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Show WILL VOTE DlftECT FOR PRESIDENT ANDMATE Four Utah Electors to Meet in Capitol at Noon of Monday Twenty persona In Utah In the past twenty, five years have voted direct for president and vlca president of the Vnltad Suites. One was a woman. On Monday four I'tahns will cast their vote for Wasren CI. Harding for presi. dent and . Calvin Coolldge for vice president, and one of these will be a woman. , Yesterday at 1 o'clock noon J. Howard How-ard Garrett. Margaret Jewla Judd. Warren I Wnttts and James A. Melville Mel-ville Jr. assembled In the office of the secretary f state. They were the presidential electors' chos by the people of Utah, to cast the vote of the people for president and vice president In 1H20. The meeting was preliminary to another which will be held on Monday Mon-day at noon, when the vote will be cast. The one yesterday was to comply com-ply with the provisions of law provtd-tng provtd-tng fee the casting at the electoral vote . of the state and to notify the governor gover-nor that the elctors of Utah would meet at noon on Monday and complete eapltawea -wlih '' law, whan Ihey. . would vote for president and vice president, as directed by the majority of the penpie of the state, and at the same- time, woujd select one of their numfeet to -carry, tha returns of their meeting' to the senate of the United State. Then the national senate will canvass the' vote of the several states. TO VOTE MONDAY. Warren G. Harding, for whom the four presidential electors will cast their vote on Monday, aa also for Calvin Cal-vin Coolldge, received the second highest vote ever cast In Utah for president and vice president, the vote being 81. KM. Wilsons vote In 1st was M.145. The next highest vole cast for president ln Utah was for William J. Bryan, who received i,$l votes In 1896. Twice In the twenty-five yeari that Utah has been voting for president has the elctoral vote of the state been given to the Democrats, the first presidential presi-dential election In I8 giving Bryan the state by a vote of 4.ol to 1S.4S1 cast for McKlnley. The electors who cast the vote of Utah for Bryan were John J. Daly, HenryeW. Lawrence and Robert C. Lund. The second time the state ' gave Its electoral vote to the lemocrats was in 11 .. when Its vote went to Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, who received 14.145 votes to 54.13 vast for Charles' K. Hughes. The electors' who cast the vote of the state were Robert N. Baskln,'' Jesse Knight, Ambrose Anderson and John Seaman. In 190 Utah gave Its electoral vote to William McKlnlev. the vote being 47.139 to 45.00 for William J. Bryan, and the electoral vote was cast by John R. Murdock, Wesley K. Walton and C. K. Loose. ROOSEVELT'S VOTE. - '. In 104 the electoral vote of the state was 'given to 'Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt by a vote of (2.44 to 35.411 for A. B. Parker, the vote being cast by K. W. Wade, James A. Minor and H. P. Myton. In 10 Utah was again In the Re- . publican column, giving William How- ; ard Taft (1.015 votes, as against 42.- ; 01 cast for William J. Bryan, the vote being cast by Thomas Bevy, Lafayette ; Holbrnolc and Henry Cohn. - In Il the reapportionment for eon-greasmen eon-greasmen ga-e I'tah an additional vote in the electoral vol lege and Margaret Mar-garet Zane Wltcher waa one of the electors chosen, the first woman In the staee to be so honored. The slate gave : William Howard Taft 42.01 J. against j (.&; votes cost for Woodrow Wll- : son, the vote of the state being cast j by Eph Homer, Mrs. Margaret Zane ; Wltcher, John N. Davis and M. It. i Walker. i In 120 lUah again got Into the Re- : publican column and gave Its vote to 3 Warren G. Harding hy S1.65 to 5.(3 cast for Woodrow Wilson. The vote of the state will be esst on Mondsy by Howard GarretW-4argaret- Lewis : Judd. Warren L. Wattls and James A. Melville Jr. : |