| Show Hot Fight Over Party Leadership aders hip Rages Rages' At Utah Bourbons Bourbons' Meet 7 f T i ix x a 8 c THEY LEAD DEMOCRATS IN STIRRING STATE CONVENTION Wilford G. G keynote speaker Calvin W. W Rawlings state chairman and Judge Turner tens temporary chairman 4 9 V L 7 i 1 4 U H J 5 2 4 fV V A ri 44 y j i DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION APPLAUDS OLDEST DELEGATE Mrs Irs Elizabeth Hayward 83 Salt Lake City with Mrs JS Russell Salt Lake county delegate Supporters of reelection of Calvin Calvin Calyin Cal Cal- vin yin W W. Rawlings as chairman of the Democratic state central committee com corn committee won to s on a motion to keep the election of the chairman an vote open-vote procedure at the state convention Saturday afternoon By RAY RICHARDS Between benign portraits of ot President Franklin D D. Roosevelt and Governor Henry H. H Blood on either side of the speakers speakers' platform platform platform plat plat- form and with a keynote speech glowingly insisting that all was harmony Utah Democrats in state convention were engaged late Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- in fl fierce conflict for party leadership during th the important election year of 1938 It appeared probable p as after noon t session ady 1 that at opp I of of the leike lon Df Calvin J I W. W Rawlings as state chairman would move for a secret ballot when the time came to name a state I chairman vice chairwoman and a central committee of Those seeking the secret ballot it was said said- were proceeding on the extremely practical political theory that many dependent on the old party organization for Jor patronage might be timid i voting openly against the incumbent Mr Rawlings and for the various other candidates for the powerful post including State Senator Ira A. A Huggins Huggins' Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den Frank L. L Olson Salt Lake City Jackson league president and Olof Olo R. R Richfield former former former for for- mer state chairman Re Reaching ching through ugh the great segment segment segment seg seg- ment of vot voting ng pop population represented represented seated by the states state's women Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- was the intense rivalry of f three candidates candidates' for the office of vice chairwoman vacated by the recent formal resignation of the incumbent in incumbent incumbent in- in Mrs Frank W W. Penrose of Salt Lake City Delegates and visitors to the convention convention convention con con- in In the Rainbow at 41 East Fifth South street were beleaguered by workers for Mrs Mary Halloran Salt Lake City They pressed leaflets into hands hand and hux hung badges on coats augmenting that t appeal with wilh verbal arguments for their candidate Not so obvious but with a quiet quiel strength of their own were the movements in behalf of Mrs David Continued on Page pue Three Column Five I BOURBON MEET BATTLE RAGES Continued Co from Page One W W. Moffat Salt Lake county and Mrs Scott P. P Stewart Salt Lake City Workers for District Attorney Rawlings said all Salt SaIt Lake county delegate votes were in the bag for their champion and that thai sufficient strength was indicated Inthe inthe in inthe the other 28 counties to assure his reelection Delegates Attend Eight hundred voting delegates ar are attending the convention Friends of other candidates declared de de- de dared Mr Rawlings might appear on the surface to have corralled a majority but that a secret ballot might deprive him of sufficient votes to register defeat The fact that this Is the first state convention held under the terms of the 1937 1931 primary election law which impose iron changes on most of the former party organization or or- tion procedure lent additional addi drama and significance to the form formal l start of a campaign which will serve as Utah's great test Lest of new deal success in state and national fields Victory Forecast The convention started on the assumption that every delegate wished a completely Democratic state legislature for 1939 and above all the reelection of United States Senator Elbert D. D D Thomas and Representatives Representatives Rep Rep- Abe Murdock and J J. Will Robinson So with those large portraits of national and state executives seeming seeming seeming seem seem- ing to look on with hope the opening opening opening open open- ing phases of the meeting were carried through with colorful words and general cheers The keynote speaker Wilford F. F of Manti Mantl long a civic leader there and prominent pete county Democratic affairs for years sounded the chord of Utah's success under the new deal New Deal Inevitable The election of Roosevelt may have ave been a happy circumstance h he e said but the new deal was in in- in evitable There had to be an answer answer an an- ower to the problem awaiting around the corner The new deal not Russian communism nor Italian fascism nor German nazism is as much nuch a part of American soil as Plymouth rock Listing new dealt deal debits such as asan an enormously increased public debt with the possibility that it will grow row much higher increase in federal federal fed fed- eral oral jobholders decrease of mans man's freedom to b buy y and sell as he wishes Fishes and an increase in the legal authority of organized labor not balanced by a corresponding in increase increase in- in crease rease in legal responsibility Mr claimed that the profit total otal remains great Speaker Praises Praise Blood Bloo The state government in Utah has been pro new deal from the governor and the legislature down downto to 0 and including the various committees committees com corn acting without pay to furher further further fur fur- ther her new deal policies he said governor has been especially keen ceen to recognize and seize each opportunity for the state and its citizens to ben benefit fit through federal assistance Every hamlet town city and county has new buildings new or improved roads waterworks and many nany types types' of other public improvements improvements improve improve- ments that is a manifestation of the he new deal Chairman Rawlings called the convention to order introduced ced Mayor John M. M Wallace of Salt Lake Lak City for the address of welcome welcome wel wel- come ome then retired from the rostrum in fl favor of Temporary Chairman Abe be W. W Turner of Provo Harmony Urged Mayor Wallace urged the delegates delegates dele dele- gates rates to strive for party harmony as is a sure means of 1938 political success Appearing briefly on his way to toa toa tot a t meeting of the state prison board Governor Blood declared the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- state administration has tried to discharge its trust for the benefit of all and to develop Utah's resources while maintaining an even oven keel financially Above all all he concluded lets let letus letus us s have party party peace There Ther are plenty of things to fight without hitting one another |
