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Show DEMOCRATS TO MEET IWESEII Great Gathering of Leaders Will Take Place at the Newhouse Hotel. MANY QUESTIONS UP Pie-slicing, It Is Announced by State Chairman, Is Secondary Matter. Even though the big Democratic powwow pow-wow scheduled for today at the New-houso New-houso hotel had not been given the widest publicity, the arrival in town yesterday of David H. Morris, the Dent ocratic stalwart from the St. Georgciw country, would have been ample evi- i deuce to Salt Lakers that some kind of a political convention was near nt hand. The genial leader of tho Washington countv Democrats intimated to his friends that he came all tho way to Salt Lake to attend tho card party and dance given by the Democratic. Women Wom-en 's club last night at the N ew house hotel. It w as sum e a f fa i r, a reg u Ii. r family at lair this card party aud dance and was attended by Democratic ineu and women from all purls of the stale. And among those who enjoyed the event : to the fullest were Ciovonior-eloct and Mrs. Simon Hambergur, bcnator-elect , and Mrs. William Jj. King, John K. Tolton of Heaver, candidate for sneak- 1 er of the house, and .). W. Funk of jj Cache county, candidalo for president 'I of tho senate. But there were a lot of other Democratic Demo-cratic and Progressive members of the. legislature on hand and they frankly admitted that the gathering in Wait Lake was for (he purpose of participating partici-pating in the big meeting which is scheduled to begin at t lie Now houso hotel at 10 o'clock this morning. Secondary Matter. Ever since the meeting was caller! tho general impression has gono out that the ' pie ' ' slicing would take place today, yesterday, however, State Chairman Mathonihah Thomas announced an-nounced that the dist ribution of tho spoils was a secondary matter aud the chances wero about 100 to 1 that it wouldn't be taken up at all. The purpose of the meeting, it was announced, is to outline the work to he accomplished at the coming sessiou of the . legislature in fulfillment of the pleifges of the Democratic platform. 'To facilitate the work( of which there, is an ample amount tor any sixty days ' session, committees will be appointed to look after certain portions ot the platform plat-form and draft bills ready for presen- y.y tation to the legislature at the earliest J possible moment. Jt also was an nounced with considerable consid-erable emphasis that tho passage of the prohibition bill is not to be delayed by long-drawn-out public, hearings, fn fact, there arc to be no public hearings, according ac-cording to leaders of the party. They helieve that the matter has been before the public long enough; that it has been almost talked to death already, and they prefer that no further chances be taken that might tend to its demise. To Discuss Headquarters. The advisability of establishing permanent per-manent headquarters and maintaining a ' permanent organization through the next two years has been under considera-i considera-i tion for some time. The matter probably prob-ably will1 be thresher! out at today's meeting, but it seems as good as settled, inasmuch as permanent quarters already al-ready have been arranged for at tho Newhouse hotel. During the meeting of the legislature, however, the quarters ! will be considerably enlarged, and wjll J include several suites of rooms on the A mezzanine floor of the hostelry. j J In connection with the permanent headquarters, it has been proposed that the Democrats establish a weekly paper to serve as the official organ or the party. This, however, has not been settled, and probably will come up for discussion today. The meeting may last only a part of the clay, but all the questions are to be threshed out. even though several days are required to do the work. Immediately Im-mediately after the family pow-wow the numbers of the two houses of the letris- 1 lature will caucus and probably decide I who will be president, of the senate and speaker of the lower house. Active Candidates. 1 John F. Tolton of Beaver is an active candidate for the speakershi p and J. W. Funk of Cache county is in a receptive re-ceptive mood in so far as tho presidency of the senate is concprned. Both are men of experience in the branches of the legislature in which they are to serve, and as far as could be ascertained by interviewing members of both houses ttL are practically assured of election with ij j little or no opposition. However, they j -are taking no chances, and were rather actively engaged in propping up their fences yesterday and last night. But the state officers-elect and members-elect of the legislature were not the only Democrats haunting the lobby of the Newhouse hotel. There were county coun-ty chairmen and precinct chairmen and scores of would-be appointees under the state administration. And when it came to activity all others "were left at the post." |