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Show SAYS WILSGN WILL C1YMM Major Samuel A. King Returns Home Predicting President's Re-election. Declaring that the re-election of Woodrow AVilson by an overwhelming , majority is already conceded, Samuel A. King, a delegate from Utah to the ! Democratic national convention, on his return yesterday from a trip through the east, said that the president is universally uni-versally supported in his foreign policy i by the great mass of Americans, i Major King was at the New York ! Press club banquet a week ago, where ! he Baid the president's utterances on 1 the Mexican situation were enthusiasti-t enthusiasti-t cally approved. While in Washington ; Mr. King called on the president and I had half an hour's chat with him on the I political situation in Utah. Mr. King J went east for the St. Louis convention and while in St. Louis he was called to j Washington and New York on personal business. At St. Louis Mr. King represented Utah on the resolutions committee. He .came into considerable prominence at the convention by announcing to the committee that W! J. Bryan wanted the resolutions committee to make the platform plat-form conform absolutely to the president's presi-dent's washes, and that'he would most willingly support the president on such a platform. Mr. King had called on Mr. Bryan and discussed informally with him the issues of the campaign, and carried to the committee the first message that Bryan pledged his allegiance unqualifiedly to the president presi-dent and the Democratic organization. Later Mr. Bryan repeated this pledge to the convention itself. Mr. King said the Democrats at the convention were absolutely confident that Wilson would sweep the country and that his own confidence was strengthened by what he learned farther east. While in Washington Mr. King called on President Wilson. He said the president was very much interested in the Utah political situation and hoped to have the opportunity" of visiting visit-ing the state during the campaign. He promised Mr. King that some of the strong Democratic campaign speakers would visit Utah. "The sentiment of the country, as I view it," said Mr. King, "is overwhelmingly over-whelmingly for peace not peace at any price, but peace with honor. The people peo-ple feel that we will fight Mexico, if we must, patriotically and victoriously, but so long as there is an honorable way to avoid war we want peace. They are with the president on his international policies that have kept us out of war. They realize from the conditions in Europe some of the terribleness and horror of war and they don't want those European scenes duplicated on this continent. Some Republican politicians poli-ticians want a change and are predicting predict-ing Hughes's election, but my observations observa-tions are that the average sane man doesn't want a change at this time, that ! he is satisfied with Wilson and will re- j elect him. ' ' |