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Show Elican Convention M Warmly Contested (B, iniprlniii Fork nnd Plensanl jm (irou- GC Wnccs on tho fl TlcU'1, ?K,C Republic 11 Count Coiivoittloii l J,,,,.,, jn- Wednesday vns tho et largely attended and best over B n I'tah County. Over 400 dclo- 'K, wcr0 here from different parts JVe count) I'restou 0. Peterson S-lprovo. J 'h temporary chnir- niHL and Trace y Wootton of Amorl- iBVork, wna the temporary nocre- rK Mr Peterson's speech was tho -Kf etent of the forenoon and was 4Kfly an arraignment of Iho Domo- Kic party nnd Us union with the I fHgrctslte Imrl So,n,! of Ita "D- (K? producing phrases wore: "Tho Kiocrats lino been conducting n piBspcrlty slnughtcr house for tho Bt two years," "Tho Democrats wero uijBted on a platform of simplicity fK economy, et In spite of this, BuKf first session of Congress has the nation 1128,000,000 more than B of Its predecessors. Dut Prosl- '(It'lHt Wilson has so disregarded the Hml!CS made by his party that ho ZB the Daltlmoro platform aro nl- m total strangers, and If they over Bt ould hnvo to bo Introduced to -jM other by W J. Bryan." "Tho --gres.ltes In I tali is nothing more Hi a Democrat Cover him with -UHptl .Moose skin If you will, his j Key ears will still stick out." Ilofcr- OKpto the Union of tho Hull Moose -m the donkr i, lie said that "they utterly unlike In principle and "TTBi only In tho deslro for olllco, Kr union can produce only a hy- MWl party In the language of tho JB, 'Whftt Will the Harvest OoV JuBter tho clirirman's address, com-10, com-10, He' consisting of one member of ft delegation was elected on ore-H!tla, ore-H!tla, permanent organization and .TjB; of business, and plntforms and Hlutlons Adjournment wns then aBnt during which time n flno chick- Hlltiner as served at tho Heltuc imKkgMui recoacendlduiejDyere: TgBmeil (Jy varlous'groupeswfalul mBl arguments wero mndo for ex- IBije of courtesies. Governor Spry f 'B called In his auto during the Hs hour and met a gdod many or k delegates. Tho committee on .orm held ipilto a stormy session thetjufstlou of state wido prohl- Hp, but tho friends of tompornuce . B out by the insertion of a plank Holding for the submission of tho Hitlon to n voto of tho paoplo. leii tho Coniitiou ro-convoned, :H report of the committee on cro- 'tlali ihowcd no contests,' and -110 Kates present nud ontltled to Bta report of tho committco on ;Brane"1 organization and order of lacss, changed tho old order of Sheet and had tho nomluntlon of lldates for the Legislature follow .H" of county olllcera. It also rcc- ' tended the fol'owlug us tho per- Hwt offleers or tho Convontlon: jsney, ciurr, Provo, Chairman; 1 U'agc, l'.nn, I'lrst Vice Chnlr- f 'K 3. W ito-3, I.ehl, Cccond Vlco Kirman; Pratt Thomns, Spanish flM4' Secrc-arv, E H. u0It, Provo, First Assistant S-erHnry. J I. i)lmk. ley, Amerlt an F0,k, 8itoiii1 Assig. tant Secretary, John Jasperso... o0-shen, o0-shen, Third Assistant Secretary; Geo N. llnhr, Salem, Sargent at Arms-Marlon Arms-Marlon dinger, I.aku View, First A8-Blatant A8-Blatant Sorgent nt Arms; Albert Huff, Ufco Shore. Secoud Assistant Sorgent at Arms; .1 II Kcelcr, Provo, chap-linn. chap-linn. There were spirited contests for all tho olllcos excepting Attorney, sherilt and supt. of Schools, who wer nom-Inatud nom-Inatud by ucclamstlon. J. I). Wadley of Plonsant Orove and W." H. Ursston Of Provo, were named for four-year term commissioners, but James I? Gardner won out with a good as IV majority. American Fork nnmod J. 13. Chndv,Ick for Assessor and Joseph Dunkloy for Treasurer, but lost in both cases. The hottest fight was over State Senator, It being a three cornered fight between J. H. Wootton, Henry Gardner and A. I, Hooth, with only two vacancies to nil Several more candidates wore riHiiied for Ite-preseiitatlves Ite-preseiitatlves than there were positions posi-tions to nil. In the duel settlement, C. L. Warnlel; of Pleasant Grove, vuib named by acclamation, and J. W. Wing Jr., of I.ehi, won by a good margin. mar-gin. Following Is the complcto ticket: tic-ket: Commissioner, 4-year term James II. Gnrdnor or I.ehl. Commissioner ,2-yenr term J. F Urlnghurst of Sprlngville. Clerk B. T. Palfrymnn. Assessor Ilyrum Chrlstlnsen. Sheriff Marlon Cllifgor. Treasurer L. I-. Nelson. Itceorder Floyd Johnson. Attorney George P. Parker. Sum- or John It Stewart. Superintendent of Schools J. P. Creer. Stnto Senators Henry Gnrdnor of Spanish Fork, John II. Wootton of American Fork. State Representatives C. I. War-nick War-nick or Pleasant Grove, Samuel B. Taylor or Sprlngville, J. Wing of I.ohl and I. K Stpwnrt ot Honjnmln. Following Is the platform as adopted adopt-ed by the Convontlon: ItlUM'III.K'AN (OIWTY I'LATIOUM ' ji&conv&tioffi 6lir lilleginnce to th'o principles of tho Ilopublleau Putt, tho principals tor which no apologies hae ever boon made Wo heartily endorse the Republican Republi-can State Platform, adopted in Salt Uikc City, on the llrst day or September, Sep-tember, l'JH, and wo hereby pledge our united support to tho candidates who have been nnnied Tor congressional congres-sional amr state olllces on the Republican Repub-lican ticket We point with pride to tho record that has been made by. the I'tah Republican Re-publican Representatives In both the National Senate and the Houso of Representatives, und state without rear of succcssrul contradiction that by loason or the ability and high moral clmracter displayed by each and nil or thoso men, Utah otcupios an enviable plnco before the nation and beforo the world. Wo draw attention to the splendid work of tho Stnto olllcors In their administration or our public affair,. A magnincont cupllol building Is near, lug completion, and tho funds for the santo have been very largely raised by menus of the Inheritance Ta., prot vlded for by the Repub'lcan i.eglslaturo. i.eglsla-turo. VnrioiiH irrigation projects are under wny as tho result or Republican Republi-can Legislation, and the benefits rrom ihe samo will bo enduring and Incalculable. In-calculable. Theso public Improvements Improve-ments aro modeled nftor tho National law, Also n Republlcnn MonBUro, hich has glvrn to I tah County particularly, par-ticularly, mid the state of Utah In general, tho Strnwberrj tunnel und ibiikI. As a result of these beneil-1 clent measures the jlue of property in the county and state has been Increased In-creased hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Republican part went bcroro the people or the State four venrs ago on n platform pledging the en-' actment of a local option law on the llauor questtou. The law was put into in-to effect and lias been successfully forking since 19H. in com munlUei where tho vote has been in favor of prohibition, the piople hnvo been able largel to do auny with the evils of tho lrquur Heme Wo believe that the people of tho Stnto should be given the opportunity by nn election, separate Mfrom nil" other questions, to determine whether they wish to continue under the present pre-sent local option condition, or to have State wide prohibition. Wo donounce the attempt of Ilia Democrat! or Utah County, who iu their platform, accuse us, ' Tho Re-, publican State IlonrU or ttiuallzntioif or advancing the assessed valuation' or nil rHrm and orchaid lands in Utah County twenty per cent," when thoy oiujht to know thnt this board is, bylaw, by-law, non-partisan und is (omposed or two Democrats and two Republicans, and It was a Democratic member of the board who made the recommendation recommenda-tion for the rnls in the peoples tnx'-os tnx'-os In I'tah County. The Democrats In their County, platform two years ago pledged them, solves to reduce tho salaries of tho County Omcors They have nominally nomin-ally done this, but In connection with the reduction they hnvo added so many deputies that the salaries of these amount to about Ave times as much ng the reductions Thoy fur-the fur-the pledged themselves to reduce the ta.es. This pledge has been met by raising the rates so that about forty thousand' dollais more will bo col-trcteU col-trcteU from tho people of I'tah County Coun-ty than was collected under a Republican Repub-lican Administration Knch taxpayer can verlf) this by glancing nt his tax notices or' the 'past threo years. The Count should be administered administer-ed lu a businesslike manner, nnd wo pledge the nominees of the Convontlon Convon-tlon to glvo the people a progressive and economical administration or County nlTniis. Wo pledge tho candidates ot Uiia convention, cacli and nil, to carry out' Hie provisions of this platform wo respectfully invite the co-opor--tlon nut) support nt the polls of all 'lectors or I1 th County, Irrespective of previous anjllations, to Join with rivo been tho principals of good government. |