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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Candidates Gird For Convention Fight While intense activity has featured the race Allen Party, the Democratic of Chairman for State G. Thurman of Salt Lake City was the only contestant to announce his candidacy up to Wednesday night ) Other announcements appeared to be in the offing. Ira Huggins of Ogden is expected out as to come Lake City. Lake City Warwick may C. also of Salt Josephson is Newell Lamoreaux make the of Salt plunge, and there is talk of one or two dark horses. The contest appears to hinge on a question Unofficial indications are that Huggins and of Josephson lean to greater independence the State organization from executive domination, and, while willing to cooperate with the administration, are by no means inclined to let his Excellency run the show The position of Lamoreaux is said to be ‘‘betwixt and _ between’’ on the question of cooperation. Josephson won re-election as Fourth Ward Chairman by a comfortable majority Monday A determined fight was waged night. Capitol of State a combination by on him and, Salt of cooperation with the Governor. Thurman, whose candidacy is backed by a group of State Commissioners, including Jeanette Garner, Lambert Gibson, Wendell Grover, and others, Lake County politicians who believed that if he could be beaten in his home ward he would lose much of his convention strength. His vic- stresses chances of suecess cooperation with His Excellency. tory on the home greatly to his lot has added in the convention. He’s In Again It has become painfully evident to His Iuxcellency, Herbert B. Maw, that ‘‘you can’t keep a good man out’’. That persistent fellow, Fighting Frank Jugler of Ogden just won’t be pushed around. | We know of a Scowegian who worked a year and got nothing. And we have read of a presumibly smart Hebrew who worked seven years to obtain a certain woman, only to find himself possessed of another. But nothing like that can be put over on that guy Jugler. He has loafed a whole year and will draw down four thousand berries for it. Frank, we salute you. You fellows from North Salt Lake must have something special on the ball. At any rate it appears that the Supreme Court has upset a number Maw cate money. But if Maw legislators with can hold control over incoming the bait of good State jobs, provided they perform as he directs, his powers will be augmented rather than restricted to a constitutional basis. And with Gus P. Backman in the offing as agent of the invisible—yes, almost boldly invisible—government, the danger to Utah’s institutions and the welfare of her people becomes real and imminent. pendence must At be all costs, recovered and legislative inde- preserved. of precariously balanced apple carts, and has undertaken to gcive the Chief Magistrate a _ post-graduate course in law and constitutional study. At the moment the Jugler-Grover matter is back in the Court partisans agree that the next legislature must undo many mistakes of the last Legislature—it must recover unwholesome and unconstitutional grants of power to the Executive, particularly the right to appropriate and alloEven on an application for rehearing. It appears that the Supreme Court—to say nothing of thousands of other Utah citizens— is somewhat irked at the persistent use of the Legislature as a stepping stone to State jobs. ‘The practice is smelly. It is mghly tive of good government. destruc- The entire membership of the House of Representatives, of course, is to be elected this fall. Voters should scrutinize the candidates with unusual care. And two-thirds of the State Senate is to be elected in November. Terms of members who have accepted State jobs must be filled by election—not by appointment—ac- cording to a ruling of Attorney General ver A. Giles. Thus the voters will have Gro- an excellent op- portunity to free the Legislature from HExecu(Continued on page 7) |