jacobson and G R It Cleaveland moved that the six labor candidates be nominated by acclamation There was a yell of dis approval and the convention proceeded to ballot When the votes I wore counted it was found that the ten receiving the high est number of votes were M 11 H Wil Wit Wilson Wilson Witson son Thomas Watkins A J T Charon R G Sleater B i B Heywood He wood Tony Ja Ta G M Sullivan Douglas Rode back J T N Spalding and Arthur A Sweet They were declared the nomi nominees nominees nees flees The convention then adjourned until p m the city precinct con convention convention being bein set for j p n m JUSTICE AND CONSTABLE NOMINATED FOR CITY A 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