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Show Cliristensen's Defi for the Insurgents In-surgents Has Stirred Up the Gang. ANIMATED MEETING WAS HELD IN ZI0N TUESDAY G. 0. P. State Committee Will fi Meet on Tuesday to Consider Several Problems. Thero was a conference of the fodoral bunch at tho Alta club on Monday evening, the subject for discussion being be-ing tho defi of the insurgents through Parley Christcnson. All of the bunch were not presont, the absentees being Kinky Booth and Curly Callister. The bomb thrown by Mr. Christonsen frightened fright-ened the bunch and it mot to consider what action should bo taken. That any member of tho G. 0. P. could have the temerity to como out in the open, throw down the gauntlet, and declare vrar upon iho bunch was something that never was expected, llenco tho conference. confer-ence. Col. Loose Called. Later tho tolcphono was brought into refpiisition and the bell on iho phono in the homo of Col. C. E. Loose in Provo aroused that gentleman from his slumbers, Regardless of the fact that he had tendered his resignation as chairman of the G. O. P. state committee, commit-tee, tho spokesman for tho bunch at this end of the Hue begged and pleaded with the Provo man to como to Salt Lake for a conference nnd to discuss 1 111; ijuunnun ii I'.iiniii it iiii.-ci.iiil; i instate in-state committee. Tho result or a long talkfest was that Col. Loose caino to Zion on Tuesday morning aud mot with the bunch that controls tho church Jto-publicui Jto-publicui party of Utah. It Is said that the conference was an exceedingly warm ouc anrl, tTiat harmony har-mony was not passed a'rpimfl in big chunks. In fact, there were several rather lively tills -and language was indulged in-dulged in that would utf&iitv that some one was moro than angry. . Riot Act Was Bead. The bunch had the law, laid down in plain terms. They were told that their action in removing the only gentile .federal .fed-eral oflicial in Utah county, tho lato postmaster at Spanish Fork, and the only person that tho chnirman of the state committeo had recommended for place, was not only an injustice but that it was the same as n slap in tho faco given the chairman ' and that it was this action that had caused tho chairman to resign. The members of the bunch were told in forceful language lan-guage to go to ; that the insult was too great to bo forgiven and that when sinews of war in the shape of big round simoleons were desired that they would have to como from somewhere else than from tho vaults of tho big chief in Provo. Committeo to Meet Tuesday. Finally it was decided to issuo a call for a meeting of the state committee to be held in Salt Lako City on Tuesday, Tues-day, September G, at which meeting the resignation of Chairman Loose will be acted upon and a new chairman selected. select-ed. This chairman will bo State Senator Sena-tor Kuchler of Weber county. At the meeting on Tucsd'av the date for (he state convention will be fixed and the apportionment of delegates decided de-cided upon. Tho date for the convention conven-tion will in all probability be Tuesdav. September 27. J' From what leaked out at the conference confer-ence on Tuesday the bunch is moro alarmed than they card to havo the rank and lilo know. The gang was informed in-formed that tho revolt against them and their methods was not confined to Salt Lako county, but that it had spread all over the state, and had assumed as-sumed formidable proportions. Sutherland's Statement Repudiated. m The statement made by Sutherland in his speech at the Weber club in Ogden Og-den on Monday night in which he declared de-clared that "the Republican party in Utah is solidly combined with Tiffin possibility of a serious insurgont movement move-ment arising. I have recently covered tno ontire slate, ami can positively sav that the whole state is lined up' wit'h the regulars. Any small discord which may affect the solidarity of the party in certain sections is of no consoqueneo and will, of course, be straightened out beiorc the fall election. I sco nothing but a straight Republican victory" was repudiated. Tho bunch were told, and that too in a manner that left no room for doubt, that the progressives the insurgents had an exceptionally strong organization and that when the state convention was held that thoy would show their power. The bunch was likewise given to understand that the revolt was so great that the scalp oL the Jack-Mormon senator would dangle from the belt- of the insurgents when the senatorial election occurred next winter. f There is a merry war on and the standpatters will get it in the neck, and they will got it good and plenty. The Democratic enmmit.toe of Salt Lake county will hold a meeting at the i."eeiinnr,,c? (Wednesday) evening at S:. 0 o'clock for tho purpose of making mak-ing tho apportionment of dologates to the stale and county conventions. |