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Show NOT A DEMOCRATIC YEAR Attondancc at Primaries of Uuterriflecl Was Very Meager. Special to Tho Tribune. 0GDE2S7, Oct. 1. Tho church Democratic Demo-cratic county party held its primaries tonight. So far as returns havo been received the attendance was only nominal. nom-inal. In the District court room three elective wards wore represented. These were the second, fourth and fifth and in tho total thero were less than twenty-live peoplo present. Reports from the other two wards of tho city and from the couutry generally are that there was no attendance and no turnout turn-out and that tho Democrats havo. concluded con-cluded that this is not a Democratic year and that they will not "be in it. A 3tory that could not be verified is current here to the effect that Smoot has instructed the Democratic brethren of Weber county not to turn out too strongly in the primaries and not to waste their time on the election - of delegates to tho county and Stato conventions, con-ventions, but to hold themselves aud their wives in readiness to support the Smoot ticket at the polls. In other words they are to looso their potency as electors and Democrats but are to bo granted the privilege of voting Ihe Smoot ticket on election day. Up here it is now "being called the Apostolic ticket. |