Show democrats in county convention MACHINE SAT DOWS DOWN ON north and south gec sections geltion tion of the file county combine against provo prove platform tue democratic democratic cirena at springville Spring ville last batur saturday day was the liveliest political gathering ever held in this count country rv there was I 1 c I 1 talk of bolting by the provo delegation fr fir f ir being eat down on by ly a criminal combination organized to down the county seat machine the Pop ulista under tha leadership of 11 1 S 4 brooks broods ot of lake shore he de nouard noua cd d the party for the shameful manner in which they had been treated we wa were made to understand said eaid broks Bro ilis that we were to lo fuse with the lb and be in this convention and that we would receive at leist two places on the county ticket and this is the way we are treated I 1 say a laai is ia a fuse and it if you yon are not to eland by it well walk out ont and n d ta thy liy th y did only one or two remaining rp inich fork delegation said that if they did not get the for H J thomas the parly need not expect a very b g democratic vote this thia year horn from that precinct and made it plainly un nn ders that the ticket would be knifed if they did not have their say 11 it was acknowledged that the only reason in the world why this ibis great party of equal arigtta and azes to none and the lovers lovere of won ans would constent conse ent 11 0 ri put a woman en cn the ticket at all was waa to catch the female votes vote it 11 it is sacrificing principles for policy tu ta do so BO said a delegate from the north they would rather cause the enmity of Ma malmborg linberg by defeating him tor for treasurer than get bla china 01 ol wor teine against that party by nominating mrs ellen jackman recorder oaf thomas but bat the most striking feature of the whole convention was the way the north and south ends of the county combined against provo it was openly asier asserted ted on the floor of the convention that two weeks ago Malin barg had offered bia support I 1 to certain combine candidates the machine in ital it a little bit as aa provo prove men learned to the sorrow of several prominent aspirants for office it seemed that anyone irom was enough to canse ans dicion and it got so BO that when a provo delegate arosa to make a nomination he W would say I 1 my mn man is from a certain part of the county a man for all the county not form any particular place it is to be regretted that my candidate is from provo etc there were many dissatisfied provo merr men and women who returned home vowing vengeance A number of lady dele de legatta gatts say eay they ere through with wite a party who will only toem tor for policy and their votes and not for their worth as politicians and who only be lieve in distributing the offices at a ratio of 16 to 1 that is sixteen men to one lady on oa the ticket and that one only after a hard fight fiebe of policy against principle during the dia disgraceful graceful fight for the trea treasurer BUTer A D gash posed as a al mortar crating that it if he were up for to cuffiee on the ticket he would resign in 10 1 avor vor of a lady ladr and that gladly so h lp ip me god gash said if a lady is not rat on the ticket I 1 cannot lead aru to victory I 1 will withdraw sp a chairman 11 all ail this waa as taid aid while gash was mounted on two chairs with waving arms it was indeed very dramatic not to ID DP ondone evans and smoot who had bad been romin td kir state sn accra ran a big bluff blaff by resigning if their heir resignation would be accepted abe convention did not heed their re marka maiks and tho the gentlemen looked relieved malmberg almberg Al according acordi Dg to the iha P ovo de delegation leation gave away the whole thing thine when he announced the vote of sunti santi quin on the saying that he ha regretted very much moch that thoy had bad to vote vota for thomas but two or three weeks ajo be bad pledged the spanish fork man the San support provo proto people wanted to know if there were say any more suen promises if so they might as well go home this undoubtedly hurt hart malmbergg chances for the and he tried to countered counteract the effect by saying that he was waa not nat after the office but bat he had found out who bis friends were and those who had bad knifed him would rue it it was a clear case where a barbain had been mado made ard goods delivered only on one side the ticket was finally put up as follows SENATORS A 0 smoot aole able J evans wm win M roylance L P lund myrum lemons W 0 creer COUNTY J 8 perry james jamea 0 bullock bollock W H winn coasts samael A kinz kine geo A storrs Z COUNTY clelia ct geo havercamp H F thomas mrs mra ellen J J mercer marcer andrew adamson sixie six eix delegates dele wore were then than elected teni the state convention contention and eight delaba t attend the judicial Jadi cial both to be held at al provo the following are tie me resolutions the democratic utah county in convention assembled hereby indorse and batly the tha platform adopted a at t the national convention held at chicago july 7 1896 and espee especially fally and emphatically indorsed endorsed indor sed that part that favors the free and unlimited coinage ot silver at tha ratio of 16 to 1 without the aid or consent of any other nation we ballete the american people a are becoming so BO enlightened ulc daou the financial al question that they cannot fail to elect william J bryan and arthur sawall by an overwhelming moin majority ity j we firmly adhere to that cardinal princ ciple of democracy which demands that i public revenue shall be collected anly for governmental purposes restricted within the limits of an economical administration ministration of all departments of the I 1 government federal state and local we still adhere to the principles of local tioff government and demand that our state legislators as far as possible will discountenance continuance of power within our state and distribute powers of government in local affairs to LO different parts thereof whenever consistent with public ic god eod and especially provide by law for the control of waters for irrigation by such ench methods as will insure as aa far as practicable the man a gement ot of 1 the of the state by the people of the different subdivisions thereof and we are unqualifiedly 0 opposed P to any that would foster or favor the of the tha water wat er of the state we favor legislation providing tor for se as curine to the benefit of the stats state lands under the aue munificent grant of congress to our state and deprecate and denounce any and ail attempts by state or of officers ficere to secure the monopoly of any of the public lands of tte state and when secured by the state to be disposed of by it to actual settlers in small allotments we approve of the administration of affairs of utah county and require of our incoming officers that they that continue awl it if possible poe sible improve upon the economical public spirited tion of the affairs of attah county |