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Show I DEMOCRATIC I CONVENTION I Developes Fight and I Prospective Bolt I Of Box Elder Demo- cratic War-horses. H The Domocuits of the First Judicial H District in convention in this fit) Sat- H urday did wtuit was expected lcnom- HL , inatod Judge Hait and Attoinry Hr Frank- Nebeker and broke up itox El- Br' der Dcmociacy. H Tiiu Box Elder delegation presented H their claims admirably and warned H the Cache delegates that If they were H turned down and sent back empty- H handed as from eveiy district coin en- H tlon held heietofore the Democrats of H that county would retaliate at the H polls, but the warning was not heeded. jH Box Klder was heaitll) hi favor of H Judge Hart's lenoiniiiation but they H wanted Cull, of that county, instead H of Nebeker, and their plea was that H Box Elder had never yet been accord- H cd a place on the district ticket. Bo Elder came with 22 delegates but fl Cache had -13, so of course was able to H handle the situation satisfactory to H themselves, H Tlicbojs from below were si.liiig H hot even before they got otf the train and after they had been in the vlolnl-B vlolnl-B ty of the court house a short time the H temperature there ian up to K0 de-I de-I grces in the shade. They would listen H to nothing nor anybody, not een Na-H Na-H tlonal Committeeman D. II. Perry, H who came up to pour oil on the troub-H troub-H led waters. They wanted consldcra- tion, justice, light, not talk, promises, H tarty and sjmpathy. They got the Hfe&i latter, however, and after the com en-VJJSk en-VJJSk tlon weie hot enough to have healed BA anlce-bath. Allduilngthepioceedlngs H of the convention the) talked freely of what the Denis of Box Eldci would m do and when 'twas all oer they weie frank in saying theie would be a bolt. Geoige 11. Chase.one of the prominent men of the delegation, said, "1 am one of the oldest Demounts in the county. Now just watch mo foi the next thtee months, will ouV" Man) expressions of the kind weie heaul, and It is significant sig-nificant that Cy Davis moved the adoption of "the swine" as the party emblem. Cache was victoilous and they gae a supper but it was moie like a midnignt lunch at a wake. The convention came to Older at 1 o'clock by the selection of James A. Langtouns temporaiy chahman, who made one of thoso smooth talks of which Jim is always capable. The committees were appointed, a recess taken and the permanent organization or-ganization named af follows: Chahman- 1'. W. Maughan. Vlce-ehaiiinan Mrs. M. S. Ormsby. Secretary George Watklns. Asstsecrctan Sam McKlrmon Sergeant Geotge C. Rigby. Chaplain-Jos C.udon A Mr Maughan took his seat theie .were loud demands for a speech, and Peter went at It vcr) reluctant!. It mav have been a good talk, no 'doubt It was fiom the other standpoint, but after the Wcllsvllle gentleman had made the statement that "the Denis are on the eve of a great victor), " Tun ItKi'uiii.K an man came to the conclusion that l'eter's cbuiage exceeded ex-ceeded his Judgment, so we turned to listen to the ominous muttcilngs and threats indulged in by the Box Elder delegates Theie was a squabble over tilling the Cache delegation, the Box Elder people Using to make Inquiries quite frequently, plainly showing their disposition dis-position to scrap at ccr.v drop of the hat. This developed nothing, however, how-ever, but a gtea laugh on Chahman Maughan and the Cache delegation, it being shown that Maughan had been elected chahman even befoie ho was a delegate. The convention had lots of fun out or this, and Ilnall) Mi. Maughan was elected a delegate In the place of an absentee. There was another squabble over the method of nominations and voting, vot-ing, it being flnall) decided that nominations nom-inations should come from the body of the house and the voting done by ballot, live toilets taking the vote as the roll was called. Chairman Maughan announced that nominations for District Judge were In ordei. Everybody knew It was to be Hart without opposition, but It seems no one had been selected to name him. After a good long wait, Moroni Price, of Smlthtield, touched off the tltewoik.s in the Judge's behalf and placed in nomination "James II. IIart,whom we all know peisonally." Of course he mean "C. II. Hart " Davis, of Box Eldei, seconded the nomination, and Judge Hart wus named by acclamation. The conven-tion conven-tion then applauded heartll). Call, of Box Elder, and S. W. Hendricks, Hen-dricks, of Cache, were sent after the Judge, but he was otf somewheie tiling til-ing to think of something to saj later in the da). IHsl'UICT ATTOIINKV. The convention piocceded to business, busi-ness, that Is, It tiled to, butsevcial calls for a nomination failed to biing any delegate to his feet. The feeling In'theatmospheie at this time was stiong enough to cut w ith a knife, for Box Elder had come for the attorne)-ship attorne)-ship teeth and toe nail, and the Cache delegation, powerful In Its numbers, but weak In the mattei of right and justice, was glum, vet determined. The silence became so loud that It began be-gan to piove neive racking and It was vvitli a sigh of lellef that Cye Davis's tall frame loomed Into the heated at-mosphcie. at-mosphcie. C)c had become tired of waltlngand mutely rose to make a motion that "we do now adjourn." So far as the Box Elder people getting what they wanted, It was all oil even before they came and C)c knew It, hence his motion. mo-tion. Tills piovoked a smile that couldn't be bioadened into a laugh for the feeling was loo tense. The spell was broken, howevei, and .1. A. I.ANOTON piocceded to eulogize Frank K. Nebeker, Nebe-ker, uiging his lltness in cvciy way as a capable lawjer, competent and popular pop-ular public servant, and saying that courtesy and the unwilttcn law of both Dcmociatlu and Republican parties par-ties demanded a second tcim. Ho also al-so pleaded that Cache's vote entitled the count to twice the consideration of Box Klder. II. (. UUIIIIAltl), of Box Elder, followed and named Call, and was immediately followed by Davis and Blackbuin, all of whom were red hot. They knew they were talking against a piopositlon already settled but their energy was not abated abat-ed on that account. They made the air slle and told the Cache county people that the Democrats or Box Elder El-der county would not support tho ticket If they Insisted on forcing Ne-beker Ne-beker upon them. Each talker they had was onto his job and skinned tho Cache people thoroughly on their hog-glshness, hog-glshness, etc. Beit Menlll and Moionl Pilccspoko for Nebekor and as It neared live o'clock speeches weie discontinued. Tho vote stood 40 to .1(1 In favor cl Nebeker. |