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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. ' L. J. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor. and Mgr. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 'Unlon, $4.50 per year. . G. .311-12-1- 0. P. MUST ACQUIRE WILL TO VICTORY the Republican party of Utah PROFESSIONAL politicians within in the game the same petty fashion that has brought our campaigns into disrepute. They look forward to the national campaign and its overmastering issues with the mean vision of gang selfishness. Already they have begun, in the old way, to think of little deals that will benefit this or that ward-heelor small-bor- e manipulator. They look with anger and astonishment on the determination of genuinely patriotic Republicans to lift the contest this year to a distinctly higher plane. They still have the effrontery to believe that they can conduct campaigns of vicious personalities and low tricks. They assume to lead, when they should be made to follow. It might serve a useful purpose if the state chairman should give them fair warning and, if they fail to heed it, read them out of the party. The Republican party cannot afford to have the great 1920 campaign crippled by the kind of politics which has brought defeat in recent years. men of the party have realized the magniThe forward-lookin- g tude of the issues. They see the very honor and safety of the United States at stake in the League of Nations issue. They see vast industrial and domestic issues clamoring for definite settlement in a large e politicians way. And they are disheartened when they see the of their community grasping for control of the party. The sublime and the ridiculous will not run as teammates. Not all the blame for the condition of the party in Utah rests upon these professional politicians. The National Committee itself is to blame for its neglect. It is so busy whooping it up in securely Republican states that it has only a little time to devote to a state which, at this writing, is Democratic and will remain in that unredeemed condition unless the National Committee shows more interest and a greater willingness to help. The Republican party in Utah is all right what there is of it. Its chief trouble is that it is not big enough. A party is big enough only when it casts enough votes to win elections. The delusion of many who account themselves leaders is the bewhatever that may lief that because Utah is normally Republican in a year when signify it ought to be Republican beyond all doubt the nation is Republican. It is a fatal non sequitur. In the rest of the nation Democratic votes are being cast for Resolemn but inspiring publican tickets. Never again seems to be the Reshibboleth of disgusted Democrats. In Utah, on the other hand, tickets in such numpublican votes have been cast for Democratic bers as to elect those tickets. Those who can take any satisfaction er . Single copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act under the City, Utah, 3 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409. pee-we- out of the phrase normally Republican, after seeing the state go Democratic with disheartening frequency, are not in the right mood to guide the destinies of the Republican party. Most of us understand clearly, if wc stop to reason at all, one of the reasons why the state remains Democratic in a year when the rest of the country," sore and angry, is deserting the Democratic party. Utah got off on the wrong foot, in the League of Nations controversy. There was a snap judgment on the treaty before any real investigation of it was possible. Unfortunately for the state and for themselves some of the most respected men in the state indorsed the covenant without sufficient inquiry. Many of them have regretted their stand and a few of them have frankly admitted their errors and recanted. But, for the most part, there has been a stubborn clinging to recognized error. The blunderers got in so deep that they would feel humiliated and disgraced to admit their folly and try to pull them. selves out. The impression made on the rank and file was deep. Only a most thorough campaign of education can let in the light. And, hand in hand with that campaign, must go intensive organization. Neither the educational campaign nor the intensive organization is possible with the leaders in their present state of delusion and with the National Committee badly misled. Republicans should take the situation to heart, especially those young Republicans who have shown such a keen desire for success that they have, for the first time, engaged actively in politics. They are splendid young men who see the need of redeeming Utah and bringing it into line with national sentiment. To them the party looks with hope and expectancy. Already they have done much to improve the party's organization and to arouse interest, but they must see that their efforts from now until election must be unremitting and strenuand the state ticket to ous if Senator Smoot is to be triumph. We have no desire to discuss the relative merits of aspirants for positions on the state ticket, but we are interested in having the members of the party all over the state enter into such a discussion. It should be an absorbing topic, for Republican success will depend in large measure upon an intelligent selection of candidates. It is true that never before have principles counted for so much. It is true that the party is on the right side on the treaty issue and the other big issues of the day; but unless we have candidates who can present and represent these issues adequately we are simply giving hostages to the enemy. If the veteran professionals are allowed to have their re-elect- ed |