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Show CONGRESSIONAL TEAM SELECTED BY REPUBLICANS I E. 0. Leatherwood of Salt Lake ' and Don B. Coiton of Vernai Chosen at Convention i SALT LAKE. Aug. 28. Republicans Republi-cans yesterday nominated Don. B. Col- j ton of Vernal, I'lnlah county, anil E. I O. Leatherwood of Salt Iak as candidates can-didates for COnjrreaa from the First and Second districts, respectively, at the district convention held In the Hotol Utah and the Newhouse hotel. Mr. Leatherwood won in a one-sided 'contest, with llnmllton Gardner of Salt Lake as hU nearest competitor. The race for nomination In the First district was much more spirited and , the result was In doubt until Weber, 1 the last voting county on th list, gave , Mr Coiton forty-two of Its fifty- two votes. The total vole was 192 for Mr ' Coiton and 127 for Wllford Day of arbon county. BOTH rtl LAWYERS. Both of the candidates are lawyers and both have records of service in public office. Mr. Leatherwood served el dlatrlct attorney of the Third Judicial Judi-cial district and two years ago went down to defeat with his party as' candidate can-didate for congress. Mr. Coiton hns served In both the lower and uppei houses of the state legislature and has occupied positions of prominence In Vernal, and Is one of the best known of the o1dr residents of the Uintah basin. The convention of the Second congressional con-gressional district was held In the New-house New-house hotel ballroom Three candidates u re placed In nomination, but the bp position to Mr Leatherwood quickly dwindled George !. Armstrong wmh first presented to the gathering. His name was placed before the convention conven-tion by W T. Hopkins of Sal; Lake, who did not make a speech An OiO G Kelly then nominated Hamilton Gardner. Phiio T Farnsworth nominated nomi-nated Mr Leatherwood Mr.-. Jesnnette A Hyde seconded the nom.nation of Mr Leatherwood. CLiEGG WITH DH IWS Brlaham Cleg had ben prominent- ly mentioned as a andidate for the nomination, hut Nephl L Morris. In a I brief address, explained that the name of Mr. Clepg would not be offered. af I It had been withdrawn In an effort to i help balance the ticket He added that It took a big man with his ambitions to step aside in the Interest of his party. The first ballot showed Mr. Leather-Wood Leather-Wood 14B votes in Snlt Lake county., fourteen In Davis county eleven and one-half in Tooele county and thirty-ode thirty-ode and one-half In Utah county This I was more than enough to nominate. nd Mr Gardner Immediately moved that the vote te made unanimous. This was done. st ORES PRESIDENT I E Willey called the convention to order and Introduced Ullam S Marks of Tooele as temporary chairman. Mr. Marks. In his opening address, scored ; the Democrats, with emphasis on I'res- j ldent Wilson, and told something of What the Republicans would do If 'lee- j ted to office Excerpts from the ad-drSSS ad-drSSS of Mr Marks follow Since the Installation of this auto-1 cratlc dreamer at the White House there ever has been increasing the domination of foreign Influence ano a manifest lack of reverence for our own institutions "In dealing with the Mexican sltua-tion sltua-tion Wilson has made us the laugh- ing stock of the world. He and his party have tolerated more national Insults In-sults from Mexico than America has! had In her entire history from all other countries "It Is needless for mo to comment j on the Flume episode, or the disgrace-f disgrace-f il proceedings as to Shantung, or the many other discreditable things done by the ponce conference that were Swallowed with such avidity by our autocrat. He refused to take counsel , of the senate of the United States Which he knew, under the constitution, was the body whose right and duty It was to make peace treaties, he abso- i lutely iRnored the snators and attempted at-tempted In every word and action to throw discredit upon them: in fact, ho i tried to make it appear that he was' the only man of sufficient caliber the. United States produced, or had, who was able to go over and deal with those foreign diplomats REPUBLIC Us LEAD WAV "It was the Republican principle of protection, under Hamilton, that firt 1 placed our credit at home and abroad. - ft v-n. (niintnllAH Tt ii.ne t V. Tn. I publican party that gave us our pre-1 sent solid financial system." With delegations In some Instance somewhat reduced bv absentees, but j with party interest and en'huslasm at ; a high pitch after Thursday's noml-1 nations deb-nates to the convention of the First congressional district met In j the ballroom of the Hotel LTtah. A. D. MrOuire. editor of Tremonton. and chairman of the district, opened the convention and the official call was read by the necretar. Claude Baker of Eureka. The total number of delegates provided In the call was S28, from twenty-five counties In the district All were represented In person or by proxy and every county cast Its full quota ofi votes In the balloting for the congressional congres-sional candidates. Mr. McGulrc was followed b W. C. J Horslev. who offered the Invocation. Carl R Marcusen of Price was nnmeJ I temporary chairman Mr Marcusen and the other temporary officers were made permanent and the national and state platforms of the party were adopted bv the convention. OGDEX1XE6 iMTJED Si fore adjournment a motion was i adopted to have the chairman and the. , candidate name a district committee of seven to Conduct the campaign. Officers of the convention, In addl-1 addl-1 tion to Mr. Marcusen, were VioS .Chairmen W J Henderson. Pangultch. ; Mrs J A. Howell Ofden; Clarence Cordon, Logan. Claude Baker, Eu-! Eu-! reka Mrs. Kate Littlefleld. Morgan .lames Kell), Fillmore. L. J. Holther Jr. Ogdert'i V L. VOO Wagoner, Mill-I Mill-I way. Sergeant -at -arms, Wllford Robl-'son, Robl-'son, Beaver Assistant sergeant -( -arms Robert Young. Richfield; Chris Mad sen, Gunnison, and Warren Seavey. I Vernal. oo |