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Show H CITY TICKET j For Justice of the Peace, N. G. MORGAN K For Constable, E. C. EVANS B W' We again feel moved to congratulate the Re- B publicans of this county. The legislative ticket B named by them last week is by far the strongest B, named by any party for a number of years. H There isn't a weak spot on it; it is truly B representative of every interest of the people B and every element in the party, and in the aggre. BVf gate it balances the county ticket nicely. B Of the twelve candidates named, Mrs. Annie Vfl Wells Cannon, Clarenco Bamberger and David J B Cook aro experienced legislators with clean and B consistent records. Oscar W. Carlson and D. J. B Greene have held public office with credit to B themselves and to their constituents. (Mrs. A. J. H Gorham ranks high among the leading women of B the state, and her life work has been unselfishly B devoted to the cause of charity and civic welfare. H Hermann Hill, Elias Woodruff and Louis J. Watts Bfl are high-minded and substantial business men In Bfl the community, and George F. Wasson and B George A. Marr are clean-cut, capable young B members of the bar. B Surely no legislative ticket could possibly be Bfl more representative than this, and in view of the B high character and manifest qualifications of B these twelve candidates we venture the predic- B tion that the Salt Lake county delegation will B take a leading part in shaping the work of the B next legislative session. B B We like the idea of pledging our legislators to HE work for a new app .'tlonment of the member- K ship of both houses of the state legislature. Under Un-der the present arrangement this county does not enjoy the full representation to which it is entitled entit-led on the grounds of comparative size in population popula-tion and taxable wealth. Of course, several of the other counties have a similar interest in the proposed pro-posed re-apportionment, but not to such a large extent, and the movement must of necessity bo tostered and furthered by this county. It is of prime importance and should be made one of the paramount issues before the coming session ot the legislature. (Here's an idea. A political convention comprised com-prised of several hundred enthusiastic delegates, all in their seats and primarily interested in placing their own particular friends on the ticket, usually results in tremendous confusion. Nolsfa and, in some Instances, nonsense prevail, and there is little opportunity for the exercise of calm judgment and deliberation. Hence wild-eyed en. thusiasts and loud-mouthed, fleet-footed heelers get in their dirty work, and sometimes do irreparable irre-parable damage to a deserving candidate on the convention floor. Our idea is this: Why not reduce re-duce materially the membership of conventions, and then compel each and every delegate to keep his seat during the balloting period. Certainly not, honest objection can be found to the proposed change in the commission form of city government law which will require that one commissioner be elected from each municipal ward, and the mayor be elected at large and given veto power, and a vote in the event of a tie. This is exactly right, for each precinct deserves direct representation, no matter what scheme of government is in force. The proposal will fina favor especially with the people in this city. And, by way of digression, it might bo said that the present city commissioners and their friends should not take the action of the Republican convention con-vention as a slap at them personally, although we aie not saying that a few of them do not deserve a reprimand of some sort or other. The action of the convention was based upon a principle ana should be so construed. Friday of last week was a day that Harry S. Joseph will long remember. He says he got revenge, re-venge, but if he honestly did it was at a terrible cost. For in undertaking to smash a so-called slate (a purely imaginary one), he missed the mark altogether and struck his friends his old friends who had fought shoulder to shoulder with him and for him for many a long year. And the sorry part of It was that he apparently knew what he was doing, and gloated in the deed. We happen to know that Harry Cole was not the first choice of those whom Mr. Joseph chooses to claim as his enemies. He was, however, the first choice and the unanimous choice of all those who stood on middle ground just as Mr. Joseph had been their choice many times before. And because Harry Cole was clean and capable, and owned by no man, they stood for him just as they had often stood unselfishly and with deep rooted sentiment for Mr. Joseph so that he might realize his dearest dreams and his lifelong ambitions. ambi-tions. Yet these were the friends over whom he rode rough-shod and in grandstand fashion to reach his enemies. Soldiers on the battle line sometimes resort to the use of captives as a shield against the fire of the enemy. The scheme is always successful, for in all history there Is no record of soldiers wilfully firing upon or charging through a heip. less line of their own men to strike the enemy. It remained for Mr. Joseph to prove the exception to this rule. And it remained for him to dem. onstrate that it Is worth while to abuse and abandon aban-don a host of old friends in order to satisfy an ancient grudge against a single enemy. He "smashed the slate" perhaps, but in doing so ho ruthlessly severed the ties of many a lifelong life-long and loyal friendship. No longer a candidate himself, and too intolerant to accept any canai-date canai-date who was not of his own personal choosmg, he repudiated his obligations to his friends and burned his bridges behind him. He would rule or ruin. Now, a voluntary exile, he wanders on a lonely shore. The appointment of Hebor L. Cummings to succeed himself as secretary of the Republican state committee meets with universal favor amongst the members of the party. Mr. Cummings Cum-mings will prove to bo a valuable adjunct to the state oiganlzation, due to his past experience, and wide acquaintance with political leaders and conditions con-ditions throughout the state. 1 Word comes from the reservation country thai Rock M. Pope, a prominent member of the eighth and ninth sessions of the state legislature, is likely to receive the Republican nomination for the lower house from the new county Duchesne. If Mr. Pope receives the nomination he is cer- l tain of election, and his return to the house will be welcomed by wide-awake citizens from all corners cor-ners of the state. "Uncle Billy" Archibald of Park City was in town the other day, and is quoted as saying that the Bull Moose are a mighty scarce article in Summit Sum-mit county. He predicts a clean sweep for the Republicans in Summit this year. Speaking of the recent election in the state of Maine, in which the Republican party gained over 100 per cent of its vote of two years ago, Senator Borah of Idaho says: "If the Republican gains in the remaining states show anything like the percentage of gain in Maine, the next congress will be Republican, and practically every Republican Republi-can candidate for governor in the north will be elected." Word comes that the Women's Suffrage Congressional Con-gressional Union is to lend a helping hand to the Republican senatorial and congressional candidates can-didates in this state. It is stated that Miss Mabel Vernon and Miss Ruth Pincus of Washington, D. C, are on the way to open headquarters here with a view of waging a vigorous campaign against the Democratic candidates for national offices. The organization which they represent holds the Democrats responsible for the failure of congress to enact proposed suffrage legislation, and as a reprisal propose to wage war on all the Democratic Demo-cratic nominees in all suffrage states. Apropos of the Merrill fiasco it appears that President Kingsbury in his open letter to the Tribune just abput cleared the matter of all further fur-ther discussion. According to him a resolution was adopted by the board of regents of the uni- rt, versity in December, 1912, and prior to Prof. Merrill's Mer-rill's appointment, that "thereafter employees of the university on full pay should not accept nomination nomi-nation to any office, the duties of which would interfere with their duties to the university." Also in answer to a pertinent questionaire sent by Dr. Kingsbury to each president of the several .state universities, it was found that a large majority ma-jority of these university chiefs aro of the opinion that for state university professors to enter politics poli-tics would be detrimental to the university. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it developed that Prof. Merrill was not forced to resign from ihe ticket by action of the board of regents of the university, but that he fct has resigned voluntarily and on his own accord before any official action whatever had been taken. During the past week Democrats have been playing the merry old gamo "passing the hot potato around," the hot potato In this Instance being the senatorial nomination made vacant by the resignation of Prof. Merrill. First it was passed to ex-Mayor John S. Bransford, then to W. J. Halloran, then to George H. Dern, then to others. The definite statement is made now that Mr. Dern has Anally consented to accept the nomination. nomi-nation. He is a first-class fellow, and will give tlio combination ticket a character which it now lacks, namely, strength, but we aro sorry to see him become tho recipient of empty honors, and marked for the slaughter. |