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Show BUS TAKE III PI IN C0. J0IIN1 The County Convention This Week Interests Many Bingham ' People F. W. Quinn Nominated For Legislature The Most County Officers Renominated Lively Contest For Sheriff And County Commissioners Corless Named For Sheriff. Many Bingham Democrats were In Salt Lake this week to attend and participate in the county conveni'on. The state convention was held ion- day, but local interest was not great ' until Tuesday evening when the leg- s islative ticket was to be maO.e up. Great local interest attached to this . because Francis W. Quinn becime one of the eleventh hour candidates for a seat in the house of representatives. representa-tives. The convention "was held In the Hippodrome Theatre building and it was well filled Tuesday ' night. Shortly after the organization was ' perfected the work of electing ten representatives was comr.ciiced. Darly in the game Judge J. C. Green, in a very appropriate and very forceful force-ful speech, nominated Mr. Quinn and he was selected on the first I'allot He received the solid support of the local delegation and secured a K'od i vote from all sections of the county. TVhtn the results were declared Mr. Quinn made a splendid speerh to the convention in which he expressed lis appreciation for the high hrnor con-; con-; ferred on him, and especially the Bingham delepation for its solid sup-j sup-j port. Wednesday the big battle for the county offices opened in which the thief contest was to be that of sheiv I i'.f. Also there was intense Interest in the IBingham delegation as it was intended to put Isadore Gauchat for-1 for-1 ward for a place on the board, but before be-fore the work of selecting candidates was started, Mr. Gauchat decided not to make the race. Stillman and Lin- sey, present incumbents, were both nominated. Mr. Linsey was nominated nominat-ed on the first ballot for the long , term and Stillman on the second nal- lot for the short term, StiUmon got In by'hekta of bis" twth, having r' ' majority of only half a vote. His close opponent was R. E. L. Collier. ' Thehief candidates for sheriff were Corless. Burbidge and Harris ' and this contest brought out the big I fight of the convention. There was a I big preliminary of speech making in , which the candidates wero lauded to the skies. When the first ballot was . taken Corless had a slight lead with Burbidge a close second and Harris third. As the balloting went on Corless Cor-less kept making slight gains and finally a switch in the 03lngham delegation dele-gation put him over the top. In this contest Burbidge had a tplendld organization or-ganization and when the results went against him he showed himself a good sport and moved to make the nomination of Corless unanimous. After this the convention recessed and at the night session the other county officers were named. It was after midnight when the convention finished its work. The Bingham delegation with .its thirty votes was a big feature in -the convention and it soon became the byword that as Bingham goes so goes the convention. The Bingham vote was called near the end of the roll call and where the contest was at all close her vote would elect or defeat the candidate in question. The contest for a Justice of the peace for Bingham will be decided next Wednesday night by the Bingham Bing-ham delegates. This election will be held In the sheriffs office at 8 o'clock d. in. |