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Show Published Every Saturday BY G00DWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. j. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in the United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, Including postage ) for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal njpn, $4.50 per year. Ft mi, or x Single copies 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at. Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- . 13 cam idate hope FOR DEMOCRA TS The Democrats decided that their only hope of victory was the. rorn chance of a wet candidate. After conceding to the admin-tjatio- n forces the plank on the League of Nations, they adopted ok as a nullifying reservation. They impaired the essential of the federal machine and alienated the affections of too much of a tendency to let the other fellow do it. If the Republicans arc to win the state the thousands of young men who arc just coming into the party must be invited to participate in the active work of the campaign. who went to the convention from The federal Bgrity Utah as delegates return dispirited and discouraged. To them McMcAdoo was the graven idol of the federal plunderbund, but Adoo meant victory. Not that he stood for anything in particular; leir devotion was purely selfish. They looked to him to keep them he was simply a rallying point for the organization and, having been rjfffice if some happy mischance should gain him the election. In silent on all subjects, he was in a 'position to run on any platform. pite of their solidarity their task was immensely difficult. McAdoo Therefore, he could have indorsed the sacred fetich of the League of r$fs a sphynx and yet did not stand for even much as a sphynx. His Nations, which was to have been the main issue of the Democrats. ieWs on The Utah delegation clung to McAdoo with a blind desperation. public questions were unknown. No one could point to any iterances or writings in which he had attested himself a statesman. He was their one great hope. With him they could win the state; le was the great silence of an intellectual desert. without him their chances were slight. And so they voted for him, was Cox personally a strong candidate when the convention ballot after ballot, with a faithfulness that was so solemn it was j Nor He was simply a favorite son, possessing as additional assets funny. jegan. We may assume that Bryan, being out of sympathy with any trass band and a special train filled with cold kegs and bottles. jt there was not a moment during the convention that he did not of the dominating clement at the convention, was able to see the flaws of the ticket with clear vision. Writing before the nomination w stronger. It would be idle to pretend that the Democrats will not have had been made he described the various groups in this fashion : In this convention, at the hour of this writing the situation In the east, where the Volstead law is strong talking points. 'ijnSthema especially in the large cities his friends will be voluble may change completely in a moments time the horns are seemiiltheir exploitation of his wetness. They will say that he stands ingly locked, but a careful inspection of them reveals that there arc fbr. personal liberty as against administration despotism. This, it three pairs instead of two. The White House, Wall street and the J true, will be a will wets have locked horns, and neither element has thus far been able d sword. The federal plh ; they will lose their enthusiasm and they will not be able to to get even a majority. which would mark their efforts There are three distinct groups in this convention. The largest js day that concord of team-wor- k i ere McAdoo the nominee. and most influential group is made up of those who boast that they It is difficult to gauge all the weakness and strength of the represent the president and unto whom not only his word but his m didate. If he will draw the wet vote, he will repel the dry vote. wish is law. The second group in size is composed of the wets. ie will stir to the wildest enthusiasm those Democrats who are Their number can be accurately determined, because they had a 356 delegates walked up to the wet line and made jjeiry of personal government, he will be a wet blanket on the roll call and Sfiniinistrationists. It goes without saying that in Utah he will be obeisance to a beer barrel. It would be difficult to bring the Wall street crowd up to a ijwct blanket on the drys, on the Wilsonians, on the League of ations in fact, on everything that Utah Democrats of various line so distinctly drawn. This group, the least of the three, is ctions, hold most sacred. In Salt Lake lie will be popular with uncertain in number and not united in action. The most of them machine which has relied for much of its power arc with Governor Cox, who has wisely intrusted this part of his wj Democratic i booze and gambling. But in the state generally Cox will be campaign to Harmon, who was the Wall street canj reker than didate for president at Baltimore eight years ago. Mr. McAdoo and any candidate the Democrats could have named. This should not be a signal for the Republicans to throw up Mr. Palmer have some supporters among this element, but a man hats and shout victory. Victory is to be obtained only by who is rcallv under the control of the financiers is moved front hardest kind of work, the most intensive organization. There is candidate to candidate as a pawn on a checkerboard is moved from office-holde- i rs r, i I i ; i : t two-edge- office-holde- rs ! Ii -- ex-Govcr- nor i t ! 1 |