Show GEORGE A SMITH I I 7JeI4 George A Smith George A Smith was ono of the original j orig-inal sixteen men who organized the Republican party In Utah That was In 1S91 and every day since he has been advocating the principles of his party He was born In Salt Lake In 1870 and was educated In the public schools the Brigham Young academy at Provo and the University of Utah He Is superintendent of the Y M M I A which organization numbers 2000 members In this State and he Is especially espe-cially active in work of this kind Mr Smith has taken an active part In every campaign In Utah since the people divided on party lines and in the general fight of 1000 ho spoke everyday every-day and sometimes two or three limes a day from September 2llh till the close of the polls He was appointed Receiver of the United States Land office of-fice In 1857 and was reappolhted to the name responsible position a few months ago by President Roosevelt This Is the only political position ho has ever held heldMr Smith Is not a candidate for the Republican nomination for fongrofs at this time In the lIono of working for the honor Many Influential party men have been urging him to be a candidate candi-date however and he has said to nil that he was not seeking the nomination nomina-tion but that If nominated by his party par-ty he would accept as ho thinks any good party man should |