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Show (HO TIME WASTED BY PROGRESSIVES Business of Convention Begins Be-gins With the Fall of the Gavel. (Continued from Page Two.) county, firnt vice president: "William V. Price of Utah county, second vice president; presi-dent; Captain Hugo I Jf pressin of Juab county, tlunl vice prei!ent; J. W. Hos-gan Hos-gan of Papeete county, fourth vice president. presi-dent. The report of the committee was adopted unanimously. Credentials Approved. Speaking for the credentials committee, commit-tee, J. V, HogKan reported that the credentials cre-dentials of the delegates had bee it received re-ceived and examined and were found to be lawful. This report was also accepted. ac-cepted. Wesley K. Walton then made the report re-port for the joint committee that the division of offices between the Democrats Demo-crats and Progressives he as follows: The Democrats to select from their number num-ber a candidate for United .States senator and a candidate for justice of the supreme su-preme court of the state; that the Progressives Pro-gressives select from their number the two congressional candidates ; that Dr. E. G. Gowans of Ogden be named by both conventions as a nonpartisan candi- . date for the office of superintendent of ; public instruction; that the candidates . of the Progressive party be also nomi- j nated and indorsed by the Democratic party and the ch ndidates of the Democratic Demo-cratic party be nominated and indorsed by the Progressive party. N. C. Darsen of Provo opened the opposition op-position to the fusion plan and proved to be the only speaker who was vigorously vigor-ously opposed to the combination. Mr. Larsen declared that the combination "means the absorption, obliteration and death of the Progressive party." Loud and numerous cries of "Xo, no!" greeted greet-ed this statement, immediately assuring the success of the combination plan. J. G. Weaver, editor of the Progressive, Progress-ive, was enthusiastically applauded when he asked Mr. Larsen if the combination might Jiot result in the progressive element ele-ment of the Democratic party "being swallowed up by the Progressive party." Combination Defended. F.. J. Hendershot of Weber county was the first to come to the defense of the plan. He declared , that he had long been an active Republican and that If he were still in the party he would put men like Larsen on the pay roll to prevent a union which would result in a victory for the Progressive candidates. "But T am going to the funeral of S'moot and Howell," said Mr. Hendershot. Hender-shot. "And I don't care how the funeral comes about. The thing to do is to have the funeral. A principle fs of no value if It is buried. If the Democrats put a man on the ticket who would not carry out Progressive principles then we'll vote for Smoot. What we want is a man to carry out our principles." Mr. Hendershot then launched Into a bitter attack upon the Republican party, declaring that they would "steam roller everybody out of the party that wouldn't lie subservient." He bitterly attacked wealthy men and corporations, which he said were not carrying "their fair share of the burden of taxation in the state, and declared that If the laboring man wanted to get anything out of congress he would have to send there two loyal men. He said that two such candidates would "get thousands of votes from the farm and factory to put Smoot and Howell out of the power that lias been ruling us, running us and robbing us for years." J. E. Bagley of Weber county, also defending de-fending the fusion plan, brought up the recent fight on the tra ffic bureau. He declared that the people of the state should have something to say about the way the railroads were handling their finances and urged legislation to provide supervision of the railroads. He declared that representatives of the great railroads rail-roads had supervised the legislation concerning con-cerning them in the past. In answering the argument of Mr. Larsen that the i Progressive party would lose its identity by the combination, Judge Bagley compared com-pared it to the famous battle of Waterloo. Water-loo. There, he said, the nations of Europe Eu-rope united against Napoleon and defeated de-feated him, yet did not lose their Identity. Says Smoot Is Tool. "If you want to destroy the Progressive Progress-ive party," he said, "bring about its humiliation hu-miliation in the next election. Ladies and gentlemen, I am foy the union of progressives." P. J. Donahue of Salt Lake then moved the adoption of the report of the joint committee. He also attacked Senator Smoot and accused him of being the tool of a large coal company in Utah. J. T. Fitch seconded the motion In another speech favor ing the union of parties. Lewis Larson of Sanpete, the candidate for congressman in the First district, added his word to the defense of the plan in a powerful oratorical attack upon the Republican party of the state and nation. "Politics is simply a business," he said. "We go in for results, not for theories. There Is no good in hanging to splendid theories unless you act, and if you are going to act you must get the power to bring about what you are seeking to accomplish." ac-complish." Concerning the "swallowing up" process predicted as a result of union by Mr. Larson of Provo, the Sanpete leader declared that "if any Democrat follows me he will swallow the principles I hold. If he is willing to swallow them, i I'm willing to be swallowed." He said there was not much in a party name, that it was principles and results which were to be fought for. He declared that the best way to get those principles was to get Smoot and Howell out of office. "We had better dislodge those men who are In with crooked big business, even though we don't get any office " said Mr. Larson. "We have "a bigger remnant of tiie Republican partv here In Utah than any other place In the United States. I don't know why. Do you? But I can guess awfully close!" shouted the speaker. Fusion Is Adopted. At the conclusion of Mr. Larson's speech there were Insistent calls for the question. It was submitted to vote hy the chairman and adopted bv an overwhelming over-whelming oral vote. It was' estimated that the vote stood about 100 to 5 in favor of the combination. Arthur H. Parsons of Salt Lake then read the platform, as proposed by the platform committee. A resolution was also presented by the platform and resolutions reso-lutions committee, approving of the action ac-tion of the Commercial club traffic bureau and condemning the proposed $80 000 000 dividend of the Union Pacific as "repugnant "repug-nant both to justice and common de cency." Alma Kid red pe voiced a protest against this resolution, declaring that manv of the I people did not know the exact status of ; the dispute and that they should therefore there-fore "keep out of questions they know' I nothing about." The resolution how- ever, was finally adopted and read as I follows: We believe that It is contrary to I sound public policy to rermit public utility corporations to accumulate unnecessary surplus funds, either i through excessive charges for services to the public or through stock gambling gam-bling with corporate resources or through the increase of their bonded indebtedness. Any surplus so ac- i quired, over and above their lenlti-mate lenlti-mate needs for fair dividends, betterments better-ments and maintenance, shouid be used to reduce the burden of cor- J porate debt which ultlniiitely reta upon the shoulders of the people. Traffic Bureau Upheld. In accordance with this general principle, prin-ciple, we uphold the Commercial t-iUb traffic bureau in its request to the governor of Utah to intervene to rue- fare ot Increased lonai . r"'' i-spite i-spite of inilroad Petitions'",;' eml increase of rates '" nant both to Justice inJ S5 cency. u wiun... There was some debate r tl;e Platform Which favored" 6 of the poll tax. It KZ ,. ln i however, to retain that nil "' t of J B. Wllkins to in?lude ?k;,A-ini? ?k;,A-ini? American labor n .11 i1' ami municipal contracts wis?.1' Al an T. Sanford rnl.u m'-nomlnntln m'-nomlnntln .lames ir v?rd,e. tl , as the Progressive Candida f' ,D"-tates ,D"-tates senator on the i' Me criticised Senatorrn,lna!"'-' Lis fight on the narcerSo tstv-measures, tstv-measures, and declared tV nominate Mr. Movie becaV.J'?1 ' Movie stood for "the nrlnrTni held. There wa P?Plt! v when he presented Mr : E, BaKley of Ogden Secondl!J-: nation, and the vole waa m? ''' In favor of Mr MovU. more than five dissenting ' Because at that hour ihetesn convention had not made its supreme court Judge, the r,ucts'' riftss. was changed Vnhom er 01 ing vote Dr. E. G. Oo&S?'. ed as the nonpartisan candid, perlntendent of public instr r,1t! ,!' cess was then declared wh I-, i sressisonal district convention, lM convened and nominations ma"e ' Larson Is Nominated. The session ot the First m., . ' vention was uneventful n Ar:': of Moroni nominated Le-vis' 1 1 ; Manti as the candidate for U'' T"d4,.h m:.naLl0n ""te5 . r. I itch of Carbon countv r M of the vigorous work of Mr the nominee at the last fl i ' urged his candidacv again nated without : dissenting vou ": a brief speech, in which he W ' convention for the honor and K;1 f best efforts in the coming cJ " it was agreed by the dPlr' ' the member of the Wte comZ t ' each county should, act, ex f, , ' 1 member of the concession H committee from his count man and secretary of the'dictr ' Hendershot and Willis John V r tively, were empowered to ail V if any occurred on the slate In the Second district corner-eluding corner-eluding Salt Lake countv, a V,i ' arose between the followers 0 Mays, the slated candidate forte' nation, and the followers of -"-" Love, the standard bearer of Vv in the congressional ficht at 7. -general election. u L' Brigham H. Clegg of Salt L3te to wait until the deleeate of "tV" district had selected their norV this met with opposition. r "There is no one here eo 6u f-doesn't f-doesn't know what is meant bv declared H. G. McMillan in or,L ' plan. Vt"-" 7. E. A. Mitchell of Utah country r delegate who put the name ofV Into the race. He informed tV gates that he did not know w'"ei-7 Love would accept or not, and made the nomination solelv on responsibility. . Debate Grew Hot. Frank E. Evans- of Salt Lak nated J. L. Mays and It wa .:; by George M. Sullivan. The deta--hot and friends of Jlr. Lov that they were not sure whetv- '-- A be a candidate or not. J. B u ' tacked Mr. Mays on the erojr:. ; he had heard he was connected of the largest corporations in i1--O. H. 'Hewlett and R. B. Porir-among Porir-among those to mpke speeches, h they lauded Mr. Love for the ; s had done, but expressed the b:;: M the best plan at this time was:.--nation,oi' Mr. Mays. "When the vote was finally tak- c; Chairman George N. Lawrence, : i found that it stood 56 for Mays for Love. On motion of Mr." V,: who had nominated Mr. Love, th: : D natinn of Mr. Mays was the:, unanimous. " The county delegations named 7 lowing district congressional cot..- Palt Lake county, John Keere. 1 Harrison, Brigham H. Gee?. Iky ' r, and Ephraim Hanson; Utah ccj" J' 1 A. Mitchell of Provo, C. M. f American Fork and Fred Lewis of " ish Fork; Davis county. J. E. X- -Tooele county. Dr. Z. G. La?an committee was authorised to fil vacancies that occurred. Having heard from the Democrat -state convention immediately reojri- and. on motion of George M. : nominated Frank B. Stephens t opposition for justice of the K j court. The "Bull Moose." as vised in campaign, was again the Uiik ; choice for the partv emblem. A ? picture of a bull moose adorned tr during the convention. The stsi' mittfe was authorized to fill on the state ticket. On the motion of George N. U the state committee was unaninr elected to serve until the next ?v vention, after which final aiy -" was taken. Just before adjourn Progressives received and ace' - motion of A. T. 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