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Show Harmony Prevails When Republicans Name Officers Present Commissioners,County Attorney and Representatives Again Placed In Field as Candidates at the Coming November No-vember Election. REPUBLICAN TICKET Four Year Commissioner JOHN GUNDERSON Mt. Pleasant Two Year Commissioner GEORGE COOK Ft. Green . County Attorney C. M. EDWARDS , Gunnison . Representatives A. M. MELLOR Manti . JACOB THOMPSON " ' Ephraim - Republicans of Sanpete county were united 100 per cent at the county convention . held at Manti Tuesday of this . week, when candidates candi-dates were chosen for the various offices. Satisfaction and the efficient effic-ient services rendered by the officials offic-ials who served during the past administration ad-ministration sufficed to make every delegate contented and' all whose offices, of-fices, would expire at the first of the year were renamed to represent the party ' in the coming November elec- jtion, every nominee going in by acclamation. ac-clamation. : Harmony and peace marked the deliberations of the con- jvention and never in the history of I political conventions in Sanpete county has the "dove of peace" rest- jed so peacefully. Ray Lund, temporary chairman of the convention, opened the proceedings proceed-ings at ten o'clock, and gave the keynote key-note address. Mr. Lund sounded the keynote of success of the republican , party at the .November election by lauding the state and national nominees. nom-inees. His report was to the effect that Hoover and Curtis, as well as the entire state ticket, were men of the highest type, capable and would carry with their election prosperity throughout America. William Seg-miller, Seg-miller, a member of the state republican repub-lican committee, W. H. Folland, Salt Lake, and a candidate for the supreme su-preme court bench for a term of ten years, Judge Dihvorth Woolley and A. W. Jensen, candidates for judges of the Seventh Judicial District, Dis-trict, and Ross Christensen, nominee nom-inee for district attorney for the seventh district, attendants at the convention and all gave brief addresses. ad-dresses. Every precinct in the county was represented at the convention ' by regularly chosen delegates or by alternates, al-ternates, and after an organization had been effected it took but a few minutes to make the nominations, all of whom were heartily endors?d. A committee of platform and resolution resolu-tion gave a report in which the entire en-tire state and national nomi' -os were endorsed. The report brought . forth a loud outburst of applause. j Gunnison was fortunate in landing one of the important county offi at the Tuesday convention in uhe selection of C. M. Edwards for tho county attorneyship. Mr. Edwards is completing his first term for th:s position and through his activities he has won an enviable reputat'on as a prosecutor. Mr. Edward's running run-ning mates on the county rpublicsn""" ""-v ! ticket are all of high integrity and their acts, during their tenure of office has given universal satisfac- j tion. The -Manti band furnished patriot-! patriot-! ic music during intervals at the convention, con-vention, which added to the peaceful peace-ful attitude, and in addition the Manti Man-ti Republican club were hosts at a dinner to all delegates, alternates and the visitors from outside points. |