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Show JOSHUA GREENWOOD MAY GETJNTD RACE Friends Are Urging Judge to Become a Candidate for Governor HAS STRONG BACKING Many Others Are Announc ing Candidacy for the Various Offices Democrats to the south are talk ng enthus ast cally of Judge Joshua Green wood of Neph now and long s nee on the bench of the Fifth d str ct court as a cand date for governor The Greenwood poss b 1 ty s rap dly tak ng the proport ons of a boom ac cord ng to reports wh ch come to prom nent Democrats here in the cap tal A member of the state comm ttee re marked yesterday h s bel cf that the real contenders for the place at the top of the Democrat c state t cket would be ludge Greenwood Major R chard W Young of Salt Lake and State ben ator James W Funk of E chmond Cache count The poss bil ty of Major Young or Senator Funk being the Democrat c nom nee for governor has hppn often bearA but the advent of Judge Greenwood s name s newer stuff All Sections Represented The tr o ment oned represents three lif ferent sect ons of the state From the north comes the hardy but gen al Fi nk J dge Creenwood s res dencc at Neph s surf c entl south of Salt Lake to make h m a cand date of the south crn count es Indeed man Democrats here n are urging h m And Slajor Young dwells here a the c ty Other bait Lake po s bil t es who ha e been n ent oned are both John Dern and his son State Senator George H Dern Judge Greenwood s friends point to h s cont nued sue esseB in a jud c al d str ct where Kepubl cans are tn ck as ev dences of h s popular ty and vote-getting vote-getting ab 1 ty The judge has long graced the Fifth d str ct bench hand lv bn sh ng as de at the elect ons s ch Be publ cans as would usurp his judical berth For the Rep bl oan nominat on for governor there are no newly reported as p rants or poss bil t es Whether Gov ernor Will am Spry w II tempt abolition of the third term precedent and run again for ch ef state executive wheth er he will run for nominat on as Un ted btates senator or whether he will ret re to pn ate life at the exp rat on of h s term rema ns an unanswered quest on W illiams in the Race Former State Senator W N W II ams will be a candidate for the Bepnbl can nomination There are reports pnnted ere th s that Congressman Joseph Howell and Colonel C Ed Loose also are possibilities for the nomination Ore of the feat res ot the next cam pa gn will be the breaking up of the group of five Judges who have presided pre in the Third district co rt for ears without a change. Judges T D Lewis r V, Morse M L. Ritchie and George G Armstrong will have been judges to gether in the same district for tftel e continuous years when their prese u terms expire Since a fifth Judge was added to the district. Judge Loufbourow has served with them The next election will break the chain Already Judge Armstrong has formally anno need his Intention to seek the Re publican nom nation for united States senator Judge Lewis will run for noml nation as just ce of the state supreme court It Is understood Judge Loofbou row is undecided as to whether to run again or not. It Is understood that Judge Morse and Judge Ritchie win be candl dates for re election Rogers Looking Higher Judge E A Rogers of the city court formal! announced his candidacy for nomination on the Republican ticket as a Judge off the Tl Ird district court He u born In I tah, educated at Cornell and has practiced in Salt Lake since his graduation He served two years as po I ce court prosecutor and fo lowing three ears of private practice, was elected ty judge. He Is now in the third year of his term on the city bench. Another candidate for district j dge on he Republican t cket will be William H Folland at present assistant city attor ney Mr Folland has been a tlve In the Republ an organisation for ears For a long time he was se rotary of the Re publican countv om n ee and subse quent y was ele e I ha rman hereof |