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Show 1 JODY ELDREOGE TO I LEADSMOOTITES H Church Republicans Refuse to H Accept His Resignation as H Chairman. I MATTER GOES OVER UNTIL CONVENTION MEETS H Church Democrats Select M. P. H Cunningham as Chairman; B Also Headquarters. The Smootitc Central committee met at the courthouse ou Wednesday aftor-noon. aftor-noon. The attoudanco was fair. There mWM were five proxies. whilo Ave members mm did not answer when thoir names wore Wm called. The resignation of .Tody Eld- fl redpe was not acted upon, except to lay the document upon the table. There HI were several aspirunts for the position, IB but it Avas finally decided to allow the HI mattor to o over until after tho new HI committco is selocted. Ilarrj' Joseph HI was the Btaunchest advocate for hold- inp the chairmanship off until after the WM convention, as he said that so many HH good men had loft the Smootito party HI and joined the Americans that it was HI difficult to find a good man to fill tho BH position of chairman. Tho kind of a HI man Mr. Joseph stated that the com- Hj mittec wanted was one who could get mm tho money; in other words, the follow HI who can tap the church barrel. This would indicate that W. J. Lynch HI was tho man desired. However, Lynch B would bo obnoxious to the Chnstenscn B orowd, because he is allogod to be for BH Howell. Cal Buekwalter is the man BB who would suit tho opposition to tho BB church crowd, but now that the mattor BE goes over until after the new commit- tee is selected, it is cortain that a church man will head tho committee. 1 The committee decided upon Friday H evening, September 14, as tho date, and 8 o'clock as the time, to hold tho pri- Hl maries to select delegates to tho State Ha convention. Tho number of districts in Wm the city is 41, each of which will be H entitled to two delegates; 42 in county H outside of eit', which arc ontitled to H one delegate each, except district 54, H . which will have three, and districts 56, 57, 62, 66, 67, 72, 77, 7S, 79, SI, SS and IB Si), which will be entitled to two each. H It was also decided that in the call for H fheso primaries that tho chairman ap-H ap-H nounco that balloting for delegates will H bo had from 8 to 9 o'clock p. m., under H tho direction of the precinct chairman. B It was also decided to issue a call for Hf the count3' convention, the same to be H held on October 8, or ns near that date H as the Salt Lake theater can be se-HJ se-HJ cured, the primarios to "be held ono H week preceding the convention. The H apportionment for delegates for the H county convention will bo one for every H 40 votes or fraction thereof cost for H Roosevelt. The city and county prc-H prc-H cinct chairmen were authorized to fill H vacancies in the district committees. H One vacancy to be filled is that of HI glutton Bill Jones, who has been re-Hf re-Hf tired from the Count' infirmarv. Mm H What a keen interest is being taken H in the church Republican part' by the Hj workmen of Salt Lake. The church H Republican Workmen's club was to M have held a meeting last night in Judgo H Bitchio's court, for the purpose of dis- H cussing a number of important matters, B but the affair proved to be the samo HJ old story in the samo old way. When 8 o'clock, the time set for the meeting. j came around the ccirt room wns still H ' dark and the door lockod. There wasn't a Republican in sight. At 8:15 two of Hj the faithful followers did put in an appearance and fivo minutes later still H another showed up. The three sat on I the steps of the city and county build-1 build-1 ing and waited for a'bout a half-hour for H the rest of the Republicans, but the I wait was in vain. 2sot even the leader B of tho bunch, who issued the call, B showed up. j m Michael F. Cunningham, the former well-known newspaper man, was selected select-ed by tho Church City and County Democratic Dem-ocratic committee, Wednesday evening, as the man best fitted to lead the party to defeat at the fall election. Mr. Cunningham, Cun-ningham, whose newspaper training has caused him to shy violently when in danger of a "scoop." such as the Democracy is billed tor at the coming election, did not want tho place ana was not present at the meeting, until after his election. Upon being notified noti-fied that he had been selected, however, how-ever, Mr. Cunningham manfully resigned re-signed himself to his fate and accepted the honor in a ringing speech. In the I course of Iris remarks Mr. Cunningham fervently declared that "there ain't nothin' to it, but the Democrats, this fall," and, as there were a number of men present who appreciate a good joke, he was enthusiastically applauded. The election of Mr. Cunningham was - forcod upon him, after David C. Dunbar Dun-bar had firmly declined tho honor. Mr. Dunbar was visited by a committee on Wednesday afternoon and urged to take the chairmanship, but Mr. Dunbar Dun-bar has gainod much wisdom during tho past few years and is not engaged! just now, in leading forlorn hopes. As a result of Mr. Dunbar's declination, four names were presented at last even-n even-n ing's meeting Will G. Farrell, William H. Dale, M. P. Cunningham and Tommy F. Thomas, Mr. Farrell and Mr. Dalo were withdrawn from the race by warm personal friends, and a ballot was taken upon Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Thomas. Tho ballot stood 17 for Cunningham and 10 for Thomas. Mr, Cunningham ! . was then declared elected and a com mittee, comprising Mr. Hamer and Mr. Arnup, made its way to the Salt Lake Theater, where Mr. Cunningham was ' witnessing a dress rehearsal of "The Old Bedstead," lassoed the gentleman and took him captive to the offices of Lyman I?. Martineau, where the tneet-; tneet-; ing was being held. Upon his arrival there Mr, Cunningham realized that it was useless to protest, and accepted I the chairmanship, as heretofore alleged and set out. Chairman Cunningham was given authority au-thority to select a secretary and appoint ap-point an executive committee. This will consume several days' time, doubtless, doubt-less, as Mr. Cunningham is not very well acquainted with former Cache county people The executive committee, commit-tee, as soon as named, will fix the date for tho county convention and decido as to the apportionment. During tho session a number of speeches were made, the orators being Mr. Martineau, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Sloa iur. Hamer, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Dowho, Mr. Hood and Mr. Howell. All predicted predict-ed success for the Church Democracy this fall and each was cheered when ho mentioned the name of William J. Bryan. An incident of tho meeting was the exoneration of C. M. Jackson of Og-den, Og-den, former secretary of tho committee, commit-tee, from the charges Baid to have boon made by Mathouinah Thomas, which were to the effoct that Jackson had misplaced tho books of the committee. Friends of Jackson brought the mattor squarely before the meeting, forced a vote upon it and Thomas was turned down with a thud that threatened tho Bteel girders. Two letters wore read from Jackson, before a vote was taken, and it is said that they caused the temperature in tho room to clamber up at a rapid' rate. The matter of headquarters also was decided upon and the headquarters will be in tho same rooms which the committee com-mittee occupied on tho first floor of the Atlas block last fall. Tho State committee will occupy rooms with tho city and county committee. Those present at the meeting were: First ward T. A. Home, James Mof-fatt, Mof-fatt, Sam Dowse, "V?. J. Sloan. Second ward W. "J. Korth, proxy for Ben D. Luce and Max R. Brothers, Thomas W. Green, S. E. Hamer, A. M. Rudolph. Third wnrd Pearl A. Hill, D. 0. Willey, Jr., G. E. Asper. Fourth ward N. Y. Scofleld, T. A. Home, proxy for T. F. Thomas; Harry T. Ball, James Maxwell. Fifth ward John W. Arnup for himself him-self and George H. Wood, and Rollin W. Dole. County Nicol Hood, Joseph F. Mousloy. proxy for John Gobbott: D. A. McMillan, H. M. Hay, H. C. Carlisle. Car-lisle. State Chairman Martineau, Will G. Farrell nnd John T. Howell also were present. The Church Democratic State committee com-mittee last evening issued a call for a State convention. The call follows: To the Democratic Voters of Utah and All Other Votors Who Beliovo in tho Application Applica-tion of Democratic Principlos to the Affairs Af-fairs of Government; A Democratic State convention is heroby called to meet in the Salt Lake Theater in Salt Lako City. Utah, on Thursday, October 1, 1D06, at 10 a. m., for the purpose of nominating nom-inating a Stato ticket to be voted for nt the ccnoral election Tuesday, November 6, 190C, for tho selection of a State committco, for the adoption ot a plntform of party principles, and for tho transaction of such other business busi-ness as may come properly before the assembly. as-sembly. One' candidate for Judgo of tho Supreme Court and one candidate for representative in the Sixtieth Congress of the United States will be selected by this convention. All Democratic voters and all other voters who believe in equal nnd exact justice to nil men, with special privileg09 for nono, are, without regard to past political affiliations, invited to pnrtloipato in the selection of delegates to this Stato convention. This convention will be composod of 7i7 delegates. The basis of apportionment agreed upon is one delegnte for every fifty votes cast for Orlando W. Powers for Congress In 1904, and one delegate for every major fraotion of fifty votes. Under this apportionment tho roprosentation of the respective counties will be ns follows: ' County. voto. of Dol. Beaver C28 13 Box Elder 1,232 5 Cache 3.043 01 Cnrbon 505 l" Davis .... 1,351 27 Emery 633 13 Garfield 272 6 Grand ibg 4 Iron 457 9 Juab 1,374 27 Kane -.. 106 2 Millard 764 15 Morgan . 322 6 '"te 248 5 Rich . - 267 5 Salt Lake 10,000 202 San Juan 44 "l Sanpete . . . 1,972 30 Soyior 1,050 21 Summit 1,610 82 Tooclo 722 n giu.tnl1 674 13 Utau 4,657 93 Wasatch 706 14 Washington 707 15 Wayne . .-. . 248 5 Weber - . 3,407 GO Tho chairmen of tho several counties "are requested to mnko the nocoasary arrangements arrange-ments for the election of delegates to this State convention and to forward at thoir earliest possiblo date to tho secretary of tho Stale committee the namos and addresses of the. delegates chosen. The Stato committee has made arrange-meats arrange-meats for n. special rate of ono fare for tho round trip for all delegates on nil railroads within tho Stato. By order of tho Democratic Stato committee. com-mittee. LYMAN R. MARTINEAU. Chairman. M, F. CUNNINGHAM, Secretarr. 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