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Show IK HONOR MAY C1E TO ISJITCHER Salt Lake Woman Will Probably Prob-ably Receive Complimentary Complimen-tary Vole for Vice President. ONLY REPUBLICAN WOMAN ELECTOR Vermont Has No Candidate and This Will Be of ' Advantage lo Utah Aspirant. ' MnS. MARGARET .ANB WJTCH-KR, WJTCH-KR, of Sail Lake, may receive the. complimentary vote of the presidential olcctoi-s of Utah' and j Vei'mont for vice prosldcnt of 'ho United States, when the electors! srect In Washington ssext mosstls to deliver de-liver the vote cast by their respective states for president and vice president. The Republicans at the recent election carried only two slates, Utah and Vermont. Ver-mont. On account of the death of Vice Prosidcnt James S. Sherman, who had been renominated by tho Republicans, tlsero is a vacancy on the Republicans national ticket. Republican presidential electors arc at liberty to fill this vacancv when they meet lo deliver the voto of their state.1!. There is a strong scntl-nmnt scntl-nmnt iss favor of casting the eight votes of Utah and Vermont for somo prosnl-ncnt prosnl-ncnt Republican from one of thtae states. Homer Starts Boom. Bph IJosncr of Provo, presidential elector elec-tor from Utah, yesterday started a boom for Mra. Margaret Zano Wltcher for the place made vacant on lho ticket by the death of Vico President Sherman. Of course, there would bo only eight votes ca3t for Mrs. Wltcher, but tho fact that this has been the first llmo a woman lias been suggested for tho place of 'Vice president is in itself a signal hossos". Thus far, Ycrmosit has submitted no candidate for tho vice presidency, atsd it "would appear that thero was more thass a possibility that Ms-s. Wltcher snlght be selected by. the Utah and Vermont Ver-mont electors to receive this complimentary complimen-tary vote. Mrs. Wltcher Is easily the foremost woman In politics In Utah. She is at present county clerk of Salt Lake county, completing her second term lis that po-sltioss. po-sltioss. and has tho distinction of being tho only woman clerk of a county as large as Salt Lako county in the United States. Named for Elector. At tile recent Republican state convention conven-tion Mrs. Wltcher was a cassdldato for tlse nosnlnation for stato treasures, but was beaten for the place by sv narrow margin. She Wfl3 nassied, however, by the convention as a. candidate for presidential presi-dential elector and was elected as a Republican elector at the recent convention. con-vention. She is the only woman who was chosen as a Republican elector. The state ot Washington elected a woman aa a Roosevelt elector and Mrs. Witches' will sham with the woman from Washington the honor of being the only woman over to be chosen a member of the olcctos-al college. Undoubtedly. Mr.. Witches will have the backing of women of all parts or the United States for the Republican com-ptimcntary com-ptimcntary vole for vice president of the United Statos. It will not only prove a signal honor for Mrs. Witchcr, hut will be a recognition of women In politics poli-tics higher than has ever beess g:ven heretofore by assy political party. MAY BE GIVEN VOTE j, ': FOR VICE PRESIDENT j MARGARET ZANE WITOIIER. |
