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Show CHUTES SHY IT PROHIBITION RACKET Republicans Want Legislative Legisla-tive Nominations Made as First Business. Candidates for places on the Republican Republi-can county ticket want to have all the prohibition racket over with by the time their nominations are made, so they have induced tho Republican county committee to call the legislative convention conven-tion before the county convention. County Chairman Benjamin L. Rich said yesterday that Republican leaders agreed with the county candidates that the legislative nominations should be disposed dis-posed of before tho delicato task of framing the county ticket is undertaken. underta-ken. According to the present plans of the county committee, therefore, the legislative legis-lative convention to nominate the two state senators and the representatives from this legislative district will be held in Salt Lake City about the first of September. It is 'planned to hold the county convention about ten days later. To further divorce the bugaboo of prohibition pro-hibition from the countv ticket, separate sep-arate primaries will be held to nominate delegates to the legislative and county tickets. Ordinarily, the election of delegates dele-gates to both conventions would be accomplished ac-complished at one primary. Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon yesterday announced herself a candidate for the Republican nomination for state senator. sena-tor. She has had previous legislative experience as a member of the house of representatives. Mrs. Cannon's entrance en-trance into the race makes two women out for state senator in the Republican convention, Mrs. Lilly C. Wolstenholme, a former Progressive member of the house of representatives, being a candidate. |