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Show THE CITIZEN a Progressive candidate in the field to divide his vote. Nevertheless, Harding was elected by a plurality of more than 100,000 at the same time that Cox was defeated by 29,000 in his race for the gover- For President WARREN G. HARDING Harding received a total of 526,115 votes for the senator-shiThe vote for Cox in the same year was 493,367, or about 33,000 less than the Harding vote. That was the highest vote Cox. ever received, his vote in 1918 being only 486,000, or 46,000 less than the Harding vote in 1914. Cox has never 'won an election that could be called a personal victory. Harding won the senatorship even with the disadvantage of a divided party. Cox has been known as a cunning politician who could take advantage of special conditions. Harding has been a statesman who brought strength to his. party ticket and received more than his normal party vote. When Cox won by the narrow margin of 5,199 in 1916, he polled nearly 40,000 fewer votes than did Wilson, who dragged Cox through. When Cox won by a little more than 5,000, Pomerene carried the senatorship by 35,000 and Wilson carried Ohio by nearly 90,000. It is manifest from the figures, that the effort to play up Cox is pure fake. Cox has been clever at getting in as a great vote-gettat the right time to profit politically by favorable circumstances not p. norship. Vice-Preside- nt CALVIN COOLIDGE United States Senator REED SMOOT Governor CHARLES R. MABEY Justice of Supreme Court (Ten-ye- ar term) J. E. FRICK Secretary of State H. E. CROCKETT er of his creation. Attorney General HARVEY H. CLUFF THE BOOMERANG THROWER I ask you, how did they come into possession of a copy of the treaty? inquires Candidate Cox. They procured it; that is what they assert, and they never have attempted to deny that they procured it from' German hands in Paris. The reiteration of an untruth appears to be a part of the tactics After Mr. of one who has been proclaimed a great campaigner. Cox first made the charge Chairman Hays stated that the senate first heard of the contents of the treaty from a Wall street magnate who had obtained a copy from one of President Wilsons satellites in Paris. The nert information they had was from the Chicago Tribune, whose correspondent had obtained a copy from some unannounced source in Paris. It is true that copies were being sold on the streets of Berlin at fifteen cents a copy before President Wilson allowed the senate of the United States to know what was in the compact. The gamins of Berlin were retailing the Versailles pact while the president was refusing a copy to the United States senate, an essential part of the treaty-makin- g power. At all events the senate oligarchy never suggested, as did Cox in one of his newspapers in 1916, that it might be beneficial for the United States and Germany to form an alliance. Perchance the great campaigner will soon wish that he had remained on the front porch of his palace at Trails End. Treasurer W. D. SUTTON Auditor MARK A. TUTTLE Superintendent Public Instruction GEORGE THOMAS Presidential electors Warren L. Wattis, Mrs. George T. Judd, James A. Melville, Jr., J. Howard Garrett a Roosevelt. But the country is impatient for a good administratis and cannot wait until Frank grows up. Frank will continue to be the leading juvenile of the great dram, of the national campaign. The Russians seem to be on the trotzky back to Moscow. Mr. Cox says the League of Nations will make war practical!) Polis! impossible in the future. The league council looked at the war and decided to leave peace to the future. THE LEADING JUVENILE Republicans will be delighted if they will compare the acceptance speeches of Governor Coolidgc and Secretary Roosevelt, the nominees. The speech of Governor Coolidgc revealed him as a political philosopher and as one who can express his ideas in brilliant epigrams. Compared with it the speech of Mr. Roosevelt was juvenile.. Pellucid platitudes of the schoolboy marked the address of a nominee who has been alluded to by the Democrats as one fit to stand in the shoes of Theodore Roosevelt. They have been fond of finding likenesses in the careers of the two men, forgetting that a comparison of brains is the best criterion. We have searched Mr. Roosevelts speeches in vain for a brilliant or impressive utterance. nominee came to Salt Lake The Democratic and conveyed the same impression of juvenility. We 'will say this, however, for the nominee Frank Roosevelt possesses two magnificent names and some day, if lie is good in his school work, may be as wise as Franklin and as masterful as his kinsman the mighty vice-president- ial Cox is a regular Ponzi for dream millions. A construction engineer found gold in Wall Street soil. wonder. Wall Street has been shaking down so many people that c ought to be paved with gold. X1 . Leninc and Trotzky have decided not to make peace in Warsa Cox is now denouncing separate peace with Germany." Oifl and it was just before we cntocil th his newspaper advocated war a war alliance with Germany. vice-president- ial It looks as if our government would be divided into ex judicial, legislative and editorial departments. It cannot be called an innocent third party. cuti'1 |