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Show THE BIG FIGHT Republican State Convention Record Breaker Spry Defeated Morris Nominated for Governor Sutherland for Senate Hcyt for House in First District Maybe in Second Tuesday, in the big Alhambra Theater in Ogden, Governor Spry went down to defeat before the forces of Nephi L. Morris, in one of the hottest and most bitter political fights ever seen in the State. The battle began, really, in Salt Lake, Sunday, when delegates from all over the Slate began to arrive and arrange for headquarters. Caucuses were numerous Sunday as well as Monday Mon-day and the Salt Lake hotels, especially es-pecially the Cullen, were teeming with excited men and women, eager to further the interests of bis or her favorite candidate. Monday evening an attempt was made to caucus the delegates from the "cow counties" in an effort to keep the northern counties from- grabbing everything in sight, but the meeting developed nothing. On Monday evening, the NEWS representative rep-resentative had the honor of being iu vited to participate in a conference ol three or four of tne prominent leaders in the considering :f a tentative party platform, and later the writer also served on the committee which finallj drafted and presented the Republican declaration of faith. In committee there developed a little opposition to the time-limit placed upon the abolition abol-ition of the liquor traffic, a few thinking think-ing the time-limit of six months after the passage of the law to be too severe but the proposed plank passed committee com-mittee with a rush. ' Tuesday morning the convention was called to order by Mayor Hey wood of Ogden, who, in a ringing speech, assailed the policy of the Democratic administration in its handling of thr Mexican situation as well as alonr. other lines. O F. McShane of Beaver served as Secretary of the gathering. The impression having gone forth that Governor Spry would try to control con-trol the organization of the convention especially the committee on Order of Business, in order that the nomination for Governor might come first, the anti Spry forces got busy and made this an impossibility. With this defeat de-feat at the very outset, which was a real test of the Spry strength, it was generally conceded that the gubernatorial guber-natorial incumbent was beaten before the balloting began. Imagine one of the largest theatres in the north, crowded to overflowing with delegates and visitors, the big galleries a sea of faces, a brass band playing national airs in front of the building and the magnificent monster pipe organ of the thtatre doing its beBt to drown the clamor of hundreds of voices, rising and falling like the waves of the sea, while the chairman of the convention stood and vainly pounded the table for order and quiet; such was the scene at the hour of openiug, and these sceneBwere enacted at frequent times throughout the long day's struggle. When quiet had been finally secured, prayer was offered and, much to the amusemeut of the big crowd who remembered re-membered that the Governor had served the people long and ably, the pipe organ struck up "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot" which brought out a big laugh from all sides of the house. In the selection of committees, S. H. Fotheringham of Beaver County, was placed on the Credentials committee, Andrew Morris was selected for the Order of Business committee and R. 8. Ramsey on the committee on Platform and Resolutions. After the usual preliminary motions and resolutions, the convention got down to business and proceeded to nominate a U. S. Senator. This was a decided victory for the friends of the present incumbent, inasmuch as Senator Sen-ator Southerland's friends felt that the Governor's attempt to have his own nomination precede that of the Senator Sen-ator and Justice of the Supreme Court, was a discourtesy. There was nothing to the re-election of Senator Sutherland. His splendid record in the Senate, his well-known probity and loftiness of character, practically made his election a foregone conclusion. Senator Sutherland Suther-land received 551)5 votes as against 71;l4 for Armstrong. The report of the Platform committee was received with wild cheering. Men and women seemed to go mad with excitement and enthusiasm, when the planks declaring for the abolition of the liquor traffic and in favorof womaa suffrage were read. Hats and canes were thrown into the air, handker chiefs were frantically waved and pandemonium broke loose in earnest. One sees but one such cemonstration in a lifetime, and never forgets that one. The platform declares for the enactment enact-ment of a law by the next legislature, not later than fifteen days before final adjournment, absolutely prohibiting the manuf acrure and sale of intoxicating intoxicat-ing liquors, either by prescription or otherwise, providing for the framing of the law in such a way as to leave no room for ambiguity or doubts as to the r-al spirit of the law. The platform also contains planks favoring women suffrage, working-men's working-men's compensatitn laws; one day a week rest for laborers; remedial taxation tax-ation legislation; public utilities commission com-mission ; eight hour day for workmen in mines, factories and public works; child labor law; modification of injunction injunc-tion and contempt laws in relation to labor. The platform disapproves the interference of the Federal Democratic administration in the Uinta Basin land and water eases; the administration's foreign policy; raising of special revenue rev-enue for governmental purposes by special tax, instead of by tariff action. There were only seven candidates put forward for governor. There being be-ing a total representation of 625 votes, it required at least 313 to nominate. Candidate 1st B. 2ndB. 3rd B. Morris... 2465 28b's 313?-;., Spry my, 1991 183 Jenkins --69H " 52)5 42,' Mackey 20 17 n vt-nowu .o 02 I Anderson .49 42 52 .Rideuut 141-5 4J5 43,5 When the third ballot was counted h was found that Morris was still a trifle shy of landing the plum, but at this moment a delegate from Waynecounty arose and stated that his vote for Morris had been wrongly reported for Spry and he demanded that it be corrected. cor-rected. The house was in an uproar immediately, cries of "rotten," "dirty deal" etc. were freely raised but the chair, after hearing the statement of the delegate, confirmed by the chairman chair-man of his delegation, ruled that the correction be made. This gave Morris the of a vote necessary to nominate him. There were lively contests all down the line of state officers. Beaver county delegates nominated and worked for Ray Barton for State Treasurer and had, at first, good assurances of victory, but the "trade" feature of a convention is always unreliable un-reliable and Beaver did not get tho support promised by other delegations. It became anDarent on th fir.r. hnllnr. that Mr. Barton could not be put over, hence Beaver's candidate withdrew, as did also T. C. Winn from Millard county. David Madsen was nominated Treasurer. With as high as three or four ballots to decide some of the "scraps," the following ticket was finally adopted. U. S. Senator, George Sutherland. Supreme Court JuBtice, N. E. Straup. Governor, Nephi L. Morris. Secretary of State, Lincoln G. Kelly, Attorney General, Harold P. Fabian, Auditor, Joseph Jensen. Treasurer, David H. Madsen. Supt. of Public Instruction, E. G. Gowans. Presidential Electors, David Jensen, Thomas Smart, A. R. Hawley, Orrin Seely. CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION The delegates to the State Congressional Con-gressional convention from the First District met in the Orpheum opera house, Wednesday morning to nominate nomin-ate a representative in Congress and also members of the State Committee. After a day of hard fighting, mainly between the O'Donnell and Hoyt forces, Hoyt won on the fourth ballot by a vote of 251 J-5- The Milford delegates being the only ones "showing up'' at this convention con-vention these two were authorized to cast the twelve congressional votes apportioned Beaver County, as they might see fit. They stuck consistently con-sistently by Hoyt through four ballots to victory. The delegates to the Second District met in Salt Lake Wednesday afternoon after-noon and nominated Charles R. Maybe for Congress. - |