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Show VOL. 7, NO. 2 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 14, 1928 Smith For President Movement Has Strong Hold Throughout. West $1.00 A YEAR Ten Strike? V ! (By Staff Correspondent) sentiment is gripTWIX FALLS, Ida. The is a west the with that strength pleasingly surprising to the ping who thousands are supporting the dynamic New York governor for the presidency. Reports from all the western states as presented at the regional confer- BOURBONS WILL ence here on Mongay Indicate that the movement Is receiving great Impetus, not only from the Democratic party but from Republicans who have openly voiced their approval of Smith. Telegrams and letters from leaders In the Smith movement throughout the west were read at the conference. Among those who sent greetings and encouraging reports were: George H. Democratic Christenson, national committeeman of the state or Washington; P. M. Abbott of Los Angeles, George H. Hunker of Isis Vegas, N. M.; John T. Barnett of Denver, Colo.; Congressman S. Harrison White of Denver, Colo.; M. A. Diskin, attorney general of Nevada; C. H. Treacy of Portland, Ore.; former Governor RobHolton Daven inson of Oklahoma: port of South Dakota, T. J. B. Shanley of Butte, Mont.; Samuel A. King of Salt Lake; Samuel White of Phoenix. Arls., and Mrs. R. E. L. Collier of Salt Lake. nt e, far-abl- e, x forty-fou- r of Pocatello. REPUBLICANS JOIN. Reports from Montana Indicated that many Republicans who sought to be allied with the Smith cause had ' joined with Democrats in the formanon of a tion partisan club. "Governor Smith's speech to the women in New York made a great impression here, reported Mr. Treacy in his discussion of the situation in OreThe nominee will need a few gon. of the smaller states and these are getting ready now. Our chief industry (lumber) is not at all satisfied with conditions and is Inclined to hold the present administration responsible. Mrs. D. M. Draper, representing Utah, said that the Smith sentiment In-Is without a doubt showing favorable crease in Utah and that since Governor Smith's message to the New York legislature definitely explained his position on prohibition, women in Utah have no hesitancy in supporting Smith-for-presl-dc- nt the easterner. Smith supporters were extended a hearty invitation to attend the next regional conference to be held at Butte, Mont, on January 15 and 16. , COMMITTEE BANQUETS. The conference sent the following message to Mr. Abbott in Los Angeles to be read at a gathering of Smith workers in that city: We heartily commend your interest in advancing the movement for Governor Smith as the west's choice for president, and congratulate you upon the voluntary action taken, knowing full well that the rgsults forthcoming may be surprising even to your leaders, even as we hare been surprised in finding almost unanimous support for Smith in the Rock Moun tain states. We also enthusiastically record our choice of San Francisco as the convention city and have so advised our committeemen. In the evening the committee was the guest at a Jackson day banquet given by the Twin Falls Jefferson club. Joseph C OMahoney of Cheyenne, Wyo., was the principal speaker. Oth ers who spoke were Mrs. Draper, I. H. Masters of Focatello, Mr. Johnson, James I) Whelan of Twin Falls; Guy Turner of Pocatello, Mrs. Mary Gray, former state legislator of Halley, Ida.; and Ism Iheshanan, county chairman of Halley. Mrs. I. H. Masters entertained with musical selections. The members of the executive com- mittee present were : Mr. Johnson, president; W. Orr (Tiupman. Twin Falls, vice president; Mrs. Draper and Mr. Dillingham. i OPEN MEETING UPON JUNE 28 St 1 e DEMOCRATS OF NEVADA PLAN MEET JAN. 19 Jackson Day Banquet and Gathering To Be Held in. Reno, la Plan of Chairman. J A n, DONAHEY CHANGE IN CITY DEPARTMENTS IS BEING DISCUSSED Reported That New Mayor May Yet Land in Public Safety Department. realllgnment of city departments and city commissioners, under which Mayor John F. Bowman would gp to public safety. Commissioner T. T. Burton back to streets and P. J. Moran to waterworks. Jg d gbouUnl It Is said that at least three of the commissioners are seriously considering It. According to reports the proposal is to take the Warm Springs and cemetery out of the finance department and put them back in the parks department where they originally were; to shift the law department from the finance division to the public safety department and thus give the commissioner of public safety jurisdiction over this office. It is understood (hat Commissioner Finch, head of the parks department, is favorable to the proposed change of the springs and cemetery back to his department, and the mayor has made it known that he would tgke public safety if the law department were transferred to that department. Commissioner Burton has Indicated that he would be willing to give up public safety provided he could go hack Into streets, so that three of the commissioners, a majority to put It over, appear to be in a favorable attitude that might result in the talked-o- f shift being made. It Is understood that the change would be made, if made, on the ground of public demand for Bowman in the public safety department and Burton in the street department. A being-talke- Jackson day banquet, the first to be held in Nevada since 1916, is being planned by the Democrats for January 19 in Reno and the announcement of the proposed meeting hr created considerable Interest throughout the state, according to H. R. Cooke, chairman of the state central committee, who is at present directing the arrangements. It was with some misgivings that Cooke decided to make a tentative proiKual that such a banquet be held but leading Democrats gave it their approval and it is now practically assured. Cooke Is waiting for more letters from distant ends of the state approving the plan before Issuing the formal announcement, however, as he does not want the affair to be a flop In the matter of attendance or enthusiasm. A meeting of the executive committee of the state central committee called by Cooke was held In Reno At that time definite arTuesday. rangements were discussed for the dinner. The members of the executive committee are Cooke, P. A. George B. Thatcher, Mrs. R. T. Spann C. P. Devine of Sparks; C. F. Wittenberg of Tonopah; William S. Boyle of Virginia City and C. E. Robins of Winnemucca. D. J. Fitzgerald of Tonopah Is the committees secretary. Louis F. Rylngton, brother of former Mayor Bylngton, of Reno, and prominent for years in Democratic politics in San Francisco, may be the principal speaker at the proposed dinner. Back of the plan Is something deeper than just a Democratic rally. It has been several years since any "young blood has been active In dl reeling the affairs of the party and it is the hope of some of the older leaders that a Jackson day dinner now, an enhtuslastic convention in the early summer and other meetings from time to time will bring into the open some young men to take an active part in party affairs. It waa back in 1910, they say, that the Democrats experienced a revival of party Interest through a fight for management which resulted In placing the party reins In the hands of active young men and while the present party leaders are not contemplating their own complete elimination, they want to again develop a set of ardent young workers for future campaigns. TONOPAH. WILL NOT RUN Ohio Governor Will Seek No Fourth Term or Other Place. COLUMBUS, Ohio. Any doubt that friends of Governor A. V. Donahey may have entertained as to his future political Intentions wero dispelled. Governor Donahey made it clear that 1m Is not a candidate for a fourth term na governor, that he la not a ramllilale for United Slates senator and that he la not necking the Democratic presidential nomination. . He SHld lie would aupport either Paraffining American cheese will prevent mold growth but the paraffin Pomcrom of Ohio or Governmust In' applied very hot about 210 deg. F.- - and not until (be cheese is or Smith of New York, ahould one r them receive tlm Democratic nomiat least two weeks old and has formed ion (or president. nal rind. h firm, dry, (The New York Tlmee) WASHINGTON. Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, continues to stick to it that the reported prosperity of the country exists only in spots. In a statement he cites unemployment figures of the department of labor and a report of the detriment of Justice showing there were more than 48,000 bankruptcies in 1927 and says he is advised that a report of freight car loadings to be issued soon will show that more than 1,000.000 fewer cars were used during 1927 Than in 1926. Texas Town Is Chosen on Fifth Ballot; Loads From First C. Houston, D. WASHINGTON. Tex., was selected for the 1928 Democratic national convention. The choice was made by the Democratic national committee on the fifth ballot, with San Francisco runner up. The victor was a last minute entry in a list of a half dozen cities, but It led from the first ballot. The official count on the final ballot was: Houston, 54; San Francisco, 48, Detroit, 1. votes were On this ballot fifty-threneeded for a choice. Selection of the Texas city resulted from one of those unheralded shifts of fortune which so often control the drift of politics. The resolutions subcommittee fixed WYOMING 8TRONG. June 26, as the date for the Tuesday, indicated Practically every message is two weeks after convention. that the sentiment formed at the Og- the RepublicanThisnational convention den meeting had been gaining Impetus opens in Kansas City. western state. in every Fred W. Johnson of Rock Springs, Wyo., president and initiator of the western movement, .declared that he had been in direct communication with leaders throughout the eastern and southern states and that there was no doubt in his mind that the Smith move was showing remarkable gains in those sections. counties we are From twenty-threcertain that eighteen will be for .Smith at our convention, reported Mr. Johnson in commenting upon conSome of the ditions in Wyoming. five remaining counties may be but they have not as yet been heard from. to forty counties From thirty-siin Idaho are lined up for of Smith, according to L E. Dillingham f Democratic Chairman Declares Facta Should Silence Republicans Claiming Prosperity, FAVORABLE REPORTS ON SITUATION IN VARIOUS STATES MARKS REGIONAL CONFERENCE AT TWIN FALLS, IDAHO. Smith-for-presidc- OLDFIELD INSISTS BUSINESS DECLINES Stirring Appeal Made For Rights Of People O'MAHONEY PLEADS FOR RENEWAL OF JACKSONIAN FIGHT AGAINST PRIVILEGE OF SPECIAL INTERESTS. (Staff Correspondence.) l?eOriag')lrt;i,ievfr in ita.justpryWaa lie ..,TyiN country been so completely in the grip of the preying powers" as represented by the special and protected interests, Joseph C. 0 Mahoney, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, speaker of the evening at the Jefferson Club Jackson Day banquet bore, pleaded for renewal of the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian fight for the rights of the people as against the privilege of the interests. Mr. Mahoneys speech in full follows: It Is a .profitable and salutary prac- tlce for the members of political par ties to assemble on occasions like this, notable In tl:e annals of the party and of the country, to renew allegiance to the great principles of public policy which alone Justify the existence of such organizations. To Democrats, nothing could be more inspiring thnn to gather at the call of a Jefferson club to commemorate the birthday or Andrew Jackson; for in the lives of these two men we find' illustrated the reason why the Democratic party la aa old as the country itself and why It still lives, though its death has been predicted over and over again by the foes who would like to nee It die In a speech at Shadow Lawn, New Jersey, during the memorable campaign of 1916, another great Democrat whose fame already has filled the world, Woodrow Wilson, gave fitting and eloquent explanation of the vitality of our party. The Democratic party. said Wilson, is the only party that has not died. I can ascribe that to only one thing. The Democratic party may have been inefficient upon occasion; WASHINGTON, D. C. Once again it may have been misled upon occathe treasury department has followed sion; but it has always had a soul una policy of making it as difficult as der its jacket. It has always had its in touch with the great possible for the public to find out to sympathies whom it makes huge refunds on taxes body of the struggling mass of the collected. Last week, the department people." No one can read tne nistory of our made public a list showing morn than 1103.000,000 in tax refunds. The Hat country without realizing the truth of given out covered thousands of type- that assertion. The one characteriswritten pages in more than twenty tic mark of all great Democrats from volumes. They were opened to news- the day of Jefferson down to this has paper men at the capitol for a limited been faith, faith in the high purposes time, but were not arranged by states and rectitude of the common people, or rollection on districts, and frequent- faith In their ultimate good sense. ly the amount of a refund was split In their idealism, faith in the princiinto many items appearing on as ples of popular government upon many pages. Newspaper correspond- which this country was founded. From ents were particularly critical of the the da yof Hamilton down to this, the treasury department's policy of mak- one characteristic mark of the oppoing it almost humanly Impossible to sition to the Democratic party has find nut what refunds were nude to been lack of faith In tlie common big taxpayers. As usual, the bulk of people. It Is true, as Wilson said, that the tho money went to a very few taxpayers. the Standard Oil company, of Democratic party may have been misIndiana receiving the largest amount, led upon occasion, it was misled In which waa more than five million dol- the middle of the last century, wlu-In" doclars. The full list included approxi- some of Its lenders mately 240,000 names, but tlm average trines of Jeffr. n nu the issue of hurefund was a very few dollnra, and man slavery, hi: in that very iin ilent often waa but a few rents. Instead we find the strongest proof thHt the of a policy of frank publicity as the principles of Democracy are the real spirit of the law Intended, the treasury principles of the American people; department's is a policy close to sup- for when the founders of (lie Kepubli can party sought a UHiue for their new pression. organization, they went back to Jeffer- What becomes of your dismantled son and adopted the second part of Christmas tree after the holidays? the name by which his iarty was Don't try to burn it In the fin place, known, the Democratic Republican even if imrtlully cut up. The dry, brit- party. In the passage of time, the tle evergreen will start, a roaring fire word Republican'' was dropped, but and possibly set fire to the chimney, Unroln and bis followers adopted it endangering the house. Have the tree to show that they were true Jefferson dragged away to a safe place for a lana. Our appeal today to the followers of bonfire, and use It ns a nucleus to get rid of any other rubbish that can be Lincoln is based upon the Irrefutable burned up. The SHme precautions ap- fact that they cannot he loyal to him ply to any sort of Christmas greens. without being loyal to Jefferson and TREASURY COVERS TAX REBATE DOPE IS CHARGE MADE Mr, Oldfield expresses the opinion that these data should silence those Republicans who assert that theirs is a business party." It Is very much to be hoped," said Representative Oldfield, that Secretary of the Treasury Mellons prediction that business will be better during 1928 than It has been during 1927 will come true. Certainly there is room for improvement. Mr. Mellons conclusions that throughout 1927 employment was steady and business and Industry were stable are not sustained by all of the facts, and It n to be hoped the continued progress,' to which lie says the county may look forward In 1928, will not be the sort that has been made In several lines during the year Just expired. POINT8 TO EMPLOYMENT'S DECLINE. The steady employment to which the secretary refers undoubtedly has been the case in some lines, but in many others it has not been. Proof of this Is in the latest employment figures of the department of labor showing employment lower during several months of 1927 than in the last four years, reaching a level last November of 11 per cent below the employment level of the same relative period of 1923. Payroll totals were also reduced In about the same proportion. There has just come to my attention the report of - uardcpartmaat of. Justice on bankruptcies for the last fiscal year. During the year there were 48,758 bankruptcies, with liabilities or 8885,567.006, or 180.000.000 more liabilities than during 1926, and a half billion more than ten years ago, in 1917. Or the nearly 50,000 persons who entered bankruptcy last year, 6000 were farmers, 18,000 were wage earners, 12,000 were merchants, 1500 were that they cannot be loyal to Jefferson manufacturers and 1200 professional except within the ranks of the Demo- inen. these figures, When one curve) cratic party. The organization and the control of the Republican party and considers the fact that during thee lias been stolen by the political de- lust six years, under the administrations, there have scendants of Alexander Hamilton whose whole system was based upon bepn approximately 3000 bank failures, distrust of, and even contempt for, the with more than $1,000,000,000 in liabilcommon people. He believed, not ities, and more than 125,000 commerthis Is a government "of the people, cial failures, with liabilities of more by the people and for the people as than $3,000,000,000, he very tostrongly which Lincoln phrased it, nor that llie Just hopes that the 1928 progress powers of government are derived Mr. Mellon alludes will not be in the from the consent of the governed as same direction. Jefferson put it, but that the people FREIGHT CAR lack the intelligence and the charac- LOADING8 CITED. ter successfully to govern themselves. "Another evidence that conditions Both in theory and in practice, he be- are not as healthful as Mr. Mellon commercial would have the country believe is in lieved that the classes should control. the freight car loadings of the railJerferson's fight was a fight against roads. I am advised that the ear loading special privilege. Jacksons fight was a fight against special privilege. Lin- report for 1927, to se Issued in the coln's fight was a fight against next day or so, will show that more privilege. So also was the fight than 1.000,000 fewer carloads of of Woodrow Wilson. And if ever there freight were handled by the railroads was a time when the government of during 1927 than 1926. this country was more securely In the This recession, and a heavy falling hands of the powers that prey than it off in passenger traffic, has sharply is now, history does not record the rut the railroad earnings for the year. fact. For fourteen years and more a During the first ten months of 1927 large contingent of Republicans who the gross income of (he Class A carsincerely believe in the principles of riers fell off 2.6 pey cent, and net popular government espoused by Jef- operating income decreased $95,000,-00A business review just issued by ferson, Jackson and Lincoln have waged an unsuccessful fight to make one of the largest banking institutions the Republican party progressive, in New York City finds that this has Theodore Roosevelt was repudiated in been one of the dullest years in the 1922 by the Hamiltonian organization history of the railway equipment Inthat calls itself Republican and I know dustry, and also shows a heavy sag nothing in the whole political spec- in the steel and Iron output and a tacle more pitiable than the manner in large increase in the number or busiwhich the Progressive Republicans of ness failures during 1927. the west cherish the rod that smites NOT GENERAL. them. I recognize the fact that in some It is unquestionably true that lines business has been and still Is morundermines the power But I submit (hat the good. al fibre of any government and of any is by no means general, and party. That is why in this country prosperity to we have periodically seen a realign- I also submit that the record oughtwho Political silence those Republican clalmers ment of political parties. to persuade the people that theirs principles remain the same, but the try and that Business Party, Is the In parties rhange. Andrew Jackson only under Rehis day, led a successful revolt within business Is prosperous policies. If their policies the party for the reestab- publican the greatest good of the most lishment of democracy. His success, were for Instead of bestowing special people, reVnn Martin Suren, failed, but he on a class, and we favor privileged mained loyal to Jeffersonlanlsm and, had had a thoroughly onest adminisgood ivmorrat though he was, helped tration of governmental affairs during to found the party that beraine the six or seven years, conditions last the our In which but Republican party, have been much ,1 i,afl given way to the forces of would undoubtedly are." Ilian better actually they Internal decay. The time la ripe and overripe for Cottage cheese made from skim milk ,e conilct reestablishment of the all the food principles found furnishes Jefof party In milk except the butterfat If deferson. lift the Progressive Republicream may be sdded to make up cans of this nation remember (hat the sired, for this deficiency. Being mllr in flawaa. Moose, of null the party platform cottage cheese com bines nicely to all Intents and purposes, wnlten vor, other things that give variety of with under Democrats into law by the flavor. Strawberries or other fresh rememWoodrow Willson. Isl them fruits may he used in this way also ber that not a single progressive canned fruits, raisins, dates, or other written Into law dried fruits. measure has Honey, jam, marmalade, or chopped nuts sre often combined with cottage cheese. (Continued on Page 8) Harding-Coolidg- d spe-ria- 0. d Democratic-Republica- U-e- n |