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Show the sacrifice nod march to the slaugh- 1 ter In the nominations for Hie legislature legisla-ture A. L Renville or OKden. . I) McKay of Iluntxville, A. K. Pratt ot" Ogden. S S. Smith of Ogden. II. l?el-nap l?el-nap of Ogden anil W. H. Talhurst of Ogdcn were named, the result on the flrt ballot being the ncmlnntiou of McKay. Prutt and Scovllle. Hclnap withdrew from (he race and an effort was made to turn the nomination nomi-nation to Talhurst. but the Brownfng people maintained that, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the met thai Smith had .ffeie. to withdraw, another ballot should bo taken I) determine whether Tulhurst or Smith should be nominated. In this ballot Smith won out by a wtc of 4fi 10 ::s. The other contested iioMiln.uinu was for sheriff, with W. il. Anderson. W. H. Striker and William Rrown in the field. The result of the vote on the flrat ballot was; Anderson 70, Stnker 9. and Brown 7. Mllo Sharp of Plain City was named for the two-year term conimiss'.iner against l.evl J. Taylor of llunisvllle. but ho was completely snowed under on the first ballot. The acclamation nominations were: Browning, senator: Skeen. attorney; Parker, two-year commissioner: Peterson, Peter-son, recorder; Gwilllam.. clerk; Farr, ! Measurer; Trimble, assessor; Jenkids, I surveyor: Martin, constable In nominating D. D McKay lor the legislature a young school teacher from Huntsvllle, recently from Oh'o. also named Judson Harmon of Ohio to head the Democratic ticket for president pres-ident In 1912 He also stated that Harmon would be elected governor of Ohio this year, and that D. D. McKay would be one of the representatives In the Utah legislature next year. Valentine Gideon seconded the nomination nom-ination of Arthur Pratt for the legislature, legis-lature, and in so doing he nd vised the convention that he wanted Pratt to go down to Salt Lake ami work Jo a little legislative work by way of writing a few paragraphs In the lawbook law-book of the state, and not turn his attention toward the election of fieorgo Sutherland to the United States senate, lie said the Republicans Republi-cans on the legislative ticket were nominated for tlje sob- purpose .if vot Ing for Sutherland, the same as the Republicans a couple of years ago were sent to the capital for the purpose pur-pose of voting for Reed Sinoot. The business of the contention was concluded shortly after d o'cloi k, and so rapidly did the delegates leave the convention hall that It was impossible to name the central committee. DEMOCRATS NAME COUNTY TICKET DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. State Senator SAMUEL BROWNING, Ogden. State Legislators A. L. SCOVILLE. Ogden. D. D. M'KAY, Huntsvllle. A. E. PRATT. Ogden. S. S. SMITH. Ogden. County Attorney J. O. SKEEN, Ogden. County Commissioners Two-year term, W. J. PARKER, Ogden. Og-den. Four-year term, LEVI J. TAYLOR, Harrisville. County Sheriff W. H. ANDERSON. Ogden. County Recorder MISS MATILDA PETERSON, Ogden. Og-den. County Treasurer WALTER N. FARR, Ogden. County Clerk H. C. GWILLI AM, Ogden. County Assessor JOHN B. TRIMBLE, Ogden. County Surveyor WASHINGTON JENKINS, Ogden. Ogden Constable CLEM MARTIN, Ogden. In the Democratic convention Saturday Sat-urday afternoon Samuel Drowning, president of the Ocden city council, declined the nomination for state senator. sen-ator. Twice did he refuse the crown, but the convention was determined that he should bead the ticket. Kven after this was done he stated to the couventlon that he could not tell at that time whether he would permit his name to ro before tho people ou election day for their suffrage. suf-frage. In his partial acceptance of the nomination Mr. Brownlnp stated-thai he Is a Democrat through and through and that he meant to stand tlrtnly on the platform ot principles uttered by the convention, and that he was ono of the Democrats In the country who proposed to see to it that the laws enacted by the state legislature bo executed in their entirety. He said he was against "ring rule" and "pie" Democrats who had gone Into the Republican party for the sole purpose of getting a place at the political pie counter. He desired to kill the liquor business and thought this as good a time a any. .Mr. Browning said he thought that the people should now declare themselves either for prohibition or local option and then forever keep their peace. The legislature of this stato. he said, had failed to do the bidding of the peoplo in this respect, and iu many others, and he thought it a good idea to get a direct expression from tho voters as to whether they want whisky whis-ky or no whisky. Immediately after the reconvening of the convention in the afternoon tho committees made their reports, and the following permanent officers wore announced: Chairman John Seaman. Secretary C. A. Smurthw alte. Assistant Secretary O. A. Kennedy. Kenne-dy. Not a wor'' of protest was uttered agaiDst the platform which was adopted adopt-ed unanimously. After the routine of receivlug the committee reports and adopting them, the convention got down to real democratic dem-ocratic business aud nominated tho ticket. In the nominating and seconding speeches a great deal was said about the time-honored Democracy and the great men who had led it to defeat from time to time. Incidentally a few good things were said about the nominees. Most of the nominations, however, were made by acclamation, and the convention seemed to be well pleased that meu had been discovered who would make |