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Show Republicans Pledge for Statewide Prohibition Adopting a platform that pledged hem unequivocally to work for statewide state-wide prohibition, and settling a qiuir-rel qiuir-rel originating with the Castledale delegation that threatened for a time to almost disrupt the convention, the republicans of Emery county elected their ten delegates to the state convention con-vention at Ogden next Tuesday, Aug. ' Mh, and broupht to a close the largest larg-est attended convention of the kind ever held in the county. The large attendance and all the fXi-itement of the occasion was due io the rivalry between the forces of Jsse D. Jewkes, present state treasurer, treas-urer, and Lincoln G. Kelly, present state auditor, who are both in the race for secretary of state. Both forces had been busy as could plainly be seen from the first, but things did not get thoroughly interesting until in the afternoon when the naming of i .It-legates to the state convention was underway. ! The convention was a little late in ! jtarting.due to an accident to the car j in which County Chairman Snow and Secretary W. F. Fail were riding from . irangeville. L'pon opening the convention it was roved by Henry Thompson of Ferron 'hit Mr. Snow act as permanent chairman ch-airman of the convention, but Mr. Snow declined on the ground that he uas not a delegate to the convention. Former Senator A. Brinkerhoff of Emery made a motion that Mr. Snow be declared a delegate at large to the convention and that he act as perma-nen perma-nen chairman of the convention and the motion carried unanimously. W. F. Fail was also made permanent secretary. sec-retary. I Secretary Fail read the official call from state headquarters and It was moved by Henry Thompson that the hairmen of the different delegations name representatives for the different differ-ent committees. The motion was a-.i a-.i -pted and the following were named nam-ed to form the several committees: Credentials G. H. Oviatt, D. O. Morgan, Peter Xeilson, Oscar Beebe, I.en Huntington, Wm. Hitchcock, Earl V. Hills, B. J. Peacock sr. Platform and Resolutions J. F. O-liver, O-liver, W. E. McKean, A. P. Johnson, Vm. Arnold jr., Elva Seely, J. Frank Killian, J. T. Charlesworth, F. A Kill-l'.i Kill-l'.i k, J. E. Caldwell, Louis Peterson. Permanent Organization and Order r-f Business B. H. Erickson. Peter Xeilson, S. G. McArthur, S. P. Snow jr., Geo. Fullmer, J. T. Charlesworth, Henry Thompson, J. E. Caldwell, A. Brinkerhoff. While wailing for the committees to prepare their reports W. F. Fail proposed that Peter Neilson give a 10-minute talk on republicanism. Mr. Xeilson arose amid considerable applause and expressed the thought that the large attendance present was prompted by the desire for a change m things. The present prosperity is at the expense of a dreadful war. He also deplored the evils of sectional legislation as exemplified in the framing fram-ing of tariff measures, and maintained maintain-ed that war was impossible at this time as there is no nation prepared to take up a war with us and no credit is due Pres. Wilson for maintaining peace. Platform is Adopted The committees now having returned, return-ed, their reports were presented. The committee on credentials re-Ported re-Ported everything as being regular, and the committee on order of business busi-ness suggested that the plan of the state call be carried out. The committee com-mittee on platform reported, but Mr. Brinkerhoff took exception to that Part which would "put every man on the carpet for a double dose" when nearly every town in the county had shown a faith in prohibition by banishing ban-ishing the saloon from our midst and everyone there had already gone on record for the same. The platform was adopted unanimously. It follows "We, the members of this delegation, delega-tion, having been chosen as delegates n platform and resolutions, do unitedly unit-edly recommend the following: We recommend that a plank be ln-eserted ln-eserted in our state platform that will Sive us prohibition statewide and am o juas sajBSajap am intll convention be fully instructed to work to bring It about at once; and that -uoa airjs am o uaa aq ai-eaajap ou vention who will not first pledge himself him-self to that effect in this convention. "We further recommend that other Principles andresolutions pertaining to republicanism be left out until after the state convention." vention which wil be held immedlate- Immedlately after the convention reconvened following luncheon at the Andersen hotel Bishop Brinkerhoff of Emery offered the following resolution resolu-tion and the same was unanimously adopted: "Be it resolved, that we, the republicans republi-cans of Emery county in convention assembled, do hereby pledge ourselves to work for statewide prohibition first last and all the time, not only as dele- gates who may be selected to attend the state convention, but individually individu-ally and as a whole." Peter Neilson moved that the ten delegates to the state convention be apportioned us follows: Green River one, Huntington one, Castledale two Orangeville one, Ferron two, Mohr-land Mohr-land one, and Emery two. The proposal pro-posal was adopted and the following delegates wire named. The figures following each name give he number of ballots cast for each man in the voting that followed. Green River T. S. Turner 56. Elmo G. H. Oviatt 74. Mohrland M. L. Garvey SI. Huntington Peter Xeilson 81. Castledale S. D. Bunnell 56, J. W. Seely 32, A. li. Willey 62. Orangeville J. Frank Killian 81. Ferron Henry Thompson 81, L. A. Olsen, 81. Emery A. Brinkerhoff 60. E. H. Duzelt 70, Mrs. A. Brinkerhoff 2. It being apparent that Seely had been eliminated and that there was a tie between Turner and Bunnell, on motion of J. F. Killian, Bunnell was declared elected. Turner was named as an alternate delegate to the state convention, and Turner, Orange Seely sr. and S. P. Snow sr. were named as delegates to the congressional convention con-vention which will be held immediately immediate-ly after the adjournment of the state convention, the ten delegates to the state convention to be delegates with the lat named three, as Emery county is entitled to thirteen delegates to the congressional convention. Before the voting took place a question was raised when Castledale entered three names. It turned out that Bunnell was not a "regular" man the other two men being the real nominees of the delegation of which twelve of the thirteen delegates were Kelly men. The delegation withdrew from the room and declared that the name of Bunnell had been eliminated but other members of the convention conven-tion could not see it that way and argued ar-gued that it was the business of the convention to do the eliminating if such there was to be done, J. F. Oliver Oliv-er of Elmo taking a leading part in the discussion. The voting was finally fin-ally resorted to to end the trouble after af-ter there had been considerable warm speech back and forth. J. F. Killian asked the convention if Jesse D. Jewkes might have the floor for a few minutes, and, the privilege priv-ilege being granted, the later expressed express-ed his appreciation of the past support sup-port given to him and declared his intention in-tention of abiding by what the convention con-vention said In relation to his candidacy candi-dacy for another term of office. He mentioned the fact that, during his tenure of office there had been saved the state the sum of over $72,000 e-nough e-nough to pay the salaries of all elective elect-ive officers of the state except the judges and all througn placing the state funds in his charge where they would draw interest on daily balances He further mentioned the fact that he had made his office appointments from Emery county and was proud of the records they had made though some had seemed a little forgetful of what he had done for them. Wm. J. Seely, deputy state auditor, who has ben very active in the interests inter-ests of Kelly, arose and also asked the opportunity of adressing the house. He said he was not unappreciative of what Mr. Seely had done for him but didn't feel that he was acting as an ingrate though he was working for a-nother a-nother man. Following the talks of these gentlemen gen-tlemen a vote of endorsement of Jesse Jes-se D. Jewkes for secretary of state was given without a dissenting voice. |