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Show II 111 VOTING DISTRICT BSMIS Leaders of All Parties Get Tog-ether on Primary Election Elec-tion Question. Present indications are that in holding primaries for the election of delegates to the coming conventions, all the political parties will ignore the recent changes made in the numbers and boundaries of the voting districts in Salt Lake county. Chances are that they will use the old numbers and old boundaries until election time, pretending that the changes are not effective until that time. There's a reason for this, the politicians explain. In determining the number and distribution of delegates to the coming conventions, all the parties took the vote on candidates two years ago and four years ago as the basis. For example, the basis for the election of delegates to the Republican congressional convention In this district, say, is one delegate for every seventy votes cast for K. O. Leather Leath-er wood. Republican candidate for congress con-gress two years ago. With the boundaries of the districts changed in many instances, the political leaders feel that it would be hard to determine de-termine what the vote in the newly designated des-ignated aneas was two or four years ago, and that for the purposes of electing delegates the old order of things should stand. In other instances the numbers and municipal mu-nicipal ward alignments, though not the boundaries, of districts have been changed. All the changes have been made since the spring primaries, when delegates were chosen, who in turn select delegates to the national conventions. Most voters have not had time to familiarize themselves them-selves with the changes in their districts. dis-tricts. The basis for the election of delegates, however, constitutes the greatest objection, objec-tion, in the minds of the politicians, to recognition of the red istric ting at the primaries. In districts which have been changed, they say, there would be no way of telling how many delegates to elect. The primaries are not official proceedings. proceed-ings. They are merely, in effect, district conventions of the individual political parties, which are not bound to recognize the new boundaries. They will have to be recognized at election time, but the politicians say that Is time enougii. When the Republican county committee commit-tee meets next week to arrange for primaries pri-maries to elect delegates lo the state and congressional conventions, the old d is-trict is-trict numbers and boundaries will prob-ablv prob-ablv be designated. THe Democrats are said to favor the idea also. The Democratic county committee com-mittee will take up this question at a meeting to be held Saturday night at S o'clock in Chairman B. W. Alendenhall's office, 26 Richards street. |