Show 1 < THE PEOPLES PARTY IN PEOYO One of thc l cnlbers Kicks Against County Officers Being Delegates to the County Convention The regular cutanddried programm < of the Peoples party primary meetings at Provo has not been endorsed so unanimously unani-mously in the present campaign as ha generally been the rule in the past Tin following letter to the Enquirer from lIr W D Robert explains itself Editor Enquirer Your reporter i his report of the proceedings of the primary meeting held at the CourtHouse on Tuesday evening last made statements that are calculated cal-culated to mislead the public as to the facts as set forth in the resolution referred to I the resolution had been published in full there would have been no necessity for a reply re-ply He stated that the resolution advocated advo-cated free schools and other institutions of learning leaving out the modifying clause so far as practicable H report also stated that I evidently was not prepared to back up my position with facts and figures on the assertion that there had been an increase in-crease of salaries for different officers to a extent exceeding a reasonable compensation for the services performed The resolution did not say so but did say that for several years past the tendency had been to an increase of salaries etc Now Mr Editor while I do not wish to engage in a newspaper controversy with the Enquirer on ou county officials nor do I wish to do anything that will have a tendency ten-dency to bring division in the ranks of the Peoples party yet I am prepared to verify every allegation set forth in the preamble pre-amble of the resolution presented by me by god and substantial proof whenever when-ever our county officials demand it besides if our county officers who were present had had the modesty or good taste to have refrained from voting and left the question of adopting the resolution lution to the taxpayers present who were not officeholders nor officeseekers the reso ution would have carried but all the county officers present but one voted against the adoption of the resolution and that one spoke against it and it was lost by one vote only With the best of feeling towards the delegation from this precinct I must say that I consider it is bad taste to send out of five delegates four county officers as delegates dele-gates to a county convention to place men in nomination for county officers or any other public office And the actions of some of our delegates to the County Convention on last Saturday justifies my position I it possible that the Peoples Party has so little ability outside of the present incumbents m office that we cant help ourselves I think not and without an exception the taxpayers with whom I have conversed agree with meW me-W D KOEEETS Provo July 20 1885 |