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Show POLITICAL GOOD ROADS. Governor Cutler is called on onco more to act. Tho friends of good roads want him io name eomo exports. Mr. P. H. Elliott, Rccrclaiy of tho American Ameri-can Automobilo Association, asks him to namo delegates to tho Good Roads and Lcgislativo Convention to bo held in Buffalo, July 7tb. and Stlu Tho National Na-tional Grange is nctiug with tho Automobilo Auto-mobilo Association, and tho convention i3 expected to bo ono of groat activity .Jid practical importance. Of course, tho Governor will comply with tho courteous request. Equally of course, Presidout James II. Anderson (sometimes known ns Fussy Jimmy, Navajo Jimmy, otc.) -will head tho delegation. dele-gation. For, is ho not tho president of the Utah Good Roads Association, and can he bo ignorod in this connection ? Certainty- not. Ho was put at the front in tho good roads movement hero some four years ago, by Apostlo Smoot, for political purposes. So shameless was tho deal that cvou tho Descret Npws called spocial aud prominent attention to it, in condemnatory vein, as a direct intrusion of political purpose in a matter mat-ter whero politics docs not in anj way belong. But Smoot wanted his houch-man houch-man to bo put iu charge, and ho was put in charge. Tho result has been, that as a road proposition, tho Good Roads Association of Utah has never been heard of since; but ns a political proposition propo-sition it has no doubt served its underground under-ground purpose The Tribuuo said at tho time that tho Smoot movo iu thus putting his political was its death-blow. And so it has proved. There has not been a moocting of that association since, aud thcro will probably never bo another. Thcro will havo to bo a new organization built from tho ground up,if it is ever to have anj'thing in fact to do with tho actual good roads movement. Of course, however, how-ever, that will have nothing to do with Governor Cutler. Ho is under the same rule that "Fussy Jimmy is, and it would' be a political offcuso for him to ignoro Smoot 's political lead in the matter of good roads. It -will, therefore, be tho. appropriate, perhaps tho obligatory obli-gatory thing, for him to put Smoot 's political good roads man at the head of tho Utah delegation to tho Buffalo Good Roads Convention. And again, has the Governor violated tho proprieties by ignoring the presidont of the Good Roads Association, and naming D. R, Roberts of Provo. Which is another evidence of the utter forget-fulncss forget-fulncss into which tho Good Roads Association As-sociation of Utah had fallen, under the Smoot political buccaneering. It is likely like-ly enough that Governor Cutler didn't even know that we had a good roads association, and a president thereof. |