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Show Jr .. THE ntCTO PCSX FORMER PROVO MAN VISITS ALL THAT IS NEEDED MACHINE POLITICS WITH A VENGEANCE sixteen years and perhaps long President Wilson used words which Butler in describes Iludihras as rhetoricians before! that, the Democratic organization Of the Utah politics and tools, with more deftness than force in his mes- state have been deploring methods '' the machine they claimed were adopted sage when he said: of the the state. Whole camRepublicans by An amendment of the existing 'Federal been have waged upon just and unjust statute which provides for the mediation, con- paigns Democratic friends feared the because our alike ciliation and arbitration of such controversies as machine might perform some act that the present by adding tjo it & provision that in Republican case the methods of accommodation now pro- would not be for the welfare of the state. But vided for should fail,- a full public investigation those days have passed. At last the Democrats have come into power and strange to : say the of the merits of every such dispute shall be machine politics which they claimed to be one and completed before a strike or lockof the corruptions of the Republican party has out may lawfully be attempted. A strike, if unaccompanied with violence or settled itself like a leech upon the Democratic ' threats, is simply a case of a mai: quitting the party. Just five weeks ago the Democratic party work in which he is engaged because he cannot Utah. About three days after the , ancarried obtain an increase in wages or a decrease in hours of work, or because of the political or re- nouncement of v ietory every oounty in the stftte control of the Democratic ligious views of his employer or for any reason, was placed under the were organmachine. County machines or for no reason at all. ized and precinct machiena were very busy. ToIf one man can strike ie c, quit work and surely no law can be enacted under our con- - day the entire state is being lined up to serve the Men seeking public of stitution to compel him to continue work why Democratic machine. not because of fitness tests their fice must pass cannot two men or ten men or 1PQ men or 400,-00- 0 renmen lawfully quit work at the same timet for anything In particular but for service deWhat is lawful for one man to do cannot be un- dered in the Democratic party. The term A the more under means far lawful for a multitude of men to agree with serving Democrat each other to do, provided bear that in mind j present spoils system than any qualification which might be the lot of the aspirant. 'Demoalways provided that the agreement to quit work f at a certain time is not accompanied with an cratic county machines have been sitting in in some county or another for the past agreement to assault or insult or boycott or judgment three weeks and the deserving Democrats picket, dynamite or assault or otherwise' intersendfere with anybody. The courts are filled with de- are .being placed in the lists preparatory to t. to the governor-eleccisions that an agreement otdo an act which an ing them whose qualifications are their men Many individual may lawfully do may be a criminal assets have found that the machine main In conspiracy under certain circumstances. when it came to endorsement other words, the conspiracy to do the act and could not see them fallen have and by the wayside for some they not the doing it, is a crime. Of course, there It would puzzle the brains o? a wiser law- more deserving Democrat. are maker than President Wilson to frame a statute are threats and appeals and many petitioners But cases to the governor. that would prevent Brown, 'Jones and Robinson going to carry their about has machine as the completed its work from quitting their jobs until there can be a, is in the the on candidates and governor-elec- t full public investigation of their merits. that riim unless the is to say the reason, of their proposed concerted East their chances are decidedly dire invites yengeance upon his head governor action, of the regulations laid down Yet there is a plain, speedy and adequate by breaking Rome exercises that authority given to and him for remedy, not for a strike, but for the evils that him by the constitution and makes his own nomin-tion- g may result from a strike. Take the proposed to the state senate. lie may do this in strike of the railroad train hamb, for instance. few. This, also If it were true, that the 400,000 members of the1 some cases but they will be very his nominations in the hands of the senarailway brotherhoods were the only 400,000 men puts who are giving to the machine the priviin the United States or in the world competent1 tors, of the measures the Demoto run locomotives or shovel coal under their lege of drafting all to make into laws at the coming boilers or apply the brakes or act as conductors. ' crats expect session of the legislature (or rather the coming then the transportation business of the country Democratic ratification session) which will ocwounld indeed be in sad straits. There is cupy the early part of the year. nothing about the business of a fireman, a brake-- 1 O O r O T man or a conductor that an intelligent workman so many times killed been has Villa General cannot learn in a short time and it is safe to aswe cant see why he dont stay dead. sume that there are vast numbers of men now 0 O O running stationary engines in the factories and Military preparedness is uppermost in the shops of the country who could step; into the lobut the old eye is doing a deal of comotive cabs and run them and who would be public eye, r Minkin grglad' tO eichango their present employment for -- O 0 o- the higher wages of locomotive engineers. The man who exercises his jawbone instead All that is needed is to secure such engihis backbone will soon have nothing but jawneers and firemen and brakement and conduct- of bone left. ors adequate and imediate protection from as sault and insult from strikers and the offices of protection it is the duty of the federal and state railway corporations would be filled with appli- - governments to afford. Given the will to do this, cants for places vacated by the strikers. Such ) i will not take long to find a way. For-abo- ut v - , ; , i . - I JOME r ' ITHREE MONTHLY MAGAZINES TOWIi f A NATIONAL (Sem-Montld- FARM JOURNAL j) And Our Paper All One I Bert Smoot, formerly of this city, now living in St Anthony, Idaho, spent Saturday and Sunday in Provo shaking hands with old friends and r i Yea OOD READING is one of the necessities to real home. 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