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Show DEMOCRATS TRYING TO BALANCE TICKET Conferences Are Being Held With This Most Important Impor-tant End in View. MUDDLE IS PRESENTED If Progressives Are Taken In Still Further Complications Compli-cations May Result. Even if there wore no other indications, indica-tions, anyone could have sensed yesterday yester-day that a conclave of Utah Demo-;rats Demo-;rats impended, for David II. Morris arrived ar-rived from St. George. Mr. Morris is an unfailing harbinger of Democratic inventions. i Today and tomorrow other down-state Und up-state Democrats will be mobilizing mobiliz-ing in Salt Lake, ready for the big ; Srive on Ogdcn Friday morning, when the state convention that is to select a candidate for governor to oppose Nephi L. Morris, the Republican choice, will . meet. The Democratic executive committee s nib-body on platform and resolutions is going to meet todav, and tomorrow oight at the Hotel Utah a meeting of the whole state central committee has been called. The subcommittee on platform plat-form and resolutions will submit its completed com-pleted documents to the proper committee commit-tee of the state convention, as a recommendation. recom-mendation. For Prohibition. That the platform will contain a stout plunk declaring for state-wide prohibition, prohibi-tion, is, as someone has cleverly phrased It, a foregone conclusion. The Democrats Demo-crats point out that at their convention conven-tion last spring to elect delegates to the St. Louis convention they declared both for state-wide and nation-wide prohibition. pro-hibition. With the arrival of out-of-town dele-pates, dele-pates, the question of balancing the State ticket will receive some discussion. discus-sion. This question already is agitating agitat-ing local Democratic leaders, who realize that it would not make for strength to have all the nominees come from Salt Lake county. The situation will be somewhat complicated com-plicated by the proposal of the unofficial unoffi-cial embassadors for an alliance with the Progressives that the nominations for state treasurer and state auditor be conceded to the Progressives. Some people peo-ple say that the Progressives couldn't rake up any timber outside of Salt Lake county. Point Is Conceded. i Most Democrats concede that the nominee nomi-nee for governor will come from Suit Jnke countv. Consensus of opinion yesterday yes-terday seemed to be that the race was "between Simon Bamberger and A. W. MrCunc, with Dr. Joseph F. Merrill as the runner-up. All three are from Salt Lk'ike county. To be sure, there have been heard gubernatorial booms for M. Frowning and Judge C C. Richards of Weber county, but Judse Richards states positively that he is not a candidate, candi-date, and Mr." Browning has not said that he would accept. And. to continue, most Democrats think it certain that the nominee for attorney general will come from Salt Lake. The candidates Dan B. Shields, Samuel Rus-sell, Rus-sell, H. L,. Mulliner and Ray Van Cott all live in this county. The nominee for congress in the Second Sec-ond district is expected, virtually as a matter of course, to come from Salt Lake county. j Might Be Top-heavy. v If the Progressives, given the privilege privi-lege of naming the candidates for state t rea surer and state auditor, picked Salt Lake county men h nd this county is about the only one in the state where they still have organization Salt Lake county would have a total of five candidates candi-dates on the state ticket, namely, governor, gov-ernor, attorney general, state treasurer, auditor and congressman. In addition. Salt Lalte county men are "being mentioned for the supreme bench and secretary of slate nominations. Outside Out-side men also are being mentioned for these places. Klmer K. Corfman of Utah county is spoken of for the supreme bench nomination. A. Barber or Cache county is being boomed for secretary of state. Other candidates from the so-called "cow counties" will doubtless bob up for these and other places when tne clans begin gathering for the convention. The fact that there h re already some Democratic candidates for state treasurer may complicate the fulfillment of the proposed agreement with the Progressives that they name the state treasurer and state auditor nominees. Hope for Agreement. Still, the Democrats and Progressives say that all these .seeming obstacles will be ironed out satisfactorily on Friday. The out -of-town Demorra is aspiring to the state treasurer nomination are W. K. Kvans of I.ehi and George C. Whlttmore, jr., of Nephi. A curtain-raiser for the big show on Friday will be t he judiciary conventions In this city tomorrow afternoon. The Democrats will meet in one courtroom at the City and County building and the Progressives will meet across the corridor to nominate five candidates for judge and one for district attorney on a "non-partisan" ticket for the Third judicial district. dis-trict. Harold M. Stephens, W. H. Wilkins and J. V. Mc Kinney are among the Democratic Demo-cratic candidates for judges, and Richard Hartley, Democrat, is a candidate for district dis-trict attorney. The Progressives mentioned men-tioned for the joint ticket include Allen T. Sanfnrd, N. A. Robertson, W. II. Bramel and George M. Sullivan. |