Show A POLITICAL MOVE Senator Smoots Smoot newspaper is agitating agItatIng agitating ing strenuously for tor a railroad commis commission commission sion to be provided for by the ap approaching approaching approaching state legislature and presumably presumably presumably ably to regulate railroad business ss within the state Just what actuates this move u ay y best be understood when it Is known that such a commission would be named by and act under the direction of the Smoot Republican machine It would have hae large powers both in the thema matter ma of railroad administration and andIn andIn andin In the potential Influence It could com command command command mand in a political crisis Judged by bythe bythe bythe the appointments in state and federal offices the commission would be responsible responsible sible solely to the little coterie of ot men that runs the Republican party parry in the Interest of or the senior senator from from Utah and judging by the character of the men chosen to fill federal offices It would be composed of noble nobl patriots similar to Bill Glassman H E Booth William Spry E H Canister Callister et al ad lib ad nauseam If there Is any crying demand for the annoyance anno anee and restriction of the railroad rail railroad railroad road road no one has heard of ot it except the Smoot newspaper If J any considerable portion of the people of Utah want to see the railroads of this state placed atthe at atthe atthe the mercy of an irresponsible Republican Republican Republican lican political machine no one has heard of it but the men who either hope to have hae Jobs on the commission or to name the men who will Ill have Jobs There are railroad questions that ought to be adjusted such as a the coal coa shortage and the cost of ot coal to the consumer when he can get it but a commission named by the present regime re regime regime gime with its determination to utilize all aU the powers of government for its own political purposes would be little short of a calamity a notice to tl l men who have invested millions in rail railroads railroads railroads roads without hope of immediate re returns returns returns turns on their Investment that they are areto areto areto to be at the mercy of a ring of politicians clans bent on perpetuating their own power at any cost |