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Show I Republican and Democratic Conventions and Nominees. I Weeks ago this- paper stated that a slate had been arranged by the Smoot machine for the Republican county convention. That slate was nominated at Monday's convention. Many believed that the machine would not have the temerity to renominate Sheriff C. Frank Emery, but, controlling con-trolling absolutely a majority of the delegates, the ring leaders hesitated at nothing. They knew that Emery's renomination would be especially pleasing to the general authorities on Brigham street, and chanced a storm of popular "disapproval "disap-proval in order to gratify the desires of their masters. , , As has been pointed out hitherto, one of the chief disgraces of Emery's administration has been that he permitted one of the most notorious polygamists in Utah to escape from the state after a warrant had been issued for his arrest. It was significant, therefore, that a prominent a notorious notor-ious polygamist like Angusi M. Cannon should make a motion in the convention" to nominate Emery by acclamation while the candidacy of another an-other aspirant was pending. Evidently Mr. Cannon Can-non imagined himself to be in a place where the general authorities were to be sustained, and where opposition was to be regarded as apostacy. For form's sake the delegates howled down Mr. Cannon's motion, and then, by ballot, proceeded to cany out Its intent. A week ago last Sunday a so-called "labor ticket" was brought into being under Republican auspices. It was brought forth in the belief that it would divide the American party vote and thus insure the election of the Smoot ticket. But some of the men who were induced to accept places on the "labor ticket" had hope held out to them that they would receive nominations likewise in the Republican county convention in return for their service in attempting to split the American I vote. These promises were not kept. Every nominee on the "labor ticket" whose name was presented in the Republican convention was slaughtered ruthlessly. Not the slightest pretense was made of keeping faith with the labor union dupes of the Republican machine. The attempt to nominate John Y. Smith for sheriff was regarded apparently by the machine leaders as an affront to their apostolic leader, as witness the contemptuous attempt of Mr. Cannon to nominate Emery while Smith's! name was pending before the convention. As the result of the action of the Republican convention, only one party in Salt Lake county has recognized the labor element. That party is the American party. Wheieas the Republicans turned down the sole labor candidate who was presented for the legislature, the Americans have nominated nearly half their legislative ticket of labor union men. The Americans did it voluntarily; volun-tarily; the Republicans', after decoying the union men to put a ticket in the field, basely deserted them. This desertion was all the more pronounced pronounc-ed when it is recalled that the union men put two Republican office-holders on their ticket, despite de-spite the fact that they were not and never had been union men, in the hope that the Republican machine would return the compliment. The downfall of every political machine dates from the time when, drunken with power, it exerts ex-erts that power to the utmost, Ignoring the claims of those who are not subservient to its wishes. The Smoot machine, having an absolute majority of delegates Monday, "hogged" everything in sight, but it left behind it a trail of bitterness and resentment that will be reflected in the election elec-tion returns. The Democrats' held their county convention on Wednesday, and nominated a full ticket. Some of the names are of honorable and capable men. But the convention reminds one of the remark of the man's mother-in-law when preparations for the man's funeral were being made. The remark of the old lady was: "We all know that Liza's husband was no good; he was always promising big thing but he never accomplished nothing, but he is dead at last and I do hope that some decent men can be induced to act as pall-bearers." The platform adopted is a curiosity. It is such a jumble of bad English and disjointed sentences thai it looks- as though it was the joint product of Judge Whitecotten and Councilman Fernstrom. It "points with pride" to several things and finally fin-ally gets lost in a panagyrie of the late Mayor Morris of this city, whose administration bad its perfect symbol in that section of conduit that the mayor built, which was- not graceful to look upon from the outside and which would not hold water. When the convention was over the delegates all wore the look of the Michigan man who, returning re-turning from the funeral of his wife, remarked: "Wal, there's so much done." |