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Show HULL IS CONFIDENT Salt Lake Man Believes He Will Win Speakership Speaker-ship of the House. The members of the lower house of the Legislature have already begun to look about for a Speaker for the coming session, which convenes Monday. Five avowed candidates are out for the honor, with Thomas Hull of Salt Lake county apparently in the lead, and Dr. A. S. Condon of Weber a close second. sec-ond. Other candidates are Thomas H. Merrill of Cache, William H. Barrett of Beaver and Alma Molyneaux of Grand county. Hull's friends claim he will be elected on the first ballot in the caucus Friday night, while Condon's friends assert that he will be ah easy winner. Barrett was here yesterday and will rematn until un-til after the Legislature adjourns. He has received many assurances from the members of their support, and Is greatly great-ly encouraged. Merrill -will be backed by Cache country, while Molyneaux's work Is beneath the surface and resembles resem-bles good politics, in that his strength has not been revealed. |