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Show Measure Looks Mighty Good to the (jlnirch Republican Crowd, APOSTLE-SENATOR SMOOT IS INFATUATED WITH, IT It. Will Be Considered as Compromise Com-promise Between the Wets and Drys. And now it's the. Wyortiing law. The latest dodge of the church Republican Republi-can party to avoid declslvo action on the prohibition question Is contained In the proposed plank of the platform of tho church Republican state convention to be held In Ogden next Monday. Quietly but surely the church Republican Republi-can leaders arn spreading throughout the state the doctrine that it Is the Wyoming Wyom-ing law which best copes with tho liquor question and thut Its operation excels that of absolute prohibition. As a matter mat-ter of fact, tho Wyoming law Is a sort of a weak excuse for county option. Under the terms of the Wyoming law tho liquor licenses In each county are to be granted by the county commissioners, but It Is provided that the county commissioners com-missioners must refuse to grant licenses for the sale of liquors outside of Incorporated Incor-porated cities and towns. Senator Reed Smoot, wjio will ho the temporary chairman of tho Ogden convention, conven-tion, is the author of the proposed Wyoming Wy-oming law plank and It has been approved ap-proved by the other leaders of the Republican Re-publican party Including the members of the stato committee. Every effort will be made to foist this plank on the prohibition-Instructed delegates dele-gates from tho outside counties. The plank will be considered at the slate convention as a sort of a compromise arrangement ar-rangement between the prohibitionists and the antl-prohlbitlonists. The lenders expect that tho delegations to I he state convention from Salt Lake. Weber. Summit Sum-mit and Juab counties will fall In line for the Wyoming plank. In Cache. Sanpete San-pete and possibly Utah the delegations will piobably be for county option. Most of tho remaining counties, especially those in southern Utah, will dcelare for state-wide prohibition. However, having the support of tho larger counties, the Republican lenders believe will enable them to carry out their pledge not to Include In the.lr platform anything Inimical In-imical to the liquor Interests of tho state. The Wyoming law they know will satlefy the liquor people and thoy hope that they can convince the prohibitionists that they, too, are satlslled |