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Show TICKET AN IDEAL ONE AND EVERYONE PLEASED WITH THE SELECTIONS The American county convention was a remarkable gathering of the kind. Two features will amaze the average politician: All the contests barring two wore spirited ones and no sore feeling remained. re-mained. Winners and loeers joined hands and promised to work together for the success of the ticket. Then, too, everybody, the rank and file, is pleased with the selections. It is indeed in-deed a ticket without a flatr. Didn't it make you smile to read eon of Robinson will be nominated for the latter position. Mr. Hutchinson is a Democratic warhorse in this county, and it is believed will poll a heavy vote. The Bepublicans of Eureka met Saturday Sat-urday and elected delegates to the county convention, which will be held September 27. D. A. Lindsey wm nominated nom-inated for Justice of the Peace and Cy Dillan for Constable. At the Republican primaries held at Spanish Fork Friday night delegates were elected to the eounry .onvention, which will meet in this city September 26. at, those stones of the Lauren Jjemocrai and Church " Republican about "tbJ slate the Americans railroaded tbroujrh on Saturday." Even 4 4 Fussy Jtmtny" could have seen -that tlierj were no slates, but that the race were free-for-alls, the best man to win. For instance, in-stance, take the State Senatorial race. The church Democrat bhj-s "Sanfori and Cahoon were the slate, tnat l.ipp-man, l.ipp-man, Dininny and Daly struggled hard to land them.',' Now, the iicts are that this trio were for Gibson. But Sanford and Cahoon, in the eyes of the church Democrat were on tho elate just because thev won. . Even- one was pleased with the success suc-cess uf the labor candidates. Watkir.s and KpaMing, Cbaron and Wilson and Col. fclealcr arc all well-balanced representative repre-sentative union men. Two of tbe victories that wore irt-deed irt-deed popular were those won by Judj;c Weber and Allen SSanford. Hota i.m popular and they had the dolejrUes with them. Frank Christensn' won a fine race. He is a popular fellow, a Rood business man aud splendidly equipped for tho duties of Countv Clerk. 4 4 That was a fine body of delegates," said a Denver politician who was prev j eut. ' 'It seemed that friendship didn 't count with them; they were assembled to nomiuate tho strouet men and fTom the situation here as I understand it, the ticket is an ideal ou. Every mau on it is a vote-getter." . Col. Ilonry G. McMillan could have brcu nomiuated for County Commissioner Commis-sioner by acclamation had he desired the nomination. "Give someone rise a chance," he ent word; "wo don't waut anv trusts in this party." Chairman Marri"''au strolled into the convention hall. He saw so many familiar fa-miliar Democratic faces among tbe delegates del-egates that he thought for a moment tb at he was at a Democratic convention. "Judy" Eldredge tilso happened in and In; was under the impression th:it it was a Republican yatheriu. And there wero so many oid-timo Democrats aud Kepnb'ieans there that the mistake of each was natural. J?. M. Stenhouse, who was n candidate candi-date for the nomination for Auditor before be-fore the American county convention on Saturday, said today: "I have been A primary for the puriosre of nominating nomi-nating delegates to the Democratic State anl county convention will be held in the opera-hotoe nt Leui Wednesday evening. The Women 's Auxiliary to the American Amer-ican party will hold a meeting at tho Cullen hotel at 8 o'clock this evening. A full attendance is requested. The Smoot morning funnygraft would have it appear that there was dissension in the American ranks over the selection selec-tion of Tom Pitt for the Sheriff's office and that the friends' of Joe Baleigh are dissatisfied. "dmoot's ionmalistie nightmare is off again," said "Bob" Sleater, this morning. Mr. Sleater was one of tbe most tr-iciit supporters of Iialeigh for the nomination. 4 4 All of Joo's friends, including myself, are perfectly satisfied with the selection of Mr. Pitt, and if anyone believes otherwise just let him watch the enthusiasm with which-we have taken off -our eoats to work for his election, at.d it is the prospect of a complete American vietory in Salt Lake county that is worrying the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain apostle editors of the.Doolv block." State Senator Stephen H. Love, who discovered last Thursday that his backbone back-bone had been removed bv Dr. Smoot, has rijn ap a.uuiijtit trouble with his "committee of fifteen" appointed to draft a declaration of Republican principles. prin-ciples. Like n fepcttering Roman caudle. Senators Sen-ators Love and Ueoro X. Lawrence buVst into publicity a week ago with a groat independent movement 'designed to let the Smoot machine know there woie i.:any gjod Republicans who would 1 not wear the . church collar. Tbe Lovely-Lawrence vaudeville played a two nights' stand, when Smoot got busy with his iustrunHMits for-removing inde-jrtiidence inde-jrtiidence from too active me rubers of the Republican party and in another twenty four hours tho variety performers perform-ers had 'joined the weak-sisters quartette aud a the church vonvfution Senator Love, sar.g an eulogy ou Joe Howell tha? uaiisvatcd tbe other 2'0 members of the insurgents who manifested more ov Jess si.ieenty in their efforts to bolt the Smool collar. Xow the "Loved" one breaks out with a "committee of fifteen," made up of ten roaehino phonographs and a small minority of free Republicans in many euuvcnUons anil I never saw u. better one. There was .'in entire ab-si'iiee ab-si'iiee of politieal metlioda tliat have eharaeterized many ueb nathriDs. Kverv one hu.i a fair hearing and uuni -;m Viniphiin. Tlie. ticket is superb and a v, inner." An open violation of an executive or-iier or-iier has ben charged up against tho Svi-.outites a', their ree-nt eouveiili-pj. It bus br-en a in!'1 issued at ':isi.i:il.u that J'cdei'al cut jiltvee. hal! not Ij-Ki an active part !; i.""-litics. 'flits order nuin uk esaveu itt jeau lino a nuyaty battle itist on" week ao. Eut the free 3 iiejuihlieaiiA declare they will not bo used by tin weak-sisters" and with I the announcement thix niorDin'j eine j resignations so fast and thick that they I sent th Love-Law renee team iD hasty fi eonsultatiiiu with the church leaders. " Q Parley Chriatensen was ouc of the Jg "honored '' ones anil lie and his friends fl ha notified "Dear Love," that the " part d"ea not look attraetie to them. iSmuot- i1) icannii' another lonjj list this afternoon from which to fleet work- a Mormon bishop in southern Utah has given awav a little pressure used by Howell to bring; delegates into line and tbaif the sore breaks out the hierarchy will have trouble proving that church influence was not used to givo the Lo-an Lo-an man the nomination' he so earnestly coveted. wan opeulv aud wilfullv vi'-i:ucl by William (tiasmunn of Ojjden and James Clove of I'rovo, who are postmasters at their respective homes. Several other Federal employees took an active part in the convention. Cilasmam and Cliv wore both the real things on the Kvfubliean sub-committee on platform and resolutions, which did all tho -'ie.. tating of the platform adopted. They wore r.lso the chief fighters in tin; convention con-vention njrainst the resolufi.in to eieanse thrt IJepublican party of its bossittm nnd church dictation. TLey asserted that for the tiext two years at least they were willing to bear the yoke cf the 'apostolic boss in his lease of ofliee. L. R. Martineau, State chairman of the Democratic party, has named the following 8S bi eyeentive committee: -lames II. Moyh. Simon Bamberger, William TI. Kin;j. Henry P. Hendersmi, IJiehard P. Morris. .Tohn Dern. Robert W. Slonn. Frank B. Stephens. Mathoni-ah Mathoni-ah Thomas, AVill ti. Farrell, W. W. Kay, Joseph E. Caine, A. X. McKay, Thomas F. Thomas, Joseph W. String-fellow, String-fellow, Burnard J. Stewart, C. M. Niel-on. Niel-on. Georjre A. Whitaler and Horace II. Cummings of Salt Lake. ers to nil these vacam-ies and when they are made Love will again announce "his" appointments. a The Republican State committee is "up in the air" over the naming of an executive committee. Chairman Sal-iribury, Sal-iribury, who hurried down from St. Anthony, An-thony, Ida., Friday to accept Smoot 's appointment, spent all of Saturday in executive session with ttp apostles trv- ing to sigree upon the personnel of this committee and tho conference almost ended in a row. Col. Squires waa easily fixed upon as secretary, but when Chairman Chair-man Salisbury attempted to exercise his own discretion iu selecting his executive execu-tive committee he bum pea up against the Senator and Cougrcssmau. For three hours tho trio was closeted at headquarters, but Smoot and Howell Leld out firmly against the selection of certain names for the executive committee commit-tee and when the conference broke up it was with the sgreenicnt that the appointment ap-pointment of the committee would be deferred until the church leaders could come to an agreement. Howell aud Smoot had personal objections to some of the names Chairman Salisbury proposed pro-posed and they stood pat. The chairman I I rank K. Nebekcr and I. C. Thoresen of Logan. T. D. Johnson and Daniel Hamer of Ogdeti. William if, Eoylance anl Thomas N Taylor of I'rovo. t'erdinaud Erickscu of Mouut Pleas aiit. , During convention week Ihe headquarters head-quarters of the Stale committee will be located at tiie Wilson hotel. At Hip Juab county Demo -ratie convention, con-vention, ti bp held at N'pphi this week for i he purpose of nominating a full roiintv tieket as well as a Keprr sent a-live, a-live, ii is 1-olicicd that James Uutdiia-1 realized after his first conference with the upostles that he is intended to play the part of the bi? brass Lorn to Smoot 's phonograph and as Col. Salisbury Salis-bury possesses a spirit of independence and" opinions of his own, there may lo a deadlock in the executive board of the church Republicans. The loud shouting of the Smoot funnygraft fun-nygraft in Its editorial columns this morning is liable to bring down upon it a "call'" thnt will make things since for a while. The Smoot sheet declares that Mr. Howell did not need the backing back-ing of the church to secure his nomination. nomina-tion. The vYhJjpcr is goLajf around tnat 4 |