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Show REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SATURDAY, SAT-URDAY, SEPT. 22. The Salt Lake County Republican convention will convene Saturday morning in Verne McCoulougb's fiyht arena for the purpose of nominating the Republican county ticket for the soming election. The officials of the party must have had a premonition that there would be some lively scrapping scrap-ping when they picked the arena for the battle. Rulon, Labrum ha3 announced his withdrawal as a candidate for renom-ination renom-ination on the board of county commissioners com-missioners and has given his followers follow-ers over to Mayor Ike Lester of Murray. Mur-ray. Just what the outcome of the county will be in the nomination for the county commission is a much mooted question and will not be settled set-tled until the curtain la rung down and the votes are counted. It is anticipated that the hottest firht in years will be over selection of the RepupHcn candidate for County Attorney. There are only two who figure in the race at this time. These men are NOrval CalHster and the present incumbent of the office, Wallace Wal-lace Kelley, both candidates are working work-ing hard at this time for the togan and because of the fact that Kelley has been .sort of a rebel to the party in his term of office it 1.3 thought that for party harmony he will be defeated for the nomination foT the office. j There is also a battle on for the county chairmanship A number of ! prominent men in the organization seem to be out after the scalp of Jesse i Sharp and who can tell but that they I may get it Nobody knows just how the -tide of battle will go until the smoke has cleared away and the votes are counted After all the element of fight is the one that makes for better politic in the county, state and nation. It Is up to the "outs." |