The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-27
IN
HIGH SPIRITS
At PRIMARIES
Attendance at District Party
Meetings Largest in Ten
Years; Enthusiasm Re-
ported Unprecedented.
ONLY FEW DELEGATES
GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS
Sentiment Is That Place to Set
tie Rivalry Among Candi-
dates Is at Thursdays
Convention.
ONLY FEW DELEGATES
GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS

has been barrelled up for the
last ten years burst its restrain
ing hoops and slaves last night,
and went fzzing all over town. In
every one of the ffty-sevep city dis
tricts the attendance of Democrats at
the primaries was record -sma shing; it
was reported to The Tribune Office
after the balloting closed that the en-
thusIasm was unprecedented. In dis
tricts where the attendance at Demo
cratic primaries used to be two or three
there were present last night fifty,
sixty or seventy-fve. One district re-
ported 40 present.
Reports from the county districts
were Of similar import. Everybody
who called up The Tribune Office said
that the Democrats this year scented
victory, and got on the job early.
Few Are Instructed.
Few Of the. delegations were In
structed for any candidate. The gen.
eral feeling seemed to be that the dele
gates go to the state convention
Thursday untramelled and unbampered.
'tThe convention is the place for tho
candidates to fight it OUT was almost
the invariable reply to the question,
"Were your delegates instructedG'
Districts Nos. and instructed for
Joseph w. Stringfellow for attorney
general. District No. Is instructed for
George C. Whitmore of Nephi for gov
ernor District 33 instructed for W. r.
Wallace of Salt Lake for governor. Dis
trict SO instructed for Hardin Bennion
of Salt Lake county for governor. Dis
trict A instructed for John Dern OF
Salt Lake for governor and for Judge
o. W. Powers for presidential elector
A boom for Professor Joseph L. Mer-
rill for governor was started in the
ninety seventh district.
Bingham in Joint Primary.
All of the Bingham districts joined
in one primary meeting. In addition
to electing joint delegates, the Bing-
ham Democrats adopted a resolution
favoring fusion with another party on
district judges. The man who sent In
the Bingham report also said that the
Democrats Of the greatest copper camp
on earth were going to organize Will
| son club right away.
This resolution was adopted In the
| 10lst district in the First ward;
HResolved, That it is the sense OF
this Democratic primary that the Of
flee Of superintendent Of public in
struction and the judiciary be elimi-
mated from politics"
Opposed to Fusion.
They are middle -of-the-road Demo
Gratis in the Ninth district. as is in
dicated by this resolution;
HResolved, That we, the Democrats
of the Ninth district, are opposed to
fusion with any other party"
The delegates chosen last night, with
the exception Of few districts, are
delegates to both the state convention
and the judicial convention OF the
Third judicial district, which meets i'm
mediately prior to the state convention.
In two OF three districts two sets of
delegates were selected, one for the
judicial convention and the other for
the state convention.
In some of the districts there were
so MANY Democrats who wanted to go
to the convention that the number OF
delegates allotted was doubled and
each Of the delegates was given half
a vote. The number Of aternates was
likewise doubled.
The state convention is scheduled
TO meet at 10 O'Clock Thursday fore
noon. Brigham II. Roberts will be the
temporary chairman and will deliver
the party Hkeynote speech.
Result of Primaries
The result of last nights primaries
| follows:
| First Ward,
| District No. delegates - william
Bradford, Arthur McFarlan. John w
Smell Alternates-S. D. Bradford, A. w
Swenson, Mrs. Joseph Jones District
chairman, Arthur McFarlan; secretary.
J. w. Smell,
District No. 2-Delegates-C, II. Carl
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