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Show Withdraws in Favor of Former Senator William N. Williams. SPRY AND HOWELL ARE AT BOTTOM OF DEAL Peculiar Feature of Proposition Proposi-tion Is That Williams Is Prohibitionist Lewis Tcllo Cannon has withdrawn rather, has been withdrawn from the race Cor slate senator from Salt Lake county. Mr. Gannon was a prominont candidate for tho nomination for the senate on the Eepublican ticket and had roceivod promises of support from many sources. ' However, on Tuesday Governor "William "Will-iam Spry, Congressman Joseph Howell and Senator W. N. Williams called on Mr. Cannon and induced him to withdraw with-draw from tho race in favor of Senator "Williams. Mr. Cannon was sub.iect to persuasion and is now a Williams advocate. advo-cate. Ho said that when ho had entered en-tered tho race it was with the understanding under-standing that Senator Williams would not be a candidate. Therefore, on learning learn-ing that Mr. Williams wished to return to the senate, he promptly withdrew. Littlo Surprising. The part taken by Governor Spry and Congressman Llowell in Cannon's withdrawal, with-drawal, however, is surprising. That tho Republican party will make a bid for the support of the liquor men in this counly and throughout the state this fall is conceded. Nevertheless Senator Sen-ator W. N. Williams, whom the bunch is backing for tho slute senate, is a rabid prohibitionist. He fought and voted for tho Cannon prohibition bill in the state senate and filibustered manfully man-fully in an effort to defeat tho desires of tlio bunch allied with the liquor men. Either Williams has had a sudden chnngo of heart and has sacrificed his principles in order to get into office, or Governor Spry and Congressman Howell have chnnged their policy and favor state-wido prohibition and tho election to the legislature of as many prohibitionists prohi-bitionists as possible in order to enact a prohibitory law. Ono other alternative presents itself. It is probable that tho bunch intends the nomination of Williams as a sop to the prohibitions in order to keep thein from voting the Democratic ticket which will be a prohibition ticket. Game in Utah Oounty. Similar tactics aro being employed in Utah county. Here the nominees for the Ecnate will probably .be Henry Gardner, Gard-ner, president of the last stato senato and a strong nnti-prohibitiouist. and Stephen Chinman, an ardenr. prohibitionist. prohibition-ist. By this method tho Republicans ex pect to get them coming nnd going. Gardner is expected to keep tlie "wets" in line for tho Republican ticket tick-et while Chipman is counted on to swing the "drys,! in lino for the church Republicans. Re-publicans. Georgo Hone wns withdrawn fxom the senatorial contest in Utah county through much tho same method as used with ' Cannon in Salt Lake county. The situation in Utah county, however, how-ever, may be beyond control of the machine. ma-chine. If the county convention puts a prohibition plank in its platform, Gardner Gard-ner will be tinablo consistently to go on tho ticket. In such an emergency it is moro than likely that the "wets" of that count3' will nominnto an independent independ-ent ticket, headed by Gardner. Such a courso, however, is almost certain to mean a Democratic victory jn that county, coun-ty, and every effort wiil be made to avoid such a catastrophe to church Republicans. |