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Show I REPUBLICANS OF UTAH NAME STATE TICKET! m I HOWELL AND JOHNSON WIN 0ON- I GRESSIONAL PLUMS H - "X- ' I . SPRY UNANIMOUS CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR B Cheering is Prevalent in Convention Hall. Applause Greets B Reading of Platform And Nomination of All Candidates ' Keen Interest Shown in Many Contests. Defeated B v. Aspirants Banish Regret And Declare B Their Support to The H Entire Ticker LHT - I " THE NOMINEES - Congressmen. JOSEPH HOWELL, Cache 1 JUDGE JACOB JOHNSON, m Sanpete. m Governor W WILLIAM SPRY, Tooele Supreme Court Justice: I . JOSEPH E. FRIOK, Salt Lake. I Secretary of iState. fr DAVID MATTSON, Weber I' Attorney General: I A. R. BARNES, Salt Lake. 1 State Auditor: LINCOLN G. KELLEY, I Millard. 11m9 State Treasurer: T JESSE D. JEWKES, Emery 1 State Superintendent of I Public Instruction A. 0. NEII20N, Sanpete I" Presidential Electors: J. N. DAVIS, Uintah. EPHRAIM HOMER, Utah E. D. WOOLEY, Kane MRS. MARGARET ZANE WITOHER, Salt Lake. ' Salt Lake, Sept. C. In a con vention filled with contests, t ho Republicans of Utah mot yesterday yester-day at .the Salt Lake theater and named a (complete state ticket, headed by Governor Spry, who L was renominated by acclamation. The opposition to the governor, which has been threatening all summer, disappeared some days before the convention nnd thoso who had been opposing him united with his supporters in making his nomination unanimous. unani-mous. The only other nomination by acclamation were those of Judge J. E. Frick for the supreme bench and A. C Nelson for superintendent su-perintendent of public instruction. instruc-tion. In the contests for the other nominations predictions as ; to the result wont awry and there i were "a number of surprises. Congressman Joseph Howell 1 narrowly escaped losing his re- nomination. He succeeded in I being made the choice of the con- vention on the firstv ballot by n 1 majority of only seven votes, g Thoro was much opposition to 8 him from all parts of the state, f but the strength of his personal IX organization, combined with the II frantic efforts of tho federal IK bunch, who took tho stand that JjgL. a failure to renominate Howell mSTj would bo a repudiation not only ft of Irwell uut "ls0 o Senators H? Smoot and Sutherland, was suf-B suf-B ficicnt to put him over. H On the first ballot Harry S. H Joseph waTIn soeoml place, Judge B John F. Chidcstcr third and H Judgo Jacob Johnson fourth, H with four other candidates also LH in tho rnco. On the succeeding H ballots Johnson developed an jjH increasing strongth, which was MB sitfilcient to give him tho iiomin-WSL iiomin-WSL ntion on tho fourth ballot by a pl narrow margin over Harry Jo-soph. Jo-soph. Judgo Johnson had an itd-1 vantage both on geography and religion over most of the other candidates. As, Howell was a Mormon it was deemed advisable to name a non-Mormon for the other place on the congressional ticelft. Furthermore, Johnson is from the south and it was generally gener-ally conceded that one congressional congres-sional nomination should go to the south. The routh not only secured a Congressional nomination ab the hands of the state convention, but also secured the candidate's for state treasurer, superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction and one presidential elector. Salt ""Cake was rather left out of the ticket, The only candidates on the tick et credited to Salt Lake county are the candidates for judge of the supreme court, attorney general gen-eral and one presidential elector. Mrs. Margaret Kane "Witeher hm thodistinction 'of "b'cing' ' the only woman who has ever been on the ticket of a leading party for presidential elector. If elected she will be the only woman to hold membership in an electoral college iii the United States. Other nominees for presidential electors said last night that in ease Taft carried Utah, Mrs. Witchcr would be delegated to take the vote of the state to Washington. Mrs. Witchcr was a candidate for state treasurer before the convention nnd was defeated for the nomination by a close margin. Immediately thereafter she was placed on the ticket for presidential elector. One of the reversals of form in the convention was the defeat of Charles S. Tingey for renomina-tion renomina-tion as secretary of state and the nomination for that office of State Treasurer David Mattson of Weber We-ber county. Mr. Mattson occupied occu-pied the unique position of having hav-ing big own delegation oppose him for this nomination, yet securing se-curing the nomination at the hands of the convention, despite the opposition of his own county. Samuel G. Dye of Weber couuty was a candidate for state treasurer treas-urer and had defeated Mattson in the effort to secure the indorsement indorse-ment of the Weber,county delegation. delega-tion. However, when Mr. Mattson Matt-son secured the nomination Mr. Dye was out of tho running for the place he sought on the ticket and ho declined to be a candidate. candi-date. The state auditor's office was treated kindly by the convention. Jesse D. Jewkes, present state auditor, was made the candidate for state treasurer, and Lincoln G. Kelly, deputy state auditor, was .promoted to the candidacy for state auditor. Thero were many deals and trades between delegations and punishment was meted out to those who in making trades had injured tho candidacies of others. Mr. Dye was suspected of dealing deal-ing with Johnson supporters to tho detriIiienTof tho friends of Chidester nnd Joseph and the supporters of these two candidates candi-dates united in giving Mr. Mattson Matt-son tho nomination for secretary of stato to eliminate Dye from tho race. |