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Show REPUBLICANS READY FOR BIG PRIMARIES Members of Party Geared Up to High Pitch of Efficiency. THIS COUNTY IS PIVOT Indications Are That Contests Con-tests for District Delegates Will Be Lively. Political workers were gearing themselves them-selves into the "high," as the motorists motor-ists say, yesterday, in preparation for the Republican primaries in Salt Lake county tomorrow night for the election of delegates to the Kepublieau state and congressional conventions. This tension ten-sion and activity will be even more manifest man-ifest today and tomorrow, up to the very hour of the primaries. The politicians say that these primaries pri-maries will be the most profusely attended at-tended and most hotly contested primaries pri-maries conducted by the Republican party for many a long campaign, bait Lake county is the home of all the candidates can-didates for' the Republican nomination for governor, save L. R. Anderson of Sanpete. This county has the largest delegation in the state convention and control of the delegation is highly desired de-sired bv all the candidates. The keenness of the race for the gubernatorial gub-ernatorial nomination is what whets interest in-terest in tomorrow night's primaries. The rest of the ticket is hardly ever discussed. dis-cussed. A candidate for United States senator will be named by this state convention, con-vention, but the governorship overtops all in the interest shown. Contests Promised. Indications are that in every district there will be contests over the personnel person-nel of the delegates, friends of the. various va-rious candidates endeavoring to select persons favorable to their man. Prospects Pros-pects are that the warmest contests will be between supporters of Governor Wii-liam Wii-liam Sprv and those of Nephi L. Morris. Mor-ris. Reports continue that the supporters support-ers of Kdward E. Jenkins are discouraged discour-aged and the wiseacres sav he will be a weak third in the tally of delegates. Oscar W. Carlson, John C. Mackay and D. O. Rideout, also candidates for the gubernatorial nomination, likewise reside re-side in this county and will make their efforts to capture' district delegations. Aside from the gubernatorial situation, situa-tion, the race for the congressional nomination nom-ination in this, the Second, congressional district, has keyed up interest in the primaries. The congressional convention conven-tion will be held in this city the day following the state convention in Og-den, Og-den, August 8. Delegates to the state convention will not necessarily be delegates dele-gates to the congressional convention. It is up to the primaries to determine that point. Therefore the congressional contest is detached somewhat from the gubernatorial race. Rivalry Is Warm. Rivalry of the candidates' camps has now been communicated in full flower to the district workers and will intensify inten-sify as tomorrow night draws nigh. The active workers are concerning themselves them-selves very much with the question of whether they can carry their own districts dis-tricts and go to the conventions, or name those to go who are suitable and favorable to the candidates whose cause they espouse. Taunts are being passed back and forth. The worker for one candidate will declare that the worker for the other must stay home, to which the second chap responds that the result re-sult will be quite the reverse. Tomorrow Tomor-row night will decide. The political gossipers are telling of one district where an intense and bitter bit-ter contest flourishes between members of the same political camp. There are two men in this district who warmly espouse the same candidate for governor, but who are deadly political enemies. Each is struggling to capture the vote of the district and be sent to the state convention, that the other may be kept igrioininiously at home, that sorry spectacle spec-tacle of politics the man who can't carry his own district. The voters in the other districts view the feud with delightj acclaiming it as a humorous lightening of the grim struggle in the rest of the county. Changes Are Made. Benjamin L. Rich, chairman of the Republican Re-publican county committee, announced some further revisions in the primary list last night. He said that in district Ko. 1D9 the primaries would be held at the residence of H. S. Joseph, 80 H street, instead of at the place indicated in the call. He further announced that district No. 106 would elect one delegate dele-gate instead of two, as announced; and that district No. 16 would elect two delegates dele-gates instead of three. Two delegates for district No. 16 was originally announced an-nounced in the call, but, through an error er-ror in the county committee's computation, computa-tion, was changed to three. Chairman Rich also announced that the county committee requested district chairmen throughout the county to notify no-tify the two morning newspapers of the results of the primaries as soon as known. The Tribune also makes the request, asking each district to telephone tele-phone The Tribune (Main 590) tomorrow tomor-row night and report the names of the delegates elected. Friends of Governor "William Spry and Senator George Sutherland were 'much pleased at the action of the Summit countv Republicans, who yesterday elected elect-ed delegates to the state convention, in instructing the sixteen delegates to cast their ballots for Spry and Sutherland. State Treasurer Jesse 1). Jewkes, who is candidate for the Republican nomination nomina-tion for secretary of state, has the solid limery county delegation to the state convention behind him in that candidacy, candi-dacy, his friends announced yesterday. |
