Show REPUBLICAN r- i It is noteworthy that two governors of great v states have started the preliminary work in their cam- for the nomination for President Judson Har- mon of Ohio and Woodrow Wilson of New And as things stand may continue to whichever or whoever succeeds in the convention is likely to succeed at the The country at this particular r time is undoubtedly every state in the elections last November did not actually go thai way showing more or less gain for the If there was an exception it was and with right kind of treatment perhaps-it can be kept in What is more necessary to avoid than anything s else is letting go of settled principle for the sake of doubtful Utah has been highly favored in the matter of faithful public and while not even faithfulness amounts to a title to con- it should certainly not be permitted to operate as a Governor for has been such an all-round so free from rank partisanship or that he has made of friends in all parties and creeds and unquestionably one of the strongest men in the f To displace or disparage him under the circum- be a blunder that would cost the Republican party more in votes and prestige than it can afford to The same can be said of Secretary of State Tin Here we have one of the most thor-c. and capable officials in all the State's Scarcely an hour during the business part of the day that he is not at his doing and seeing to everything and permitting nothing to escape him that needs He became so i familiar with the vast mechanism of the commonwealth as to be a part and parcel of and anyone who has f ever had to deal with him personally has become a fry friend if he was not such The only argument which does' amount to an argument at all is that the present is second term and third terms It would take are a equipped man otherwise the greater part of one term to acquire the knowledge of detail and familiarity with routine that and it is in the interest of the people at large that offices not strictly political be filled by men of experience as well as and for other it would be a grave mistake to displace A good word is to be said for Attorney General I but as space is limited and the subject will be taken up and perhaps he can afford to J |