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Show : HEYWDOD TO RU AS DELEGATE -iT-LARGE Mayor Will Receive Support Sup-port of Weber Delegation, i Pledged Yesterday. MAY LEAVE OUT SPRY j Chairman Holiingsworth j Names Committeemen for Provo Meeting". Special to The Tribune. ! O'rDKN, April (.'oinplfte organ- j i-'.iitiun of (In1 Wrlu'i enmity Koptihiiean : 'li-lt';tt inn l n I In- slat c eon vontion at ; J'rovo nevt Mumlnv etfciHcl at a I caucus ln'kl in .lude .1. A. Howell 's ; rou rt. room of the oouiit v lmiMiug this n t'tcrmiON. The delegation, under icad-1 icad-1 prsliip oi' the William ('lasn.Hnn con-1 con-1 tinpont, went, on record to unanimously ! fin pport tlio candidacy of Mayor A. l. lu-wond as one nf thn four rtolefia Irani Ira-ni large to tho national convention. Attention wan called to tho existence of an unwritten law that the governor ! and two I'n i ted States senators from I Utah he named as national delegates-ut-a rpe, and for this reason pre para t inns were made to put up a strong t'ilit for flavor Hevwood as thn fourth delegate-fit-lare. t'Je elates who seemed to have an understanding of the situation repented re-pented the HUgye stion that Mayor Hey-v Hey-v ood he boosted as one oi the two j national delegates from the First congressional con-gressional district. Incidentally there were murmurs that the unwritten law about the governor j and United States senators being named as deeatos-at-large might un- j dergo a severe strain .and possibly a j fracture at the Monday convention. ! This rumor is said to have its inception in a plot to leave the governor's name: off the list. It was pointed out that the governor and two senators must be regularly reg-ularly elected as delegates-at-large. A. committee composed of three mem.bers of tho Weber delegation will be appointed ap-pointed by C. R. Hollingsworth, county chairman, and also chairman of the delegation, dele-gation, to go to Provo on Sunday and lay the foundation for a Heywood boom in the convention on Monday, The members of this committee were not appointed ap-pointed during the caucus, Mr.. Hollinga-worth Hollinga-worth desiring to confer with Mayor Heywood first. May Go in Advance. About fifty of the seventy -four delegates dele-gates apportioned to "Weber county wore present, this afternoon. Few of the country districts wore represented and ahout "ten or twelve districts failed to hold primaries last night for the selection selec-tion of delegates, it. developed today. Arrangements were made for sending a full delegation of seventy-four to Provo. Mr. Hollingsworth, as county chairman, called the caucus to order at 2:30 o 'clock. Ho was selected as delegation : chairman and Carl Allison as secretary., i Nearly all business transacted . was ;l upon the motion or suggestion of Will-j Will-j in m Glasmann, W. C. Howell. J. V. Fldredgc. Jr., and Chairman Hollings- ' j v orth. After it had been decided to1 M-iiil the Heywood committee to Provo 1 on Sunday with "power to act,'' one of the delegates even suggested that it ! would not bo necessary for the .balance of the delegation to n'ttAd the convention. conven-tion. Mr. Glasmann made an objection to the motion of W, C. Howell that "Weber eountv members of the convention committers com-mitters on permanent organization, resolutions res-olutions and credentials be selected. He, asserted that there would be no committee- on resolutions at the Provo convention. conven-tion. When informed hy Mr. Howell! that such a committee would most cer- ! tainlv he in evidence there, the pub--l liher-oongrcsional candidate subsided. ! The chairman was empowered to appoint members to these committees for both J tho state and congressional conventions. Committeemen Named. j i His choice, as announced at the con-j ; elusion of the caucus, is as follows: S: ate convention James H. Fowles, 1 H nopT. orga nidation ; J. T". Fldrediie, Jr.. 'V,loii, resolutions, and T. M. Jones, ! Jr.. Hooper, credentials. Congressional convention W, W. Rawson, Ogden, or- ' pa nidation ; Chris Flysare, Ogden, resolutions, res-olutions, and George E. Randall, Ban-da Ban-da 11. credentials. The motion to support Mayor Heywood Hey-wood as a candidate to the national convention was made bv Mr. Glasmann and carried unanimously. This wa, followed fol-lowed by a decision to appoint the; Heywood Hey-wood committee with ; 'power to act." Although not named as a delegate to the state convention. J. Y. Bhtth. secretary sec-retary of the county central committee, brought out the on est ion of the governor gov-ernor and United States senators being named as national delegates. Mr. pluih argued that under the rule Weber county would have to battle the1 -ntire state in order to get Mavor Hoy-. Hoy-. nod over as the fourth ncUgnte at-largc at-largc from I" tah. He stipyeved that i ho mayor change his rand idacv for a jdifo :n one uf tho two d el I-;-ares from th- First district. Thia argument was quickly tabled hv the announcement from Thai r man 1 1 ol line-: worth that in-had in-had recently consulted the mavor and it is hiH Avifih to le a candidate for national na-tional Helcua te-a t-la rue or not st all. " Anyway, " M r. 1 1 nlli-igswor: h added, 'Weber county entitled to the honor on account nf ln'iiHj the ! tanner Kopub-li'-an fo'inty of : he state. ' ' Glasmann Gets Chance. j The ji rgn men t as to Mavor HevwoodV f-n iii I idacy of f-rod an op port un i :y for Mr. iilasiuaiin to explain that he had lieen mentioned as a natyiial delegate I rum t he First rungres.-ioea 1 d i-1 rid , lull, rhnt he was nut a candidate for tho honor. That Congressman Jo.-eph How-el! How-el! iiiight. he a andidate as one of tho delega t es from the I-'i rst distri'-t was also mentioned in connection with the .unwritten law applying to governor and : senators. t I Mr. Fid red ee suggested that a com -inittee be appointed to confer with tho central committee of t lie First congressional con-gressional dist riet on Monday with a view to obtaining an earlv date for tho nominating convention. He pointed out that such action would be desirable in order to give the nominee of such convention con-vention an opportunity to visit all of the counties in his far-flung district, which extends from top to bottom of the state. When it was suggested hy Chairman Hollings worth that the congressional convention be held at the same time the state convention is held in Ogden in August. W. F. Zuppnnn offered a motion mo-tion that suoh action be concurred in by the delegates in order to save traveling travel-ing expenses for the delegates from the counties in the far southern end of the state. This motion was carried unanimous unan-imous v.' A motion endorsing the action of the transportation commit tee in selecting se-lecting the Penvpr & Rio Grande as the official route to provo concluded the caucus. |