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Show UTAH DEMOCRATIC i SAYS JUDGE KING NEW v- YORK. Sept L-Judge W. H. King cf Utah, who has been here several days In conference with Thomas Taggart chairrjan of the National Democratic committee, is confident that Ihe State of Utah will go solidly for ex-Judge Parker and la explanation of that opinion he makes the sensational statement that the Mormons are secretlyargantzlng to overthrow over-throw every particle of Influence President Presi-dent Roosevelt, has In the Mormon State. ' He said at Democratic headquarters: "I made a thorough investigation of the political condition In Utah before I came east and I learned from the most reliable sources that the Mormons have become so Incensed, as' a result of the treatment of Smoot that they will leave no stone unturned un-turned to defeat the Republican candl- -date for the Presidency aa they hold him principally responsible for the whole affair. af-fair. . "Immediately after vMr. Roosevelt's nomination the Mormons commenced to organize secretly to insure his defeat as a motive. of revenge and it has been effected ef-fected so systematically that' Democ ratio success in the State is now a certainty." |