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Show DICTATING TO UTAH Returns from county cleii.) I bow '.here are 173, ".".2 voters in ibe state of Utah Of this number VYebor county contains con-tains a little over one-tenth There are registered in this county 18,656 voters, but at no election have I -more than 60 per cent of (he citizens Hi yoted Salt Lake county has 60,000, or bOirethitv; ntoie than onetlilM of fho total registration Combined, Salt Lake, Weber and Utah counties would have more than one-half the voting strength of the entire state. When lh- unit rule is applied to I Salt Lake's delegation to either one) of the old parties, that. one. county re- j o.ulres the aid of not more than two . of the other large counties to dictate the nomlnaes of a convention That is too much power to be placed In the J hands of a machine operating within any political organization in this state It means that a well organized group Of politicians in Salt Lake, representing represent-ing In that city only a small fraction of the strength of the dominant party, tan dictate as to men and policies and, i as a matter of practical politics, can rule the state. |