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Show UTAH STATESMAN GOV. SMITH IS ENDORSED IN TEXAS VICTORY IN BOTH STATE AND NATION EXACT COUNT ON LIVESTOCK SOUGHT BY STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BY STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION SEEN BY UTAH MEMBER OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITAL RETURN FROM NATL. COMM. ON IN EFFORT TO EQUALIZE TAXATION on record as New York his (The Times) The state Democratic executive committee in session here endorsed Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for presidential nominee of the party at Houston In June in these words. "Whereas, the great governor of the state of New York has repeatedly come out in clear, rlngfpg tones for enforcement of all laws and has a record of achievement equaled by no other chief executive In New York or any other state, and "Whereas, this committee believes the honorable Alfred E. Smith is the logical candidate to lead the Democratic hosts to victory next November and that he will become another outstanding president in the history of the nation, therefore be it "Resolved, That this committee go HOUSTON, Texas. PROHIBITION NOT AN ISSUE, DECLARES MOYLE, BUT A PROBLEM WHICH WILL LIKELY HAVE CONSIDERABLE' INFLUENCE IN THE COMING CAMPAIGN. Democratic success in the 1928 campaign depends on one thing, namely party harmony, according to James II. Moyle, national committeeman for Utah, who returned several days ago from Washington, where he attended the meeting of the national committee. "If we come but of Houston united," declare Mr Moyle, "we will win. The country ripe for an overwhelming Democratic victory." The ame applies to the party in Utah, according to Mr. Moyle harmony mean victory. 1 Since William Glbba McAdoo elim- inated himself aa a candidate for the Mr. Moyle Democratic nomination, aid, my personal choice for president la Senator Walah of Montana. 1 think he would appeal to the west endorsing stand for law enforcement and the New York governor for the Democratic nomination for president of these United States, and hereby expresses the hope and belief that he will be the choice of the Houston convention for president. The committee also endorsed Governor Dan Moody of Texas for vice him for his president, commending stand on law enforcement The committee further paid a eulogy to Jesse H. Jones of .Houston, national treasurer of the Democratic party, for "his great service, both In war and peace, to his party, .country and city. Clubs of over 5,000 members are already organised for A1 Smith for president in Houston and expect to give the governor the greatest ovation ever received here. RETURNS MADE BY COUNTY ASSESSORS IN FAST SHOW LESS THAN FIGURES OF CENSUS, IT IS CLAIMED. Efforts to obtain an exact count on all livestock in Utah are now holding the attention of the state board of equalization. In the past the returns from the various assessors have produced a total far below the published census returns of the federal government. While the census returns are far from perfect; the present board has felt that it haa not been getting a full assessment on livestock, especially sheep and cattle. Some assessors have admitted thst they allow for possible losses to the sheep men by assessing only a certain percentage of the sheep, in doing this, they have neglected to consider the increases. Most of the Iambs marketed In this state are born after the assessment and sold before the next one. In other words, the lambe and wool are not assessed. Concluding thst mere talk was of little avail, the state board this year has Instructed all assessors to return a full count of all livestock. In some esses, where this counting has been recognized aa s difficult undertaking, the state board has sent out expert counters to aid the county assessor and his deputies. These experts are men who have been accustomed to counting livestock, who will not be and who will be held strictly accountable by the board that an accurate count Is made ' This counting of livestock Is but one of the means being employed by the board to equalize the burden of taxation. A careful check has been made of mining machinery and mine buildings and the utilities of the state have been thoroughly gone over. Farmers have been persuaded generally of the necessity and advantage of having earh community classified so that land throughout the state will be dealt with fairly. Natural improvements will bring jup the assessment each year If there is no falling off. Mines assessments which depend on the net proceeds of the year previous, always are uncertain. There have been some improvement in utilities and no great losses. fub flies at o. bldg. COX SAYS SMITH WILL BE NOMINEE when stenacker, labrum by reason of lila knowledge of western problems and hia sympathy for western needs. His statesmanship and his signal service to the country in exposing corruption in high places, should make him a very jmpular candidate. Senator James A. lteed of Missouri Is gaining ground oy making that very thing his slogan." The Band Wagon. Governor Smith of New York Is the only candidate for the nomination, according to Mr. Moyle, behind whom there is an organized effort, neither Walsh, Heed nor any of the others having an organization. This makes a considerable difference, the Utah committeeman says, in that many voters have to have a band wagon to climb onto, and Smith has the only band wagon In the field. Mr. Moyle made the following statement for The Utah Statesmcnt: Senator lteed of Missouri made a great hit with his speech at the Democratic banquet, lie, too, is a man of most marked ability, independence courage, lie Is unsurpassed by any of his rivals, and probaofy not equaled aa an orator. His excess of fighting blood and opposition to Wilson, coup-le- d with his wet proclivities, greatly hamper his prospects, thought he, through his own rare ability and force. Is clearly gaining strength in the face of those handicaps, lie, too, is from the central west and wisely bids for leadership uMn policies upon which been almost radical in his support of the party ran unite. He Insists that humanitarian social uplifting policies, prohibition is not and should not be calculated to relieve the poor, and conmade a party issue and does not seek serve human life. I think more or that should be infused into our naleadership in that direction. Governor Ritchie of Maryland is tional Democratic policies and that another very strong, popular mat! i the sacred doctrine of state rights whom I have always greatly admired should nut stand In its way, or the but he handicapped himself, in my way of any other beneficial developopinion, by bidding for wet leadership. ment. and particularly so where it He is progressive, without being ob- - will help the weak and sparsely set- Jeclionable to business; the only man! tied states, such as our own. to have been three times elected as "The present hue and cry for state governor of his state and they say he rights is largely due, I fear, to the can be elected again. So he may yet wets wanting to thereby nullify probe heard from. Rut as a wet he Is not hibition and make wet states prosper as popular as Governor Smith and he at the expense of dry states. comes from a small state. His cour- Should Be .Dry." I think Utah should stand for dry age and independence are very marked. policies and leadership, because proOhio Is Conundrum. hibition, while not a party issue, is a Another conundrum is Ohio, the problem and policy which is irrepresstate prefered to all others from which sible and it will not lark leadership to select presidential candidates. It Is in bringing the question home to the tor Pomer-ene- , voters. We cannot expert to avoid it already pledged to s with of War Baker at the polls. It should not take a wise a very strong popular man, and Gov- man to know that I made such inquiry as I could conernor Donahey in the background. They are to be brought out ir their cerning Governor Smiths personal prospects warrant such action. Ohio views on political policies. The most is dry. Pomerene is wet Governor satisfactory information came from Donahey is dry and has been elected Norman E. Mack, a very fine man, governor three times when the state who for nearly a generation, has been Thinks Gotham Governor Stands Good Chance to Win. Ohioan NEW YORK. Governor A1 Smith will be the Democratic partys choice for president, former Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio, nominee in 1920, believes. Smith would make a great president, Cox said on a visit here. I think he would have a very excellent chance of election, because he has captured the Imagination of the man in the street. President Coolldge would hare made to order as a candidate for Governor Smith to run against, but It now looks to me as ir Hoover would be the Republican nominee." Velveteen Is a cotton fabric of suitable weight for fall and winter dresses. It comes in dark and medium colors, which may be relieved by lighter, washable, collars, cuffs, vests, or other accessories. Corduroy, which is similar to velveteen except for its libbed surface, can be used in much the same way. national committeeman from New York. He says all that I have stated relative to Governor Smith, Senator Copeland confirms the same and in addition says that the governor asked him to attend the recent ('arm Bureau meeting In Chicago, when he knew that the senator was very much in sympathy with the demands of the farmers. He spoke at that gathering as the representative of the governor. "There Is much to commend Governor Smith and he has a real push behind him. His advocates can truthfully say that he has the greatest record of any governor of New York. He is a man of the people, comes from them, and speaks their language, and consequently has an appeal to their imagination. The religious attacks on him arouse iny sympathy for him. If there is any one thing for which I have stood more than another it is the elimination of religion in politics, and politics in religion. Prefers Westerner. "Notwithstanding it all, I prefer a western man. who knows our problems and sympathizes with our needs and am of the opinion that the men of the extreme east are lacking In both, or they would not be popular at home. Then I am convinced that we have to face the liquor problem; and that 1 it cannot be avoided. As to the country generally, the undercurrent is manifestly toward the Demoeratlc party. I have never attended s more satisfactory national Democratic banquet than the one last month, and I have been at all of them for the last 20 years. While there Is some of the usual internal party strife among Democrats, it is not organized as it is In the Republican party. We hope we will come out of Houston with If that is accomplished, we will win." a harmonious party. Coming to SALT LAKE CITY DR. MLLENTHIN & CO. SPECIALISTS In Internal Medicine for the Paet Fifteen Yearn. DO NOT OPERATE Will be at Cullen Hotel Sunday and Monday, February 12 and 13. Office hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. TWO DAYS ONLY No Charge APPLY BOOT TO DAHLY1 (Continued from Page 1) treasurer and it would then mean that Stenacker would have two additional yean in office without having to face election. The plan also provided that Commissioner Labrum should take over the department of roads and bridges because it was felt he would have a larger patronage in that and consequently could build up a more powerful political machine with which to efrect his nomination and reelection this fall. Another phase of the plan was to assign me to the department of health and charities, and included in that department, of rourse, is the Salt Lake county hospital. At that point. Dr. 8traup frankly admitted that he wasn't entirely unselfish so far aa the reorganization was concerned, and that he was trying to look out for his own future as well as possible. In dwelling upon that angle of It, Dr. Straup emphasized thst with me In the department of health and charities, he should be able to rely on at least two additional years as county physician, Inasmuch PERNICIOUS as he assumed that he could count on iny continuing him in orflee as long as I retained that department Dr. Straup argued at length to the effect that 'the three of us (meaning Stenacker, Labrum and myself) were In Open Campagining on the Part of Certain G. O. P. Leaders Is Causa the hole together, and that we had of Disturbance to stick together. He pointed out that I did not have to come up for (From Politics) this fall and that It therefore The activity of certain government behooved me to consent to any ar rangement that would continue Com- officials In promoting the candidacy of missioner Stenacker and Labrum, and Secretary Hoover for the Republican presidential nomination, has aroused himself in office. members of congress at both sides of Threatened Job. Straup the capitol. Open criticism of the When I informed Dr. Straup of my pernicious activity or these officials flat refusal to vote for Commissioner has been Indulged in, and it Is not Stenacker, he very clearly threatened Improbable that some of them will be me with the change In the depart- called upon to explain. ments, which occurred today. 1 told The group of Hoover workers In the him that I fully understood how this various departments has been busy for might affect me and take the depart- many weeks and there has been no ment of roads and bridges away from effort, it Is said, to conceal their actime over my objection. As above stat- vities. Headed by Secretary of the ed the reassignment came widely her- Interior Hubert Work, the list Includes alded numerous federal officers of high "On the morning of the same day rank. The most recent to announce that Dr. Straup called on me at my his support of the commerce secrehome, I sent J. R. Thomas as my per- tary was Assistant Secretary of the sonal attorney. Inasmuch as I was con- Navy Theodore Douglass Robinson, a fined at my home on account of ill- nephew of the late Theodore Rooseness, to see Commissioner Stenacker velt. Other officials Industriously enand to Inform him of the reason why gaged In boosting Mr. Hoover include I could not vote for him for treasurer. Undersecretary of the Treasury OgDuring the course of Mr. Thomas con- den Ia Mills, assistant secretary in versation with Commissioner Sten- charge of prohibition, Seymour both of New York; Col. William acker, essentially the same reasons and arguments were advanced by J. Donovan, assistant attorney generStenacker for a change as were urged al, also of New York; Walter Brown, on me by Dr. Straup tliat same after- assistant secretary of commerce, and noon. As reported to me by my at- officials of the post office department, torney, Commissioner Stenacker was the interior department, the agriculgreatly disturbed over by refusal to tural department and of the departvote for him. He told my attorney ment of Justice. It might not be objectionable if fedthat I should be willing to vote for him even though everyone in Salt eral officials were to confine themselves merely to booming Secretary Lake county urged against it. Hoover, members of congress say, but Labrum Fixing Fences. when some of them attempt to Influ"It now seems that their scheme ence senators anil representatives by has at least partially materialized, making appointments upon dependent partly because of an ambition to fur- the attitude assumed :.y the senator or ther Commissioner La brum's chances representative with regard to his for nomination and reelcrtion this choice at the Kansas City convention, year and partly to chastise and pun- an explanation must be forthcoming, ish me for my refusal to Join with members insist. them in this plan. A western senator who called at "I consider with pride the record one of the departments to urge the apwhich I have made during the past pointment of a Republican to a minor thirteen months at the head of the office it Is said, waa met with the department of roads and bridges and I question aa to whom he favored for am informed from all sides that the the Republican nomination. He indigcounty roads have never been In bet- nantly declined to he drawn into a dister condition than during the past sev- cussion of candidates as a condition eral months." precident to obtaining an appointment for a constituent and returned to the Deny Allegations. in high dudgeon. Commissioner Stenacker said that capitol he had nothing to aay on the , statement except that he did not WILL SUPPORT believe Dr. Straup made such stateGOVERNOR SMITH brow-beate-n Low-ma- Dahl-qul- i n. thou adds that the governor's religion Bhould be no bar either to his nomination or his election. The simple truth is that if Goveii? or Smith, instead of .haring been born in Oliver street of Catholic parents, had first seen the light of day in some Protestant parsonage, as Presidents Cleveland- and Wilson did, nobody would doubt for an instant that he would be the next president, Mr. Morgenthau says. "Governor Smith belongs to one of the minority religious denominations and to that one which is politically most unpopular in many parts of the United States. Except for that disability, speaking politically, Governor Smith la so towering a figure in public life that his nomination and election to the presidency would be accepted as a foregone con- clusion. "What does that disability really amount to? In my opinion it amounts to less than nothing, for I have observed that, as governor of New York, Mr. Smith has, If anything, leaned backward In his determination that his religious faith should not color his official actions I challenge anybody to find any evidence In Governor Smiths career that his membership in the Catholic church has influenced his appointments, or his vetoes, or his exercise of the pardoning power, or any other of hla acta as executive head of the Commonwealth of New York. On the contrary, there are dozena of instances where he has honored Protestants and Jews, often where they were not even of his own political faith Mr. Morgenthau declares that Governor Smiths native genius for practical affairs" Is the strongest reason for elevating the governor to the presidency. He denies the contention that the governor Is too ignorant of national and International affairs to be president, and asks what President Coolldge, Wilson and Cleveland knew about certain national and International questions In which they later made great achievements. Like them. Mr. Morgenthau says, Governor Smith, if elected president, would learn. Oovpmor Smith is the hope of liberalism in America today," Mr. Morgenthau concludes. e - HERE IS MY SUBSCRIPTION THE UTAH STATESMAN j 111 ATLAS BLOCK, Salt Lake City, Utah. Inclosed find check for which please aend me The Utah Statesman for .months. years SUBSCRIPTION PRICES - $1 Yearj Name Street City State ! ln-I- g WANT ADS i . sibility. What the home management specialists in the federal extension service are trying to do is to help farm women perform their great variety of duties with less expenditure of energy and time. If aome household task can be done In one hour instead of two, and with leas physical effort, by the Morgenthau Lists Reasons Why He use of labor and equipSupports the Governor. ment, extension agents have tried to to farm women in an In an article In the current Issue of bring that fact the Review or Reviews entitled "Why interesting and impersonal way. I Support Alfred E. Smith, Henry former ambassador to Morgenthau. Turkey, declares he Is supporting Governor Smith for the Democratic nomi- WANTED Man with car to sell comnation for prealdent because of his plete line quality Auto Tires and theoretical and practical graap of gov- Tubes. Exclusive Territory. Kxeri-encernment, his demonstrated skill In the not necessary. Salary $300.00 administration of government and hla per month. Milestone Rubber Comleadership of the people. Mr. Morgrn- pany, East Liverpool, Ohio. ' j v-- nicipalities, counties or the state, which are exempt, make a big number. Then those belonging to mines and public utilities are assessed with the other property of these organisations by the state board and not by the assessors. The trading In of old ran on new ones make it appear that there are many more In the state than there are. The greatest trouble, according to a member of the board, comes from the county commissioners undoing the work of (he assessors. The assessors generally are conscientious and work hard to equalize the burden. They receive small encouragement, however, when they make changes only to have a county commission, often without investigation, annual these changes. This not only prevents an assessor doing his duty but lowers his standing In his county. We believe the best results will be obtained by backing up the assessor In all Instances and, if he fails, letting him bear the respon- time-savin- The specialist of Dr. Mellenthln & Co. Is a regular graduate in medicine and surgery and is licensed by the state of Utah. He visits professionally the more Important towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consultation, except the expense or treatment when desired. According to his method of treatment lie dot s not oterate tor chronic appendicitis, gall stone, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful results In diseases of the stomac h, liver, bowels, blood, skin, ii'tvc-s- , heart, kidney, bladder, bed ralarrli, weak lungs, ilieuinatisui. siaiiea, leg ulcers and irciul ailna nis. If you bine l,i eii nllin:: fur any length of time and do not gel any bel- imysuch assumption on tln-l- r parti ter, do tint lail to i nil, as li.iiimji'T Ritd I did not represent anybody nor s mcasiiri i.tilor ihan disease, are was I the moiithpiere of anyone but y ni ii ike in:i-o- of jour long spoke my opinion as a friend to all the islanding I'cuiMe. roinniissloners; and no threats were licnicinlier alme date, that consul-- , made by me if this or that was not tn i loll on tills ti i will l.e i:t e ami that done." .Ills t rent mi nl is ili; iiTi'iit Mai i iid w Milieu nni' t lie fie ciinipan-At Hint. Senator Heflin hasn't a i' d by much worse groin Ii against everybody Address: 211 I'.iadi.my Rid., law and eei tiling tlian W'llllum It. Angeles, C.ili: iniilii Hears!.-- - Anaconda Sium'laid. 12s 2 11 l substantial Increase through the rich oil shale lands of the state. The assessment of automobiles has been getting better each year. Many escape taxation but this number is not so large as it would seem from figures which have been published. For instance, automobiles belonging to mu- ACTIVITY CHARGED AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PROMOTING HOOVERS CANDIDACY ments. Dr. Straup made the following statement: The statement that I threatened Mr Dahlqulst about his position in the department or roads and bridges If he did not vote for Mr. Stenacker for county treasurer Is untrue. At the time this matter came up I was attending Mr. Dahlqulst in his Illness and we discussed the matter In general. I discussed the matter with him from the standpoint or party politics and as to the welfare of all the commissioners Involved. 1 did express a desire to see Mr. Stenarker appointed county treasurer if he wanted the position. The question was raised by some of Mr. Dahlqulat's friends that to change Mr. It was all a frame-uDahlqulst from roads wnd bridges to another department nnd to put Mr. In- bruin In the deartnii'nt of roads and bridges. I did not agree with them on for Consultation - Larft year there was. an Increase made through practically doubling the assessment on the various gllsonlta properties in the eastern part of the state. This raise was protested but no reduction was made. The board also has been and is contemplating a 50c 6 months. |