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Show SEVERAL ATTORNEYS OUT FOR JUDGESHIP Recommendations for Dozen Prominent Men Are in Hands of Attorney Attor-ney General. Recommendations for a dozen prominent promi-nent Utah attorneys who are being supported sup-ported for federal judge for this district are now in the hands of the United States attorney genera!. Local supporters of candidates for the place are now waiting wait-ing to hear from the department of justice. jus-tice. They are agreed that H Is not unlikely un-likely that a representative from the department de-partment of justice will be sent here to look into the local situation. In making the selection of a federal judge for this district It is quite probable that the attorney general and the president presi-dent will not consider that thev are bound either by politics or geography. Those who appear to know, say that a Democrat and a resident of Utah would probably have t he preference, yet that if Mr. Wilson felt a Republican or a rest-dent rest-dent of some other state were better qualified and more available for the purpose, pur-pose, he would not hesitate to be guided accord ing! v. |