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Show BOTH TICKETS WILL REMAIN. An Attempt at Consolidation at Mantl Re. suits tn t'onfuainn. Manti, Utah, F'eb. 0. Special to The Times. The political differences iu this city have assumed such enormous enor-mous proportion as to excite even the staid old men, who have heretofore remained re-mained at home and let them tight it out. When the citizens' faction of the peoples' party had nominated a full ticket and a majority of the voters eecmed to tie drifting toward the new order of things, the old liners, becoming becom-ing alarmed, appealed to the stake president, Canute Peterson, for counsel. coun-sel. He and his counsellors, lleury Heal and J. li. Maihen came here anil called a private convention con-vention of the leaders of lioth parties. The presidency then exhorted them to uuity of action and after much talk aud eotiMilcrable counsel coun-sel the two parties agreed to call another an-other convention and submit the ipies-lion ipies-lion of having hut one ticket, to a voice of the people A large mass meeting was held. J ..B. Maihen stated the object ob-ject of tho meeting by reading the notice signed by uearly all the candidates. candi-dates. Then the excitement rose to a high pitch. Men arose to speak iu every direction. The chair called for order and was answered by nime attempts at-tempts at speakirtg. General confusion reigned until somo one moved for an adjournment. The motion prevailed and the crowd dispersed without effecting effect-ing an organization. The two tickets will remain iu the field aud the race will be close. |