Show this week twenty years ago issue of august 25 1919 the republican county convention was held here last saturday for the purpose of electing delegates to the congressional and ju dacial conventions of the party the following people were named as delegates 11 II J doolittle wilford day john W bentley joseph K B richards james C robinson C SI wilkinson J G pace ada wood webster J S woodbury and wm il H leigh A primary of the democratic party of the parowan carowan precinct wa was s call ed for august 26 to elect 6 delegates to the county convention of that party to be held in paragonah Para gonah on in august mrs sarah ann adams agea ann ana much beloved resident of this city passed away on tuesday morning after suffering for several months from diabetes mrs R L fenton entertained at a kensington tuesday afternoon ladies present were maude B parcells myrtle brown ada burton mrs david sharp mrs edwin Brick brickert crt gwen M gurr emma L dark clark and irene mitchell tion trend on the other hand nevertheless my newspaper ex cx teaches me that an unusual unexpected story ksavery is a very much more marketable commodity than the recital of the obvious furthermore this question arises if the same process applied by the same people to the same localities produced a return nearly per cent wrong four years ago is not the same result eventuating this year at the same political hour in all probability equally suspect it is a political theory of long standing that to create an illusion of victory is a worthwhile expedient to attract the bandwagon vote hence the jubilant welcome by the willkie folks of the recent poll hence the almost invariable practice of claiming everything in advance of the election it the guess turns out well it may be pointed to with pride if it goes sour nothing has been lost so with a poll with all the accompaniment compani ment of scientific terminology and technical assumption of precise methods it is only a guess based an on the expression of opinion of a comparatively few people gathered by a small force of solicitors of problematical competence if it turns out right it affords excellent advertising for the enterprise it it turns out wrong there is always the explanation that conditions changed for in every one of these institutions there are employed a thousand its and perhaps es m in escape clauses the classical instance is of course the literary digest which spent millions in its efforts elt orts working out a system it thought invincible peo pie swore by it bet on it and accepted it as they would an assay in a laboratory until it came a cropper so abysmal that it caused it to flee the field of prophecy the lab toy boy thoi thoy y is all right because i 1 doinog and ammu i lt it is id ume unie recie anen it is attempted to apply the method to 50 voters of all varieties varie ties and of opinion subject to change it jut notice and whose curb in optical joil i psychology may shift clear across when they come to be alone with their consciences in the voting booth |