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Show r r ' v j j J- William LI. Ferry :: " jcrccr ::"!( ,:; : Hilcsif:: ; V. Cc::i,-.:; Pclitical Dial VJ.'! i i i ' i r..'i Ij , 1 ' f ' ' v rd - t i .1 his . ; a i i i ' ' M ! c ' ' '" ; ' - tne F' ' ' t r ( v ' . i i n .-. it ! r- i . ' 1 ' . i rnee a. t. v. " '. i.iu;t-S i x i ntlfti "n, t t 1 i i r wh'' n ou pt-.iij'-i !! i - f re re ,y to reoort. 1-fv to ;f.r"-.er, that their -work haa t -n thnr-"' thnr-"' i. and I bespeak fttr them t." t an 1 f 't' their reporu the most careil an-n- tlt'n. . : -' v A '' CAirrcn rrcuns to Ernvs A3 a jiriirrr. c? ; xrirccAxic cc:inrrrr. Former Senator 1 Frank J. - Cannon, who announced. Frfclty night ttt ha would ardently suppwt the ;Ameriean party, wrote the Xollotilng letter, , which was received by State Chalrmaa Bamberger Bam-berger '. Friday , . afternoon, resigning from the Democratic executive committee: commit-tee: . t - . - "Ogrden.' Utah. Sept SO. 1904. "Hon. Simon Bamberfer, chairman State Democratic ; committee, Salt j Lake City. Utah: - ' i 1 "Aty Dear Sir: ObBervinB; by the let-erhead let-erhead of your committte that I have jeen appointed one of the executive ommittee for the part?. t8 tni arllest possible occasion to be? you to reuse me from eervlc there.. With ie highest personal regards, I remain, .ncerely yours. 1: "FRANK jiCANMON.-It jiCANMON.-It Is reported that Mi Cannon will ' slsm as editor of the! Utah . State -mocrat In order to enfcr actively In te campaiam for the Aiprlcan party. ... , The American party held a r- .-ig-mass convention at the Grand t .er Friday night, at which a full . te ticket was nominated, headed ty Dallam Da-llam M. Ferry for Governor and Slgt pgden Hlles for Congress. - The convention was enthusiastic to ' a marked degree and all of the s-eak-, en were cheered to, the echo ' as they uttered sentiments that ..pleased the ears of the crowd. . I The most dramatic features of the convention were the appearance of former for-mer Senator Frank J. Cannon on the stage, when he pledged .his allegiance to the new movement, and the appearance appear-ance of the American Drum corps, under, un-der, the leadership of John J. Heffer-nan, Heffer-nan, assisted by Drum Major Johnnie Gleason. who was the star mascot of the old Liberal Drum corps of a de- cade ago. " ' - ' ' ' '". ; The theater was crowded, every seat and every aisle being filled when the convention was called to order by State Chairman Wlllard F. Snyder, and the ' call was read by Secretary P. , J. Daly. Critchlow Predicts Succeaa. t . E. B. Critchlow was made chairman of the convention, and made a short speech. In which he predicted that the movement would advance despite the opposition that would be made by dlf-f . ferent classes for various reasons. The positions of some of the opponents of L'iuen. were illustrated, and he touched upon the statement that the '." party was started by those who were disappointed, saying i that for the' last fourteen years there had been little but disappointment .for those who had Uved In Utah. A verbal report of the progress of the party was then made by Secretary Daly . and S. P. Armstrong was elected seo-' seo-' retary of the -convention. j - Ticket Is Presented. ' r H Fred A. Hale presented a report from ) the nominating committee. In which the following were named as the noml- iim rif tha nartvi - . with tumultu us err'ause. Hs made a ringing P' i, is printed clee- where, In wt h te i oged hl loyalty to the new ty. , alrs. -C, G. 1 lurr. ner sang "The "Fla Without a 8. .in" with f.ne effect. The. conver. ion closed after Senator Cannon's spee n. , ".; cbttchlov's Erzrcn.-- : . to AijzmcArr ' pasty j ' ; orTAmra thj csauv Mr. Crltchlo said In part: -' - ' J jadies and gentlemen. Fellow CI tiseni and IMsgruntlart Office Seekers: .(Laugh ter.) il' , . ! I I understand that is what we sra. Therel was a meeting held here about twJ weeks ago In which, for the first, tinje j the gathering storm of sentiment la thit City and In this Stats took deflnlU form and many, perhaps, of your same mind, formed what you are pleased to call the American party. It was an anomaly, ladles la-dles and gentleman. It was sn anomaly that In any Stats of this union mn and women should come ' together merely to declare that they are American dtlxens. Whoever board of such a thing before T ' The platform or declaration of principles princi-ples which we adopted on that ?enlng was all inclusive. It Included every one who is willing to stand upon thci platform plat-form which, so far as we know the people peo-ple of this entire Union stand upoa. It excluded the members of no creed end the members of no church.' It excluded so race nor color. . j ' It included every one who had' deep down in his heart, and was willing to act spon, the principles of Americanism as they are best understood. - And yet, ladies snd gentlemen, under the peculiar circumstances cir-cumstances which ' obtain here toaay in tls State it Is not expected by you, or at y of us, that all of those we treat or gieet as brother ' Americans art with ui tonight - There are reasons why s ne of those who ' in their hearts ai with us cannot meet with us in this m ss convention. ' And, notwithstanding w started out in these circumstances, it tn at to understood that we have met rrt h the success contemplated. (Ap- f V DM.) r . - Hany things may be found to criticise olithe way this convention has been caled, but of course toe grow out of eosdiUona here. Not ev: j ese will be wMh us. Americanism Is simply a pre-patatlon pre-patatlon of the heart and thtt prepara-tlih prepara-tlih consists of but two thinis as I see K.l In the first place, obedience to law, aal in the second place, (isolate free-sasa free-sasa to slL j I am reminded tonight of tst story by wty of parable in the Good Book. Tou wIB remember at one time It S said there wis a great feast given and cord went out for every one to cone. J immediately there were some who started make excuses. ex-cuses. One man bought a famt, another five yoke of oxen, and Must go and try them, and another was married and of coarse he could not coma UUaurhter.) as the davs go by. U4eand gentlemen, gentle-men, you will And these lata men typified typi-fied in this community. iVu find a man who has bought 4-, irniMown In Mexico and he won't coeel daughter.) Tou will find another thathkinvested In sugar stock snd of course 4 j cannot ex-vrt ex-vrt Jllm to come. There U be another Saii:rwm sy,T "havjst taken another an-other plural snd I pray tiw that I dare not come. (Laughter.) Csiside of -this, ladies and gentlemen, you too still another an-other class. Tbey have a ock of merchandise mer-chandise and some have i sank to take care of and of course th ; cas't come. But for all that, this mo meat will go on, because it is founded li th hearts of ths people. (Applause.) -I It is said, todies and g ntlasen, that For Congressman Judge Ogden Hlles of Salt Lake (Democrat). For Governor William M. Ferry of Summit (Democrat). t For Secretary of State Walter James . of Millard (Republican). 1 For Auditor Lewis B. Rogers of Salt Lake (Republican). -For '. Treasurer William M. Arm-- Arm-- strong of Salt Lake (Republican). For Attorney-General Samuel Mc-Dowall Mc-Dowall of Salt Lake (Republican). For Superintendent of Public Instruction Instruc-tion Isaac N. Smith of Cache (Repub- lican). , On the motion of George Li Nye, the report of the committee was adopted . by a rising vote, amid great enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. - .. ' '- . : ' Jude Hlles Accept. . ,. , ; Judge Hlles was then called for and " . made a brief speech of acceptance. In 1 . vhich he said that no. mnvtrrliff " preciattve of the honor could fail to take pride In the. nomination that had been tendered him. He thanked the convention for the honor, and said that . he would put aside personal ambitions to serve the party and the State should he be elected. ! ' ' The principles of the American party, he said., are the principles .for which our fathers fought, and they .cannot be ' 'ignored without toes of self respect. He '' -was liberally applauded throughout his speech, nnd at Its conclusion was ten-dered ten-dered an ovation. ' " Petitions Are Signed. . v H. J. Dinlnny then presented a motion mo-tion which was passed, empowering the State committee to fill vacancies on the ; ticket. The ticket will have to go on 'the official ballot by petition and many ' copies of this petition, headed by the ticket were passed among those present pres-ent for signature and numerously Bismed. -. :' Senator Cannon, who was in a box, was then introduced and was received tkls movement has grown out if disappointments. disap-pointments. We are Justly -hr :ed with being disappointed with ie d!tion here. (Applause.) There tif ' was a . truer word spoken or tho gk' uttered Disappointment. Why fo e. it olng years has there been disap; Dtaa rent here ta VtahT Disappointments becaas4 ' 'en the word went out "fourteen yief ago that oadtttons would be changed e in regard re-gard to the prevalent practice i he name ot religion, and the long r cutions practiced in the name of rr- Ion, that tkie changes - were not w Dlsap-poiniments Dlsap-poiniments because we have b I to look tk stber way to keep from r K things which were a reproach t ' Is State. (Appause.) We had to preT Lte about thsis that were going on V that we kn were not what they sh ba. (Applause) (Ap-plause) , . i Laiies and gentlemen, if a iy proof were needed of the assertloi 1 rhlch we Biki with regard to condlis htre we take It from the lips of one 4 th fore-mo fore-mo men of this State tod;l pelitical llfeJ nd who is familiar, I w ai, with the Kmlnant church. I refer" ths Hon. W. a. King, and I refer yov a speech ke fcade at Logan two or I '. days agovhere. In the bitterest mtt eomVomtslng terms, he dei iced J leades of his church for 1 ngttnter-feredwtth ngttnter-feredwtth matters of state, i I IfU were not so well kivi aid so weltjroven In this oomraunithar the len ,f the church have enlctlve 'i r - |