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Show King and Dern Acclaimed Choice of Utah Democrats Senator William H. King, junior senator from Utah in the United States senate, was renominated without oppositon at the Democratic convention held at Logan last Saturday. Sat-urday. George H. Dern, present governor of the state, chief justice, Sam R. Thurman for the ten year term and Valentine Gideon, were also al-so nominated without dissenting votes to the respective offices. The convention, according to the Gunnison Gunni-son delegation, was one of the most harmonious ever held in the state and a strong ticket was placed in the field to contend for the state and national offices. Marenius Beauregard, Beaure-gard, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Beauregard, Beaure-gard, Richard Fjeldsted and Aaron Jensen were convention delegates, representing Gunnison, Centerfield and Axtell. The only semblance of a possible conflict during the deliberations of the delegates was for the office of state auditor, Salt Lake went after the office when William Swan was presented, but immediately the Cache county delegates stepped to the front and W. Harrison Farr was nominate'd. After a brief parley Swan's name was withdrawn and Farr was elected by acclamation. Resolutions condemning the republican republi-can administration's wastefulness, endorsing an honest government and favoring law enforcement, were adopted. In face -of the facts that the democratic dem-ocratic standard bearer, Al Smith, favors modification of the Voldstead law, the Utah democrats at the convention con-vention Saturday declared that the party gave the state prohibition, and while in power, maintained honest and efficient enforcement of this law, and of all other laws. The j saloon is gone forever, the platform states, but the liquor traffic continues contin-ues in increasing volume. The democratic dem-ocratic party in Utah is overwhelmingly overwhel-mingly opposed to the liquor traffic, the saloon and to all agencies promoting pro-moting intemperance. It demands, after eight years of failure under republican re-publican administration, that enforcement en-forcement of the prohibition amendment amend-ment be given a fair trial. Religious intolerance was featured in the following paragraph of the resolutions: We should like to see hypocrisy and bigotry eliminated from the political and public life of our country. We condemn the religious intolerance which masks itself under some" imaginary im-aginary or false pretense, and thU3 concealed, strikes at the hope of every American boy by raising the barrier of the religious faith taught him at his mother's knee, and would compass his political destruction, because be-cause he worships God in his own way or in his own church, The people will not be deceived 1 this hypocrisy and hate they will sustain the constitution, which says that religious belief shall never be made a condition for holding public office or honor in this nation. Religious bigotry, ever to ready to cloak itself in moral disguises, has been one of the chief curses of state and nations. Where it dictates, there can be no liberty, no justice, no free government. Declaration for a protective tariff on wool, sugar, lead and other products pro-ducts of the state, was favored it being a part of our economic structure, struc-ture, schools, courts, taxes and honesty hon-esty in politics were. the outstanding features of the state democratic platform. The complete ticket named at the Logan convention Saturday, follows: United States Senator William H. King. Governor George H. Dern. Supreme Court, (lOyear term) Samuel R. Thurman. Supreme Court, (4-year term) ' Valentine Gideon. Secretary of State Milton H. Welling. Attorney General Oliver K. Clay. State Treasurer J. F. Mendenhall. State Auditor W. Harrison Farr. State Superintendent Public Instruction Instruc-tion L. John Nuttall. For Congress (First District) O. R. Michelson. For Congress (Second District) Dr. Joshua H. Paul. Presidential Electors Wiilard Scowcroft, Ogden; Mrs. J. J. Ga ii-gan, ii-gan, Salt Lake; A. J. Evans, I ;hi, and J. Frank Tolton, Beaver. |