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Show PROGRESSIVES NAME, TIE DATE OF THEIR CONVENTION n- At a meeting of the county central committee of the Progressive party. Saturday evening, it was decided that the county convention shall be held in Ogden August 8. and that primaries primar-ies for the election of delegates to the convention shall be held August 4th. The convention will be composed of one delegate for every 40 vote3 cast for Nephl L. Morris for governor two years ago. The Democratic convention will be held ln Ogden on the same day and the primaries for the election of delegates dele-gates will be held August 5, the apportionment ap-portionment to be one delegate for every 30 votes cast for T. D. Johnson for congress two years ago. Both conventions will be held in the county courthouse, one using Judge J. A. Howell's court room and the other that of Judge N. J. Harris The chairmen of the two parties state that there will be about 100 delegates In each of t;he conventions. It is said by some of the leaders that it is possible that the Progressives Progres-sives will suggest Democrats for the fusion tioket and that, ln turn, the Democratic convention will suggest nominees for the Progressives. This action 1b to be taken, it is claimed, to avoid the possibility of placing either ei-ther non-Progresslve6, Democrats or Progressives on the joint ticket. The two parties under the rule of fusion as adopted shall nominate persons for offices as follows: Democrats One senator and one representative, sheriff assessor attorney, attor-ney, two-year commissioner and Ogden Og-den precinct constable. Progresshes Three representatives, representa-tives, clerk, treasurer, recorder, sur veyor and four-year commissioner. Republicans have not yet taken action ac-tion respecting the time for the holding hold-ing of conventions, either in the coun ty or the state, but it is said it will not be a great while until the party managers get busy. oo |