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Show K The complete ticket nominated by the Revenge H Society yostorfiay follows: Hj Commissioners Long term, H. G. McMillan; H short term, Jerome Bourgard. H Sheriff Joseph Raleigh. H Clerk A. C. Reese. Bff Attorney H. J. Dininny. H; Treasurer C. D. Rooklidge. H Assessor P. J. Anson. Hj Auditor Carl Mauck. Hjj Recorder Angus McKellar, Jr. Hj Surveyor R. B. L. Collier. B For State Senators George L. Nye, H. D. Nilos B and George J. Gibson. B For Representatives John Brownlee, K. H. P. B Nordberg, J. J. Stewart, A. V. Taylor, F. M. Bene- H diet, R. G. Sleater, W. J. Barratte, N. D. Corser, J. B B. Darmer, L. N. Lightfoot. B City Judges D. H. Twomey and S. P. Arm- B strong. H Justice of the Peace F. H. Clark. H Constable C. B. Patterson. B The crowd which attended the ceremony was B listless and apathetic, even when the nomina- B tions were being announced, and only came out B of the lothargy whilo Senator Cannon was dra- H matically delivering his philippics. Mr. Cannon Hj' charged the church with political misdemeanors B with which the average citizen Is familiar, always B omitting any reference to church influence in the B old days when he was the beneficiary. B The real feature of Mr. Cannon's address was B an ornamental and glowing eulogy of Senator B Kearns, a specialty at which the ex-senator has ,B practiced so long that it begins now to sound B perfectly natural B His reference to Senator Kearns' "intellects "intellec-ts tual" superiority over Senator Smoot, and the B magnanimity and lofty unselfishness of Kearns B in "throwing away all hope of going back to the B United States Senate for the sake of winning B Utah back to her own freedom" was warmly ap-B ap-B plauded. It was distinctly a Kearns gathering. B Of course Mr. Cannon did not see fit to expatiate B on the fact that Kearns was beaten before he B withdrew, and that the withdrawal was only an-B an-B nounced after persistent but futile efforts to ob-B ob-B tain the church influence which his bolting organ B now audaciously criticises. B Mr. Cannon's explanation of his desertion of B the local Democrats after advising them to "get B together and stay together" was about the lamest B avowal he ever made from a public rostrum. To B cover up the real fact that his deaerclon was at B the behest of the political syndicate of which B Senator Clark of Montana is the head, the ex- B Senator announced, without even smiling, that Bj the reason he left the Democraoy was that he B greatly feared that Chairman Spry would make Bj good on his alleged threat to secure the votes of Bj two Mormon Democrats for every Republican Bj Gentile who joined the bolting movement Even H those in the audience who haven't much faith in H Mr. Cannon's political stability, exp?cted some- H thing a little more material and plan sable than H that, and the announcement failed to win any ap- H plause from those who came to cheer. H Mr. Cannon's speech wag preceded by a la- H borlous effort by George L. Nye and another soln- H tillatlng oration by P. J. Daly, who manipulated H the gavel in the role of permanent chairman. H Mr. Nye found the keynote of his little contrl- H butlon when he announced that "wo have stilj. H fresh in mind the city election of last year," re- H ferring, of course, to the fact that Statesman H George was defeated, because the populaoe re- H fused to ratify intact a ticket nominated and dlc- H tated by Senator Kearns. This showed the hand H of Mr. Nye, indicating that he was merely in the H American party to gain revenge for last year H precisely the same motive which was strongest H in the minds of Senator Kearns and Llppman and H the rest of the American party originators when H they called on all "patriotic" citizens to aid them in wrecking the party bj which they had been honored. |