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Show G.O. P. FORCES ARE READY FOR FINAL STRUGGLE TODAY Friends of Governor Spry Are More Confident Than Ever of His Nomination at Ogden Convention. SCENE shifters in the guise of trainmen and conductors will this morning change the setting of t lie Republican governorship contest and its incidental thrillers from Salt Lake City to Ogaen, for the curtain will go up on the state convention at the Alhambra theater In Ogden at 11 o'clock today. Before the day ends it is presumed that the convention will have named the nominee nomi-nee for governor, deciding the hottest pre-convention contest In the local history of the party, and will have nominated the candidates for the rest of the state offices and a candidate for United' States senator. May Not Complete Work. What with contests within the committees, com-mittees, with the "cow counties" having failed last night to get together upon their apportionment of the slate offices and one thing and another, it is not altogether alto-gether certain that the convention will complete its labors today and tonight. There are ninny who think it will probably prob-ably last until Wednesday. Be that as it may, the delegates are all agreed that It is going to be "some convention" and they will douart for Ogden this morning confident of a zest-ful zest-ful stay in the Weber county town. The big show comes today, but all of them I are going to stay for the "concert" the scramble over the congressional nominations, nomina-tions, which will follow the state con-i con-i vention. Spry's Friends Jubilant. i On the eve of battle the friends o Governor Spry feel that it is all but won; that if the supporters of the governor gov-ernor "stand pat," as they confidently believe they will, the governor will be renominated and vindicated from the attacks at-tacks that have been made upon him In this campaign. "Governor Spry will receive the gubernatorial guber-natorial nomination," was the emphatic declaration made last night by Henry Gardner of Spanish Fork, former president presi-dent of the state senate. "I want to urge upon all supporters of the governor, however," continued Senator Sena-tor Gardner, "to beware of hoomerane-s and eleventh-hour statements which are always sprung at the last minute for the purpose of stampeding a convention. If Governor Spry's supporters will simply stand pat and perform their only duty, heedless of other action, the governor will easily win the nomination. "We are in possession of the trenches and we are going to hold them." Headquarters Too Small. The suite on the third floor of the Hotel Utah which has been used for some days as a headquarters for Governor Gov-ernor Spry proved entirely too small to hold all the delegates to the state convention con-vention and other friends of t he chief executive who called upon him yesterday. yester-day. Last evening the governor and his lieutenants adjourned to more spacious quarters on the mezzanine floor in order to have room to receive all the well wishers. At the headquarters of NephI Ij. Morris, Mor-ris, leading candidate in opposition to the governor, it was staled that there was nothing new to be said. All the Morris supporters professed confidence in the outcome of the convention today. Talk of "Dark Horse." A few zealots of the immediate "federal "fed-eral bunch" still talked of 13d ward E. Jenkins as a candidate yesterday, but, on the other hand, other members of the "bunch" reiterated their opinions that the nominee for governor would be a "dark horse." John DeGrey Dixon crt" Utah county seemed a favorite of these dark horse dopesters. The great mass of delegates, political touts and hangers-on which surged around the lobby of the Cullen hotel yesterday, yes-terday, however, would have none of the "dark horse" talk. They regarded the nomination as between Spry and Morris. They did not consider Jenkins In the running. run-ning. The mention of possible "dark horses" crystallized no sentiment for them. The other candidates for governor Oscar Os-car W. Carlson, D. O. Rideout and John C. Mackay of Salt Lake county, L.. R. Anderson of Sanpete and John W. Thorn-ley Thorn-ley of Davis still have their pennants i fluttering in the breeze to attract the 1 convention's lightning. They were saying say-ing yesterday that they hoped for a deadlock, dead-lock, each aiming to be the one to step triumphantly into the breach. Caucus Is Failure. The caucus of the "cow counties" last night at the Cullen flashed in the pan. As was apparent from the talk Sunday night, all the "cow county" candidates for state offices and the congressional candidates in the First district mistrusted the others feared they would have the gathering "loaded" and the meeting adjourned ad-journed without getting anywhere. The purpose of it was to get the outside out-side counties to unite upon a slate for their apportionment of the nominations, lest the citv chaps hog the whole ticket. Every candidate from" the outside counties coun-ties feared an elimination and they all said they wouldn't stand by the action of the caucus, anyway. So they said "Let's adjourn," and it was so ordered. Some members of the opposition who were hopeful of getting an anti-Spry movement out of the caucus were disappointed. dis-appointed. The governorship was not mentioned during the brief time the delegates dele-gates were together. The "cow counties" being unorganized and It being a free-for-all contest lor all the lesser positions on the state ticket, there is renewed jockeying atid campaigning campaign-ing by the candidates for secretary of state, attorney general, state auditor, state treasurer and congressman. Leatham Is Active. Friends of William A. Leatham of Salt Lake county, candidate for state auditor, were busy yesterday disabusing the country coun-try minds that the atturney generalship must be conceded to Salt Lake county. "Why not the auditorship, instead," they argued. In this argument they were supported by friends of Ij. L. Baker of Tooele county coun-ty and John F. Chidestcr of Sevier, who are contending for the attorney generalship general-ship nomination against William M. Mr-Crea. Mr-Crea. -Harold P. Fabian and CI. A. Iverson of Salt Lake. Mr. Iverson lived in Carbon Car-bon county until he was appointed assistant as-sistant attorney general, however. Friends of Mr. Leatham said thev had every hope of putting him over. Rut so, also, said the friends of Joseph Jensen of Boxelder and Charles Heiner of Morgan, Mor-gan, who are also active candidates lor auditor. T. C. Winn of Juab county, who first came out for state auditor, is now after the state trcasurership. All hands declare that a hot contest over this auditor-attorney general apportionment appor-tionment will be one of the interesting events of the convention, after the hig feature of the governorship is out of the way. Other Merry Wars. Merry wars over the other nominations nomina-tions also are waging. For state treasurer, treas-urer, besides Mr. Winn, there are Dnvid H. Madsen of I'tah county. Carl R. Mar-cusen Mar-cusen of Price and Rav Barton of Reaver. For secretary of state there are David Mattson, who now holds the office, and Heber L. Oummings. Lincoln G. Kellv, Jesse G. Jewkcs and Hans A. Pederson of Cache county. Speaking of Mr. Pedcrson's candidacy. J. C. Allen of Cache county, one of the workers for Congressman Joseph Howell, who is a candidate for renomination, is- ; sued a statement refuting the storv of ; Mr. Pedcrson's friends that Cache countv was not for Mr. Howell. They had said that Cache county wanted to put over Pederson for secretary of state rather than Howell for congress in the First district. "There has been talk that the Cache delegation is split," .said Mr. Allen, "but I am prepared to say that Mr. Howell has assurances from at leayt fortv of the forty-eight delegates that liiev 'will do all in their power to brim about his re-nomination re-nomination in the congressional convention conven-tion at Ogde.n on Wednesdav. That the delegation will be traded about in the state convention to injure Mr. Howell's chances the following day is all bosh." Will Assist Snrv. Mr. Allen said that Governor Sprv would have considerable support from the Cache county delegation. Congressman Howell himself came down with the Cache delegation last night and was greeting friends at the Cullen. T. C. Hoyt of Ogden, T. M. O'Donnell of Vernal Ver-nal and Judge Jacob Johnson of Spring City, who are also candidates for congress in Mr. Howell's district, were all at the Cullen. All the delegates, from the outside counties and local, will go to Ogden on the early trains this morning, as the muf.uui auusion to trainmen as scene shifters intimated. A few delegates went up last night, but the great majority of them were fearful thev might miss some nubbin of gossip or some developments m the "situation" here late last night and decided to wait over until morning The Salt ljike delegation is scheduled to depart at ft o'clock over the Bamberger, Bam-berger, 1ST strong. Salt Lake countv will caucus at the Alhambra theater upon the arrival in Ogden shortly after fi o'clock Ogden Republicans are going to rheet the incoming delegates with bands and otherwise other-wise display and project the welcoming hand. - To Hear Keynote Speech. ! The moments before the opening of the convention at II o'clock will be fraught with activity. The state committee will foregather in the Eceles building Ogden, Og-den, at 10 o'clock to nil out the personnel of the temporary organization of the convention con-vention and look after other eleventh-hour eleventh-hour details. i The convention itself will get under way with the usual preliminaries. John K. Hardy, acting chairman of the state committee, will rap for order and request |