grand old partisan celebrates more than 17 Decades of Republican Heroes and heroics today I Spotlight origin of the Utah Republican party September 2nd 1891 Republicans gathered in Salt Lake City to establish a territorial GOP venue was the Federal room at the courthouse county conventions had elected delegates days earlier this endeavor was initiative of Arthur Brown president of a league of Republican clubs that League had been championed by journalist Frank Canon they observed a time for Utah to have a formal organization recognized by the RNC upon statehood 5 years later the legislature elected them US senators Back to Basics for the Republican party is my civil rights history of the GOP to quote the book The More We Republicans know about the history of our party the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs for more information see Grand oldp partisan.com