Show primary cletion Ele tion enters second stage of Clon contest test next tuesday voters to decide contests between opposing candidates the first statewide state wide armary pr mary election to be held in utah under the new primary election law passed by the last legislature has now entered its second runoff run off stage for the purpose of ascertaining the preference of one or both of the political leal parties for candidates competing for the same office a special election has to be held costing the taxpayers of the state thousands of dollars in san juan county there is a contest within the democratic party for the nomination of assessor f for or this county and in the twelfth senatorial district comprising the counties of emery grand and san juan there is also a contest between ross leonard of huntington and byron A howard of the same county for this place on the democratic ballot there will therefore be only 4 names printed on the runoff run off ballot for this county those of C A frost and wm win clarence black for county assessor and the two mentioned above competing for state senatorial honors from observing the operation of the direct primary law it seems evident that the law should be revised and amended by the next state legislature to remove some of the bugs from it for in stance there is already a state law which prohibits voters from taking part in more than one party caucus or nominating primary this provision should also be made to prevent party members from voting the ticket of one party in the primary election and that of another political party in the general election and some way of avoiding the expensive runoff run off elections should be devised especially in sparsely populated count counties i es like san juan where this in increased expense is a serious matter on account of the limited finances |