Show republican convention among the candidates for secretary of state Is a man from uintah county the republican state convention meets in salt lake september at which time candidates from governor down are to be nominated among the candidates already in the field for secretary of state is don B colton of uintah county and his friends claim chum that he has a rood good show for the nomination colton headquarters will be opened in salt lake a day or so before the convention and all the dele gates will be interviewed it is said that a number of counties have been heard from and that their delegates are favorable to mr colton to say bay nothing of the personal feelings in the matter the fri trends frienda endi of the uintah county man will his for the reason that this co county anty has antver been ignored with a state official this la is becoming a very progressive section and that is another reason why we wc should be recognized there are two other candidates for the office mr the present it ii and state auditor J A edwards of box elder county is said to have the largest following before being elected to the position he now holds ho he served four years as state stae auditor au uintah county also has a good show to run in a dark horse borse for the nomination of district attorney harvey cluff and william E Rydal cb both of provo are waging aging Pl a hot war for the position and a great deal of feeling Is being manifested was formerly a democrat and made the race on the dem ticket for the same office four years ago the right kind of a man from this section should be able to go into the convention wit with lithe the 12 wasatch county delegates and the 9 uintah county delegates nearly one third of the entire delegation there should be enough disgruntled utah county delegates to swing awing the convention for the uintah county man the race between D D houtz and john E booth for the nomination for district judge will doubtless be a close one it is whispered around that albert glasier brother in law of senator reed smoot will work for houtz andia and if such is the case houtz will have a strong pull there is considerable local political talk at this time and the leaders are looking around for suitable candidates the county conventions of the two leading parties will probably not be held before the laba of september Septem |