OCR Text |
Show SNUBEY G, 0. P. CANDIDATE FDR m UTAHGOVERNQR P Neither Wattis Nor Odell Gain Enough Votes for Victory SMOOT UNANIMOUSLY NAMED FOR SENATOR jfl Congressional Conventions Be- T ing Held Today to Select Ji Representatives r''SKSm SALT LAKE, Aug. 27 After hav?. ' flH Ing nominated a complete state ticket jfcH headed by Senator Reed Fmoot. the iS Kepubllcan delegates arnso today still MmH tired from the long rlml of yester- day and prepared to name two Repub- ijEH Means as candidates for congress from ! JM The Republican state convention JJH yesterday nominated the following Vm For United States senator, Reed' XfL Smoot fifl For governor, Charles I'-- Mabey of vAWjf Bountiful. I a'J For justice of the supreme cour foi :H 10 year term. Joseph E, t rick, of Saltj tBBBJ Lake. J For attorney general. Harvey H. JM Cluff of Provo. ' For secretary of state, H. E Crock-) m on of Cache ounts -wJH For treasurer, W. D. Button of Park PIL '"or auditor, Mark A Tutth o( Salt Wfm I Fur superintendent of public Jnstuc- 9 1 tlon. George Thomas of Salt Lake, for-1 Bp mer principal of th,c Ogden high KxKi school. BJ For presidential electors, Warren L Wattis, Mr.-. George T Judd, James :: ivllle, .ir.. and .1 Howard Garrett stormy ONTEfiT !2SST After one of the stormiest contests 'Sm ever witnessed in a party convention H In Utah. Charles R. Mabey of Bountl- H fill was nominated for governor. Mr 'SH Ma bey who gained but sixty -five vote yaH on the first ballot. Jumped to 233 on, HluJ the fourth and" the vote became a 'fjjwwjl landslide on the (ifth. netting 1.1m IgB 3S8V-; votes and victory . vB United States Sena or Ret 1 Sinoo jAwJ was nominated i acclamation to suc- JSW ccod himself as leader of the state's R publicans on their national ticket I 1 ,'FJ alter 1 considerable dem Ltlon iJPJ William II. Wattis of Ogden, run- jVH ning neck and ne k with i ri T rJpJHI Odell Nader on the first two ballots Ural gradually lost votes as the balloting I CI continued and with the costing ol fifth ballot he received only the Web-gfCTSfl Web-gfCTSfl er county total vote and one vote from ohothei county. TTIs ODELL dBjl: When the first ballot for gocrnor jpJRj made it apparent that Mr. Wattis and I SbRUB Mr Udell were running an even race RJiy' with neither showing suffice n'. laHRf strength to assure nomination, the fJlh doubtful delegates began to look fur 4m ' ,lar horse. The Mabej vote then grew with each ballot Until It became 'J mi uvalanehe. jj So bitterly was the battle waged by Mr. Wattis and Mr. Odell that it was -B well after the supper hour that the delegates finally derided upon M r. J Mabey. It was long after recess when, FVBI the work of nominating men for other! XBfl offices began flH J. IS. Prick of Salt Lake was named HaH au a candidate to succeed himself as jli Justice of the supn mi 1 0 in bj a eOn- lBjI siderable margin ove- hi nearest com-! SH petltor. James E. Cherry, of Mt :JH Pleasant, while T D. Lewis of Salt . sV Lake was a poor third in the running. yfj Justice Frick got 369 votes, Mr. -VLB Cherry 190'- and Mr. Lewis 1! The nomination for secretary ot J itate evoked conaldexable oratory on j the necessity for scattering the mem-k mem-k rs of 'he ticket In advantageous lo-j 1 callties m the stale and brought out mM candidates from Carbon, Juab and 'Wm , Cache counties., with Hyrum E. Crock-1 'gfr'l ett of Cache as the winner over Carl I Mrcusen of Price and Joseph 11 Mc- UWjfl' Knight of Juab as the third man. The rjBW votes stood: Crockett, .lia1. Marcu- jajr ' " -5 nd McKnighl 1 BJ It was bvldcnl that trading was pro- I cec-dlng among the larger delegations, this being especially noticeable in the L r and Utah jfroupi rhe leaders J of the various counties were in con-j stant conference on the floor ami the j vote from some of the counties was J delayed from time to time by these H dickering). CIA I F WIN'S OVER smith B Following the nomination of Mr Crockett Harvi-j Cluff of Provo and! jBJ H. A. Smith of Salt Lake were put) HjVJ forward as the only two candidates fori HjVJ attorney general. Mr. Cluff winning f with 819 VOtej to 'if, for Mr. Smith 1 The result in this contest an in doubt HB until the vote of Weber county, which HV threw flfty-ono of its fifty-two votes HV to tin! Utah county leader. B. H Madsen of Salt Lake, William BB D. Sutton of Park City and William 1 . Barton of Ephraim entered the BB contest for state treasurer, which BV proved a walkaway for the Summit j county man In nominating the win- Ill 1 Sir. Button, A. ,W. Jensen pointed 1 the long record of Republican vie-j vie-j lories In Summit county and the ab- sence of men from that county on the BWi Btate tickets of the past Mr. Button won, with 311 to 191 tor Madaen BV and 9T for Barton. Mark Tuttle of Salt Lake county . I 1 b nominated for state auditor by Bl' I ucclitinatlon. He was accorded a con- Jm (Coutlnued ou Pace Two.) I Bv Mabey G.O.P. Candidate for Utah Governor (Con tinned from Page One.) slderable ovation hen hi- name was mentioned. D. H Chrisiensen former cltv superintendent sup-erintendent of schools in Salt Tke. nominated Tr George Thomas of the I'nlversltv of I'tah as superintendent of public Instruction, and Nephl I,. Morris placed the name of Francis W. Klrkham before the conentlon rr Thomas won easily, with 4 B 4 to his opponent's 141V4. BAIT LAKE SUPPORTS THOMA8 Ot Thorras secured strong support from the Salt Lake delegation anl took the entire delegation from Utah. eoer and Cache among the larger i counties. Warren L. Wattis of "gden, brother of the defeated candidate for governor was plared before the convention as a presidential elector by James ClC-we, lot l iah county Weslev E. King, dt-j rector of the Republican clubs In the st.ite. was warmly receded when he( nominated Mrs George T, Judd of Salt Lake In a brief address, which called j attention to the need of having women, lamong the electors 1 James A. Melville, Jr.. of Millard' county, and J. Howard Garrett of Salt Lake, were the others nominated and . hOSftn as ibe Republican presidential electors pledge ! in Harding nnd Cool-ulpe. Cool-ulpe. Unsuccessful candidates for the honor were Emery Knight of Wayne comity. W. J. Bowen of Boxelder, Mrs Heber J- Cummings of Salt like. M. J Dallv of Salt Lake. Edward Hatch of Summit, and Joseph F. Wright of Juab Arthur WOolej of Ogden took the' floor and vas immediately greeted by, a Wattll ilernonstration. which incltid- ed cheers, applause and the distribution distribu-tion of snowstorm of Wattis literature litera-ture from the galleri.-s on the heads of the delegates Mr Wool ley was greeted hv an enthusiastic hut di ided r idienpe. His candidate, he amid way a man of unquestionable integrity, and i beer' greeted this remark. The speaker said his candidate was a big n an who doc thing-' in a big way. A, builder, a large employer, and a man whose enterprises are exempt from labor trouble because he always paid! till pen the equal of or more than the prevailing vage, and always gave his ; men a square deal. Mr. Woolley's speech wan greeted, by cheers and also by continuous! : pound of ih- gav on th'- -halrmuiis liable by the acting chairman, J W. Jensen. Of MAntl. REAM Ti ' Ml n ism I The speaker said that his candidate Is ready to meet an issue that can b framed against him. The allusion was not lost on his audience, it wr.s asserted by Mr. Woolley thai there is not a man In this convention who does not appreciate and acknowledge acknowl-edge this peculiar timess to be gover-nor gover-nor of Utah.'' He declaimed against .the "mist of fear" which had been spread over Mr Wattis' candldacj and said that the elections Of four years ago and two years :igo had been lost because 'we were afraid ' "The shrewd diplomats of Kurope." he declared, ' who duped the president i at Paris were not more running in their wiles than the Democratic si tiemers who g.v.hered in Washington Washing-ton on the federal lyroll and hatched the plot to defeat the Republican part in I'tah on the sugar issue." Much of Mr Woolley's speech was not Intelligible to an ''UX thosv im-, mediately around him. ori account of the interruptions from persons both for and ..gainst his candidate. The applause ap-plause at the close of his speech was enthusiastic and perhaps the most pro- l-.nged that gxreeted anv nomination. A K llowf n of Cache peconded the nomination of W H Wattis Moroni S-kcen of Plain City did likewise . Peter Peterson of '"at he spoke In fa or of Qeorge T deii as man ho i from Ball Iake and also undcrsiunds the honsehod conditions outside of this t county. The appointment of committees was the next order of business and this was done, each comittee consisting of ; one member from each county, the delegation selecting their members. The committees named were: Platform and resolutions J. E Jef-fers. Jef-fers. Beaver county. J W Peters, Box-elder; Box-elder; J. Qulnny, Cache. D. R. Mar-onson. Mar-onson. Carbon. Joseph Wade. Daggett. J P May. Duchesne S. Singleton, Emery; T Kinney. Garfield J P Millet :mnrt M S Wilkinson. Iron. T H Burton, Jnub. W. W Seejtmlller, i Kane. W H Thompson, Millard. C. Heiner. Morgmn; J. Henry. Piute. W. .1 Fox Rich. W, C T.yman. San Juan: 'A Candland, Sanpete. D. R Young. ; Sevier. R. I- Raddon. Summit: J. L. Warfhal. Tooele; C De Molaey. I'lntah. P. G Peterson. Ptah F. D Hatch. Waaatchi D. Hlrachl, Washington; J. Er-kershut. Wane. and J C. Davis, Weber Permanent organization and order of business O. J. Wade, Dsesett; A. F. Maxwell Duchesne; E B. Adams, Rruerv; H C C.ibbs. Garfield; J. A. Bimer, Grand; W, h seiKh. iron; s. J B. Saker. Juab; E Carroll. Kane; M F. Flnllnson. Millard. A B. Bertwlck. Morgan; O. C. Snow Tiute. A Mc-Klnnon. Mc-Klnnon. Rich: M. M Warner. Salt Pake. .1 A Schrup San Juan. I- W Jones. Bevler; P. Wright, Summit: A. W Morrison. Tooele E Bennlon. Wasatch: Was-atch: A E. filler. Washlnifton- G. Morreii. Wayne: and W H Reedir, Jr.. Weber. Credentials W. B Hall. Reaver countv R. H. Morgan. Boxelder: G. castle. Cache; A. W Mooselyro, Car-non Car-non J Wade. DaKgott; D. Berry. Duchesne, S P Snow, Emery, W. J. Henderson, Garfield J A. Elmer, Grand: J C P.oblnson. Iron: C. E. Hensh, Juab. L. B Pugh. Kane; P. Paxfon, Millard; W B Rail. Beaver; T . Shtimway, Boxelder: J. 0'DSll, Cache; A P. McKee. Carbon; S. S Florence, .A!orf?an. J. A St-ele. Piute, A. McKlnnon. Rich; A L Thomas, Salt Pake; W H. Wood. San Juan C. M Madsm. Sanpete: W. P Payne, Sevier; R. Young Summit G Chase, Too.-le i K Bullock Uintah; R. H Boswell, I'tah. F. W. Clegg. Wasatch, J. T. Atkln, '..'ashlngton T L. Riddle, Wayne; J R w ard. in r OFFICERS NAM i ifflcers of the convention were. Chairman. W. D. Livingston of Salt Lake. Vice chairman. A. W. Jensen of Eph-raim, Eph-raim, Mrs. C. S Kinney of Salt Lake. M . Packard of Spilngville and G. P. Murdock of Beaver. Secretary. lfomllton Gardner of Salt Iake. Aaslatnnt secretaries, Robert Wallls of Roosevelt, Charles Jones of Coalville, Coal-ville, Mrs. J. W Hammond of Price, Miss Lillian Roberry of Grantsvllle, A E. Bcverldge of Salt Lake, C W Dunn of Logan. Sergeant - at - arms. Th O m as 13. Browning of Ogden Assistant aergeant-at-arms. J C. Jensen of Heber. A. I. Grover of Garland. Gar-land. Joseph I Atkins of St. George. J. Plndllhg of Salt Lake, W C. Reese of Moroni, George Brown of Salina Chaplnin. the X'ery Rev. W W Fleetwood of Salt Lake. |