Show Senator Sen tor Smoot and nd His IUs Political Politic l Position Makes Plain and Emphatic Denial That lie Is Acting IS as Dictator or 01 Query QUOI y as iS to 15 Silence of Senior Senator Has is a Favorite F for Governor and inI nd Wants lo 10 Know Why VIi Not Sot PrOvo City Aug AUr the Editor J I believe that my m duty to the public required me mime to speak nt Ht a I this time on nn ona a n subject that Is I receiving much at nt attention attention From personal choice I would woul prefer to 10 quiet hold Ignore the volumes of ot gro gros s misrepresentation ut uttered uttered against me mae by hy a it 1 certain class of ot the press r of ot this state tout hut my may duty to the people must be tue given preference The fhe people should know the truth ruth that they the may Inn form torm their Judgment thereon All Mi through my life lit I 1 have Bought to tobe tobe tobe be open oren and candid and a 1111 to have my actions recorded above nhoc hoard board A general election ele lIon IH in approaching In Inthis tills this state Certain newspapers amid Individuals mire charging that hint 1 I am put lut putting lutting ting myself up as a lions hOHs a political dictator that I 1 want to be he the whole thing Of that I tim am trying to dictate the tho personnel of ot the tho whole state ticket from the tho governor down don These papers paper anti and these Individuals know well that Hint their charges chances are false o hut but they the con continue continue their theil methods Just time the same Why do ito they persist In the thc falsehoods If It not to 10 divert attention menu their own course They say cay I ought to 10 have him no preference for tor an that thus the nl or senator front frono this state has none mione but hUt Is 18 perfectly dumb on the time ques question lion tion Dumb Indeed Are his hili por organs and representatives dumb It 11 ItIs Itin Is in hIli a ml fact that every ever man m n of or prominence who ventures o 0 have a II preference for fora a II candidate candida to not by them IB is held up U to 10 t 0 t ed m lit k tile mis misrepresentation in is representation and a 1111 nhue Who Is In It that by b those these seeks lo 10 t be lie the li absolute dictator of lit nil IP Ill the 1111 tiu p iwo leo o plo Ida stop slop and amid consider There Is in no mia doubt douht In my mind nu 1111 mm to the this reply 1111 of o ull all thinking The Ih people may be he fooled for u a I time by y the claptrap of and nod false accusation hut but hu when i they tle J down ID tu 10 calm Judgment they tIO will wil discover III reul real situation will 11 neo eto With Ih the tue s of o the II I urn HUh 11 not making u n lo effort Jl JI the line of ot die Ilc dieto tullon t to lon Th pun phar rg Is wholly hol absolute absolutely ly b I untrue I H it I e c l HH 1114 HI lo to II who ho should Il ix M the next pov O of ot this 1111 state I 1111 1 I have not mint lot been heen afraid to 10 let time the public know lInnI It I In II a it 1 rank and explicit manner 1 11 r It I Is In the tho common right of or every ever American citizen to have and und to express that Wil S any man muon or nr attempt to t 9 de do deprive irie me nie or ai any nn other citizen of that right o I 1 have hlo been boen Hi lit II th the open In lii 11 any amly lY preference I may mi have hav I have hn e neither drawn out nor put nut In iii 11 candidates for governor the false as an assertions IR lt I 8 to hi contrary that have hn I been bee I cheated I 80 so tO I am flu dee alro accused of ot to 10 sup BUP pott hoi t the thu prevent governor for tiun he lie II opposed me mae for Ir the thu ll semi n natu ate atu That runt also li Im I false It IH In true Ue that the tho present governor Is not my choice cholo principally because of ot the thet t I I m 1 term torm Rotation In executive execute lute him hiI made mad madIl It Il IJo for em UK us to look back In iii II hIs hiM hIstory tory 1011 at lt the tho records of oC great gleat Ireat l 1 ot dents and amid 11 governors We WI haie hn ha I e hM had a good nor who huH hue hlll held hell olce for 01 nine years els Is not nul Unit that long enough ODOUR I believe bele In making makinI It I need possible lie ble Jle tom for 01 our children and 1111 our oUI childrens children and Ind even ICI some comae ROlA of or us ni who have not 1101 reached the allotted age lRe of ot a mc mann man mal Jc jt nv IV hut while our OUI state hind had un tin governor It I milso Ilso hud had other othel groat sad nr Rood good lood I have stated my position anti and andI antiI I hope hOll clearly AK 1 to the Iho misrepresentations 11 against me pie I ask the thu Ihl public to tn II consider lon lder the whole situation In 11 I hae hale no teams tell of ot their It I Is 18 up ui to 10 the good people I of ot this ft state ate to 10 11 pass nass on this matter matterand and I nm thu not hot uneasy Unell over ocr the verdict of ot my fellow tello citizens If It only the facts can be got ot before them Signed HEED SMOOT H lO |