10 Year of Political Ferment SIGNS OF A SPRINGTIME of reconciliation, forecast by The Tribune in 1887, continued to appear from time to time in 1888 and 1889. One of the most dramatic, which would have been inconceivable a few years earlier, sprouted in the Salt Lake City municipal election in February. Leaders of the People's (Mormon) Party, who well knew that they would win the election as they had in the past, decided to offer the Liberals four places on their municipal ticket which would then campaign as a fusion ticket. The proposition was presented to a committee of prominent Liberals and accepted by them. It was then proposed to the newly organized Chamber of Commerce and endorsed by about a two-thirds vote of the membership. Next the proposition was laid before the convention of the People's Party, which adopted it by unanimous vote. A ticket was then nominated comprised of the following: Mayor, Francis Armstrong; aldermen, William W. Riter, Thomas G. Webber, William S. McCornick (Liberal), James Sharp, and George D. Pyper; councilors, LeGrand Young, John Clark, A. W. Carlson, Thomas E. Jeremy, Jr., John Fewson Smith, Samuel P. Teasdel, John M. Dooly (Liberal), M. B. Sowles (Liberal) and Bolivar Roberts (Liberal); recorder, Moses V. Thatcher; marshal, Alfred Solomon. Although a small committee of prominent gentiles, mostly businessmen, had indorsed the plan, it quickly generated a feud
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