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Show UTA H R EP UBLI CA NS SELECT TICKET William Spry of Salt Lake County Choice of Party for Governor and Howell for Congress. Senator Sutherland Presides at Convention, Con-vention, and Makes Key-Note Speech of the Campaign-Over Campaign-Over Six Hundred Delegates Dele-gates In Attendance. Salt Lake City. At ono of the largest attended conventions In tho history of tho stnto, tho Ilopubllcans pf Utah placed their stato ticket In tho field on Tuesday, Six hundred end eight accredited delegates woro present. Tho convention' was called to order by Stato Chairman Wesley K. Walton, who Introduced tho temporary tem-porary chairman, Senator Gcorgo Sutherland. Sonator Sutherland tnnda tho kcy-noto nddrcss In tho opening of tho campaign. In which he analyzed ana-lyzed the political situation In Utah, from his point of vlow, being given an ovation by the convention at tho closo of his speech. Tho platform adopted Indorses tho. administration of President Itooso-,vclt; Itooso-,vclt; Indorses William Howard Tail and jnmes Schoolcraft Sherman; In dorses the state ndmlnlstrntlon ol tho past four years, headed by Governor Gov-ernor John C. Cutler; expresses gratitude grati-tude to G. A. U. for holding onenmp ment hero, and pledges legislative appropriation ap-propriation to tnko caro of 1909 encampment; en-campment; favors postal savings banks, larger navy, department of .mining, national burcnu of health, Irrigation Ir-rigation policy nnd homestead rights. The Ticket. The ticket chosen Is ns follows: For presidential electors, Thomas ,8cvy, aarfleld county; Lnfnyctto Hoi-jbrook, Hoi-jbrook, Utah county; Henry Cohn, .Salt Lako county, ' For Justlco of supremo court, W. M. McCarty, Sovler county: For representative in congress, Jo-seph Jo-seph Howell, Cache county. ' For governor, William Spry, Salt Lako county. For socrotnry of stato, C. 8. Tingey, Juab county. For state treasurer, David Mattson, .Wobor county. For stato auditor, Jcsso D. Jowkcs, Emory county. For attorney general, A. TL Barnes, Salt Lako coudty. . For suporlntondont of public Instruction, In-struction, A. C. Nelson, Sanpcto county. Tho now Republican state central commlttoe will be as follows: Beaver, W. F. Knox; Box Elder, C. Hoist; Cacho, II. A. Pcdorscn; Cat-Von, Cat-Von, It. Q.' Miller; Davis, Henry W. Stahlo; Emery, Henry Thompson; ffarflold, Thomas Haycock; Grand, John E. Paco; Iron, Edgar L. Clark; Knno, A. M, Finland; Morgan, Chas. Ii. Condlo; Pluto, John Morroll; Wch, Wesley 1C. Walton! Salt Lako, Carl A. Badger? Snn Juan, Nophl Balloy; Sanpcto, Herbert E. Smytho; Sevier, John G. Jorgcnsen; Summit, W". D. Lewis; Tooele, Eugcno T. Woolloy; Ulntnh, Edwin O. Winder; Utah, Eph Homer; Wnsntch, James C. Jensen; Wayno, Joseph Ecksloy; Wobor, Itu-dolph Itu-dolph Kuchler. William Spry was nominated for governor by acclamation, Joseph Howell easily defeated Par-loy Par-loy P. Chrlstenscn for tho congressional congres-sional nomination, tho voto being: Howell, 471; Chrlstenscn, 135. Throo ballots wero taken botore a treasurer was solectod, and tho dole-gates dole-gates voted throe times boforo Uio candidate for auditor was chosen. |