20th {started for this morning
to buy a pair of mules. I spent the day in the |Deseret Alphabet} I met
with the and Twelve at President at
8 oclok for the purpose of taking into consideration the subject
of our candidate or Delegate to we ascertained
that our enemies intend to run Dr for a candidate
and would give him a certificate if he did not get
more than 5 votes on the plea that was
not a Resident of this having been absent nearly
a year a Number of voters came in we organized a
corcus or meeting by appointing Chairman
& Secretary. The meeting resolved to
Drop the name of Horrace S. Eldridge & insert in its stead
the Name of so that our Enemies
will have no chance to cavil about it. It was resolved
to print a circular forthwith & that
& start early in the morning for
all the southern settlements & distribute the circulars
as far as the lowest settlements also that
& go South North as far as & for the same purpose President Young wrote a letter
I left the office at about 1 oclok at Night it was supposed
that the Gentiles would try to vote at Camp Floyd & get
the armey to vote.
[FIGURE] I Baptized my Daughter at 7 oclok
in the Evening she was 8 years old yesterday the 19th
