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Show THE TWENTIETH WARD TROUBLE Too Mnch Liberalism Crops Out In the Iflntnal Improvement Association. The Twentieth Ward Institute or Improvement Im-provement Association is the oldest of the numerous similar organizations in the Territory, and it has always been the best one in several respects. From its incipiency there have been quite a number num-ber of live, progressive, independent men actively identified with it, and when the organization some years ago was requested to fall in line with the,Y. M. M. A. in other wards, the independence of its officers and members came to the front and objected to the change, expressing express-ing a preference for the form and features which had characterized the Institute from the first. The matter was not j pressed further, but Junius Brutus Wells. Royal B. Young and one or two others of their ilk have from time -to time expressed their disapproval of the heterodox tendencies ten-dencies of the organization, and have endeavored to have "the preBident-and-two-counselor-business substituted for the system which has heretofore obtained. The general election of officers, consisting of a board of thirteen directors, from among whom the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.", are selected, occurs annually in the month of January. The recent election was characterized by some remarkably interesting inter-esting proceedings, which tend to show that the old characteristic independence still actuates some of the members. After the election of the directors, the latter met to elect their officers. C. W. Stayner, who was always a popular and prominent member of the institute, was backed by the more liberal element for president, while H. J. Romney was the choice of those orthodox members. With a view to defeating Stayner's election D. L. Murdock, an officious aspirant for polygamous honors, organized a movement move-ment in favor of Romney and by a good deal of canvassing succeeded in pulling several in that direction. When the ballot bal-lot was cast, however, it was discovered that Murdock, who had been covertly lobbying for himself, instead of voting for Romney, had the gall to cast his ballot for his own dear self. It appears . he had pretty accurately accu-rately canvassed the probable results for his vote had the effect of giving himself him-self a plurality of one, his total standing 5 out of a possible 13, the remainder being be-ing divided between the other two candi-. dates. Of course this settled the busi ness, but it was always a custom of the Directors to submit the official ticket, as elected, to the following general meeting of the Association for confirmation, and when this was done, the next week the ticket was gloriously sat down upon by a tremendous majority vote. The occasion occas-ion of the opposition was Murdock's name at the head of the ticket, for he is not by any means a favorite, particularly par-ticularly among the ladies, who prefer to give him a wide berth. After the vote was taken a pretty vigorous vigor-ous debate ensued, and it was decided to let the matter go before the ward authorities author-ities for a final adjustment, and last evening even-ing was appointed for reciving the ultimatum. ulti-matum. The ward has been without a bishop since John Sharp's resignation, and the matter was therefore decided by the counselor, who ruled that there existed ex-isted no necessity for the confirmation of officers by the members of the association, associa-tion, and that the ticket as it stood was therefore declared elected and in Dower. The decision has created a very general feeling of dissatisfaction, as Murdock has expressed himself as favoring the idea of patterning the institute after the orthodox ortho-dox form, and this," together with his otherwise odious disposition, makes him anything but satisfactory, and may yet result in a more serious disruption. |