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Show DEMOCRATS NAME DERN GOVERNOR Attorney General 1KM0CRATIC TICKET. For Governor. F..rT'B. H' Dern' s'"t Lake I Chiefs "f'he(Su''re' Court' Salt Lake. & J' t ?"r Secretary of Slate. I W. Ink, Richmond. ' t wr,;Vttorne'' General. " Robinson, Provo For State Treasurer. Joseph Ririe, Ogden For State Auditor. D1 O.Larson, Salt Lake. Supt Public Instruction p Hiish L wodwnrd, Provo For rresidfential Electors" J. P. Showalter. Panguitcb Mrs. Inez Knight Allen, Provo Lake""8' H' J' Ha-vwnrd- Si"t I Nils Madsen, Price. ' SALT LAKE CITY, Aug., 2S In a hotly contested race for the nom-, nom-, mation for the governorship on the , Democratic ticket at the state Democratic Demo-cratic convention at the Salt Lake theater Wednesday afternoon. George II. Dern, Well-known mining man and former state senator, won out on the fifth ballot, defeating w. W. Armstrong, president of the National Na-tional Copper bank, after Mayor C Clarence Xesleu had withdrawn at the end of the fourth ballot. I The final ballot stood 427i for Dern and 82Ci for Armstrong. Dern was the leading candidate from the beginning, starting in with 276 votes on the first ballot, and adding new votes on each ballot. On the first ballot he had only 20 votes more than Mayor C. Clarence N'elsen, w-ho after gaining six votes on the second ballot lost gradually until on the fourth ballot he received re-ceived only 1G0 votes. Starting out with 103 votes, Mr. Armstrong became Dern's most formidable for-midable competitor, registering 190, 194. 211 and 320 votes on the following ballot. Provo fared well at the Democratic Demo-cratic convention getting recognition in three positions. J. William Robinson Rob-inson was named candidate for attorney at-torney general after a tussle with O. K. Clay of Price. Dr. Hugh M. Woodward, dean of the summer school of the Brigham xonng university was named tne candidate for the office of superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction by acclamation ac-clamation after D. C. Jensen, sup-trintiiident sup-trintiiident of the Jocdac school Sis: ' trict had been placed in nomination by Milton H. Welling and later 1 withdrawn by Mr. Welling. Mrs. Inez Knight Allen, who was one of the delegates to the national convention at New York, was named one of the presidential electors. To Provo people the convention was also interesting from the fact that former students of the Young university participated freely in the proceedings of the convention, j George S. Ballif, former student body president of the Young university univer-sity and now a practicing attorney of Provo, placed Mr. Robinson in nomination in a splendid speech. Ernest Wilkinson of Ogden, former form-er editor of the "Y News" placed Joseph Ririe of Ogden in nomination for secretary of state, but later withdrew his candidate from that race to permit his being named for the office of state treasurer. J. W. Funk of Richmond, former form-er state senator, was named by acclamation ac-clamation to be the candidate for secretary of state. Chief Justice A. J. Weber whose term in the supreme court expires at the end of this year, was renominated renom-inated by acclamation. Joseph Ririe of Ogden, former state auditor, was placed in nomination nomina-tion as state treasurer by J. G. M. Barnes of Kaysville and was named by acclamation. Similar procedure followed the naming of Daniel O. Larsen, now of Salt Lake but formerly of Moroni, for the state auditorship. Mr. Larson Lar-son was state treasurer during the Democratic administration ending four years ago. Dr. Woodward was placed in nom-inotion nom-inotion for the office of superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction by John Henry Evans. |