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Show .INTENSE INTEREST I IN SCHOOL ELECTION Salt Lake, Nov. 24 At the largest! j convention ever held in a munii lpa1 I ward in the city for the nomination of a candidate for the board of edu-! cation, J. C. Howard, a well-known ' Salt Lake business man. was selected ! ! last night on the second baliot as a non-partisan eandidaie for the board 1 from the First municipal ward, j The meeting was held in the large auditorium of the tths Side high I school and was attended hy nearly 1500 voters of the First municipal ward and by 200 or 300 residents oi other sections of the city. The nomination nom-ination of Mr. Howard came after a (campaign into which much bitterness j was injected and the contests were vigorously fought At last night's meeting, howeer. the intense feeling that prevailed during the campaign was not exhibited exhibit-ed in the addresses and the large s i owd at the meeting was, for the K most part, orderL :, tl,- ol I he meeting was accomplished with dispatch. 1 Four candidates were placed in H nomination. They were Benjamin S. B J, c Howard, Professor James M L. Gibson and William Bowen. On K the first ballot otes were cast M and 745 were necessary to a choice. H Mr. Howard n eived 740; Mr. Bow. -a, m :;:s; Mr. Gibson. L'-'l. aud Mr. Hives. 159. On the second ballot. Mr. How- anl received 732 voles; Mr Brown, & 560; Mr Gibson, 7, and Mr Hives 1. Following the meeting there waa some talk of the nomination of an 1 independent candidate However, 1 I most of those backing the candidate opposed to Mr. Howard were not dis- I posed to favor any further conte3f. P The nominating speech of Profes- 1 or Fred J. E'nck. piecing the name of Mr. Howard before the convention, occasioned much surprise and no lit- I tie adverse comment. Mr. Pack de- claretl emphatically in favor of Utah teachers and principals in the public r : schools to the exclusion of teachers ff ' from other par; of th? country. Ho J :.;iid the b-.ard v.r; br.nging too many : teachers and principals here from n I outside of the state, while Utah teach- H ers were walking the streets looking J-for J-for work He declared that he be- fl lieved that Utah ought to leave Ne- M j braska to employ her own teachers I land Utah would look to the employ- j meat of her teachers at home. ;j To such a policy, he declared. Mr. j I Howard was committed Mr. Howard, I in his platform which he furnished representatives of the press imrae- I d lately afte the nomination, modi- L i fled this declaration cf policy slightly. L I The platform contains this titate- ff Iment: j I "I am absolutely converted to the j i policy of employing home talent In j the selection cf principals and teachers, teach-ers, but believe that to a small, lim- I ited extent foreign talent might add II new blood and ideas." j |