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Show Emery county should have an exhibit at the State Fair which opens at Salt Lake City. October 3d. It would help advertise the county. The Treasury Department says it is going to stop coining gold. So far as we have been able to note this sort of coinage has been stopped a long time. There seems to be no division along political lines in Emery county on the matter of prohibition. Both sets of delegates to the state conventions were instructed in the same way. The republican nominating convention has been set for October 15th which is only a trifle over three weeks before the election. This will not give much time for political work after the nominations nomi-nations are made. Better get some of it done defore that time. Now that the time is almost at hand for the connty nominating conventions it is time for the political aspirants to be letting the people know what they want. If you don't want to announce through the paper do so through your friends (or enemies) or by calling on the people personally. The people have a right to know who you are and to a little time to consider whether they want you or not. If they don't get this notice you may get a nomination that the people are not very strongly in favor of. .Such a nomination is not likely to lead to an election. To most people a defeat before be-fore the convention is preferable to a defeat at the polls. The announcement of Harry S. Joseph Jos-eph for the office of congressman from the State of Utah appears in this issue. Mr. Joseph is well-known throughout the state, having been speaker of the house of representatives at the 1907 session of the state legislature and since that time has been chairman of the board of the state industrial school. Besides his political activities he is interested in-terested in agriculture, mining and many other enterprises throughout the state. His own statement is that he is asking for the nomination on the , broad ground of republican doctrine and that if elected he will serve the state so as to reflect credit upon the state and the party. i - . j The supreme court of Utah has decided de-cided in a case brought up from Morgan county that boards of county commissioners commis-sioners cannot be forced by the court to grant liquor licenses. The opinion, which lays down a rule for a mooted question in this state, will be of far-reaching far-reaching effect, for, while the powers of town boards and city councils to deny liquor licenses are not outlined in the opinion, for the reason that this issue was not raised in the appeal to the supreme court, the effect of the opinion is the same as to these, inasmuch as boards of county commissioners, town boards and city councils get their primary pri-mary right to grant or deny liquor li- j censes from the same source the state i statutes. The courts may interfere only when commissioners arbitrarily and capriciously deny applications for liquor licenses, the supreme court broadly broad-ly holds, and then not to direct them how to act or to decide the matter, or to compel or coerce them to issue or refuse re-fuse the license, but only to compel them to consider the application fully and fairly. |