Show DEFINING THE HE REAL ISSUE The Republican state convention ot of Thursday illustrated fully the complete dominance of or the Smoot machine in party affairs and the entire absence of or any any popular voice in the choice of candidates or utterance of party prin With a a fatuity common to politicians the permitted no expression of the popular will in either the or the nominations His of Howell his defeat of Judge Morse and his selection of or Clove and the unspeakable Glasmann to frame the party platform were all part of a program he had prepared and put through as absolutely as if he had been beena a czar telling his subjects what to do doThe doThe The delegates had no more to do with the result of the convention than so SD many Angora goats roaming the tho Kanab hills hilts The whole convention was a travesty on popular government Mr Howells was wa ex cx expected not because of oC his utter failure as a congressman but bu t as a reward of rendered the Smoot machine On his merits he would have been ig Jg ignored Ignored nored by the convention and relegated to the private life Ufe his peculiar talents quality him to adorn Knowing his in ineffectiveness ineffectiveness Ineffectiveness effectiveness as a representative re remembering remembering his appointment of Glas Glasmann Glasmann mann which ought to have earned his defeat the machine put Howell on the ticket again apparently to show public opinion how little regard the machine has for the public Fortunately for the state the people have lave the last word as to Howell and can express at the polls the opinions that were were suppressed In convention Howell deserves the defeat that now seems certain not only because his record is enough to defeat him but also because ho he is Identified with the ma mach mah machine ch chine h lne ne Nowhere in the convention proceed proceedings proceedings proceedIngs ings did the Smoot hand show its dis disregard regard of the people more clearly than thanin in the tho nomination of J T E Frick and th the defeat of or Judge Morse for pr the su supreme supreme preme bench The Bar association composed of Democrats and u ge he was the tho popular choice He has made a splendid record on the bench b noh is familiar with the most important important tant litigation in the state is a man manof manor manof of or unquestioned Integrity r learning and ability He was beaten solely because he hp was not a part of the Smoot ma machine machine machine chine while his opponent mt has been identified with it Rather than see a aman aman aman man of ot experience of every qualification tion for or the office on the bench who was not a n Smoot man the machine sac sacrificed sacrificed tho the public welfare to political exigency Finally the convention turned down the tho Harrington resolution aimed at Senator Smoot as might have been bean expected but it achieved this result rosult In Ina Inn ina a n way calculated exactly to strengthen Us its H opponents Excepting the portion aimed at Smoot the resolution was al almost almost almost most a paraphrase of the state constitution constitutIon and much less direct and out outspoken outspoken outspoken spoken than the Democratic declaration of the reconvened convention which has hasben been ben the Democratic creed for years A good politician would have been more adroit than to furnish ammunition ammunition tion as Smoot has hus by his failure to adapt the resolution to the situation that confronts him himIn himIn x In Tn any ny event the convention has fixed the real issue of the campaign for forthe or orthe the tho Republican an party Not Roosevelt not the tho tariff not one of ot the party pol policies policies ides Is the issue the question for the voters of ot Utah asked by the Republican can convention is as to the perpetua perpetuation tion of the Smoot machine Do the oters voters want to make Smoot the perpetual dictator of ot the Republican I can party and nd the political destiny of Utah I t jo th rancor the th hatred thc l disturbance and ari I Ii i I the outward rd agitation continued con be because because because cause of t Smoots control in politics Do they t ey want the Cloves and the th using federal office and fed federal federal federal eral power in local politics In a 11 word Utah had enough of ot Smoot That Is the question the convention has forced upon the people arid and the answer anser ansier in all alJ probability will be the overthrow of Smoot t t j |