The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-17
DEMOCRATS NOW
GETTING CHESTY
Many Are Sufficiently Sanguine
to Predict a Landslide
i'm Utah.
DOING SOME FIGURING
ON NEXT LEGISLATURE
Say 1t Will Be Such That Re-
pubIicanS Cannot Elect
Senator.

IN the wake of the Democratic state
convention held at Provo on Thursday
comes the claims and prophecies Of the
Democrats of the state. most OF whom
are sanguine enough TO predict great
Democratic landslide III Utah which
will give the Democracy congressman,
a member of the supreme bench. and
a Democratic state legislature. hence
a Democratic successor TO Senator
George Sutherland.
The more conservative of the Demo
Gratis, those who have time and again
had their calculations upset by church
influence Just before election are con
tenting themselves with predicting
large gains in the Democratic vote IN
every section of the state. They de
clare that the wave of insurgency that
is apparently enveloplng the country Is
reaching Utah and that the Democrats
will profit by the unrest, The conser-
vative Democrats are not prepared 10
predict victory for Judge Erickson az
certainty. but they believe that If
Howell is renominated by the Repub-
race with fighting chance to WIN.
AS to the Legislature.
However. all of the Democrats be
lieve that the complexion of the next
state legislature will be such that the
Republicans will find it impossible to
name Sutherland S successor. \ prom
inent Democrat Friday afternoon de-
clared that the next senate would con
sist of ten Republicans, six Democrats
and two Americans. while the house
wonld be composed OF twenty-five Dem.
ocrats, thirteen Republicans and ten
Americans. Under this classification
af 1,1 -, JsaN
majority in joint session, although
the Democrats would have more mem
bers seated in the legislature than
either of the other parties.
In the last state legislature the Dem |
ocrats had only two representatives. |
The vote in several of the other coun
ties, however, was close and the Re
publican members of the Legislature
were carried into Office through the
Taft landslide This year the condi-
tions are somewhat reversed and the
Democrats are claiming victory IN a
dozen southern counties where the vote
was close last campaign.
Sanpcte and Cache.
In addition TO the natural gains the
Democrats are claiming Sanpete county,
which elects a senator and two repre-.
because of Judge Erickson g
IN his home county. The pro-
hlbItlon plank. they expect. viii give
them Cache county with three repre-
sentativcs and one senator and Utah
county with two senators and four rep.
ID. II Morris, a representative in the
from Washington county,
Will probably be nominated as senator
by the Democrats of southwestern
Utah. and the Democrats feel certain
TINT he will be elected. They are also
on senator from eastern
Utah which is now represented by Alon-
20 Brinkerhoff.
The Democrats are not concedine
anything anywhere and still believe
they have chance, even in Salt Lake
Ind Weber counties, where their show.
ing has been particularly poor of late
years. They are counting largely on an
overwhelming Democratic landslide to
lake their candidates into office and
20 give them a Democratic senator.