| Show republican COMMITTEE two conventions will be held routine proceedings of the state executive committee the tile republican state executive A a committee was called to aider by chairman dooly nt at 10 a tu satur day august 1890 1896 nt at the ke re publican committee rooms on rich arde ards street salt lake city the daily tribune gives gies the proceed pd inge ings ns as follows the following members were acre present either in person or b bv proxy beaver presley prea ley denny pe present sent box elder john T rich B H jones proxy cache joeeph joseph A smith V bapp rapp proxy carbon james A harrison present davis favl taylor absent emery george beeley seeley H B s mccal mcca I 1 lam jam proxy garfield thoma bevy A L thomas proxy grand J H shafer absent iron Iro nJohn john T mitchell L K R roger rogers proxy bulb hugo Dep rezin dr C W dark clark proxy kane john F brown P W cand land landl i proxy millard 0 01 1 thompson present morgan C A welsh absent plot plate charles Moi morrill rIll absent bich rich weeley wesley K walton present san Jua nJohn bailey absent salt bait lake george M cannoa cannon R S campbell Cun proxy john lowry present betler Bevle rJames james M bolitho absent Summit Thomas kearns present tooele thoele william spry present uintah it 8 collett J C graham proxy utahn 31 douall dougall pree prefect ent wasatch pred ilayev absent washington samuel stewart absent wayne N L sheffield D C Each eichner ner proxy Webe rEdward D wade present mr thomra foxed it e o 0 into executive ses sion and that the members of the executive committee be requested to meet with them carried mr air denny raised the question as to the tile right of proxies to vote oto fl who were not bona fide residents of the counties which they represent td ed and claimed that at fit a previous r meeting of the tile committee held in 1891 it was decided such persons not net act ai members 1 the committee decided to admit all 11 proxies on motion of mr denny a committee of fi five eon on order Is of 0 business was appointed as fol ICE u lows presley denny R S 8 camp bell bella A L thomas L R rogers arville arville L thompson THE TIIE committee REPORT the committee then adjourned atil 1 30 p m at that hour the rA ommittee reconvened and the coin com attee on oil order of business tough its chairman orville L hompson reported as follows follow your committee recommend that 0 state conventions be held as bows wg cowit one lo 10 0 o be held on t abott rp ember 24 1896 for the pur e of nominating three electors hobill lio if elected vote for wil 1 sm am al kinley for president ind tet fret A hobart for vice ALL nt at and also to appoint a 8 ta a of 0 in an bbate central committee also win yick e com antion to be heid on sep bs aber 26 20 1890 for the purpose of busi bating mina ting a it republican candidate us presenta tivo in Coli congress gress sotir oar also recommend at the basis of representation in e two calin be on ta the ie ties Is of one delea delegate cite for e aery cry onal ty lotes cast for the present and el justice of the state i asod and WIS OF hoes he e basis of representation in 0 ot of the conventions will bo be delegate legate for each forty votes 1 in a 1895 for charles S zane T justice of the supreme court willcie WIll 11 give gie the tile counties of the state delegates as foil follow 0 3 beaver 10 balt ltv lake box elder ls IS ew san juan J I 1 cache e 32 San sanpete pete 39 carbon carboa 7 sevier 17 davia pavis it 11 summit 30 30 pr ner 8 jocele garfie 13 garfeld id 6 uintah 5 grand orand I 1 utah 65 iron tw 8 1 a satch 9 juab 19 washington 6 kane e 1 4 bagne wayne 3 millard 13 we weber er 53 morgan 5 rich pluto s 4 4 an the committee also recommend ed that COQ con cautions for tile nomi nation of legis legislate laflie e and county candidates candi dotes be held hold not later than september dr dark clark of juab opposed the tile report and urged that one convention only be held and that convention com en be gai given en the thought right to decide what it would do and moved as an amendment that but one state con tion be held for all purposes mr kearns of summit seconded mr darks clarks motion and in an par nest speech urged that the plan of two conventions reported by the committee was unusual and would debri deprive e republicans of the right to say whom they wanted to support for president he said that all the committee should do was as to call a republican convention he urged this he said in the interest of harmony mr air campbell moved as an amendment to mr air clarks motion that but one convention be held and that the call for the convention be made to state that it was for the purpose of nominating three electors who would vote for william mckinley mr a mend ment mr mel meighan i ghan of weber opposed the motion of dr dark clark and said it was the duty of this committee to take such action as would place the republican party of utah in line with the national republican party he claimed that any other action would tend to disrupt tho the party he argued at length that the committee report be adopted mr rapp of cache said tint with but few exceptions the republicans of cache county desired to have mckinley electors nomi bated and claimed that such vos vias the proper course for the committee to take mr graham proxy for mr air col lett of uintah said that he lie would vote to support the committees re port the republicans who wan ted to vote for mckinley should be given the tile right to do so they were assembled to find a way not to help the democratic party but to help the republican party and ite its candidates this was but right and any other course would be an abandonment of the rights of the party mr walton said he had hail come down from rich county to help take such action as would not only help to produce harmony in the party but would also help the party to win he supported the report of the committee and in answer to a q question fuestion from mr kearns said that his only purpose was wa s to old aid in securing liar harmon nion ho lie said mid tho party hod bad a right to live livet and he lie hoped action would be taken which would won id strengthen and not weaken the party claih I 1 IOS dr clark of juab again took the floor to vehemently oppose the plan of two coment ons feagain he again claimed that such a plan would de a largo large number of republic cans of the right to t 0 do as they wanted to then followed 11 discussion among the u member as to whether some of them then would endeavor to force bran electors upon iho the re ite publican ticket the i hair finally declared the discussion out of or der and informed speak ing that they ey must tho the chair mr thomas for hon thomas seavy of garfield eaid said he supported up ported tho report of the 1 committee because he believed the report of the committee NN vas as made in the interest of parly party harmony he said the discussion had taken a wide range and the tone of thedis the dis cushion was conclusive that a serious difference existed in the party which they could not pass by ho he eaid said that it seemed to him the only way to secure harmony was to prevent the differences on the dennial question beco ning a cause of contention in a party part convention thie this be he believed could be best beat se cured by having two co contentions ni mentions ent ions one for the nomination of mckinley mckinlay electora and one for the n nonn 0 ull nation oi of a representative in congress Con gresi in which MI 11 republicans could join he respected fhe feelings of those thore who deemed it to be their duty to support mr bryan but claimed they would ban hae e an opportunity of voting for bryan electors afforded them while republicans Republic aps who wanted to vote for mckinley look to choir convention for electors mr air mccallum supported the committee committees report report the lio tion ri of rf one convention coni antion on the motion of mr air dark clark and it was voted i town iown the committee report was then adopted mt pleasant was selected as the place to hold the first convention to nominate electors and alli ogden for the second convention to nominate a representative the committee then adjourned subject to the call of the chairman |
