| Show 1 ROUGH ON ABEL JOtJN Creer Pointedly Refersto His Legislative Record L J I ABEL YOHN RESENTS IT I I i Then Crecr Repented His Statement and the Chairman Snid the Hatter Was Settled Charges of a Com binalloii Against Lehi Practically Admitted A Hot Time in the t 1 Democratic Convention at Payson Enthusiastic Rspublicnns of Piute i H N Hnyes for Auditor Provo Sept 2DcCorc the Democratic Democrat-ic county convention adjourned In I Payson this morning the following officers cers of the county committee were elected Otto F Malmbeig chairman Grant C TWglcy secretary J R Twelves treasurer The county com L mltteo consists of the precinct chairman chair-man in addition to the ofnccrs named I The delegates to the judicial conven Tlc delerates ton and the State convention previously 1 t previ-ously elected by the various primaries and whose names have already been published were confirmed and In addition ad-dition Hon William M Jioylaucc of Provo and Hon James 0 Pullock of pjcasant Grove were elected delegates acIarge During the balloting for T R Barney L Bar-ney of Provo und George Cunningham of American ForJe candidates for Representatives t Rep-resentatives State Senator Abel J Evans executed a masterly coup de etat and stampeded the convention for Mr Barney The votes were coming Cunningham at an alarming rate on the second ballot and on the third ballot he vould undoubtedly have received re-ceived < l the nomination but for his friend Evans Lehl wa smarting under un-der the defeat of A M Davis for 1 County CommlBSioncLv and now was the opportunity to give American i Fork a dose of smarting and the remedy was administered most effectively Senator Evans took the floor and vehemently ve-hemently charged American Fork Payson and Spanish Fork with having formed a combination two weeks ago for bagging the olllces and the compact com-pact had been carried out In the convention con-vention this attempt to elect Mr Cunningham was a part of It and Mr T Evans pleaded with the convention to rally to the support of Provos candidate candi-date as Provo deserved some reward for staving out of the combine A Before the Senator sat down pandemonium pande-monium broke loosf yells hoots and a shrieks applause and waving arms 2 rent the air half of the convention I was on Its eet Chairman Clark of the American Fork and Chairman r Creer of the Spanish Fork delegation and half 0 dozen others clamored for recognition Mr Clark obtained the floor and with blanched face and blaming blam-ing eyes charged the Senator with stating stat-ing an untruth No combination had I been entered Into two weeks ago In answer tOl question from Senator v Evans who asked whether u combination L1i combina-tion had been entered Into at all Mr Clark replied with considerable force that the reason Lehl had not been In the combination was because she had boon too late I ChairmanlCreer set himqclt right by L ff saying that no greater combination had been enter into by1 the delegates named than was entered by Senator Evans at the last Legislature Here the fury bxdke loose wJ th Increased 0 force and an admirable mimic presentation presen-tation of what the legations In Peking r may have had to endure was given ers Mr Creer In the role of the legation e i Senator Evans was shouting for recognition re-cognition so were others but most of the attacking party made themselves 4 4recognized by shrieks groans and K hisses Creers friends applauding vigorously vig-orously P Chairman Roylance and the serge ser-ge ntathrms whp was asleep were i the only cool personages In the house Some of the ladles tried to purify politics by yelling rats and other celestial war crleo The small boys In e the galleries who had been more or less of a nuisance all day rushed poll mell downstairs to get ready for Sun dayschool i When the storm had somewhat subsided sub-sided Senator Evans demanded plans q and specifications of Mr Crcers legislative legis-lative combing declaring that he had 4 conscientiously done his duty and P nothing else in the Legislature r 1r Creer repeated what he had said II before and Chairman Roylance reV re-V marked that he I was glad Senator Eanss skirts were now clear Sena 4 tor Evans asked for no further explanation rL ex-planation and Is supposed to have Ft been satisfied Ray Knight son of Jesse Knight Knight and a chp oil the old block of the Payson delegation closed the delegalon entertainment enter-tainment by taking the Moor and most earnestly supporting Senator Evanss ji charge of a combination Helooked us 3 if he would like to settle ihediscus ion without so much talk Probably the appearance of the determined young giant had Its due share In quelling I quel-ling the excitement The third ballot was overwhelmingly V for Mr Barney Those who were nott r fyt the play looked relieved and teJ t they had aided In striking dovn a 3 great and beforeUnheardof flcat ltcal Infamy and the politicians even those who were defeated chuckled to think the regulation Democratic convention fjghl had jKisaecl off with so much eclat Homo of the more pious gathered com fort from the thought that It had not had occurred on Sunday but if they are entitled to that consolation It Is by c a mere scratch |
