Show TO THE republican VOTERS OF br urah UFAH I 1 I 1 tho republican county conven tion of salt lake was held in lif this ihl eitson hitson city on the slid hild ad instant a conlest coolest therein came to a head which hiah is 19 likely to ba carried up to the terri convention to forestall falsehood and misrepresentation concerning cernin the issue and what was done and to enable voters to act intelligently this statement is now made iver ever since grant removed mckean the tribune of this city has held nici dici mckean ean up as a martyr and the president as his aslaug slaughterer eteter the friends of grant have as cori corf constantly remonstrated with th the e tribune on the injustice of its course in this respect je but to no purpose we hold that the president has been the best friend in high office the republicans of utah ever had bad when the supreme court the last national republican convention and the congresses one after another and the pres generally gave us the cold shoulder grant stood by us and did year after year what he could to aid us time came when in the interest of lubic lubie policy as every fair man is bound to believe he be deemed it best to remove mckean and he did so immediately thereupon the tri buns bung of this city began to raise the isue which has nowr culminated in an pen open quarrel every day nis als most since its columns have teamed with abuse of grant and laudation of mckean and the moment the question of sending delegates tot 1 cincinnati convention was prest n anted ted the friends of grant took up the gauntlet BO so persistently thrown at thor their feet how absurd I 1 this being the truth to charge them with forcing this issue on 0 n the t e friends of or mckean but not only were they obliged to tb accept this personal essae between the two men there were higher considerations than even fidelity to ones friends forced upon them on the occasion we are applicants pil cants in washington for needed legislation the same now as always bi before fre grant is still tand will be for a year to come Is it good policy for the friends of reform here to do what they can to alienate the president for tha sake sako of giving mckean a personal triumph would that not be subordinating the public to a private interest it has so seemed tol toi to grants friends who yield to nobody in devotion to the cause of freedom and in utah it may not be out of place to observe in this connection that we are also friends of mckean we concede his bis ability and fidelity and many mandof of us deplore his removal but we are unwilling to make that the pretext of a blaud and furious opposition to grant and we are opposed to sending him to cincinnati purely out of re at his removal that is all these things had been well agitated on both sides when the county convention met on the at an early hour the house was crowded at ten minutes before the hour named in the call for the assembling of the convention general heffernan Hefler nan for the mckean party called the convention to order and and nominated judge robertson bertson Bo for chairman this was a bold attempt to seize control of the convention by it in advance of time and it came from the side which from the first has assumed the of 1 before heffernan could put his motion or rather while he was putting it gen kimball was nominated and the motion put by col morgan of the grant party each side voted aye to its own motion mutton and both robertson anc and kimball almost simultaneously took the stand amid a deafening yelling from all nil parts of the house which continued for several minutes at intervals ine lne ins in tile the storm robertson Tober Rober tsou and kimball and other gentlemen uia via made mado de themselves heard for a fe fog fow W moments but until th the e mckean T party withdrew from the abu c no business could be done it was prop proposed used and agreed to that a rising vote should be taken as to who should be chairman but the crowd partisans of each side equally would not hear it and drowned every attempt to carry out tile the proposition po in indiscriminate shouting judge mckean offered a resolution to the effect that tho the dele delegates gates gateR to ciu clu cincinnati be not instructed but allowed to use their own discretion di but the crowd would not suffer the question on the resolution to b be 0 put in the course of his speech mckean nic charged the federal officers cors cers with holding a dark lantern caucus and att attempting to dictate the policy of the par party ty this general kimball denied c claiming ia 1 that they had bad only stood on bri the defensive that it there was no law against caucusing b ing that it had bad been resorted ed to on both sides as was wag indeed unavoidable that a federal officer had bad the same pell peli ml rights as a nonfederal of officer fleer and that the intolerance and aggression and dictation had come from the other side in this connection it may be proper to say what everybody every body knows namely that all non mor mon inon political action in utah has from the first been led and inspired by the federal officer sand that any one of them who did not take an active part in such action haq has been formy denounced but the moment the federal officers attempt to influence the policy of the party they are ate charged with assuming to own the voters with attempting to dictate ind and there is no end to the abuse and denunciation leveled at them in other words they bey can fight light cormons mormons as a clique instructs them bilt blit not according to the dictates of their own judgment it is difficult to see auy any substantial difference between the intolerance of one coterie and another there is not much encouragement I 1 to combat the bigotry of the dominan dominant t church if even before that is overthrown we wo are to fall under the a newspaper or sorehead or other clique elique e equally bigoted and arrogant and powerful to return to the convention in the midst of the conf conr confusion so great that no person not on the tho plat piat platform forni could hear beara a word that was said the merean mckean men suddenly withdrew from the house houge thereupon the grant men proceeded ta complete the business for which the convention was called which had bad been begun during the previous turmoil the commit too teft appointed to nominate dominate thirteen delegates to the territorial conventi convention oti reported the names of the gentlemen sub joined viz iriz C W bennett T B R jones JR J ei walker jno i 0 J hollister W 8 6 mccornick wm haydon S SD D conner V M C J silva riia B W morgan wm gill mills of ofalia alta aita W G galligher of bingham geo goss of sandy bandy their report was wag adopted and the convention ve tion adjourned gine bine die conf of course the friends of grant desire to be sustained in ir the territorial ca convention llon lion what they have done is to oppose the so sending of mckean to the cincinnati convention out of resentment at his bis removal an issue which has been forced upon them as above stated beyond this they have no objections to IsIc mckenn mckean rean Kean but whether that gent gentleman lemans removal from the bench was a mistake or not they in that Grant Granta shall ball not be condemned for it in the marked manner in which it is proposed to do it mckean ignot is not in a position to greatly affect the course of things in utah while the president is Is it wie therefore as a matter of ing regard solely to the public interests involved to alienate the president who can greatly aid us for the sake of oP who cannot I 1 mckean has his reward for faithful service in tile the love of the people and it would add nothing to 0 the laurels beu bet hasso has so justly earned and so gracefully wears to give him hind this national triumph over grant grabl it may be said that the president owes all we ask ast of him to his hig duty but he is a man although president and like ilke all men liable to be influenced by personal consideration moreover there I 1 have been presidents who did not believe belleve interference with church domination in utah to be in irl the line of their duty and with what consistency can men in the very act of or subordinating public duty to personal coridi consideration call up jn on the president to have an au eyo eye gigle single to public duts duty while the friends of grant by no WL weans ans ignore in this matter ils its personal aspect amlo they claim that grant graut of all men in the nation deserves the tho gratitude and support of the hu republicans of utah while they recognize to the full the fidell ity which grants utah policy demands of them to 11 him I 1 m os s a person in the name of fair 14 I 1 sy of standing by one 4 friend and treatie treating thase those well who treat volt yoi well they thuy MA maintain that personal ques questions tiong aside co considerations n of public policy polin cy alone should decide the she action of or the republicans ot at utah in this crisis and the federal om officers cers deny that regard oi for their interests as officers has h a 4 any any influence oh olt their action in n this matter them stand just u st a as good a show of retaining their of offices flees should they desire to under blaine or morton or wash burners burne as under und e r grant we want grant endorsed for who what he has done not for what we nye expect of him we insist that it is due doe to him on every account and we appeal to the republicans of utah to see to it that he is endorsed and not insulted in this matter geo W emery governor B W hor 11 mornan borsan morsan Mor organ nan san nathan kimball Kim rim baij bali its tte U CS surveyor Sur veNor geni W WHy don i 0 J hollister 17 tf 8 collector Collect ors ori GK C K gilchrist VM 0 silva suva jos Gor linshi 17 S deputy surveyor J M moore postmaster salt lake city jno P taggart oliver A patton register t land office ce V 8 cornick mccornick Mc 0 W bennett TR T R jones geo E whitney TI D DH a bentley B R P lounsberry H wadworth wadsworth M jno W kerr will william lam jam JM johns J B R nichols W G galligher I 1 con cou eurin curin the main features of this statement geo R maxwell TJ 8 marshal utah we concur in the above state ment generally excepting as re gards the late county lOB ios at which we were not present and therefore cannot affirm oi or deny of our our pers bhai ial lal knowledge jno T lynch win F james william carey U S attorney absent at provo 0 on official busi ness |