Show i l By Albert t F. F Philips II Utah has participated In seven presidential elections In five of ot these elections the state has given givena a Republican Re plurality and Iii in two the Democrats were victors The first one ono gave the Democrats a plurality plurality plurality plu plu- although the state ticket was Republican This was in 1896 while I Ithe the second time that the state gaVe gate a a. Democratic plurality was In 1916 when both national and state tickets I won The first vote ote cast for president and vice president in Utah waS vas in 1896 and the presidential electors chosen by popular vote that year ear were the silver Question being the tile paramount issue in Utah as in other mining states The electors electors elec dee tors bra chosen by the people eople were Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert C. C Lund Democrat John J. J Daly silver sll Republican and the late Henry W. W Lawrence Populist These three electors met in the city and count county building In Jn Salt Lake in January January January Jan Jan- uary 1897 1891 and cast their votes for tor n J J. Bryan for president of ot the United States and for Arthur Sewell for vice ice ice president John J. J Daly was delegated the messenger to carry the vote to the national capital and present It to the president president president dent of the senate In the election of 1900 the people I of Utah elected three presidential electors in the persons of ot Wesley Vesley K I Walton Valton C C. C E E. Loose and J J. R R. Mur- Mur I dock The political complexion Mur-j Mur of ot 1 the state had changed and the electoral electoral elec elec- toral vote of ot the state was cast for William McKinley for president and Theodore Roosevelt Roose for tor vice dent Colonel C C. B E. Loose was the messenger to carry the result to the electoral college There Is but butone one person peron living in Utah who voted direct for tor Theodore Roosevelt for pr president of or the United States States' and for Charles W W. Fairbanks for vice president That man is Major H H. P P. My tori of ot Salt Lake He was one of ot the three presidential electors elected in 1904 in Utah the others being A. A W. W Wade and the late lats Judge J. J A. A Miner Mi MI- ner ncr the latter succeeding D. D H. H Cannon who after atter his nomination by the Republican state convention was found to be disqualified Major My Myton ton was delegated to carry the returns to Washington The vote or of the Utah electors two of whom have lave since Joined the great major majority It ity was for tor Roosevelt SECOND G. G O. O P. P VICTORY I Again In 1908 the Republicans of or Utah were successful at the polls and the three Republican nominees for tor presidential electors viz Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette La La- I I fayette Holbrook of ot Utah count county the 18 late te Henry Cohn of ot Salt Lake and Thomas Sevy of or Garfield county county county coun coun- ty were elected Henry Cohn carried carried car car- ried ned the returns to Washington Their votes were cast for William Howard Taft Tart for tor president and James S. S Sherman for vice president dent Utah has lias the honor of having the only woman in the country who voted direct for William Howard Taft Tatt for president and she was the first woman In the United States to carry the electoral vote yote of ot a state to the electoral college This woman is Mrs Margaret Zane Cherdron Cherdron- of Salt Lake Lalee Mrs Cherdron was formerly formerly for for- merl merly clerk of Salt Lake Lalee county the anI only woman to fill till that place since statehood She is the daughter daugh daugh- ter of ot the late Judge Charles S S. S Zane who was a member of the t territorial territorial ter ter- r- r courts for a number o of years vears and the first chief chiet Justice of the supreme court of or the state of ot Utah Other electors named with Mrs I Cherdron were J. J N. N Davis Ephraim Tr Homer and A E E. a Ti D. D Woolley While V ile th the rot votes of t the h he presidential l electors of ot Utah were cast for Taft In the electoral coU college ge the vote of ot th the country was against Taft Tatt in 1912 the electoral Vote ote of or but one other state giving him its vote Yote That state was Vermont Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wil wn son was elected pre president In 1916 there was wall a landslide and andIn andin andin in the avalanche Utah was caught with the result that the state re returned returned returned re- re turned four presidential pre electors who cast their vote In the electoral college for Woodrow Wilson for tor president In the landslide the state ticket was also caught and Simon Bamberger was elected governor of ot I the state The Democratic electors chosen by the people of ot Utah were the lato late Judge Robert N N. the late Jesse J Knight Anthon Anderson and John JQhn Seaman The rh messenger designated to carry the vote to I Washington ashington was Mr Mt Seaman with Judge Baskin as an alternate THE 1920 UPHEAVAL When four tour years had passed p and 1920 was reached the Republicans of ot Utah again united and the result was not only a landslide but the upheaval upheaval upheaval up up- was so great that the Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- were burled buried under an avalanche avalanche avalanche ava ava- lanche and Warren Gamaliel HardIng HardIng HardIng Hard- Hard Ing electors swept s the state The electors chosen by the people of pt Utah h were r Mrs Margaret Lew Lewis s Judd Howard Garrett warren arren I Lj L rattis and James A A. Melville Jr The four electors were unable to agree as to who should be the messenger messenger mes mes- to the electoral college with the that a deadlock ensued Finally the four tour electors called In several of the elective officers of ot the state to determine the matter and the decision was In favor of ot Mrs rs Judd Through some Iome misunderstanding misunderstanding standing as to the time Mrs Judd should have gone to Washington the returns were not delivered In person to the electoral college but were sent by mall In compliance with telegraphic instructions from the secretary of ot the senate This is the only time that Utah has not been represented direct in the electoral electoral elec elec- toral college since her admission to statehood The cost of at delivering the ret returns from Utah to the eleo- eleo t tai college Ollega Is is' about O. O |