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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the postage Including months. six for Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal f?1.50 Pinion, $4.50 per year. . Single copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay- able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake Act of March 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the 3 Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-1- POLITICAL CZARS MUST KEEP HANDS OFF The delegates to the convention at Price hold the fate of the Republican party in this state in their hands. Their responsibility is of a very grave character. Either they will supply the party with all the instrumentalities of success or they will so handicap it as to insure failure. Time and again The Citizen has pointed out the necessity of sending to Chicago an uninstructed delegation and ostensibly all of the delegates accept this view, but there is a plan on foot to send as delegates to the national convention the men who have brought defeat to the party for the last eight years, and these men plan to give their votes to but one of the candidates'. The ring which has dictated to and controlled the party during that period and which drove the progressives out of the party, is preparing to assume control in the old offensive fashion. If the members of the ring are allowed to dominate the party the republicans might as well concede victory to the democrats at the outset and retire from the field. The Citizen has been, and is, for the of Reed Smoot to the United States senate because it believes that his is necessary from both an economic and a business viewpoint. His services to the state have been of inestimable value and his services to the country at large of even greater value. The senator and his friends, however, should rid themselves of the idea that he is bigger than the party. The party is bigger than the man and Senator Smoot should not stand in the way of those things which are necessary to bring the party a victory in Utah. There is no just reason why the offices and honors within the Jvlirty should not be distributed. The combine which has arrogated to itself all the offices and honors has alienated the allegiance of thousands of progressives in the last eight years. If they repeat the old blunder at Price they will invite, deserve and insure defeat. It is the duty of the delegates to see to it that the reunited party be kept united and that nothing be done to open old or inflict new wounds. Senator Smoot can well afford to step aside to secure a harmony which can only be helpful to his own interests. Ilis friends who, for their own selfish ends, arc trying to picture him as bigger than the party, are doing not only the party, but the senator himself, an injury. Of The Citizen hopes and intends to support Senator Smoot for It believes that never has there been such a demand for his election as exists today. The senator, however, can hurl himself as well as the party if lie insists upon keeping all the honors for himself and his friends. i re-electi- on re-electi- re-electi- on. The delegation to the Chicago convention should symbolize and represent the new accord in republican ranks. The progressive element should be recognized. Indeed, they will not permit themselves to be. penalized by the cabal which has forced defeat on the party in every campaign for years. They will insist on saving the party from the political trust which has dominated and damned it. They will insist that the Republican party in Utah be given every chance for victory in a year when republican victory in the nation is certain. They will insist that Utah be not denied the opportunity to share in the great triumph. And they will strive to prevent men of narrow minds and small characters from leading the party along the old, painful, rocky road of disaster. There is but one way to prevent that disaster. The men who have handicapped and fettered the party in the past must be made to keep hands off and other men, clearly representative of the progressive elements, must be entrusted with the task of representing Utah at the Chicago convention. on APOSTLES BARRED Perhaps no pronouncement by a church official in recent ycar has been fraught with such potency as the statement credited to Apostle Anthony Y. Ivins on the occasion of the meeting of the Democratic state committee. The stand taken by Apostle Ivins will have a beneficial effect throughout Utah because it will be interpreted as not merely his private opinion but rather as expressing the attitude of his church. If, indeed, this is the attitude of President Grant and there seems slight reason to doubt it felicitations are due the church authorities in general and Apostle Ivins in particular. From The Tribune of Sunday, April 25. we quote the following: The county chairmen decided that it would be necessary for a new man to take the place as chairman and advisable that a new secretary be selected. Apostle Anthony Y. Ivins was approached on the subject. He was asked to be chairman. He replied that, inasmuch as he was devoting all of his time and energy to church work and did not believe that a man in his position should take a part in politics, in anv official capacity, he thanked the committee for the honor implied in the suggestion of his name, but said he could not. in fairness to his far-reachi- ng conscience, accept such an appointment." If our interpretation is correct the church of which President Grant is the head has taken the position that high church dignitaries should not participate in politics in any official capacity. Clearly that |