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Show THE CITIZEN 4 of Utah Charles R. Mabey, the son of a pioneer. In two wars Mr. A disMabey served his country even at the cannons mouth. tinguished general said of him that he was one of the bravest men he had ever known. In the world war he went to France and fought for. his country only a few months after Governor Coxs newspaper had been urging an alliance between Germany and the United States against the allies. Let Senator King and Mr. Welling find out something about their presidential candidate' that can reconcile him to the good people of Utah. They might ask him what he thinks of Major Charles R. Mabey? They might ask him whether he thinks the thousands of sons of Utah who fought in the world war are the victims of an organization which imposes the doctrine of vengeance and treason? -- Let Senator King and Mr. Welling, aye, and Mr. Taylor, find out what excuse Mr. Cox had for hurling the charge- - of treason in 1905. That was six years after the Spanish war the war in which Mabey and hundreds of other sons of Utah pioneers had battled for the safety of their country yes, and the safety of Mr. Cox of the Dayton Daily News. We realize that in thus using the name of Major Mabey wc may be doing violence to the reticence of a soldier as modest as he is brave, but we believe that it is essential to point the moral of the story trenchantly, to tear the mask from a canting candidate who speaks us fair today because he needs our votes but who, in 1905. denounced our people as traitors after they had proved their heroism and patriotic fidelty on the battlefields of Cuba and the Philippines. VICE RING PA CKS CONVENTION AND NOMINA TES CORLESS The Democratic county convention displayed stupendous courage in nominating John S. Corless for another term as sheriff. We read that all opposition to hiiii disappeared and that he was named unanimously. Evidently the Democrats decided to throw discretion to the winds and run the sheriff on his bootlegging and gambling record. Perhaps such a courageous organization will adopt as its slogan Vote for Corless, friend of the gambler and bootlegger. The convention was packed with the gambling and bootlegging element, but that does not account for the unanimous vote. The convention delegates who had some claim to decency and respectability seemed to abandon hope. They surrendered abjectly to the gamblers and bootleggers and allowed a sheriff who has been virtually the partner of gamblers, bootleggers and other underworld profiteers to head their county ticket. If Corless is elected it means that bootleggers will be permitted to continue their traffic under protection of the sheriffs office, that wide-ope- n gambling will flourish at Bingham and other places and that vicious road houses and resorts will contaminate the rural districts. A sheriff should not simply board prisoners and superintend executions; he should prevent the violation of law. Instead of preventing, Sheriff Corless has connived at lawlessness. The sheriffs office has been the protector of bootleggers and gamblers. And yet the Democratic convention had the appalling audacity to insult the people of the county by renominating as sheriff one who permitted wholesale violations of the law day in and day out. because of his Sheriff Corless, in war times, was valuable services in rendering powerless those elements of the population who were working secretly for the countrys enemies. It was re-elect- ed a case of not Many changing a horse in the middle of a stream. who believed him unfitted for the ordinary duties of the sheriffs office supported him because of the extraordinary crisis. But those days are no more. The county needs as sheriff one who will enforce the laws, one who will not grant immunity to and gamblers and to those other elements that foster vice v and crime. It was notorious at the convention that the delegation from Bingham was packed with those who have profited from the reign of vice in that community and all such delegates, some of them gamblers, some bootleggers and some worse, were there to help the underworld of Salt Lake secure the renomination of Corless. The Corless ring left nothing undone to crowd the county convention with the vicious element and that can mean only one tiling. If Corless is elected the element which obtained his election nun; be protected. n characters who were delegates in the Among the convention were Joe Dinkenspiel, gambler and race horse man, who runs a soft drink parlor and a card game on East Second South; J. T. Raleigh, also proprietor of a similar saloon on East Second South who was mixed up in whiskey running for the sheriffs office, and Abe Bernstein, proprietor of The Walnut. A number of former saloonkeepers were also in the convention as delegates. Among them were several who are now conducting soft drink parlors with the customary alcoholic side lines. ot These are the elements which are seeking the Corless. These are the elements which expect to be benefit ted i? he is elected. The electors of Salt Lake county will judge of the sheriff by his supporters and they will not fail to understand that if he should continue to hold the office of sheriff he will be simply the tool of those who backed him in the convention and who have been backing him during his three terms in office. bout-legger- s f well-know- re-elect- 1 j j j j j j ion ! j DEMOCRATS NOMINATE MAN WHO AIDED SLACKERS Duplicating the performance of their state convention the Democrats, at their legislative convention, extended and amplified their insult to the soldiers. a service man In the state convention they double-crosse- d in the legisthey .had invited to seek the congressional nomination: lative convention they nominated for state representative a man who was notorious in his district as a promoter of slacking. Thomas P. Page, a merchant of Riverton, and formerly a member of the legislature, was nominated by the Democratic convention for representative. During the war lie drew upon himself the attention of the federal authorities because of his activities against the draft in Riverton precinct. lie went so far as to aid the young men to secure exemption by making out their qucstionaircs. One of the young men who came under his influence and whose qucstifiiairt he helped to fill out, claimed exemption as an agriculturist, although then working for the Rio Grande railroad. Attention was first drawn to the Riverton precinct by tin facr that there were no voluntary enlistments. The authorities next discovered that all the young men of draft age, whether they were lun married or single, were claiming exemption as agriculturists. an investigation was. made the blame was immediately fasten, d "!1 Page. lie was accused by his neighbors of having used his influent to prevent' voluntary enlistments and recruiting under the drawQuestioned as to his reasons for taking this attitude, he replied that. hi the in his opinion, the farm came first, the trenches next. - |