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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 37 same as in other counties, in that the People's Party was in the ascendency, there being practically no opposition. In 1S91, when the national parties were organized and Sanpete elected Democratic can- local issues discarded, didates. This party continued in power until 1894, when the Republican ticket was elected, and for two years the county was marked in the Eepublican column. At this election seven delegates were selected by popular vote to assist in framing a Constitution for the proposed new State of Utah. Those elected as delegates to the Constitutional Convention were Hon. C. P. Larsen of Manti, Hon. J. D. Page of Mount Pleasant, Hon. Lauritz Larsen of Spring City, Hon. A. C. Lund of Ephraim, Hon. Parley Christiansen of Mayfield, Han. James C. Peterson of Fairview, and Joseph Jolley of Moroni. January 4, 1896, President Grover Cleveland issued a proclamation in accordance with an act of Congress, admitting Utah to the Union as the forty-fifth State. The first Legislative Assembly under Statehood had three representatives from Sanpete county, Hon. W. D. Candland of Mount Pleasant being in the Senate and Hon. John Lowry of Manti and Hon. Peter Thompson of Ephraim in the lower house. They were elected by the Eepublican party. At the general election held in November, 1S96, the entire State and county official ticket was Democratic, hence the present administration, with the exception of District Judge and County SuperintendNo ent of Schools, is under the control of Democracy. third party has yet succeeded in the county, which under the present law of equal suffrage has about 6,000 voters. Local political history contains no exciting periods except the temporary removal of the county seat to Moroni in 1863, and subsequent return to Manti. The present county officials are as follows Judge Jacob Johnson, Spring City. District — |
