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Show I BI-PARTISAN OR I NON-PARTISAN I People Will Soon I Decide. i! Church Crowd and Jack Mor- mons Will Nominate Bj the Former. u 1 On Wednesday Night, However, a If! i Genuine American. School Board Iff Will Bo ITanied. ff t CONVENTION II CALLED FOR t H ; GRAND THEATER i. I II " A 3VLASS convention is here-Ill here-Ill y called to meet in tho v-III v-III Grand theater on Wednesday, i HI November 23, 1904, at 8 p. m. ijji v for the purpose of nominating v t members of the Board of Educa- !-HI !-HI tion for Salt" Lake City. There v ill j will bo one candidato nominated IjfJ for each of the First, Second, v Third and Fifth municipal if "wards. All persona who voted v jft r the Amorican party ticket at tho 4" s rocent general election, or who 4 sympathize with its principle of -I- jfl v non-sectarianism in the public f v schools are invited to be present ;- If In and to participate in the deliber- !- -I- ations of tho convention. v M GEOBGE L. NYE, ntl Chairman American Party. Rft v A. C. BEESE, v Kj Secretaiy. r jj fl .J, .j. J. .J. .$. Jfr .J. .j. .J. J i llll Tho liberal-minded voters of Salt Lalco will get togother next Wednesday oven- llJn ing at he Grand theater to nomlnato llll candidates In each of tho five municipal fjfi wards for members of the school board. u It will bo tho first organized effort to HI Kcop the schools out. of tho control of tho HlS ccclcslasts of tho Mormon church. It lirl w111 bo sucn a meeting as the good men tjl and women of Salt Lake who bellovo In ffH tho Pur,t o tno schools will feol an Ifl Interest In attending. And they will be Sill present hundreds of them. They aro llifl fully allvo to the Importance of the great Ifjy Issue. They know that the so-called lj 8 "non-partisan" conventions wcro hatched BBfl by tho priesthood and first advocated by the polygamous editor, of tho official organ or-gan of the priesthood. They know It Is the suggestion of tho Dcseret Nows that the Republicans and Democrats get together on a "non-partisan" basis. And tho committees are got-Ung got-Ung together, anil as political parties arc calling "non-partisan" conventions to nomlnato what they havo been led to call "non-partisan" candidates. Non-partisan is n. good word in Its place. But it Is wholly inapplicable to such a movement. Instead of a "nonpartisan" "non-partisan" movement It 13 offensively and aggressively bi-partisan. A bi-partisan convention In each of the fivo wards will nominate candidates approved ap-proved by the leaders of the church tomorrow to-morrow night. Not a man will bo named who is not directly or indirectly under control of the priesthood or tho commor-eia commor-eia lists of tho church. Not one. Wednesday Wednes-day night at the Grand a real nonpartisan non-partisan ticket will be named. It will bo nominated and supported without party lines. It will be a representative ticket and It will bo elected. The need of a united elTort to take the schools from the rulo of the church leaders lead-ers and to keep them there was neVer better understood nor more important than now The peoplo arc avako to their duty. The Grand theater should be' and will be packed Wednesday night. Tho names of several prominent Salt Lakers have been mentioned as capable and agreeablo persons from which to make up a representative Board of Education. Edu-cation. Among those talked of most frequently are Stephen Hayes, II. V. Van Pelt, E. O. Lcathcrwood and J. J. Corum from tho First. Mr. Hayes Is a Democrat. The others aro Republicans. Mr. Corum was onco a member of the board nr.d Is a respected re-spected citizen . Messrs. Hayes, Van Pelt and Lealherwood arc among Salt Lake's aggresslvo citizens. From tho Second, G. R. Cleavcland, J. N. Courtney and J. R. Walker aro mentioned. men-tioned. All arc Republicans and rank with tho city's most progressive men. J. D. Hageman, W. J. Barrctto and S. F. Fenton, all Republicans, are talked of for tho Third. It Is conceded that either would make an admlrablo member of tho board. In the Fourth the namea talked by the citizens of that war A are W. F. Colton, Republican; J. C, Loary, Democrat, and Thomas Weir. Republican, They are Intelligent In-telligent business men, either of whom, If on tho board, would be of great value to tho schools of Sail Lake. Hon. P. L. Williams. Democrat, Gcorgo W. Parks, Democrat, and W. A. Neldcn, Republican, aro prominently talked of for tho Fifth. Mr. Neldcn Is now a member of the board and his term expires with tho election of his successor. All aro representative men. Thoso who have scon the list published herewith say a board composed of such men as thoso would help to bring tho schools from under the criticism of tho past and that there could bo no good cause to say that either would use his of-flco of-flco to tho base designs of politics or to discriminate against any one or any class. Thoy represent the best typo of the citizenship citi-zenship of Salt Lake and It Is hoped a ticket can bo made up next Wednesday evening at tho Grand theater out of such an admlrablo list. m I Fred W. Prlco and Ben D. Luce havo Issued a call for a "non-partisan" convention conven-tion at the Sixth ward mectlng-house for Monday evening to nominate a "non-partisan" candidate for the Board of Education. Educa-tion. Similar meetings aro provided for by Other non-partlsan3 for tho samo evening even-ing at other such "non-sectarian" and "non-partisan" meeting places. James H. Haslam and Georgo A. Davis sign that for the Third precinct and Julian Riley and B. W. Maycock for tho First precinct. George D. Strlngfcllow. the Democratic candidate for the Legislature from Wayno county, has been found to have defeated William H. Morrill Republican, by four votes. Dr. W. W. Cook,' Republican, was defeated for the Legislature In Beaver county. This gives tho Democrats three lonely places in the House to forty-two Republicans. ' W. D, Neal, who served his church on a mission In Europe, announces himself as a candidate for tho school board In tho Third ward. One of the members of the Second ward "non-partisan" committee "has given giv-en It out that the nominee for the school board for the Second precinct "must be a Mormon." Asked why. ho said, "Oh, well, you don't know, do. you?" |