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Show SOCIALIST ON J VISIT TO lira Salt Lake, Oct 7. Allan L. Benson, Socialist presidential candidate, expressed ex-pressed his unmistakablo preference for Salt Lako City over all other cities In the United States during his stay of an hour and a half hero yesterday on his way to the Pacific coast Mr. Benson demonstrated tho sincerity sin-cerity of hiB remarks by refusing all Invitations from local Socialists who met him at the Denver & Rio Grande depot upon his arrival at 12:25 and requested that he be left alone to wander about among his old familiar haunts. As soon as his baggage was transferred to the Oregon Short Line depot tho presidential candidate splashed through the mud and rain on a solitary walk of an hour or more about tho city. In the course of his meanderings he met former Mayor Samuel C. Tark, one of his old friends, and his face beamed with pleasure when he afterward told of tho meet-'Ing. |