| Show W I J jl 1 Testimony at the Inquest sj people are familiar with the rea- rea i. i I I UTAH LJ J sons Bons ns offered them by the various local vj I newspapers for the phenomenal majority given g Pro President Wilson In the state They will no doubt also be interested in learn learning InS InS' a the reasons given for this majority by two d t Salt Lake newspapers ne to tho the world out outside Id e. e t I not through their own columns column but through t. t I I tho those e of oC a publication of or wide nation-wide t r I la lation lion 4 In response to a request from the Litt LIt LIt- t Digest that It wire its explanation for forI I the Wilson landslide In Utah the Salt Laker Lake e r tX i Tribune made the tue following reply as pub- pub C I r fished in the Digest i C Too much Smoot probably is Ig the explanation explanation ex ex- for the large Wilson vote ote In Utah The people were determined to toj j f repudiate him and all his works Ho He was wast I t a t fatal handicap to Hughes not only In I Utah but in the other western states as- as uI to his political management by Tj 1 the Republican national committee a l I There were other elements In the IH lion Uon but the they were wert of a minor order I The Salt alt Lake Lale Telegram was Wag also alsot I t queried by the Literary Digest for an explanation explanation explanation nation and with a surprIsingly unaccustomed 1 I modesty failed to shoulder all the credit for 1 I the Wilson victory Tho The Digest Diget publishes I I I that it received this reply from the Tele- Tele I I gram The result of of the Utah was f t. t TI I a a. source of ot Inspiration to every ery true son an and daughter who love lovea this state an i Inspiration not because because one ene political party was successful at the polls but because bej be- be t j cause the people of ot the state showed I that they were doing their own thinking i C J I at last demonstrated that the they were not 11 l In a a. rut from which the they could not esI escape es- es I I cape and proved that they had bej beI be- be become j I come w wear weary ary of ot dirty gang politics and andi i t whispering slanderers The results here J show that the people of Utah know how Ui at to resent cowardly lJ insults hurled at the theM M I President of their nation by bJ blackguards IQ J J skulking aroun around in the dark lark like Jackals looking for a a. bo bone e to gnaw and urged on J by the Black Hand organ It Is very I evident that the hands of ot ultimate auT au au- iuT T T J I were J kept ept ot off Utah's election this 1 year ear I It Is not surprising the Digest Diget refers reters to I JH the Tribune reply as rather cryptic Inasmuch Inas- Inas InasI 4 I much as It publishes replies from newspapers In other normally Republican western states I that went Democratic and none of these apI appears appears ap- ap I pears to think Senator Smoot was the fatal i t blight upon Republican prospects The Los Lo r J I Angeles Express wired that the woman vote rotc I and the labor vote turned California to Wil I son on The Seattle Post replied T JI I that the w woman man vote was l responsible 1 for tor the Wilson victory in Washington ThI Th Tha j I Wyoming explanations explanation from the Che Cheyenne enne I Tribune which ascribes the Wilson triumph I 1 J there to the large proportion of ot the railroad I Ii i vote and to the unprecedented prosperity j I of ot the wool a largo large and Influential I t I class cIas hitherto almost entirely Republican I from tariff conviction who voted tho th S 1 Democratic ticket this thlE year Mr William Allen Alien White a publicist o of ot t national reputation and editor of ot the r Emr Emporia Em Em- poria pods Kan Gazette told tho the Digest that tha t the Wilson vote yote In Kan Kansas as W was largely due du S Sto to the women Oth Other r Kansas editors fo for r Instance Henry J. J Allen and Victor l Murdock Murdoc ock did not quite agree with Mr White but none of nf the the tho blam Sano in rn ir J I S Serious discussion of ot the Tribune reply J t to the thc Digest inquiry is impossible because I of ot its nonsense Pra Practically the entire west j I voted for tor Mr r. r Wilson and the Tribune Idea ide I that it did so 80 because determined to reI re repudiate repudiate re- re I Senator Smoot and all h his works IsI is J scarcely more flattering to tho th President I than to the Utah senator Curiously enough the Tribune omitted from its little essay for forthe the Digest the thc principal feature of or the tho ext exI exi ex- ex i t appearing In Its own columns I which was that the people of Utah wished to I express 8 their their- resentment over the setting I aside of ot a n certain candidate for tor the Republican lican Hcan gubernatorial nomination I Concerning the characteristically cha chaste te I and md delicate phraseology in which the EVenIng EvenI Evena Even- Even I a Ing log Telegram couched its reply the Literary Digest remarks we must confess the allusions allusions allu allu- are too veiled to be intelligible at this distance That description is sufficiently accurate to be final But we should like to sugg suggest st that In future communications to the outside world the Evening E Telegram submit its effusions to some fome pupil In the grammar grade rade of the Salt Lake Lalo public schools that he hc may translate them thero into Eng Ene I lish else the Idea may get abroad that Illiteracy Hilt is common in Utah 1 Democratic Governor Alexander oi of ot r Idaho who seems to be he In process of being 4 wa r slowly counted cut after his election seemed assured can cn now enter Into the feeling o of ot those Republicans who went to bed Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night with a Hughes cargo carbo aboard and awakened the next morning with a Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic headache |
