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Show fBOURBONS SPLIT I mraii I Both C. C. Richards and Wil- H Jiam R, ; Wallace Lay-"Glaim to Appointment SALT LAKE, April 7. To have two men lay claim to the chairmanship of ' the Democratic state committee is the H anamalous position of the Democracy . of Utah today. The unusual clrcuni- fH stance follows that action taken at the fH , meeting of the committee Monday at fH the Hotel Utah when William R. Wal- JH , lace, for the past three years chair- IH ( man of the committee, was superseded by Charles C. Richards. The proced-iure proced-iure aroused the Wallace faction to ac- 'H lion and at a second meeting held yes-terday yes-terday it was voted to rescind the ao- H ; tion of Monday's meeting. This an-: an-: nulled the election of Mr. Richards and replaced Mr. Wallace as state j chairman, leaving the state commit- jH lee intact. To appease all and settle without a tH , doubt who should be head of the state committee, R. B. Thurmau, secretary of the committee, was instructed by , unanimous vote at yesterday's meeting 'k1B to call a session of the state commit-! commit-! tee within the near future with the i idea in view of considering an entirely new stale organization. The apparent difrerence between j those favoring Mr. Wallace and thoiie ! favoring Mr. Richards is that the first named group contemplates another jH session of the committee, considering i the meeting yesterday to have been one session. The men who selected ; Mr. Richards Monday look forward to jH a session of the state committee, hold- ing the meeting yesterday to be sim-i.plj sim-i.plj "a gathering of prominent Demo- crats." Senator C. L. Olson, who nominated jH Mr. Richards Monday and was one of the supporters of that side of the argu-mcnl, argu-mcnl, made the following statement lcgardlng the situation: "Mr. Richards was regularly install-cd install-cd as chairman of the committee at a duly called meeting held yesterday at-tcrnoon at-tcrnoon at 1 o'clock, at which llnio nineteen out of twenty-nine chairman were present, or duly represented. Eleven members out of the nineteen i voted for tho installation of Mr. Rich-arcls. Rich-arcls. Several reactionary Democrat in the party, together with a few oth-j oth-j crs, included some slate employes led : by State Senator AV. W. Armstrong, I held a' meeting this, morning, and di$-'approved di$-'approved of the action. Several mem-bers mem-bers of tho committee attended this meeting, including a number of those who voted in favor ot reorganization yesterday, and justified the action tak-j tak-j en as in the interest of the maintc- IH j nance of a progressive instead of a re-actionary re-actionary Democracy In the stato of iH Utah. The meeting asked the secrg- IH tary of the state committee to call an eai'ly meeting of the state committee to consider the question of reorganiza- jH tion of the state committee, to which all present agreed." |