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Show REPUBLICANS CH00SEJICKET. CONVENTION HARMONIOUS. PLATFORM ADOPTED. .MILFORD GETS THREE OF THE ELEVEN OFFICES VOTED ON. The Republican County Convention, Conven-tion, brief mention of which was made in our issue of last week, was held in Milford, last Saturdy, the 3 0th tilt., in the Opera House, with forty-six delegates present from various va-rious parts of the county? What had, at first, given evidence of being a long-drawn-out and bitter bit-ter fight, happily terminated in one of the most harmonious and good-natured good-natured political gatherings ever held in the county. Milford felt, and feels yet, that she was justly entitled to name a Commissioner from this town, and her delegates went into the convention conven-tion prepared to back up this desire with strong effort. Prior to the opening of the meeting, meet-ing, there were many conferences and ' "log-rollings," but when the convention was called to order, all "was serene as a May morning. Milford Mil-ford named her choice for Commissioner, Commis-sioner, Mr. William Miller, who received re-ceived eighteen out of the thirty-six votes cast, to his opponent's twenty-eight. twenty-eight. The affair was as tame as a sucking dove with its teeth pulled. Milford accepted the situation with good grace and smilingly bowed to the will of the majority, for "what could the poor girl do?" The convention was called to order or-der at 11:10 a. m. by County Chairman Chair-man Andrew Morris, of Beaver, who read the call for the convention and requested nominations for the positions po-sitions of Temporary Chairman and Secretary. C. D. Farnsworth of Beaver Bea-ver was nominated and elected to the former office, and George C. Murdock Jr., also of Beaver, to the latter position. po-sition. Chairman Farnsworth, on taking the chair, announced that it was not his intention to make a flowery speech, sounding the "key-note" of the covention. He stated that he couldn't make a speech if he tried and besides, the delegates were there for business, not to listen to speeches. Nevertheless, in his introductory remarks, re-marks, Mr. Farmsworth demonstrated demonstrat-ed that he can make a speech, and a good one, and if his effort of last Saturday was one of his poor talks, it would be highly interesting to hear one that he considers really first-class. first-class. The chairman gave it as his opinion that the coming political fight in State and nation was not going go-ing to be a "walk-over," by any means, and warned his hearers against deceiving themselves into a state of laxity of effort through failure fail-ure to appreciate this fact. He emphasized em-phasized the vital necessity of harmony har-mony among the Republicans themselves them-selves and hoped that the proceedings of the hour would be ev.'t'cd on in the 1-est of good feeling and in the inter-st of the whole piny rnther than permitting factional or section al strife to jeopardize the chan 'es of Republican success next N.jvem-i'er. N.jvem-i'er. At the close of Mr. Farnsworth's remarks, the following committees were named: Credentials C. F. Harris and Susie Su-sie Thompson of Beaver; A. L. Dot-son, Dot-son, Minersville; L. Broker, Milford; E. Myers. Newhouse; Robert Fox. Frisco; William Evans, Adamsville. Order of Business George Murdock, Jr., and Mrs. Fotheringham. Beaver; John G. Jones, Adamsville; John H. Lightner, Minersville; E. II. Street, Milford; J. F. Hoffman. Frisco; E. Myers. Newhouse. riatform and Resolutions Res-olutions F. D. Farnsworth and Mrs. Ed. Thompson. Beaver; John G. Jones. Adamsville; Harry Ward. Milford; Mil-ford; John Goodwin. Frisco: E. Myers. My-ers. Xwhousc; D. R. McKnight. Minersville. Min-ersville. The convention then ad-I ad-I journer to 2 p. r.i. 1 The first order of business at the afternoon session was the report of j the various committees. The Cre dentials committee's report "O. K.'d" all delegations present. The committee com-mittee on Order of Business, recommended rec-ommended the following schedule: (1) Temorpary organization to be made permanent; (2) Report of committees; (3) Appointment of three tellers; (4) Nomination of representative rep-resentative in State Legislature; (5) a Commissioner for 4-year term; (6) a Commissioner, 2-year term; (7) a Sheriff; (S) an Assessor; (9) a Clerk; (10) a Recorder; (11) an Attorney; (12) a Surveyor; (13) a County Chairman; (14) a County Committee. The report was adopted. The committee com-mittee on Platform and "Resolutions presented the following report: Platform and Resolutions. We, your committee selected to draft the platform and resolutions of the Beaver County, Utah, Republican Republi-can Convention, do hereby report as follows: 1. Th'e Republican party of Beaver Bea-ver County, Utah, in convention assembled as-sembled endorses the National platform plat-form adopted by the Chicago convention con-vention and the nominations made by that convention of Charles E. Hughes of New York for president, and Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, In-diana, for vice president; and in addition thereto we endorse the Utah State platform adopted at the Republican State convention at Og-den, Og-den, this year, and we heartily approve ap-prove the nominations for state officers of-ficers made at such convention. 2. We favor good roads, and we pledge our county officers to do all that they can do with the amount of means at their command in maintaining main-taining and building roads and bridges throughout our county, and extending the public highways tp those parts of the county that have not good roads. 3. We pledge our county officers to the strict enforcement of all laws, and especially those in respect to the liquor traffic, and we further pledge our representative to the legislature to work for theenactment of a strict prohibition measure. 4. We feel that we are compelled to pay excessive taxes, and pledge our county officers to use every means within their power to relieve this condition. The above report and platform were unanimously adopted. The chair appointed Messrs. Jefferson, Marshall and Murdock to act as tellers. tell-ers. It was moved and carried that the convention proceed to nominate a legislative and county ticket. D. R. McKnight of Minersville, was placed in nomination for the office of-fice of Representative in the legislature, legisla-ture, but declined. Andrew Morris, in a brief but feeling speech, placed in nomination Bishop W. J. Burns of Milford, and C. D. White of Beaver, seconded the nomination. This brought out an outburst of applause which augured well for the confirmation confirm-ation of the candidate. No one offering of-fering any other names, the nominations nomi-nations were declared closed and Mr. Burns was nominated by acclamation. ac-clamation. For Commissioner. 4-year-term, Edgar White, County Superintendent of Schools, placed in nomination the name of F. D. Farnsworth of Beaver, Bea-ver, the presiding officer. Mr. Farns worth was also elected by acclamation. acclama-tion. For the short term as Commissioner, Commis-sioner, E. H. Street of Milford, nominated nomi-nated W. A. Miller of this city, while Delegate Robbins. offered the name of D., R. McKnight of Minerseville. No further nominations appeared and the ballot resulted in a victory for Mr. McKnight by a vote of twenty-eight twenty-eight to eighteen. The result was then made unanimous J.A. Skinner of Beaver, was nominated for the office of Sheriff, and Edgar White nominated nominat-ed E. O. Puffer, Beaver, for the same office. The ballot showed a victory for Puffer, by a vole of thirty-one to fourteen. For Assessor, C. F. Harris of Beaver nominated John I. Gillis; J. H. Lightner, Minersville, suggested J. H. Rollins of the same town. On ballot. Gillis won out by a vote of thirty-one to fourteen. For Clerk. J. W. Robinson of Beaver Bea-ver nominated Edwin M. Thompson; no other nominations appearing. Mr. .Thompson was elected by acclama- . 7 tion. Mrs. Elizabeth Fotheringham of Beaver was nominated for the office of Recorder and elected by acclamation. acclama-tion. George B. Skinner was placed in nomination for the office of Treasurer, Treas-urer, and was, likewise, unanimously chosen, amidst much applause. And now came the fight for the Attorneyship, At-torneyship, which had promised to be a warm one. Both candidates presented, were from Milford, Attorney At-torney C. T. Woodbury and Attorney Shirley Atkin. Both candidates had friends who were ready to stand by 'them through thick and thin, but it required only one ballot to settle the matter, although the ballot was so close, as the count proceeded, as to cause intense interest. Mr. Atkiu was declared the winner by a vote of twenty-six to twenty. Another Milford resident, Mr. Myron P. Lewis, was placed in nomination for the office of Surveyor, and elected by acclamation. In the choice of a County Chairman, Chair-man, Andrew Morris of Beaver, was the man selected, being voted in by acclamation. The personnel of the County Committee is as follows: George B. Skinner, Beaver; Geo. Jefferson, Milford; A. L. Dotson, Minersville; J. M. Goodwin, Frisco; Fred G. Gunn, Adamsville; Steve Fotheringham, Newhouse. Delegates to the convention were as follows: G. E. Lafevre, J. H. Rollins, Elmer El-mer Marshall, J. H. Lightner, D. R. McKnight, E. F. Bingham, A. L. Dot-son, Dot-son, Minersville; Robert Fox, J. M. Goodwin, J. F. Hoffman, Frisco; E. Myers, Newhouse; O. E. McShane, J. W. Robinson, Joseph Johnson, Andrew An-drew Morris, Elizabeth Fotheringham, Fothering-ham, Susie Thompson, F. D. Farnsworth, Farns-worth, Dudley Gillis; Mrs. R. H. Barton, Edward Muir, Joseph Skinner, Skin-ner, Mary Edwards, Ida Grimshaw, C. F. Harris, E. H. Thompson, E. O. Puffer, George C. Murdock, Jr., Geo. Pace, John F. Jones, Joseph A. Hutchings, J. A. Lowe, Mrs. E. A. Thompson, C. D. White, Edgar H. White, Beaver; John G. Jones, William Will-iam H. Evans, Adamsville. At the close of the convention, several sev-eral of the delegates visited the new-press new-press room of the News and expressed ex-pressed their pleasure at the change for the better, likewise, left subscriptions, sub-scriptions, all of which is much appreciated ap-preciated by the News. |
