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Show 'POLITICO - 'PERSONAL Machine Slips a Cog or Two, As Usual, But Winds Up With a Church Ticket. For a fine-grained, unadulterated sample of the political farcery so peculiar to Utah wherever the church Republicans figure, the state conven tion held Tuesday Is probably the finest specimen on record. With Senator Sutherland in the chair, Reed Smoot keeping score in President Smith's box, and Harry Joseph and Dan Harrington out in front ready for any old excuse to get up and yelp, the six hundred and thirty-odd delegates went through the rigmarole of nominating a cut and dried slate with a few deviations and tried to look as though they liked it. The ticket isn't as lovely as the machine would have had it. At least three counties are sore enough to start almost anything. The nomination for auditor went to Jewkes after a fight between Ajax and Calderwood. It was difficult to determine where the machine support had been promised, so completely did the gang keep their hands off, to all appearances, while the votes were being cast. Ajax and Calderwood Cal-derwood both claim they were promised the machine ma-chine vote and really the nomination of Jewkes was about the only bad break in the ticket. The real fight of the convention was that over the state treasurership. The Weber delegation came down fighting mad and told Howejl that unless they could put Mattson on the ticket they would swing every vote in the delegation to Christensen and would pull a few other counties with them. Right here the machine went up against it hard. White and Smythe had been promised Howell's support. Howell, however, feared the Weber crowd more than any other delegation and stood with them. Some semblance of keeping his promises to Smythe and White was made by splitting a few of the machine delegations dele-gations over them when the voting came up, but after three ballots Howell swung every vote at his command to Mattson and the Ogden man went unto the ticket with a good majority. Spry is before th voters for governor and indications point to his election. Whether the man who succeeds the flannel peddler now occupying occu-pying the gubernatorial chair, to that position be Mr. Spry or not, it will be a relief to get some one there who when he shakes hands with you will make you feel as though you hadn't grasped a dead fish. It is just possible that after the landslide lip R j moved a little and he digs himself out, Parley T B Christensen will see the light and refialn fronB any further attempts to force himself on hit B party and the public generally. The vote of 42 fl to 135 in favor of Howell ought to demonstrate B to Christensen pretty thoroughly in what sincere B esteem and regard he is held by the church Re fl publicans and how much one of their pledges isfl worth. A man possessed of any degree of acumerfl would have known better than to butt his headfl against a stone wall or attempt to jam his avoirdu-fl pois Into that particular corner of the publicK crib occupied by a seasoned machine man, morel particularly when that man is Howell. M Christensen never stood the ghost of a chancoTjl and had he not been blinded by his egotism heJ would have realized the situation before the ganp brought him to on Tuesday afternoon. wll Jobbed? Rjj Of course he was jobbed. What did he ex-i'l pect? That the machine would keep its word,' and deliver a barrel of delegates from the cow 11 counties? Ha! Haw! Haw! Not that the maijj chine is to be blamed much, either. There's no J particular reason why a bad matter should be made worse. Now that Parley P. has been put iti 1 is to be hoped he will stay put, and stay good and plenty. hi iffi tC i i , Smacking of rolitical nuseryism, as have most of Parley P. Chrlstensen's actions during his various attempts to force himself upon the state politically, it is scarcely fair to hold him responsible for the ludicrous exhibition foisted upon the convention late Tuesday afternoon by Dan Harrington. Mr. Hanington's oratory is about as inimitable i as his brain work. The derisive shouts of "sit ' down" and "shut up" that greeted him from the delegates when he arose after Spry's nomination I for governor by acclamation, to declare that he hadn't been given time or opportunity to place i another candidate before the convention, would have effectively squelched any one else in a like position, Harry Joseph, of course, excepted. With hearty disgust written on the face of every man in the convention, the nomination of Spry was voted reconsidered and with anticipatory anticipa-tory impatience the delegates turned to hear the latest gem jarred from the versatile gentleman who thinks Lincoln was his prototype. After five minutes of his peculiar rhetoric, in which the virtues of the unknown candidate for Spry's chosen place were more or less intelligently intel-ligently extolled, Mr. Harrington put the climax on his hysterical effort to get into the convention spot light by placing Christensen's name before the hoi'so for governor, with the latter political prodigy at the very moment stalking about the theater angrily disconsolate over the fearful slaughter of his candidacy for congressman against Howell. It was touching. The convention gasped with unbelief for about half a minute. Chairman Sutherland's face bald a look of pained surprise. Apostle Smoot, over in President Smith's box, unwound his legs and peered out around the corner of the box with a look of pity. As the significance of the ghastly farce dawned on the convention the conglomerated mass of cat calls, yelps and howls of dirlsion and disgust that went up must have been exceedingly pleasant to the luckless and tactless attorney. The smirk disappeared from his face very suddenly sud-denly and when the noise subsided Christensen's name was withdrawn and the announcement made that Harrington's inane effort was unauthorized. Spry was again nominated by acclamation. The delegates almost forgave Jake Greene-wald Greene-wald his interruptions when he arose and declared de-clared "that it wasn't the convention's fault if Harrington was a clam." With the gag rule in force and the ludicrous record of this attorney's former appearances before be-fore conventions only too well known, the machine ma-chine has probably learned, Its lesson sufficiently well this time to remove all danger of any more farces from this source at future conventions. JZ J? t Among the grannies there is gloom, and through the clouded atmosphere that for the past seven or eight years has made the office of the attorney general of the state a curiosity, a glimmer of light appears Mammy Breeden is out of the focus of the political spot light. Following his nomination by the church on Tuesday, Justice McCarty will probably be returned re-turned to the supreme bench of the state by the voters this fall. About the only surprising feature fea-ture of Granny Breeden's defeat at Justice Mccarty's Mc-carty's hands Tuesday is his assumption in aspiring aspir-ing to the supreme bench after the record he has made as attorney general. A valuable and interesting in-teresting addition to the department of the public library devoted to humor would be a compilation of Granny's "3,000" opinions handed down during his turn at the state crib. 1&V t&& && The disgust in which even the church-Republicans church-Republicans hold the irrepressible Joseph was very evident during the convention for what few outbursts he attempted to make during dur-ing the afternoon were promptly and derisively howled down by the majority of the delegates within ear shot. r His regular assignment assign-ment of the machine's peculiar work kept him busier than usual, so the members of the Salt Lake delegation were thereby saved a little of the embarrasment of his presence. & & & Apostle Smoot occupied President Smith's box during most of the convention, sitting well hidden hid-den from view. Occasionally he went back on the "stage and watched his slate go down the yawping maws of his constituents to the tune of Joseph- brays and the blasphemous remarks of one or two candidates who had been tricked and double-crossed by the machine. If there is another an-other state in the union where the United States senator of a party assembled in convention would be permitted to sit through the proceedings un noticed, unrecognized and uncalled for by the ;1 ffl&M delegates, it's a long way off. jl $ IfSfl 'I - HH The platform committee went a mile out of , M HBI of its way, under orders from the owners of the ; "Mouth" to get around the prohibition and local 1 ft B9 option question. iS ' B9 it HI H. Alma Reiser was elected the goat of the m '' HH committee on platform and resolutions. Alma I I ) jflfl had a railroad resolution and it wasn't so much i i ! .! fl what the machine did to him as the way they i V WM did it. He yelled for free speech from the con- : & f ; , HH vention floor and when Chairman Sutherland rec- "$ awl I HHfl ognized him he wanted to know where the resolu- li ' iftYJ tion and platform committee was meeting. Some 1 '. H one told him at the Federal building. He lit out ' ' 8'. ' fl on a run to get his resolution before the com- ' !fl I mittee. In naif an hour he was back raging ' ' fj ; i 1 mad because a search of the. Federal building ,j jH disclosed the fact that the committee hadn't been , j S H within four blocks of it. His resolution was Anally I l .. , H choked off by the clause in the committee's re- j , mt H port laying all resolutions on the table without ! jjf H reading before the convention. ' 1 1! jH !m 11 There are a few sore spots that won't be par- 'A WKk ticularly easy for the machine to heal, following 1; jH the convention. The soothing salve is already jp H being applied freely, however, in an effort to get xVi everyone into line by November. qifi BW & & S Bl One of the interesting little incidents of the lm' flfl convention was the prolonged and tumultous ap- jjjfri II plause that did not follow the nomination of Spry jv If a for governor. "William was nestled in a bunch IJLj iil of the faithful on the stage waiting to be called jh j B M forth for his little bow. Some one yelled for him IjL-f,; Bffl and very promptly came cries of "shut up," "for- dM B9 get it." The convention did. Am, flfl |