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Show FAVOR PROHIBITION STRINGENT PLANK ADOPTED BY UTAH DEMOCRATS IN STATE CONVENTION. After Three Hour Fight the Conven- tlon Adopts Platform Declaring for I State Wide Prohibition, the Dl- I rect Primary and Initiative, . i Referendum and Recall. g ; Provo, Utah. After. a fight of three hours, tho Democratic state conven tlon, In session here on Thursday, declared de-clared In favor of state wide prohlbl tlon. An attempt to write Into tho platform a provision for submitting tho liquor question to a vote of tho people failed by a decisive vote. Besides declaring for state-wide prohibition, pro-hibition, the platform adopted favors the exclusion of coolie labor and tr worklngmen's compensation act. Dl- . rect primary law, and election of . " m United States senators by the vote of m the people. The Initiative, referen- dum and recall, Limitation of campaign cam-paign expenses and publication ot same. Commission form of government govern-ment for cities. Conservation of tho , natural resources of tho state. Tariff j commission to settle tho tariff question. ques-tion. Incidentally, Ferdinand Erlckson, 1 mayor of Mt. Pleasant, and former Judge In the Seventh district, was nominated for congress, and C. C. Richards, a prominent old line Demo- ', crat of Ogden, who has hold many public offices, was named as tho Democratic Dem-ocratic candidate for tho Bupreme bench. |