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Show locrats Select Legislative County Ticket at Con j mtfi School Auditorium I with UUvh County ''f delegates, who f locked j d,v to ""end the County " convention. It is re-j t over 700 people were ( o participate m Uie ;'"Lof legislative and coun- , - from the hundred-odd j :?rno were in the field, 'min" session was spent Sf; permanent county j U,e keynote speech by I -,'f Elmer Miller and the j f of committees on organiza-1 credentials. ;:onvention was attended by William H- King and Rep-j. Rep-j. Will Robinson. At-:fl;,e At-:fl;,e afternoon session were "'c, woman Mrs. Prank Pen-' Pen-' , B W- Musser, state sen- ZtMxs. Scottt Stewart, state ,t-evoman. :ekevnote speech of the con-fevered con-fevered by Elmer Miller niplishments of President and the present admim-fvcve admim-fvcve praised. Mr. MUler ;,,nU;n Delano Roosevelt m - ..Vand a half in the presidency pirated the qualities of his . "in to the extent of receiving, ;-fr,m all factions, interests, l.xl His courage, vision and Vmy have marked him as one ; VVcarry us over the problems v us" The accomplishments .'policy, declared Mr. Miller, an imposing list. 1 -,o: King greeted the conven- ( 'U stated that he hoped to lae opportunity of meeting -Democrats in the coming and also many Republi-. Republi-. 0 should learn the truth, called his first Democratic in the old Lehi Opera - Tears back, when the first Vtic vote for the whole state :.wrt noo. few more than the nominations, and not until the third ballot was cast was William J. Johnson declared the winner with 209 of the 217 votes- The nomination nomina-tion was later made unanimous. Hugh M- Woodward, Provo, and Eldred Royle, Dividend, defeated Oscar A. Speer, Provo; Charles Dixon, Spanish Fork; Jesse Hall, Payson, and Royal J. Murdock, Provo, for the two places on the ticket for state senators. :.pre5ent. He also stated that wning campaign speech of ras made in Lehi--, senior Senator extended ,s from President Roosevelt Democrats of Utah county. ..-eciared the new deal is here vre to stay. Based on the m-1 Zl ial rig principle, it can and . Sn-e the masses and, in spite idie:; opposition political party to ire -rjnt its merits with the cry of dar.-.: ;-orship, it will endure, he de-t. de-t. i Tne president of this coun-lVhr.i coun-lVhr.i cognizes that the new condi-:uas condi-:uas .; of things demands the new lorr.:.; . President Roosevelt stands is s' -sinaitly as the statesman of efu'iiMay. His policy is social justice fti : he declared in conclusion, all ;r tentative J. Will Robinson job! - i n;xt and expressed his pleas-ixe pleas-ixe ti at being present and appealed Ms "-' -,f group to select competent mien lnd women 0n the ticket and The selection of the five state representatives was made on the first ballot, with twelve men in the field- Jesse Hall, Payson; Frank M. Edmunds, Salem; Hyrum Anderson, Ander-son, Lehi; Mrs. Emily D. Aird, Provo, and J- S. Holdaway, Vineyard, Vine-yard, 'were the victors. Others in the fight were A. H. Lowe, Clyde Turbin, Thomas Reese, Ernest J-Seastrand, J-Seastrand, Mrs- Delilah Hughes and Ei-nest Farr. reakr';' .candidates who could support ' al !Li president in his struggle to clliel the country out of the chaos e eu". now in- mi", convention was called to order 0'rf': 3'Jgh M- Woodward of Provo, e ,,5 introduced the temporary .,.e'rV;: "nan, Elmer Miller, .also of part""-' A A' J' Evans was cliaPlain of convention and offered the n? prayer, and Mrs. Velma 3s:n of Provo sang the solo, - " Flag Without A Stain," ac--' med by Mrs. Abe Anderson 1 l The Lehi band played pgCllJ ' Auditorium from 9:30 until f!c!t, as a preliminary to the jp ''Mtion- L. M. Atwood, Pleasant Grove, received re-ceived the nomination for assessor by acclamation, and Sheriff E. G-Durnell G-Durnell of Provo received the nomination nomi-nation by acclamation for reelection as county sheriff- C A- Grant of American Fork won the nomination for county clerk over N. Alma Peterson of Provo and Joseph Waldron, Spanish Span-ish Fork on the first ballot. Andrew Jensen, Provo, won the nomination for county treasurer on the second ballot, when Sylvan W. Clark, Lehi, conceded the fight and asked that the vote be made unani-I unani-I mous. Albeit R- Hudsen, Santa-quin Santa-quin went out on the first ballot- . . i.Q -Pa.v.mn. received 0ll,t, -permanent convention organ- iut . '-was named as follows: Fur t-1 Miller, Provo, chairman; Winnifred Sorenson, Lehi, Lilian; Robert L- Wilson, Pay-JA1 Pay-JA1 flrst vice-president; Judge jj I Ballif, Provo, second vice- TfVl 'int' M' D' RddmaU- Plea-Sant IEJUW' , secretary; Mary Banks, jg CO Fork, assistant secretary, !o'nn S- Evans, sergeant at . A ltl L ? afternoon session, commenc- flflCf ' ' 'clock P- m- opened with .d1 "s from the committees on or-yJCC or-yJCC i:.business. platform and cre- pork, ;:e were 428 delegates eligible S 'e Md 417 present, according , ;s credential committee- ji,ioise riuiuun-, - a majority vote on the first ballot of 265 to eliminate Ross Y. Stewai t, Provo, and Mary Banks, Spanish Fork for county recorder. Booth Sorenson of Lehi got away on the first ballot for county auditor, audi-tor, defeating Milton Hams of Springville- Stanley Dunford, Provo, was accorded ac-corded the nomination for county attorney by acclamation and A. B. Shelton of Provo, won the county surveyor nomination when he defeated de-feated Walter Bateman, Payson- Musical numbers given in the afternoon af-ternoon included entertaining numbers num-bers bv "Tab" and "Bun" and a vocal solo by Billie Smith, accompanied by Miss Mavis Johnson. -r-i ; ommittee on platform and . -'ns moved for the ratif ioa- S-rl ; 0: 'he state Democratic plat-y plat-y M its reading was passed to 'Mir-year coinmissioner Hil- H'rtson of Springville, incum-ttWved incum-ttWved 343 votes on the first ' 35 against 74 for Orland J- ;arP tight developed in the ;at!ti of the two-year term j ' wmniissioners when Spanish . p, 1 ; sirried a precinct fight on ' ,., . Jldl(iates into the convention. oric '"V' Jonnson, Ralph D. Mor-firi' Mor-firi' - nn & Creer, Reese W. .ass i j aU of Spanish Fork, and jjSJtJ ' Olterson, Salem, received |