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Show THE CITIZEN 8 mwnmiiimiimmimiiiinoiiminimiwiimimiiiiMiiiiHiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimwiuiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiMimmiuiiMiiiiumimiiiiiiiimuiiiiiiiniHiii OBSERVATION PLANE iwiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiinmiHimiiiMiuiiiuiiHBmimmHHiimiiiHiiiiiiiiiiimiiHiHiiiiiHwiiimiiiiiuiiHiimiiHimiuuuiiiHiHHuiiiiMumniiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiii Good County Ticket Is Imperative The organizations duty is to elect and not select, says Chairman Hays of the Republican National Committee, who is a master organizer. We desire to commend his maxim to the Republican organization of Salt Lake county. While victory in the nation and state seem certain there is 'a certain weakness in the position of Salt Lake county because of blunders and policies within the county organization. If so much were not at stake it would not be necessary, in the heart of a' campaign, to utter this note of warning, but Republican success is so essential to the nation and the state that The Citizen believes it imperative to admonish the county organization that it must make no blunders in nominating the county ticket. Nor can the party afford to make any mistakes in naming its legislative ticket, for it is possible to obtain a majority in the senate. Although only nine senatorial vacancies existed originally, the resignations of Mr. Chez of Weber county and of Mr. Funk, who is running for congress, Democratic holdover senators, permits of the election of eleven to the upper branch of the legislature. Thus the Republicans will be able, if they make no mistakes anywhere, to obtain a majority in the senate. ill-advis- ed county organization did not add to its prestige. It is possible to build up a strong and harmonious organization before the convention if all who are interested in Republican success will act quickly and in a liberal, friendly spirit. The people are weary of Democratic mismanagement and corruption and they demand a good county as well as a good state administration. The Republicans can satisfy this demand by acting intelligently and generously. We must name a clean ticket of superior quality and we must reorganize Salt Lake county for the good of the city, the county and the state. Salt Lake must be a strong link in the chain to success. There must be no more intimations that the party machinery is all centered on one candidate. On the other hand the factional split of last fall, when there were so many candidates for every office must be avoided. Both extremes must be shunned and it is obvious that much tact and ability must be shown to obtain the correct results in the naming of a ticket. Candidate Thomas Sees The Light popular and the bootleggers are complaining that the legitimate botleg saloons will be driven out of business by the plebean soft drink parlors. At any rate, as we were remarking, Mathonihah, will stop running for congress long enough, to be real harsh with the extract makers. He will compel them to put their luscious intoxicants into two ounce bottles. Dare we suspect that Mathonihah is in a plot to promote the business of the glass trust? But Mathonihah, running for congress, will not stop at that. He will again warn the dealers that if they are not careful he will prosecute them. If they even suspect that a man wants the extracts for beverage purposes the dealers must refrain from selling the booz beverages. And while he is running for congress Mathonihah will stop in the middle of a speech on the Plague of Nations to hunt down a vile lage grocer who has sold a dozen bottles to a man wearing a Harding button and a strong breath. But perhaps Mathonihahs plan will be something like this he will so irribottate the drinkers with tles that they will take to wood alcohol. That will make them blind and Matt will catch them with a butterfly net. two-ounc- twro-oun- ce The only way to stop the traffic is to enforce the law which bans the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Both the Btate law and the national law ban such manufacture and they also forbid the sale of preparations that can be used as alcoholic beverages. Becoming a candidate for congress a few hours after Attorney General Shields was defeated for renomination, shed a great light upon Mathonihah Thomas. The federal director of prohibition ascertained. that the traffic in booze extracts was making terrible inroads upon our rural population and working havoc. Before he became a candidate he was in full accord with the attorney, general. He saw nothin; wrong with the partnership between the state and the extract makers- - -- the state furnishing the alcohol at a few cents a gallon and the extract makers minting thousands of dollars a week out of the manufacture of beverages. Now, vows Mathonihah, he will stop the traffic this awful traffic that has entered into unfair competition with 'white mule 'and moonshine and the aristocratic bonded whiskey which sells for $16 a pint. Dont push! Dont crowd! Same price to all. Of course, the mock extracts with their forty-seve- n per cent alcohol did not run the bonded booze a strong rific. race, but bonded spirits are getting to be as scarce as ghosts in a crematory. Chinese stink pots is being hurled from tong to tong. .But the two tong all semblance of unity and virtually was scoffed at by the state. The re- As a substitute for moonshine, how- heroes sult was that everybody lost and the extracts are getting more and Last autumn the Democratic city and county organization displayed superior strategy. The machine firmly requested all other candidates to stand aside and allow Bock to have a clear field to himself. The Republicans sent half a dozen candidates into the primaries instead of having an elimination contest. The result was the election of a Democratic machine candidate who was even then a thief, and some of the machine chiefs who elected him knew he was a thief.' Salt Lake county had too many candidates for. governor and it was openly charged that the county organization was .practically turned over to the .' . sup- - port, 'of one candidate. Thus it was the '.organization .against the field, it , matteredi not that the candidate sup- ported by the organization was well i fitted for the office. What did matter was that Salt Lake county had lost ,j 4 ever, and "white mule the substitute more Kill King Tong Backs Nebeker The Kill King Tong has selected a candidate for senator to replace Will King two years henre. From now until then the Kill King Tong will work for the nomination of Frank K. Nebeker, the distinguished assistant United States attorney general. The Kill King Tong held another meeting a few days before the Democratic convention and decided not to pay any attention to so trivial an affair, but to work in and out of season, in ambush and around the bush and out in the open, to get the "goats of Will King and Sam King. The tong warfare is becoming ter- eker Poison gas encased in decorated. Will King and Frank K. Nebare far from the stench of bat- tle, but they can smell the fracas from afar off if they will but turn their nostrils to the west wind. Whether Mr. Nebeker has been consulted we know not Perhaps not. Ills strong tong supporters think he is sore at Will King and Sam King. They figure it out this way Mr. Nebeker ambled into Salt Lake the convention City just before met to select delegates for the debacle at San Francisco. He wanted to But stout Sam Kinug was in the way, with a bamboo cudgel. And he swat the knightly assistant U. S. attorney general on the brow and sate him down suddenly. All of which was shocking to Frank K. in house of his friends and in the midst of his own tong. The excuse of Sam King was that Nebeker was out for Palmer whereas the Utah Democrats were committed to McAdoo. We use the word commit, not in the sense of commit a crime, but in the more general sense of "attached to or "leagued with. be a delegate. And what do you think this same Sam King did out in San Francisco? He voted with the Utah delegation and worked for Cox. After denouncing Nebeker as a Pklmer man Kink deserted McAdoo and wrent around the convention and in and out of secret places getting votes for Cox. And Nebeker, who went to San Francisco as a private citizen, working for his chief, A. Mitchell Palmer, caught Sam at it. And there were high words and higher names. What Sam called Frank and what Frank called Sam and what others called them both is set down in the tong records, but may not be uttered here lest the esteemed but defeated attorney general try to hop on this journal as it shrieks its way through the mails. Of course, Frank K. had as much right to work for his chief, and a little more, than Sam had to vrork for Cox when he was committed to McAdoo. But when you belong to a tong you do as the Chinese do, in ways that are strange and peculiar. In politics two years is a long time. But in their rage the Kill King Tong have taken no thought of that. They intend to keep their powder dry and their rage in flames until 1922 and then the explosion. THE HEAT OF BATTLE. Ensign (as he sees a direct shot scored on the enemy) "Good work! who fired that shot? Gob "The ships cook, sir. He the range and stove in her side. Where is tho woman now who drive a man to drink? Life. r;in |