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Show THE CITIZEN 4 HWMIWNJIMmIWHmHImHimmHHBIHMIMWIMIMIMIWWIMtHMmWIWMIWimWIMHWWIi an active member of organizations, here, whose s. it was to bring about better social Spurpose While conconsistency is not generally sidered, especially in politics, an indispensable virtue, still I can not Dring myself now to work for that which I have all my life opposed. As a Democrat I find myself this year both locally and nationally, in the midst of difficulties and conflicts a frame of mind which I share with hundreds of other Democrats here and elsewhere. I am asked to vote for a presidential candidate who is wet and a candidate who is dry two horses pulling in opposite directions. Moreover I am requested to believe that a man will do as president what he refused to do as governor, for Smith got rid of the New York prohibition law rather than enforce it. And then I am urged to accept a man as candidate for president whom I, in common with many other Democrats here tried to defeat for the nomination which he ultimately received and for reasons which are stronger than ever now. In addition I am asked to vote for a man who, through his Tammany hall diplomats, literally tricked the Houston delegates respecting his real views, for if his convention statement on prohibition had been made before instead of after his nomination, he would assuredly have been defeated. Besides, I am importuned to support a man for the presidency who says plainly and openly that he will endeavor to do just the opposite of what most of the Democrats in Utah want done. But worst of all. I am asked to help deliver my party over to a group of men who are influenced in the main by the less responsible and stable element in American life the wet interests and the floating population of the big cities of the East. Nor are my perplexities in any way lessened by the situation in this State. I am urged, while indorsing the prohibition plank in the national platform, to choose between the two horns of a dilemma either to adopt the liquor views of Governor Smith, on the one hand, thus turning the Democratic party of Utah into the wet party (which it is not), or, on the other hand to repudiate the wet attitude of the Democratic presidential candidate, as the state convention at Logan did, thus in a sense repudiating the candidate himself. For if the candidates views are unsatisfactory on what he himself has made the paramount issue, how can I consistently vote him into office ? As for Senator King, an admirable man, the ease with which he altered his attitude on Smiths candidacy when it appeared that he would be nominated at Houston, together with his hostile attitude on such humanact and itarian questions as the Shepherd-Townthe Child Welfare Bureau, makes it necessary for me to seek another candidate for the Senate whose views are more in accord with my own on the questions at issue. I cannot find in a party title a sufficient talisman to induce me to reverse myself and to substitute expediency for principle. And so I am willing to trust to the trained and experienced intelligence, not to say patriotism, of Herbert Hoover, for a solution of this nations problem, whether national or international, and to put into the congress of the United States men who will uphold him in his effort to conserve what I deem of the utmost importance to Americas welfare. If there is anything I can do to further the interests of the Republican state ticket I shall be glad to do so in any way you think I can best serve. Yours very truly, JOHN HENRY EVANS. con-ition- THE CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People" Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Fostofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 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 Union, $4.50 per year. SUBSCRIPTION FRANK E. SCIIEFSKI ED. S. DIAMOND Manager and Editor Advertising Manager WANTS BAMBERGER. HERBERT HOOVER asks the people who vote for him to also send a Republican congress to Washington in order that the Republican party may work out the present efficient program mapped out. In other words, Hoover does not want to be elected and have his hands tied with a Democratic congress. This is iii line with the recent announcement made by Senator Reed Smoot when he asked the people of Utah to vote for a Republican United States Senator in order that his work will not be hampered. The following wire was received from Washing- ton: Harold P. Fabian, Republican National- Committeeman for Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. - It is most necessary that the Republican ad- ministration be supported by an active majority in the United States Senate. The election of Mr. Ernest Bamberger to the senate will be of great aid to the Republican party and a credit to the State of Utah. Signed, HERBERT HOOVER. EVANS A RECRUIT. JOHN HENRY EVANS) active in Democratic politics for many years, well known writer and author of One Hundred Years of Mormonism, will vote for the Republican state and national tickets at the November election. This became known Monday when Mr. Evans wrote a letter to that effect to Carl R. Marcussen, Chairman of the Republican State Committee. In his letter Mr. Evans, who has been identified with the prohibition movement in Utah for more than twenty years, having been one of a committee of three who prepared the present prohibition law, says he cannot consistently support Governor Smith for president as to do so he would have to place his stamp of approval upon that which I have all my life opposed. Following is the letter: Carl R. Marcusen, State Chairman, Republican Committee, Salt Lake City, Utah. My Dear Mr.' Marcusen: I I am writing this letter to inform you that sub- have decided, after careful thought on the ject, to vote for the Republican state and national tickets. And since it may be interesting to you to know how I, a life long Democrat, came to take this important step, I am setting down very ly my reasons for doing so. brief- For the last twenty years and more I have taken as active a part as I could in the prohibition movement in Utah, a movement which culminated in the present law in this state. Also I have been vice-president- ial er PROSPERITY. , ERNEST BAMBERGER, candidate for United States senator from Utah, a man of great business experience, says that the protective tariff is unquestionably and indisputably the basis on which the prosperity of our farmers and industrial workers largely depend, and any action interfering or upsetting this status will work irreparable harm in the nation. It stands between our standards of wages and living and cheap foreign labor production. It should be common knowledge that practically everything the farmer uses is sold him in a free trade market. Practically everything of importance which he raises, he sells in a protected market. American farmers sell the bulk of their produce at home. If we did away with the tariff and allowed the American manufacturing market to be crippled by cheap labor, foreign production, it would mean unemployment or low wages and poor living conditions for millions of our industrial workers. This would restrict the great home farm market and farmers would be offering to sell to those who were short of money to buy. A reasonable tariff is our insurance for still greater industrial and agricultural growth, which means national solidity, prosperity and content) ment. Low or no tariff would work great hardships in Utah where the people are heavily engaged in agricultural pursuits, sheep and cattle industry and coal and metal mining. Some of our politicians are trying hard to camouflage the real conditions with flowery oratory, but the people should be careful to protect themselves in their present gainful pursuits. The Republican party stands for absolute protection of our industries and our homes and under its regime the United States has developed into the greatest nation on earth. Our workng peopl today ride to their work in automobiles. lw other people are doing this and can ever do it under their present systems. The Republican party has found the absolute cure for hard times and has brought prosperity to our nation. TRUST HOOVER. SPEAKING over the radio, from station KSL, Salt Lake City, Tuesday evening, September 25th, Hon. Reed Smoot, senior U. S. Senator from Utah, discussed agricultural conditions as they affect the State and Nation. Senator Smoot declared the farming situation to be the most difficult problem congress has undertaken to solve. He characterized Herbert Hoover, Republican candidate for President, as one who came up from the soil and said: Our farmers will make no mistake in leaving their unsolved problems of farm surplus with this master-min- d. FANNING THE FLAMES. BOTH CAMPAIGN managers have publicly de- nied the whisperings of which their parties have been accused. Mr. Hoover has never said anything in any of his speeches which could possibly cause offense. He is endeavoring in every way to keep the campaign free of petty personalities, religious sentiment, and all other things which any person, race or creed could take exception to. He deserves credit for this. We feel sure this will be his attitude throughout the remainder of the campaign. Mr. Curtis is doing the same thing. The Republican party, however, continues to be assailed by the Democrats in an effort to stir up public sentiment. Earl S. Kinsley, Republican National Committeeman from Vermont for Washington, D. C., felt it necessary to publicly deny a statement made by Mr. Raskob wherein he asserted that the Republicans had started the report that Jack Johnson would speak 'in behalf of GovKJ ernor Smith. I notice that Mr. Raskob states the report that Jack Johnson, colored pugilist, was going to tour the South in the interest of the candidacy of AlI fred E. Smith is nasty Republican publicity. have looked this matter up and the only knowledge we have on this subject is an Associated N. C., dated Press dispatch frem Winston-SaleSept. 6, 1928. The dispatch in part reads as follows: 'Asked when he would fight again, Jonnson replied, My next fight will be in politics. I am going to enter the ring in behalf of Al. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate. Instead of trying to lay this on the Repuiy.-caorganization, Mr. Raskob might inquire of the Associated Press as to the reliability of their m, n statement. Accusations such as this, coming from a man in Mr. Raskobs position are deplorable, when ev- - |