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Show CANDIDATES INDEPENDENT. Kind of Men Who Will Be Chosen Tonight. To-night. At the American parly convention at the Grand tonight, the candidates to bo chosen will be public-spirited and independent inde-pendent men who will administer the office of-fice entrusted to them by the people to tho best interests of thc public schools and not. as has been the caso with several sev-eral of tho boards ln thc past, ln tho Interests of a church which has long sought to control tho public schools, ln order that It may aid Its own ends. . What "Bi-Partisan" Ticket Is. Tho "bi-partisan" ticket, nominated under un-der the direction of the high church authorities au-thorities on Monday night, Is nothing moro or less than an adjunct of the church. Tho ward primaries wore controlled con-trolled for the most part by officers of thc church and four out of tho six candidates candi-dates nominated owo their entire allegiance alle-giance to tho church and aro controlled by It exclusively ln all spiritual and vorldly matters. Finger of Church Manifest. The finger of tho church was so manifest mani-fest ln these conventions that most of those who attended them, but who want to see tho schools free from ecclesiastical control, have como out openly and announced an-nounced their Intention of voting for candidates can-didates who. If elected, will inaugurate much needed reforms ln the system and will administer tho business pertaining to tho schools on a strictly non-partisan ba-8ls, ba-8ls, treating members of all creeds fairly 'and without bios. Difference in Ticket. Thc dlffcrcnco between the ticket nominated nomi-nated on Monday night and the one which will bo nominated tonight is simply ono of opinion. Those who support tho ticket supposed to havo been nominated under a fusion agreement on Monday night aro simply expressing their desire that tho Mormon church continue Its lnterferonco with tho public schools in tho future, as it has in the pa3t; that tho employment of teachers and other expenditure of money be made on such lines as will either Indirectly assist tho church financially, finan-cially, or strengthen Its formidable political po-litical machine. Persons opposed to theso Ideas will attend the mass convention at tho Grand theater tonight, Who Aro Suggested. Among thc persons spoken of in addition addi-tion to thoso heretofore suggested us bolng particularly qualified to hold tho office in question, are: W. J. Ilalloran and Dr. C. G. Plummer, from thc Fifth ward; E. D. Jones and Dr. A. S. Chapman, Chap-man, from tho First ward, and W. Mont Ferry and E. O. Howard, from tho Fourth ward, |