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Show ! JlJ RS. ELIZABETH J. D.j! ivl ItOUNDY of Salt Lake, who yesterday entertained j Mrs. Wood row Wilson as pi es- ' ident of the Women's Xa-i; tional Democratic league. j V 1 r' - 7 " - 1 '' ' J r . ' y. I i ; f- " c i ISJDUffflfilS FIRST UDY GF LIO Utah Woman Wires Nomination Nomi-nation of Mrs. Wilson for League Presidency. Mrs. :. J. D. Rouiidy of Salt Lake vestor'iay wired tho nomination of Mrs. Vv'oodrow Wilson for honorary honora-ry president of tho Women's National democratic, leti k11' Tho league is now holding its convention in Washington. Mrs. J-ioundy, who is 8i years of ace, is the vice president of the league for Utah. She was not id her seat, when the roll was called, as she could not go to Washington for tho meeting, but she made the nomination by telegraph tele-graph . Advices from "Washington last night were that Mrs. KomuTy's candidate would ill all probability be unanimously elected today. It is expected also that the present quota of active officers, including in-cluding Mrs. Koundy herself, will be re-elected. Mrs. Roundy's nominating telegram was read to the convention in Washington Wash-ington shortly after Mrs. William A. Cullop of Indiana opened the session. The office of honorary president was hold by the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and has been vacant since her death. Speaker Champ Clark told the Democratic Demo-cratic women yesterday that there were only two parties in the race for the presidency of the United States and that either the Republicans would swallow swal-low the Bull Moose or the Bull Moose would eat up the Republicans in the coming elections. He predicted suffrage suf-frage for the United States and said tho Republicans regard Democratic prosperity as a personal grievance. Mrs. Mary Keough of Chicago, a member of the school board, proposed in a striking speech that a "Wilson "homo guard f be organized, built upon the "splendid honn? life of the president and modeled upon his ideals of family life.' ' War endangers our homes and we want a man to stand guard who loves peace," said Mrs. Keough. The sessions of the convention will end today, which will be observed as Aqdrew Jackson day. Among the guests will be Miss Mary R. Wilcox of Washington, a grand niece of President Jackson. |