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Show mm ii sets CfflTl DATES County Primary on Sept. 8 and Legislative Primary on Sept, 15. CONFUSES DEMOCRATS B. W. Mendenhall Working Overtime to Make Changes in Time. When Ken U Ilk h, r.cpuMiean county chairman, issued the official call for the riepubiicim priniai'ic-a and conventions in Salt 1-uko county, he exploded a bombshell bomb-shell In tho Democratic euiinty camp, metaphorically speaking. By Issuing the call ahead of the Democratic call, Mr. Rirh pre-empted two dates which Chairman Chair-man 1-1. W. Mendenhall ha.d set aside tor the exclusive use uf the Democratic party. .Mr. Rich fixed September S as the date fur the cotintv primal y and S'-ptember 13 for rlie Initiative primary. Mr. Mendenhall Menden-hall had Ills slate arranged for the county and legislative primaries of the Democrats for HcptcmhiT ! ami the county and legislative legis-lative convention.-: for September 13. The n. suit of the .whole tiling is that Mr. Mendenhall is burning midnight oil trying to find dales which will not conflict con-flict wit h dates for other public events and at the same time permit the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket to be put before the people early in the campaign. Princess Interferes. The. Salt Princess festival will occupy three days between September 8 and 15, so the best Mr. Mendenhall can figure out to date is Monday, September 17, for the primaries, and Wednesday, September 20, for the conventions. These dates, however, how-ever, have not been definitely decided upon and it is possible that no decision will be made until a meeting of the Democratic Demo-cratic county committee is held. The Democrats have no particular reason rea-son for changing their slate except to avoid any inferred discourtesy In the conflict con-flict in dates. Also, they are inclined to change out of sympathy for the daily prews. One good. Jive, county primary in Salt Lake county takes up just about all the space and a great deal of time In a newspaper office in one day. Of course, tlie publicity is no particular object to either political party, but both are averse to discommoding the scribes. Disturbing Element. There is another disturbing element in the Democratic county camp; not exactly the Democratic camp, but the proposed fusion camp. This disturber is the distribution dis-tribution of county ot'lices between Democrats Demo-crats and Progressives. Some of the Bull Moose rs have taken a fancy to the grazing graz-ing in the G. O. P. pastures and the Democrats have divided the official spoils in proportion to what they believed the Progressive vote would represent to the whole. In fact, the Democrats express fears that they have been too liberal. They offered to the Progressives tlie offices of treasurer, sheriff: and assessor, three members of the legislature, one city judge and otie constable on the fusion ticket. One faction of the Bull Moosers insists that the Progressives should be entitled to a county commissioner, inasmuch as two are to be elected and tlie holdover Is a Democrat. They also fancy that they should have a better representation on ihe legislative ticket. The matter was discussed pro and con at a meeting of I lie progressive leaders yesterday afternoon after-noon and they are going to insist on a Bull Moose county commissioner on the fusion ticket. Their demands probably will be presented to the Democratic affiliation af-filiation committee tomorrow. But the Democrats are inclined to stand pat on the original offer. If they do there is every indication that the G. O. P. fence will require the addition of a few rails or the field will have to be enlarged. |