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Show THE CONVENTION Of Utah County Democrats 111 Pro vo Today IS VERY WELL ATTENDED Hon. J. B. Milner, A. D. Holdaway and Douglas Swan Deliver Timely Speeches The Convention Organized The Del-gates Del-gates and County Committee Now Being-Elected. Upwards of 100 sturdy tillers of the soil and producers, fair and truly re presentative men of the county flocked into the county courthouse today to-day at high noon in a county democratic demo-cratic convention, The outlying precincts pre-cincts of Highland, Alpine Benjamin, Cedar Fort, Fairfield, Goshen, Thistle, Clinton and Mapleton were not represented. repre-sented. It is expected, however, that delegates from these precincts will have arrived by the time of opening of the afternoon meetiDg. Hon. John 13. Milner, chairman of the county central democratic committee com-mittee let his gavel fall promptly on the stroke of 12 and arose to explain the object of the meeting which was to elect twenvyone deiegais to attend a territorial convention to bo held in Salt Lake city on June 16th and for the purpose of electing a county central cen-tral committee and for the transaction of any other business that may be presented. pre-sented. In referring to the probable election of a successor to himseif as chairman of the county committee the judge said he felt greatly pleased indeed to be relieved he would not say from the burden placed upon him but from the discharge of duties which under un-der the circumstances he has discharged dis-charged faithfuily and well. He begged the indulgence of the convention conven-tion for digressing and said: 'In my opinion now is a very good time for democrats to meet and confer together. We are all of us impressible by the influences which surround us, out it is a trueism that the world itself moves in cicles. Day and night succeed suc-ceed each other, the flowers of spring follow the snows of winter, the noontide noon-tide heat of summer always melts the ice barriers that have pilled up during the hoary months that have passed and gone, God's sunlight always succeeds the darknesB of night, the world is made up of light and shaddow, of periods of depression and of exaltation. exalta-tion. We sleep of nights that nature may recuperate herself lor the next day's duties, and we live in a world of constant change. There are ptriods of financial depression. We can no more have continuous prosperity than we can have continuous suulight; we can no mere have coatinuom financial depression de-pression than we can have continuous continu-ous uiiduuut darkness. It behooves us not to be entirely influenced by the circumstanced that surround us, but in the high tide of prosperity prepare for the hour of adversity, and in the hour of adversity hope for more prosperous times and circumstances, Every organization has its childhood, its youth, its manhood, its old age its cycle. If based upon eternal principles it is in itself eternal. Men may come and men may go, children may he bom and men may die, the organization organiza-tion may change in many forms, and yet the principles continue to exist Democracy being founded on eternal principles, whether we whose hairs are turning gray shall pas3 away and be succeeded by others the principles will remain the same and democracy will exist whether you and I are democrats or not. "Today, it seems to me, we are in the position ol a mariner who is just m.rging from a severe storm, in a deep log with nothing but darkness visible all around, straining his eyes in every direction for the hret glimpse of dawn. The minutes to him in his eager looking look-ing tor daylight have seemed hours of interminable length and it has seemed to him also that there was no daylight. But the dawn is breaking, the light is now visible, and it will be broad day by and oy. Our mariners can now see a faint light glimmering in the east, it will increase little by little, the san which all the time has been shining will presently show its face and in a little while it will mount to the meridian and we will be enabled to bathe our selves in the glory oi the full sunlight of prosperity. God's sunlight is coming com-ing to the democracy. "The sun shines, my friends, and if the past few months has been a home of darkness, the time when all nature sleeps, we have taken our reBt and recuperated. re-cuperated. The morning now has dawned. It ia time to be up and doing do-ing and be prepared for the grand tight for a glorious victory next November which is already assured to us it we will only work and earn and grasp it." Secretary Wedgwood at the close of the judges speech read the calls which haye been published heretofore. Getting down to business the convention con-vention elected Hon, John S. Boyer of Springville as temporary chairman and John 1. Hays of bpanish Fork as temporary tem-porary secretary. Committees were then elected as follow?: On Credentials : Samuel Uean, Wm. Southwick, Charles C. Craig, George C. Scott Jr, A. 8. Higham, Frederick Shoeil, T. J. Patten, . T. IS Thurman, W. B. Hughes, T. B. Heelis, Isaac N. Whitaker, Samuel T. Curtis, E. Ii. Heery, Jos. M Adameon. On Permanent Organization and Order of Business : W. N. Dusenberry, Jed J. Mercer, Dayid Thurman, W. Creer, J . S. Peery. Convention adjourned till 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION, The convention met shortly after 2 o'clock. Pending the ret urn of the committees A, D. Holdaway was called on for an address. He ieprecated the tact that the, national administration has bolted the democratic party's Chicago Chi-cago platform and principles on the silver question and showed wherein many ways and at many times the re publican party has proven itself a greater enemy to the white metal than is the present administration. The speaker also referred to the Salt Lake Tribune's recent admission of the democratic dem-ocratic claim that the legislation of the past thirty years is the cause of the present depression, and not the national na-tional democratic victory in November 1892. D. A. Swan was next called for. He was not a delegate ani did not expect to take part in the convention in any way. He was here solely to see what was going on and to learn the feelings of the democrats of Utah county aod to shake hands and encourage encour-age hiB r-rothers. However, he is always al-ways ready to speak ot the principles princi-ples in which lu bel;eyes. Speaking of the principles of democracy Mr. bwan very easily and naturally fell to speaking of the silver question. He did not desire to discuss this subject from a biased standpoint, although he is deeply interested in it. The wrong done to silver was not done during the past year. It was done in '73 by re publicans. What was done last year was done with a view to remedy that wrong. We in the west think the majority ma-jority in Congress were mistaken and did not do as they should haye done, but the speaker belieyed that the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was a step taken with a view of future and more complete reform in financial legislation. legisla-tion. Considering the recent action of Great Britain and othur nations, he w.-isof the opinion tiu-kw a very st;ort time we will see that the remonetiza-iion remonetiza-iion of silver by a conjoint action of the nations is coming and that it be better for us than if the United States were to go it alone. Mr. Swan then , went on to show why he is in favor of bimetalism ana gave a very able, lucid and interesting discourse and expressed ex-pressed the belief that this would be the burning question in the coming campaign as he expected that by that time the tariff question will be settled. He urged that democrats wake up and develop more push, energy, and vim as political campaign workeis. The committees reported next. The following as the PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. Chairman, A. D. Evans of Lehi. First Vice-Chairman, E. A. Wilson, of Provo. Second Vice-Chairmau, W. O. Creer, or Spanish Fork. Secretary, John I. Hays ot Spanish Fork. Chaplain, J. D. Ilalladay of Santa-quin. Santa-quin. Sergeant-at-arms, G. A. Storrs of Springville. The prelimanaries of installing officers, of-ficers, prayer, etc., being attended to the convention proceeded to elect the twenty-one delegates to attend the territorial convention, to be held at Salt .Lake city on June 10th, with the following result: Stephen Moyle of Highland. Jos. 8, Lapish of American Fork. X3 Wm. E. Clark of Pleasant Grove. Mark Bezzant of Pleasant Grove. David J, Thurman of Lehi. , Andrew A. Peterson of Lehi. J. J, Mercer of American Fork. A. D. Gash of Provo. James Caffery of Springville. S. K. Thnrman of Provo. John B. Milner of Provo. R. A. Deal cf Springville. Wm. H. King of Provo. E. A. Wilson of Provo. Otto F. Malmberg of Santaquin. John H. Moore of Spring Lake, J. S. Peery of Pavson. Sam'l T. Curtis, ot Salem. A. M, Ferguson of Lake Shore, James Hutchison of Spanish Fork. Wm. Creer of Spanish Fork, The following gentlemen were elected elect-ed as alternates: Thomas Jefferson Patten of Proyo Bench, Amos D. Holdaway of Provo, Wm. B. Hughes of Spanish Fork, George Smoot of Vineyard, G -N. Childs of Lehi, Geo. C. Scott Sr. of Lake View, C. C. Hack-ett Hack-ett of Alpine, James Gardner of Goshen, Aaron Johnson of Mapleton and James Rodeback of Cedar Fort. The propriety of passing a rule to the effect that the chairman of the various vari-ous polling precinct flJganizations throughout the county constitute consti-tute the county committee in order that all the democratic organizations of the county may work harmoniously and as one organization was being considered as this report closes. I |