Show republicans HOLD the republicans or rather in fairness it should be said a number of republicans of this city met in mass convention on tuesday evening and placed in nomination a ticket to be vote voted upon at the municipal election on the ath of next month before the convention got down to the siness boniness bo of the evening a motion was off offered ered that the convention adjourn to friday evening for the purpose of amalgamating with the nonpar non par aisan convention that had been called for that evening evenin go and immediately the corat orial fireworks were set off speakers for the motion argued long and hard and pleaded for the support of the convention on the motion in that harmony might be preserved inthe party among the champions of the motion being attorney wm win J lowe J francis merrell and C 0 christensen the motion was strenuously opposed by hans S lar larsen s en C holst hoist elias jensen L W anderson and others and when the question was finally called a vote was taken by a show of hands and the chair announced 49 for and 66 against so the motion was lost iamb immediately after the announcement of the vote those who stood for the motion to adjourn left the convention accompanied by the jeers and side remarks of some of those who remained the convention then got down to business the temporary organization consisted of N C simonsen chairman and A L eddy secretary A motion was passed empowering the chairman to name the committee on P platform I 1 at and resolutions and on permanent organization and order of business respectively on the fierst named committee the chairman appointed leroy lero y B young R A madsen J francis sheffield C E merrell and bert olsen the permanent organization and order of business committee was corn com posed of elias jensen Jc risen wm win J lowe trieste box al G hansen and mrs H S jensen and while these committees were in session to formulate their re port the convention took a recess the platform and resolutions committee in its report commended the municipal improvements now under way bommen ded the budget system and recommended om its continuance approved the managerial type of government and pledged the party nominees to a non parti san administration of the affairs of the city the platform in full is printed below that part of the platform ref ferring erring to the managerial form of government met with astren ous opposition and was debated at length the report of the committee finally being adopted by a vote of two to one the permanent 0 r g a n and order of business committee recommended that the permanent dorgai organization organisation of the convention consi consist of john G wheatley chairman and lorenzo W anderson secretary the order of busin business ess be as follows after the reading of the reports nomination of candidate date formayer for mayor four year councilman two year councilmen recorder and treasurer and the report was adopted when nominations for ma maor or was called for the names of mayor john W peters R A madsen H W valentine denmark jensen and nephi J valentine were presented after a ballot or two the names of valentine and jensen were withdrawn and on the contest between mayor john W peters and R A madsen the litter latter won out by a majority of four in the contest numerous candidates were put fo forward rivard and t dilates were as follows for 4 year term 0 G bargeron ath ward 2 year term W L holst hoist first ward john F erdmann Erd maim second ward martin L reeder third ward mes s rs L W anderson and S C wixom were nominated for city recorder and mr air wixom received the majority maio rity vote and was declared the tha nominee miss trieste box was named for city treasurer the central committee was designated as the precinct officers with the nominees and that body was vas given power to fill all vacancies which may occur on the ticket before election day following is the platform adopted we the republicans of brigham city in mass convention assembled do hereby adopt the foll lowing platform and resolutions I 1 we commend the position taken by brigham city relative to the improving of her public utilities and beautifying her streets and public parks and we pledge our candidates to the continuance ti nuance of it 2 we pledge our nominees to tn economie econ omir efficient and businesslike administration 3 we commend brigham city on the budget system and recommend its continuance I 1 4 we approve the city manager type of government 5 we pledge our candidates to the elimination of partisan politics in the administration of city affairs efficiency being the qualification of all appointees |