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Show Democratic Leaders Put Over Program Salt Lake City Calvin W. Rawlins Raw-lins of Salt Lake City was reelected re-elected chairman of the Democratic Democrat-ic state central committee at the party's state convention Saturday after his supports had defeated, by a substantial majority," a move to make the balloting secret. The roll call on the chairmanship chairman-ship gave Mr. Rawlings 623 votes to 158 34 for State Senator Ira A. Huggins of Ogden, the only opposition candidate who remained remain-ed in the battle until the end. Olof R. Michelsen of Richfield was placed in nomination, but withdrew and threw his support to Mr. Huggins after it became apaprent that the Ogden entry would need all the anti-Rawlings delegates to have even a slim hope of stopping the Incumbent. Weber stuck solidly with Mr. Huggins, despite the fact that the battle was over before that county coun-ty was reached on the roll call. Mrs. Scot P. Stewart of Salt Lake City was elected state vice chairman by a vote of 564 to 218 for Mus. Mary Halloran Soules of Salt Lake City, the only other nominee. Mrs. Stewart polled a majority of Salt Lake coufritys big block of votes and several outside counties, Including Weber and Utah, gave her solid delegations. delega-tions. It was plain, however, that she was the victor before these two counties were reached' on the roll calL The issue of secret vs. open voting stirred up some lively debate. de-bate. James Gunn McKay of Weber We-ber submitted the minority committee com-mittee report calling for a secret ballot. He was supported by State Senator LiAVicnce E. Nelson of Salt Lake county, Gist of their argument ar-gument was that every delegate should feel free to vote for his choice without exposing himself to political reprisals from those in power. Mr. Macfarlane and Thomas Thom-as (Tommy) Williams argued the case for open badloting. They toth pointed out that the delegates dele-gates were representing their respective res-pective districts, not themselves alone, and that the people who sent them to the convention had a right to know how they voted. |