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Show THE CITIZEN 4 less to say, Utah rejoices surpassingly in this friendship and will statesman in the senate be glad to see her own able, to uphold the hands of the president. And they will be pleased to know that former Senator Sutherland, who did so much to attain victory in this state, is also one of the presidents confidential advisers. The election of Major Mabey as governor of Utah is another cause for unlimited rejoicing. He conducted a masterly campaign, advocates rending with relentless logic the shams of the and exposing the waste, inefficiency and blunders, to use no harsher term, of the present state administration. In a word, he conducted the campaign like the good soldier that he is. He realized that hard-worki- ng pro-leag- ue campaign and he kept nothing was to be gained by a wishy-wash- y the enemy on the run all of the time. The service men were with him en masse. He was their beau ideal of a soldier statesman, and they were spurred to greater efforts in his behalf by the blundering Democrats who slighted the soldiers at. the dictation of machine politicians. Utah sends a Republican delegation to the next house of representatives. Both gentlemen arc of the highest type of citizenship and will be a credit to the state as well as staunch defenders of American institutions against a maudlin internationalism. ELECTION OF EMERY BLOW TO UNDERWORLD The partnership of the Corless ring with the gamblers, and other magnates of the underworld did not make the sheriff even high man on his own ticket. His backers were confident that whether the Republicans or Democrats won the sheriff would run far ahead of the other Democratic candidates. Moving about among the underworld elements in Salt Lake, Garfield, Magna and other towns the sheriffs ringsters imbibed confidence with their moonshine. In a double sense they lived in a world of moonshine. When the betting began to be lively five or six days before election Corless was the favorite, but not to the degree that he had been immediately after his nomination. Then his backers were willing to give two to one that he would be Four davs before election the backers of the sheriff received their first jolt. All their money was taken and they decided that, discretion being the better part of valor, they had better post their boot-legge- rs re-elect- ed. bets at even money. At that figure they had the courage to wager thousands. On Monday they began to retreat and by evening they were in full flight. The odds had turned in favor of Emery and bets were made at fifty to thirty that Emery would win. The change in odds probably was not due to any knowledge of trouble in the Corless ranks. On Monday there was a general feeling that a Republican tidal wave was approaching with terrific d Democrats failed to get the hunch. force. Only the It was apparent by Monday night that the vice kings were in a panic, but their fears did not cause them to desert Corless. They hide-boun- felt that if the sheriffs ring were defeated their chances of operating under protection would be greatly diminished even though the police should aid. In spite of certain police activities in the last weeks of the campaign the bootleggers, gamblers and rooming house proprietors continued to put their faith in the protective influence of the sheriffs office. Nathan, proprietor of the New Orpheum rooming house,, who was arrested by the anti-vic- e squad for bootlegging three weeks his vicious den and began to operate with more or ago, less boldness. He complained that he had been compelled to give $600 for protection the week of his arrest. The underworld has been greatly discouraged by the defeat of the sheriffs ring, but vicious resorts in the city, in the towns and even in the rural districts continue to run. The magnates of the underworld, intend to garner as much plunder as possible between now and January 1. Some of them boast that even after that they can continue tp operate at a profit until the new regime gets on to the ropes. One ruse adopted by the sheriffs forces toward the end of the campaign deserves attention. They tried to create the impression in the underworld that the opposition was disintegrating and they went about whispering that they controlled Republican precinct chairmen, judges and workers. It was more moonshine and wilder than the popular brands. re-open- ed PEOPLE DELIVER MANDA TE IN SOLEMN REFERENDUM We shall hear much to the effect that the people are weary of the League of Nations debate and some will go so far as to say that the people arc weary of the league altogether. But speak as we will in weariness of mind the questions must continue to be an issue until it is settled. The election itself simply expressed in a general way the thought of the nation. Now' it is necessary to translate that thought into concrete law's. In spite of the many and pressing domestic questions that cry out for solution our new president and the senate of the United States must devote much time and earnest and profound study to attain a definitive adjustment of our foreign relations. On both sides the people felt very strongly about the League felt that if they of Nations. On the one hand the abandoned the Wilson covenant they would not be able to obtain anything like it in the give and take of legislative compromise. They clung to the undotted i and uncrossed t with an almost hysterical tenacity. Not that they believed in an unmodified covenant, but because they feared that if they surrendered what they deemed a strong position they would soon be outflanked and wholly undone. They saw the league established and functioning abroad and they argued that even though it was functioning poorly without the aid pro-league- rs of the United States, yet it afforded the machinery of a league that could be improved constantly. Now that the election has shown the general trend of opinion we can look for a more or less prompt agreement as to whether vc shall have a league with the Wilson covenant substantially modified or whether we shall have a wholly new' kind of international relationship for justice and peace among the nations. We must consider whether the people want any league at all. Certainly they do not want an association of nations that is in any sense a military alliance. It has been pointed out again and again that while the Uirtcd States is not greatly in need of Europe at this time, Eur pe is in need of the United States. If we accept that dicuiiu as approximately correct we shall realize that we are in a dominant position and that w'e can have a league satisfactory to us if we decide that we want a league at all. Never before have the American people wielded so much pn.ver over the world. We can felicitate ourselves and the nations ilwt it is a moral more than a material power. And in the tasks of adjustment that lie ahead of us we must keep cool heads and judge soberly what we shall do to aid mankind. |