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Show I MATTSON WINS IN STATE CONVENTION H Out-Maneuvers County Clerk Dye in the Race Before the Republican H Organization Governor Spry Renominated Howell of Cache H and Johnson of Sanpete Named For Congress John W. Hj Wilcox of Ogden on State Central Committee. H 1 Yesterday afternoon and evening H I the Republican state convention, in Bj session in Sail Lake, nominated the H following ticket: H Congressmen Joseph Howell. H Cache; Judge Jacob Johnson, San- H Governor William Spry, Tooele H Supreme Court Justice Joseph H E. Frick, Salt Lake. H Secretary of Stale David Matt- H son, Weber. H Attorney General A. R. Barnes, H Salt Lake. H I State Auditor Lincoln G. Kelly, H , Slate Treasurer Jesse U. Jewkes, H F.mery. m State Superintendent of Public In- istructlon A. C. Nelson, Sanpete. Presidential Electors J. N". Davis, 1 1'inta: Ephraim Homer, Utah: K. D. H Woolley, Kane: Mrs. Margaret Zane H Witcher. Salt Lake. Sm Socjn after the afternoon session was called to order the naming of congressmen was taken up. H Congressman Joseph Howell was H renominated on the first ballot in a Hj field of seven candidates. All his six Hj , opponents did not remain for the sub- H sequent ballots, which went to the H fourth and resulted in the nomination H for the second congressman of Judge H Jacob Johnson of Spring City after a H spirited bnttlo In which" Harry S. Jo-, H fieph of Salt Lake wa3 the actual H Mr. Howell was the only candidate H to get the 317 votes necessary for H nomination on the first ballot. Ho M ' cot 324 1-2 votc on this ballot. Jo- M ieph was second with 231 1-2 and H Judge J. F. Chidester of Richfield M third with 21". Jacob Johnson of H Spring City Bonner X Smith of Salt fl Lake, F. W. Fishburn of Brigham H ' City, M M Rush of Tooele and H Charles E. Marks of Salt Lake were H the other candidates. H A nomination on the first ballot B . changed the complexion of the race H ' for the second place on the ticket. Hl Chidester, who was a potent factor Hl In tho initial race, declined In strength H and the rivalry now was between H , Harry S. Joseph and Judge Johnson. H Joseph, the candidate doomed to dc- H feat on the fourth ballot, led on the H , second, having 224 1-2 against 1G2 M for Johnson and J-M for Chidester H Smith got 93 1-2 and Marks 1. The H i third ballot changed the atmosphere H , of the situation in favor of Johnson H Supporters of tho leading candl- H ' dates shrieked their names through H the theater In preparation for the H next ballot. The third ballot gave H j. Johnson 267. Joseph. 235 1-2, Chldes- Hj ter. 92.- There were votes, too, for H Smith and Marks But there was no Hj nomination yet and the air was filled H with the Intangible forecast that the H I fourth would bring a result. This was Hj , confirmed when the withdrawal of H I Chidester and Smith were announc- H Judge Chlde3ler's spokesman asked H bis supporters to go over to Joseph. H Alas, for the aspirations of that Salt Hh Laker, all the Chidester support did BK not heed this request. M Johnson generated wonderful R . strength. Utah county proudly flaunt- m- ed his banner; Weber county dls- V played a liking for him and In the K- southern counties where Chidester B had been the favorite, Johnson now H claimed the votes. Not all, though, H , swept over to the Johnson forces, l The Spring City jurist didn't gel his Ht I nomination on a landslide, for when H' 1 the fourth ballot had been counted HN and his success announced, he had Hli I received only twenty-two votes more H't than Joseph. h ' The fourth Jtnd last ballot gave H' Johnson 325 eight more than a bare H'J majority. Joseph got 302. The only i 1 other votes cast on this ballot were 3 , two for C. E. Marks. K ' Judge D. D Houtz, who secured the Br. ' floor, asked that peace succeed pan- Ha j demonium, that man of peace might' H; bo chosen to fill an office of peace. In f ' an eloquent speech he named for jus- Hc tlce of the supreme court .7 73. Frick T . A score clamored for recognition as Hl ( ! soon as Judge Houtr. had concluded. H't ' The chair recognized George M. Can- H non, who seconded the nomination HI ' and moved that It be made by accla- B- mation. The motion carried quickly. H Spry by Acclamation. 1 Senator Cau A. Badger in a brief Hl and impressive address placed Gover- ' nor William Spry hofore the conven- . tlon for renominution. Senator Bad- K gcr called attention to the brilliant t record made by" the governor during -: ' his term of office and said that among Hr ' his greatest achieveme-ntB -was the . ) restoration of peace and harmony to Kr I 71tali. F. E. Francisco, who seconded w ' the nomination, began to soar to pic- K luresquc heights In his seconding K speech and was laughed down by the V convention. Harry C. Edwards also B seconded tho governor's nomination 1 and moved that It be made by accla- ;r mat ion. This motion prevailed without with-out a dissenting voice. After the cheering for the governor gover-nor had subsided an adjournment until un-til 7:30 o'clock was taken by the cou-I cou-I ventlon. Glen Miller, chuirman of the coin-I coin-I mitlec on platform and resolutions, at tho evening session read the report of the committee, which was adopted. Many of the planks were received with loud and prolonged applause. Two amendments were offered by George M Cannon of Salt Lake which were adopted. The first was a declaration dec-laration for an antl-pnss law, demanding demand-ing a law against the acceptance of passes bv public officers The second was a declaration calling upon tho legislature lo provide mean of putting put-ting into effect the constitutional provision pro-vision for the establishment of maximum max-imum passenger and freight ralev Another amendment adopted svas a demand for a law against poolrooms, where wagers are made on horse races. The following amendment offered by a Juab delegate was lost: "We commend the last legislature for passing pass-ing the liquor law of 1911 and reaffirm reaf-firm our allegiance to that doctrine, and pledge our legislators to see to it that the law Is not aopcaled " An amendment calling upon congress con-gress to pass uniform dhorco laws iwas losl when Senator Sutherland explained ex-plained that congress had not the power to enact divorce legislation. An amendment providing for the direct primary was overwhelmingly defeated. Mattson Ic Winner. Nominations for secretary of state were called for and the followinc wore placed In nomination: C. S. Tlngey. Incumbent; J. A. Edwards of Salt I-ake county and David Mattson of Webor county, the present slate treasurer. treas-urer. In addition to the opposition to Tin-gey Tin-gey on t'jc ground of a third term, there was a vengeful spirit in tho convention that made of Tlngey a victim vic-tim in order to defeat" Samuel Sam-uel G. Dye of Weber county for ntate treasurer. Dye had secured the Webor We-bor county delegation and was trying to use it to his best advantage. He cast a majority of the Weber county delegation for Johnson for congress, whereupon supporters of both Chidester Chides-ter and Joseph wero determined to defeat Dye. It was understood that if Mattson wa3 named from Weber county Dye would be out of tho running. run-ning. For that reason Mattson profited pro-fited an: Tlngey suffered with Dye. Another factor that contributed to he complication was that frlndt of both Mrs. Margaret Zane Witcher and Jesse D. Jewkes, both candidates Tor state treasnrer, for which Dyo was regarded as the strongest contender, wished to put Dye out of the running as quickly as possible and decided to eliminate him by nominating Mattson. Edwards' supporters, too, were friendly friend-ly to Mattson and were ready In case Edwards could not be named to support sup-port Edwards. Recult of First Ballot. The first ballot for secretary of state forecasted :rattson's victory. The ballot in detail follows: 2 H r1. re 1 a 2 2.-! Beaver. . . .... .:.','.. . -2 3 4 Box Elder ' in Cache . . . '.. 12 33 Carbon .-....,;. 2 .".... 7 Davis ..'.:.. A '" 2 11 Emery . . ......,...,..,,,,,.. i Garfield..'....-, ...','..".". " 7 Grand .'. ..; ". :. ; '.'.'.'. ?, Iron -i "": 2 luab -.... is. " Kane .. ..."....'.'. -,., ' 1 j Millard .. .:.1., ?.;.(.'. ..' as ,: Morgan '. j o 3 Piute ..r.. rr::,': "j ...-." Rich 7-r..'. .Vj2'- J Salt rike ..... .04 aS 72Z San Junn ;.'..', 5 Sanpete ".,,... ,15 ""n 'J Sevier '.. ', r, ' i Summit ...: I r, c Tooele ; , ;.,, ' u Uintah .V.'.? " ' "c Utah ,& i m ;,; Wasatch 3; j j Washington ",. . j-,! 4 Wayne . . .- - -t t 2 Weber . ; aoj" 's is T,?'als I 212'jl3V4l25GiV When the result was announced the Mattson supporters cheered wildlv. Jn the midst of the confusion John Jensen, Jen-sen, who had placed Edwards in nomination, nom-ination, reached the platform and finally fi-nally secured recognition. When he withdrew Edwards' name confusion reigned and it was several minutes before order was restored. The next roll call developed Into a Matton procession. When Summit countv was reached Mattson had secpr'Kl 7VU" uic lw gno mm tne nomina- ' tlon and the remainder of the roll was called mid pandemonium.. When Weber We-ber was reached there was such confusion con-fusion that It waa hard to hear the result of the vole of that countv it was finallv discovered that Webor had gracefully fallen Into th Mattson Matt-son jroceBlon and had given her J" votes to him. 'The ballot in detail was as follows; TIagey,Matts,on. Beaver 1() Box Elder , ,ji .,., Cache 1 If Carbon .-',....,' ' l r n Davis .'..':..jfta.i i4 Emery . . .,..,.": ;,. ?.&-.". . 1 1 Gflrtleld .. ..:...: -;r.frSf Grand i:. Tron '. '. ...-af? - 5 Juab .... Jtyy. .ji'sii,v Kane .. .'....; '- " Millard. :, ,5 I Morgan '' V piute- -..; Rich . ' ' Salt Iike .-. 9fi '.'. ,- San Juan Sanpete .. . ... ;;s S6vter fi " ,f- Sumralt v fi Tooele .. Uintah '., ,; l Utah 33 29 Wawttch 15 Washington 5 4 Wayne Weber 5- Totals 212 411 Barnes Renominated. For attorney general Albert R-. Barnes, the Incumbent, had a walkaway. walk-away. For this office there were placed before the convention the names of John F. Bowman, A. R. Barnes and P. T. Farnatvorth, Jr.. all or Salt Lake. The first ballot resulted result-ed - Total vote cast 632 Necessary to a choice 317 Barnes -to"' Bowman .. 123 Farnsworth 51 Lincoln J. Kelly of Millard counts, Chief deputy In the office of the state auditor, C It. Jones of Summit countv and Ivor AJax of Tooele county were placed In nomination for slate auditor. Kelly won. The ballot resulted: Total number of votes cast H32 Xeccssarv to a choice 317 Kelly 3504 Jones lSO1 AJax 92 After his defeat Tor the nomination for auditor Mr Ajax said that while he aud his friends had hoped for success suc-cess they took their disappointment philosophically and would support the ticket to the best nf their ability. Battle Over Treasurershlp. One or the real battles of the con- , ventlon was the contest for state treasurer, which followed the nomination nomi-nation of stal' auditor. Mrs. Margaret Marga-ret Zane Witcher wns solidly backed by the women for this place, and for a" time It appeared that she was certain cer-tain to win the nomination. The olh- j or candidates wore Jesse D. Jewkefi or Emory and John II. Wootlon of 1 Utah county. j As soon as Mrs. Witcher was plac- ed In nomination an effort was made t to make her the nominee by acclama- tlon. This aroused a storm of protest 1 and the chair declined lo consider the motion to that effect Samuel G. Dye. who had tho n- I dorsement of Weber county Tor tho nomination, but who waB eliminated bv reason of the nomination of David Maitson, also of Weber county, for secretary of state, seconded the nomination nomi-nation of Jesse D. Jewkes and pledged pledg-ed the o2 votes of Weber county to him. The Weber county delegates felt grieved with Salt 1-ake for putting Mr. Dye out of the running and decided de-cided to avenge themselves by making the nomination of Jewkes certain. The first ballot Tor state treasurer resulted In no nomination, the vole being. Jewkes 301 Witcher 251 Wootton 77 Before the second ballot was taken Wootton withdrew from the contest. When the ballot was taken Salt lakc Increased Its vote from 143 on the first ballot to 162 on the second, but this was offset by Utah county Increasing In-creasing its Note for Jewkes from three on the first ballot to -13 on the second This with Weber's solid 52 again for Jewkes gave him Ihe nomination, nom-ination, tho ballot being: Jewkes 32 1 Witcher 30$ Nelson by Acclamation. The convention nominated A. C. Nelson bv acclamation for the office of state superintendent of public Instruction In-struction Six names were placed in nomination nomina-tion for presidential electors, as follows: fol-lows: C. G. Adnoy of Box Elder county, E. D. Woolley of Kane county. Eph Homer of Utah county, Robert A. Moycs of Weber county, John N. Davis Da-vis of Uintah county. Mrs. Margaret Zane Witchor of Salt Lake county and Harry J. Doolittle of Iron county. The ballot icsulted: Homer 363 Mrs. Witcher oil Davis 183 Woollev 355 Adney 311 Doolittle 7-1 Accordingly Homer, Mrs. Witcher. Davis and Woolloy were declared the candidates for presidential electors. Central Committee Named. The -state central committee waj named by roll call. The counties announced an-nounced their choices as follows: Beaver William F. Knox. Box Elder Mosinh Evans. Cache Thomas Smart. Carbon A. W. Ilorsley. Davis E. C Ashton. Emery William J. Seeley, -. Garfield Thomas Haycock. Grand J. P. Miller. Iron Wilford Dav. Juab J. C. Sullhan. Kane John C Carpenter. Millard N'ephi A. Anderson. , Morgan C. P. Conley. ( Piute Albert F. Haycock. Rich Joseph Hodges. Salt Lake John C. Mackay and John :m Hayes. Sau Juan J. M. Redd. Jr. Sanpete L. R, Anderson. Sevlei- A. K. Hansen. Summit AV. D. Lewis. Tooele George Bryan. Uintah George Searle. Utah John D. Dixon. Wasatch J C. Jensen. Washington Samuel Jtidd. Wayne F. Arthur Mccks. Weber John W Wilcox. Tho state committee was authorized authoriz-ed to adopt the party's old emblem, an eagle on a bee hive, and to fill any vacancy that mlghi occur. Senator Sutherland announced a meeting of the state committee for 11 o'clock this forenoon In the office of Govornor Spry. The convention adjourned al 12. 1U o'clock this morning all speak in sonorous language of appreciation toward nnsolf and also with an cxtrcmelj broad-minded ap-prebonslon ap-prebonslon of what im real position is and what my ical feelings are. "America has been enriched by having the aspirations of some of the finest races in tho world brought to her shores. I don't Know whether wo ought lo rejoice that other countries coun-tries arc in the same degree impoverished, impov-erished, but for myself, as an American Amer-ican along with yourselves, I re-poice re-poice rao3t heartily in the circumstances circum-stances than men of every European blood have brought to this country their highest aspirations because they can't bring these aspirations without malting the country greater and freer than It would be without thorn. "For nnself I have never felt the slightest jealousy of the right kind of Immigration, and by the right kind of Immigration. I mean the voluntary volun-tary kind. When men of their own Initiative come with a preliminary love for or desire for America to establish es-tablish homes for themselves here and to Identify thomsoUes with tho country, the result cannot be anything any-thing but good for the country Itself." "The governor's next speaking engagement en-gagement is Monday al the New York club when he will "analyze the three parties and their platforms. oo |