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Show ARMSTRONG HAS I PRIMARY LEAD I C. C. Richards and King's Brother Not Chosen as Delegates SA-LT LAKE. Aug. 9. Demon, at their primaries held Tuesday nigh' to select delegates to the state an 1 congressional conventions cast probably prob-ably the heaviest vote ever recorded in a Salt Lake county primary Instead of .half a dozen person holding a perfunctory session In the respective districts. as usually has been the case, there were seldom less than 30 to -10 voters on hand In any district, and several districts recorded in excess of 100 ballots. In not a single instance was It reported re-ported thai a delegation had been instructed in-structed to cast Its vote for any candidate, can-didate, but there generally was free expression concerning the senatorial candidate favored. A careful canvass of the sentiment Indicates that 6.'. to 70 per cent of the entire Salt Lake city and ' county delegation will v ole for W Armstrong for I'nited States senator, about 20 to 25 per cent appear to favor William R, Wallace, Wal-lace, and I he remainder probably will favor William H King Other than the unusually heavy primary vote cast and the uppar. ntly overwhelming sentiment favorable to Armstrong, there were lew major features fea-tures in connection with Tuesday nights meetings. It was deemed rath-er rath-er significant In some quarters that Charles C. Riohards Ball Lake count Democratic chairman and one of Senator Sen-ator King's clib f supporter, and I. '. Thoreson, one ot the junior senator s campaign managers, were denied the privilege ol" attending th- state convention con-vention as delegates, but were accorded accord-ed the honor of representing their district dis-trict at the convention of the Second congressional distrist There was some significance attached also to the fact that Samuel A King, a brother of the senator, was not permitted to represent repre-sent his district as u delegate. The apportionment made by the Democratic state chairman gives Salt Lake county .'42 votes In the state convention, con-vention, cm this allotment, allowing Armstrong 85 per cent he would re-Qcive re-Qcive approximately 160 vols; King 10 per cent, or from 20 to 25 votes. In some districts there was sharp competition foi congressional deie-gatea deie-gatea bui on the whole there did not appear to be a great deal of Interest 11 i - expected howev er that I here will be lively canvassing of congressional delegates between now and Friday, the convention date In most districts the state convention delegates will also be delegates to the congressional convention con-vention in this district Burton W. Musser. manager for W R Wallace announced that Wallace headQuarters would i- opened this morning in mite No i on the mi i nine of the Motel Jtah. |