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Show jTfN Cl Tt ? - - Utah VOL. 6, NO, 48 vf SALT LAKE CIJT UTAH, DECEMBER 3, 1927 -- Leading Utah Demccrato Declare For Gbvmith For Preoldential Tor TWENTY 1 or TWENTY-ONPRESENT AT LUNCHEON NESDAY DECLARE FOR NEW YORK GOVERNOR FOR NOMINATION. $1.00 A YEAR rrr 'he. Smith and Hoover Presidents Message I Lead in Wide Poll On 1928 Candidates ,1011 SENATE ANP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Editon and Political Leaden Indicate ieir Choice in Mafafihio Symposium. WED- E LOWDEN Leading Democrats of Utah, at a luncheon at the Newhouse hotel Wednesday, declared virtually unanimously for Governor Alfred E. Smith for president Twenty of the twenty-on-e Democrats present, including party officials, two supreme court judges, state officers and financial leaders of the party, announced themselves as , being for A1 Smith.' It was made clear, through the adoption of a motion, that the DemocraShows Democrats tic party organisation of the state should not and would not take a stand for or against any candidate until the party meets in convention and speaks officially. The expression given Wednesday was the sentiment of individual Democrats present. . . However, the overwhelming sentiment there expressed, can be taken as a fair indication of the sentiment throughout the party in the state, It is claimed and the national committeeman who was present, was advised that he might report the action of the meeting to the national committee as 'indicative of the sentiment of Utah Democrats. .. The meeting Wednesday was called by State Chairman Delbert If. Draper primarily to discuss plans for the coming campaign id 1128 and to lay the foundation for organisation work throughout the state. On motion of W. W. Armstrong the committee pledged the raising of a preliminary campaign fond of $5009, to he used in organisation work and for such other necessary expenses as the finance committee may deem necessary, between now and the time of the Democratic state convention. Funds for the campaign after the convention will be raised later. The motion contemplated that the 85000 he underwritten by a few financial leaders of the party and the money will be raised by the state chairman for that purpose. ORGANIZE. - . WILL ' i is tqs desWndidsi I and effective organisation campaign throughout the state at one,, so that the party organisation will be in fighting trim when, time for the election campaign rollsaround. A motion thaf the party organisation should not take any stand for or against any candidate before the convention, was adopted unanimously and the meeting, so far as it officially represented the party, adjourned. After adjournment, Mr. Armstrong-calleattention to the fact that the national committeeman was present and would soon be going to Washington to attend a meeting of the naHe thought the tional committee. Democrats should give the committeeman an idea of how they stood on the presidential Issue so he could Inform the national committee. To this end Mr. Armstrong moved that all present who favored A1 Smith for president stand with him. All present with the eaceptlon of one man, stood. i - . - . Coolidge Opposed Pugslsy, Peeksklll Banker, Lists Seven Besides the Ten in the Solid South. y, . pared with thirty states carried in the presidential election of 1911. He said: The Democratic party won the first Cleveland election carrying twenty states, the second Cleveland election with twenty-thre- e and the second Wilson election with thirty states. Although territories admitted to statehood and increase of the number of representatives in congress changed the number of electoral votes required to elect during this period, it is still possible to elect a Democratic president in seventeen states. "These Include the Southern bloc of 114 electoral votes In Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Mississippi, Louisiana, .Arkansas and cIeaa MdUP fovoCTforttdrtiandWder New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri with 152 votes or a total electoral vote of 268, which is s majority of the electoral college. "In 1910 when Wilson was the Democrats carried thirty states. These states were the Southern bloc of Virginia, North and South Caro-- , . AIs-bam- a, t George, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, the border states of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the Northern and Western state of Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arisons, Utah, Netgda, Idaho, Washington aind California. "In 1892 when Cleveland was elected the second time he also carried Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia and Wisconsin, hot he did not carry Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho and Washington of the cutes going Democratic In 1916. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arlsona end Utah were Ka, not then admitted to statehood. He states. carried twenty-thre"In 1884 Cleveland did not cany Wisconsin and California of Attributes Americas Amazing Proa--- Illinois, the states he carried In 1892. At that of Benefits to System. parity time North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington were not admitted to President PHILADELPHIA, Pa. statehood. He carried twenty states." on Coolidge defiled here in a speech the evening of November 17 the threat of western political leaders to make a Says Smith Will general onslaught on (he protective Rhode tariff system at the next session of congress, asserting that the Income of the people of the United States had Gerry Predicts Governor Will Be Nevada Favors Smith, reached, the amazing total of under benefits of the system. 8aya Pittman. The nation, he declared, would deTwo Democratic WASHINGTON. velop Its resources and defenses with the object of promoting peace between senators, Gerry of Rhode Island, and all nations, and for protection of its Pittman of Nevada, said good words trade routes throughout the world. for the candidacy of Governor Smith And he outlined a broad program for of New York for the Democratic presidevelopment of the national resources dential nomination. Senator Gerry, chairman of the sento accommodate the expanding needs of the future America of 150,000,009 atorial campaign committee, predicted that Governor Smith would be. nomippOplo, Presumably endorsing the 8225,000.-90- nated on an early ballot and would tax slash proposed by Secretary of be elected. Rhode Island, he said, the Treasury Mellon, the president would certainly go for the New York promised the people a moderate tax governor. He pointed to the fact that his state had failed to ratify the Eighcut. t teenth amendment and was still listed In the wet column. Governor Smith srss also very strong in other New England states, the senator added. The people of Nevada, according to COUNTRY Senator Pittman, were thinking seri of only three Democratic pos PROHIBITION ously slblllties Governor Smith, .Governor Ritchie of Maryland, and Senator Reed NEW YORK Plana for raising a of Missouri. Governor Smith, he felt, 82.000.- 000 fund to Interest voters In was strongest in popular favor. There are Indications that the Nenational or state referenda on repealvada doleagtes to the Democratic naing or changing the eighteenth amendment were outlined at a dinner to 297 tional convention will be Instructed persona at the Union League dab by for some candidate. But Senator Pittman said It would Hot be difficult to Captain William H. Slayton, chairman of the Association Against the Prohi- switch them If some other candidate favored by the state, appeared to have bition Amendment While the dinner was a private af- a chance of being nominated with their aid. fair, to which newspaper men were not admitted. Captain Stayton told re Feed dairy cows grain In order to porters the gist of his plan at his hotel before the dinner began. Ho said the get them in good flesh before calving. fund would bo used to send lettera to Usually four to six pounds of grain 27.000.- 000 voters in the next four years dally will be sufficient for heifers calvin a campaign designed to learn the ing for the first time and eight to 12 attitude of the people on the question pound dally for older cowa. To Cutting Tariff e Get Islands. Vote Nom-nat- 890,009,-000.00- 0 0 STAYTON PLANS QUEST ON - -- - . ed PLACE nation. The poll was based upon the assumption that President Coolidge would not be a candidate, and all those reached by the poll takers were asked to express their opinions after accepting this as an established fact The magazine said that of the 5800 editors to whom communications were sent about a third had replied, and that of the 8600 political leader addressed about eight hundred re- ' The New York Times , WASHINGTON. Chester Puss-levice president of the Westchester County National bank at Peeksklll, and eleven years ago a Democratic and Progressive nominee for congress, In a statement today said the Democratic party could elect a president next year wlth the electoral vow of only seventeen states, consisting of the Southern bloc of ten and seven Northern and border states, as com- 4. SECOND (The New York Times) WASHINGTON Widespread Interest was aroused lu political circles circles here by the publication of The National Republic, a magazine edited by George B. Lockwood, former secretary of the Republican national committee, of a poll of editors gnd political leaders throughout the country, which forecasts the nomination for president of Governor 8mlth of Now York by the next Democratic national convention without serious opposition and pictured Secretary Hoover aa well In the lead for the Republican nomi- C. D. FAIR INDICATION. IN Ha Has 768 to Hoover's 844 on Assumption That Coolidgs la Out of tha Race. Need But 17 States . ' ' sponded. SMITH "I Dollar Doi lination Of I Govemi tent Functions Threatens Democracy FORMER CITY OFFICIAL DIES 7 ' AT RESIDENCE Arthur Franklin Barnet, One Commissioner of Public Safety, Pastes.' : . Arthur Flrankiin Barnes, former city commissioner, and well known business man of Galt Lake, 'died Monday night at his residence, 147 North Jkafc been seriously Mahout two months. Mr. Barnes was bora In KayavlUe, October 8, 1881, the son of the late John R. and Emily Shelton Barnes. He spent hla early youth in Kays-vlllHe was educated, there and at the University of Deseret, new University of Utah. Later he came to Salt Lake, beginning hla business career as a bookkeeper. In 1883 he mar ried Elisabeth Sansom, who survives him. Mr. Barnes was a member of the L. D. S. Seventeenth ward bishopric for twenty years, and at the time of his death was stake high counselor for the church.. He was on a mission to the eastern for the L. D. states in 1895. He was city councilman for Salt Lake from 1892 to 1902, and later was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor. Ia 1920, Mr. Barnes was appointed to the city commission to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mayor E. A. Bock. At this time the present Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, vrno was a member of the commission, was chosen to head this body. At this time Mr. Barnes was made commissioner of public safety, a position he held during his term on the commission. In 1921 he was elected to the commission, heading the ticket , e. GUILTY OF RAPE, JURYS VERDICT Former Dry Agent Convicted In Provo Court, After Long Deliberation. PROVO.r-Aft- er deliberating for s period of twelve hours, the Jury In the case of the state of Utah vs. Loyal Christensen, returned a verdict of guilty. Christensen will be sentenced Saturday by Judge Martin M. Larson la the Fourth district court. Christensen, a former prohibition gent for the federal government, was charged with rape by Mrs. Revs Stevens Daniels. The trial was one of the most sensational ones in the annals of the local courts. Chrlstm-aq- n admitted that he committed adultery with the young woman, but denied the rape charge, claiming that the act was by mutual consent. Mrs. Daniels testified that she was forced Into an automobile by Christensen at the point of a gun, and that after several hours of fighting and arguing with Christensen he overcame her. It also was alleged ny Mrs. Daniels that Christensen forced her to drink liquor which waa In the rar at the time the crime waa committed. The sentence for rape la punishable by imprisonment In tha state prison for not less than five years. Judge A. B. Morgan and A. W. Turner represented Christensen, while the states attorneys were District Attorney M. B. Pope and J. W. Robin-ion- . Long-wort- 11. On the Democratic aide Smith had 1071, Reed 274, Adoo 136. Meredith 141 and Mc- "That Governor Smith comes as near being the unanimous choice of his party as any candidate for such a nomination ever has been so rar ahead ot a convention," the magazine aid, "la one of the conclusions to bo drawn from this poll. The newspaper gave Smith 737 votes, Reed 168, SENATOR NYE OF NORTH DAKOTA POINTS TO OIL SCANDAL poll McAdoo 102 and Meredith 110. The AS FLAGRANT EXAMPLE OF MONEY POWER. poll ot political leaders showed for Money control of government constitutes the greatest menace to American democracy, waa the declaration of Senator Nye, Republican independent of North Dakota, speaking at Ford hall forum here recently. 3IOSTON, Mass.; Selecting the oil scandal as the "meet flagrant example of the place the American dollar la employed In American government. Senator Nye aid there waa Involved "the purchase of the administrative branch of the government"; large expenditures In the effort to sidetrack a congressional Investigation and finally an effort of wealth to subvert Justice In the criminal trial. . - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FITTING. ."I have never been an advocate of seeking a seat In the senate, claiming his right to It a result of that Pennsylvania election In which all the way from five to ten million dollars was expended to Influence the voters of that state. u ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. "I tell you that If these men are pot denied the seats which they seek, wo move much closer to that day when every public office m the Unit ed States will be placed on the suction block and virtually knocked down to the highest bidder. The senate during the next few weeks shall determine very largely our future, and particularly will it determine the prospect of government being retained and restored In the Interests of the people." Senator Nye told hla audience that If the American people wen honest with themselves and awake to the needs of government they would be quite near to unanimous In support of "one like George W. Norris for elevation to the presidency." Drafting of the Nebraska senator, he said, "should bo urged on every Hla candidacy enlightened hand. would be a challenge to hla party to reward honesty, courage and ability of the highest order. And, too, a challenge to the oposlng party to offer the people a choice who was sym bollc of a political fumigation and greedy wealth which makes Its annual offering of dirty dollars to buy favor capital punishment," the North Dakota senator said "hot when I see what men of the type of Sinclair and Borns are attempting to do and succeeding In doing I can only confess myself aa seeing occasions when capital punishment is altogether proper. "They and their kind, with the means which are at their command, constitute a threat against oar wellbeing as a nation thousands of times greater than that afforded by all the reda In creation combined! They and their kind have no regard for Justice except In its use against foes. Justice they regard with utter contempt In so far as they themselves are concerned." The young senator viewed the oil scandal as a natural culmination of a system under which he contended the wealthy bought favors of government by liberal contributions to the "war cheats" of tha two major political parties during national campaigns. Other fruits of the system, he said, were and privilege." "the fixing of tax bllla" In favor of the wealthy, the protection of American dollars abroad by sending armed forces into Nicaragua, Mexico and . China. "MOCKERY OF JU8TICE. "Events In Nicaragua, China and Mexico, tax legislation, the Vs re and caae Smith cases, the making mockery of Justice, these and other developments ought to thoroughly awaken Americans to the real threat being made against them, Senator Nye added and cause them to accept the challenge which wealth la offering every day. If they will accept that challenge, they will first voice genuine Indignation. An Indignant people will create an Indignant Fall-SIncla- ir congress and an administration that will turn bodly upon this accursed power which holds so fast a grip upon our economic and political life. , Senator Nye said the senate had "a wonderful opportunity" to strike at this curse in American politics" in aettllng the lasue Involved In the question of posting William S. Vara of Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith of Illinois. He predicted that both would be denied seats. ' "Smith comes from Illinois, the choice of 8amuel Insult of the power trust," tha senator said. "So sure Is Insult of his man that ho did not hesitate to invest a quarter of a million dollars in his candidacy. How do you suppose Smith would vote upon a resolution calling for Investigation of the power trust! "Vara comes from Pennsylvania. . Pedigree and appearand are not si ways safe guides In selecting a dairy bulL The only aura way la to choose a bull that has already demonstrated his ablulty to transmit high production. A bull whose dam and grand-dam- e are high producers and whose first five daughters excell high praduc-indama is almost certain to contain to continue to produce such daughters. 18 FAR IN THE LEAD. . Their votes combined gave Hoover 844, Lowden 768, Hughes 833, Dawes ' h 148, Curtis 39, Borah 2s and . . Smith and Reed are the only contendere for the Democratic nomination now having any strength of consequence and that Smith Is so far In the lead that his defeat Is highly Improbable. "By states Governor. Smith led. In most cases heavily, m thirty-twstates In Arisons, Californio, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada,' New Montana, Nebraska, Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont. Virginia, West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming, aa well aa Alaska. "Reed led In Missouri and Kansas, Meredith In Iowa and Woollen In Indiana. In all of these states, however, Smith led as second choice, Indicating a poor chance to unite the opposition to Smith on any of the other candidates. o - HOOVER FIRST, LOWDEN SECOND On the Republican side the totals on newspaper reports for first choice were: Hoover, 577; Lowden .518; Hughes, 218; Dawes, 88; Curtis, 89; Borah, 23, and Longworth, ' 11, with many scattering votes for Watson, WiUls, Goff and others. On the report of political leaden as to first choice. Hoover led with 267. Lowden was second with 248, Hughes third with 115 and Dawes fourth with 60: "While the poll was predicated upon the assumption that President Coolidge would not accept renomlnatton," the magazine said, "many of the editors and political leaders reported Coolidge sentiment still strong despite the president's statement and predicted that the nomination finally would be forced upon him. One reason the publication of the poll attracted considerable attention was the fact that It pointed to conclusions already widely held among political observer! and leaders. Two points upon which much comment was heard were the relatively poor showing In the canvass made by. former Secretary Hnghea on the Republithe almost sensational SAN FRANCISCO. Accepting the can aide and weakness of the McAdoo cause among B. of John Elliott, prominent challenge California Democrat, to bring the wet the Democratic leaders and editors. and dry question to an Issue by putting the name of Governor A1 Smith of New York on the ballot In the states next primary election, Justus S. Warden announced that the York governors name would be form ally presented to the voters. Invitation for representatives of the "The name of Alfred Smith of New York will go on the ballot next May even states of the Colorado river and California will send a delegation basin, who met In conference at Dento tha Democratic national convention ver, Colo., this fall In an effort to the pledged to hla nomination," Wardell settle the controversy betweenmeet aid. Wardell waa the Democratic states of the lower basin, to candidate for the governor In 1926, with the house Irrigation committee in Washington, D. C., was received and la ldenolfied with the faction of the party. Elliott was the by Governor George H. Deni, chairMcAdoo faction's candidate for the man of the conference, Monday. The United Statea senatorial nomination In Invitation was extended by Congressman Addison T. Smith,, of Idaho, 1926. comElliott, la a recent statement, de- chairman of thfe house Irrigation clared no wet candidate woftld have mittee Governor Dern, aa chairman to a chance of winning the support of of the conference, was requested extend the invitation to other memCalifornia Democrats. Wardell, a liberal, won the Democra- bers of the conference Mr. Smith extic nomination for governor over Carl pressed the hope that Governor Dorn Alexander Johnson of San Diego, a would be able to appear In Washington In December. dry, by about 7500 votes last year. COLORADO RIVER PROBERS INVITE :) antl-McAdo- o PERN TO MEET |