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Show UTAH IS IN THE DOUBTFUL ! COLUMN The Salt Lake Tribune, a strong Republican paper, places Utah In ihe doubtful column in this morning's issue, is-sue, saying: Utah this week passes from the "safely Republican" to the "doubtim column, from tne present pres-ent political outlook The trend of sontimeut In debatable sections sec-tions of the state, particularly In Salt Lake county, has been awa from the Republican party. Indications Indi-cations still point to Republican success in the state, but the signs are uncertain enough to justify placing the state in the doubtful column. There are several ways of figuring fig-uring the possibility of a Republican Repub-lican defeat in Salt Lake county, astonishing though such a suggestion sug-gestion may be. The Republican leaders are consenative in their estimates of tho county, and though they profess to be confident confi-dent of success, they appear somewhr.t woiried Democratic and Progressive leaders are making mak-ing many predictions of success in the county, many of which are too extravagant for serious consideration. con-sideration. Impartial and experienced exper-ienced observers regard this county fairly debatable, with the Republicans having a slight advantage, ad-vantage, the Democrats as uncomfortably un-comfortably close second and tho Progressives not far behind the Democrats. As might bo expectod the canvass can-vass of each party Indicates a plurality for that party. On one point, however, the canvasses of all political parties agree and that is that there exists a tremendous doubtful vote in this county. Leaders of various political parties par-ties generally agree in fixing the number of doubtful voters in the county at approximately 7,000. It may be that these 7,000 votors have made up their minds how to vote, but it Is certain that they have not been loud In the expression expres-sion of their preference. The 7,-000 7,-000 oters come largely from the American party. They may bo fairly divided among tho three parties, a larger portion may go to tho Democrats, or a larger portion por-tion may go to tho Progressives. The Republicans will he satisfied to get one-third of this vote and will likely win if the. do so. However Republican leaders when speaking conservatively, concede that they will not get as large a i)orcentage as one-third of the old American vote. Whoever Who-ever may be in a position to tell in what proportion this vote will be divided on election day will he able to predict who will be the winner in the state and the probable prob-able plurality of the winner. This, however, seems to be rather an Impossible problem, and for that reason the state may well be regarded re-garded as doubtful. In the state at large the possibility possi-bility of Republican defeat depends de-pends largely on tho vote polled by the Progressive party. |