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Show EEIWril BIOffiATS TO : HOLD S17STE CONVENTION Party Leaders Hold Autopsy on Late Election and Decide to Call a Mass Meeting to Express Their Feeling: flnent Church Interference. As forecast in yesterday's TELEGRAM,: the Demo; " cratic leaders got together last night and decided toN call; a State convention to express the party ?s . attitude "ioni church interference iiv polities, in the light of the recent election. There were some "disbanders" in the assem blage, but the majority of the speakers favored. the adopi, tion of resolutions which, as the old lawyer said, would show wa proper spirit of resentment.'' F. S. Fernstrom; the church's recognized agent in the City Council, wanted the church leaders haled before a church court and tried for the alleged offense of interference in politics. As thef Democratic party had palpably lost control of church af-; fairs, the suggestion was received with a sickly smile. . .? opportunity of expressing his bonesd political convictions at the polls, and,',, eculd do so onlv bv voting the Demo--eiatic ticket. He woubt fight, if thery was not over a dozen t make the fight.: Van Cott Makes Hit. . - Ray Van Cott scored President SmitH for the Era article; which, he argued had bean done for the. benefit of the Re publican party and to-the disadvantage f .the Democratic .party. ' - '4Hear! Hear!" saVi a number off,' ' . those present. ' 8. L. Richards tirged that the adresf sent out should be intended to reach the y - reaoB -of the voterorTtrat in ft tMo-sition tMo-sition of the; partr boult be made., so clear that there could be no excuse for misunderstanding it. Stephens Says Fight. A letter was read frOm Frank B, Stephens, who was unable to be present; in which the writer insisted that the integrity of the; party should be maintained, main-tained, and that there should be no-I no-I backward step from the position taken bv the party in the lasr State convention. conven-tion. Mr. Stephens infisted that the leaders of the Mprmon church must be frught iust ,as long as tbey undertook to dictate in politics ar! just- as long as they interfered with the political rights f the voter. - j Party Politics a Farce. S. A. King maintained that the elecv tions of the past were but a farce; that' back in 13n the party bad entered a solemn protest and thit all their appeals ap-peals for fair play had been spurned; that the party had beni unfairly. beaten, beat-en, ridiculed and insuhf d, and that after eleven years of this infamy the' rendition was worse thsn it had ever been before. Mr. Kin? uid not belieyw that it ".as longer wise to try to keert up the fsj-ce of trving to run a political " party. DishaEders in Minority. Some of those present were for disbanding dis-banding the party until such time as the voters of the Stat were ready to divide honestly, and tXT.y divided, on party lines. The general opinion, however, was' that the partv be kept together, and that the members be given an oppor-! tunity of voting their ticket. i The meeting -decide that the partr1 should put no ticket in ttn. field for thV coming school election. The Demof-ratic par-y will hold a mass convention iu Salt Iake Citv within a few weeks. This action was practically decided on at a meeting of the State and county executive committees com-mittees and a number the leaders of the' party held in the office of James H. Moylf last night. At the mass convention resolutions, which . it is predicted will be niuch 8trongertbn- toee adopted at thi fa-meus.. fa-meus.. reoBjen.! convention in 1535, will be offered against ebureJU-iafluSACi. in the politics of the State. C6mmltte. 3 s If anted. ' A committee-of vh. consisting of S R. Thjirman. S. A. King. Ray Van Cott. S. L. Richards, John F. Howells, F. S. Fernstrom and Jvscph Hyde, was appointed-.to draft a set f resolutions. - Tb -;e$inmitte was nlpo authorized "to eollee-t evidence -of ?hureh influence h. the recent flection. This action was deemed necessarv became of the statement state-ment of the" Deseret News that no church influence had brer used in the recent election. The cpirnittoo will report re-port in twenty days. -Address to Voters. . A motion was msde Mid carried that the State committee issue an address to the voters of the Stat. setting forth the po!it;on held by thf party and the sentiment of the leaders on the condition condi-tion which exists. The meeting was attested bv .lames H. Movie. L. R. Martinrmi. F. S. Fernstrom, Fern-strom, Ray Vau 'ntt. Samuel Russell. S. R. Thurman. Joel L. Priest. Ncphi S-ofield. George (.i. Smith. Joseph S. Uvde, Joseph W. Strinirfc-llow. O. W. IVwers. Richard P. Morn. C. P. Over-field. Over-field. TL F. Thomas. Peri, v A. Hill. W. A Hodges. Welby Phillips. John F. Howells. Philip S. Mavcock, John Jones, D. H. Peery. J. V. Tolton, M. F. Cunningham. John Ho'.lv. George D. Alder. Al-der. Roilin W. Dole. S' phen L. Ri-'h-aids, John S. Critchlow, Mathonihah Thomas, Sain A. Kiic and John E. Clark. Attitude of Powers. Judge O. W. Powers n-ad a number of communications which he had received re-ceived from Democrats in different parts of the State tel'ing of flagrant interferences by hieh officers of the Mormou churi-h. both before and on election lav. Judge Powers pointed out that the State was on the brink of a miserable religious ar, and urged that everything within reason should be done to avert it. He runounced that he was ready to fight for the principles of the Democratic partv. and maintained main-tained that in those principles lies the only true solution of the tumbles of the State. Judge S. R. Thurman announced that ht was ready to continue the fight. He was ready to adopt anv il&n that would save the party from dissolution. He did, however, want some assurance that the party would have tsome semblance of a square deal. ' Progress, Says Moyle. James H. Moyle took the position that slow progress was being made in the fight for political liberty; that fifteen fif-teen years ago it- woulc not have been possible . for members of the Mormon church to have met in such a meeting and'protested against the action of the leaders- of the church without being subject to discipline by their leaders. He was in favor of continuing the fight. ; . . "The question," said Mr. Movie, "as to whether the leaders of the Mor-mcn Mor-mcn church are to dominate in the affairs af-fairs of the State must br 'settled, and it will never be finally settled until it it- settled right." Fernstrom Gets Funny. ' F. S. Fernstrom was for fight. He proposed that the most offensive of the church 'officers be. taken before the ehurch, authorities; that the facts belaid be-laid before them and n demand made for an indorsement or condemnation. Mr. Fernstrom was ked what he would do in the case of President Smith and the article which appeared over' his signature in the Noven.l-cr Era. ' The matter of bringing churchmen before ;the leaders was promptly dropped. ' Philip 8. Mavcock said that it was principles that the pai t v wa,s .fighting for more than offices, lie wasted an ' .''' - " |