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Show I WALUCE DEPOSED BY DEMOCRATS li Mill :: Salt Lake, April 6. Democrats of Utah, in convention hero, yesterday ; elected James H. Moyle of Salt Lake as Democratic national committeeman ;I for Utah, In place of William R, Wal- fl lace. They also elected sixteen dele- ! pales to the national convention in St. Louis and adopted resolutions in-j in-j dorslng President Wilson and his pol icies and declaring for nation-wide and state-wide prohibition. In this !' part of the resolutions the Republic an party In Utah was scored for al- leged failure to make this state "dry." Interest in the election of the na- tional committeeman overtopped all the other business of the convention. 1 Mr. Wallace was a candidate to sue- i cced himself. Opposition to Mr. Wal- j lace and his administration of the honorary post of national committeeman committee-man developed, the opposition bring-; bring-; lug out Mr. Moyle as its candidate , several weeks ago. ', Although the Moyle forces had claimed since the primaries that Wal- " lace was beaten, the full flower of the Wallace opposition did not bloom uu- j-' til yesterday'3 convention. Fiery j speeches, one or two of them touched with acrimony, were made on the floor of the convention, for and : against both Wallace and Moyle. The v opposition shouted that Wallace had destroyed harmony In the parly. The i. Wallace men shouted back that the Democrats were ungrateful for good and faithful service. Made It Unanimous. Only a motion to declare nominations nomina-tions for committeeman closed stopped stop-ped the debate. Then the convention , " balloted There were just two nom- inees Moyle and Wallace and be- ! fore the roll call of the counties had been completed on the first ballot It became apparent thatMoyle had beat en Wallace about two to one. Without With-out waiting for the count to bo announced, an-nounced, Mr. Wallace conceded bis ) defeat by a motion to make the elec- 1 Hon of Mr. Moyle unanimous. The count showed 378 votes for Moyle and 187 for Walace. "I gues it is proven that I'm a pretty pret-ty poor politician," said Mr. Wallace "so we had better make the vote for Mr. Moylo unanimous." The conven- ; tion acted on this suggestion. This and the election of the slx- 1 teen delegates to St. Louis took place I late in the afternoon session. It was j a long convention, remaining in ses- : ' slon until 8 o'clock last night. A con- 1 test over the seating of two sets of delegates from district No. 81, in Bingham, and debate over the propos- j al of the committee on organization ') and order of business to elect a new Democratic state committee in the convention prolonged the session. This last proposal was rejected, and the state committee will be chosen later. Of the delegation to the St. Louis convention, two are women Mrs. H. J. Hayward and Mrs. Brigham T. Py-per, Py-per, both of Salt Lake. In view of 1 p the number of aspirants, the conven ts tion decided upon a delegation of six- teen. Utah is entitled to but eight ; votes in the national convention, so each delegate will have half a vote. St. Louis Delegates. The sixteen delegates are the following: fol-lowing: ; Mrs. Hayward, Mrs. Pypor, J. Will Knight of Utah county, Stephen Hall-5 Hall-5 stone of Cache, James R. Barnes of Davis, S. S, Smith of Weber, JameB W. Clyde of Wasatch, Samuel A. King V' of Salt Lake, all delegates at large; W. L. Eddy of Boxelder, Valentine Gideon of Weber, Walter W. McKiri- 'i ban of Sanpete and H. G. Hayball of Cache, delegates from the First con- gresslonal district; I. H. Masters of Utah county, Daniel B Shields of Salt Lake, A. J. Weber of Salt Lake and James H. Wolfe of Salt Lake, delegates dele-gates from the Second congressional district. The first eight delegates were elected elect-ed by the convention as a whole and afterward the convention resolved Itself It-self into two congressional district conventions con-ventions to name the rest. on |