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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 cents. ' Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. Act of the under Utah, City, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 BLUNDERS MA Y COST G. 0. P. VICTOR Y IN UTAH wisdom. At the present they are making no progress at all. If they muddle through somehow it will be almost in the nature of a blame rests with those who persistently misrepresented conditions miracle. d while he was here. The All is well contingent seemed to have enPerhaps Senator Smoot himself has been deluded by the who have adopted for their slogan All is well. No doubt tered into a conspiracy to convince the chairman that the national organization could leave Utah to take care of itself and. after a year of Chairman Hays has been deceived. It is time for both of them to neglect, find it securely and smilingly at the head of the Republican face the situation frankly and to tell the national powers that be that Utah is the most fertile field in the land for an educational political procession. If some of the loyal, sensible Republicans had taken the trouble campaign. to impart the cold and disagreeable facts to the chairman he would Naturally the national committee expects Utah Republicans to do what they can to help themselves. That is an expectation which have departed with an intelligent understanding of the Utah situation and a desire to help. As it was, he went away thinking either the national committee is justified in entertaining. Utah Republicans that Utah was irrevocably in the Republican column or that Utah should and must do what they can to conduct a winning campaign, Republicans were the most accomplished prevaricators he had met but they have a right to expect, if they make the necessary efforts, that the national committee shall keep its eye on this state and give with on his trip. the necessary organizing assistance. The truth is that Utah Republicans are not honest with themOne way to accomplish the task set before us is to utilize the selves ; they seek to dodge unpleasant facts, and when a national chairman or some other official high in the national organization energy and brains of the younger Republicans. A number of splencomes to the state they hate to admit that Utah is not in line with did young men have shown how deeply in earnest they arc by offerthe rest of this gloriously Republican land of ours. ing their services to speak and to work. But all the time they find who are marking time at the There is no doubt that the nation is Republican. There is hardly themselves halted by banner-swingehead of a procession that is getting nowhere. less doubt that today Utah is Democratic. And if Republicans conThe time to change all this is now. And while we arc waking up tinue to show their strange and wonderful abilities at mismanagement at home it will do the national organizers no harm to understand the state will continue to be Democratic. Only by facing facts, however gloomy they may be, can together in such wise as to clearly just what the situation is. transfer the state from the Democratic to the Republican column. Chairman Hays and all who were with him told their hearers at BRYAN AS A HATER Senator Smoot. They the banquet how necessary it was to are constrained to think that William Jennings Bryan either made it clear that, from many points of view, he is the most valuable does not know a party split when lie sees one or he is indulgmember of the United States Senate, and Chairman Hays declared of the senator would mean the saving of at least ing in a species of Machiavellian deception which all good commoners that the should avoid. $500, 0CX3, 000 a year for five years to the national treasury. The women The ordinary observer sees so many splits in the Democratic of the party added their tribute, all of them agreeing that Senator Smoot had done more for the victory womans suffrage than any party that it seems to him like a mosaic floor that has succumbed to the crumbling hand of Time. other member of the upper branch of the legislature. The only way Mr. Bryan can prevent the gap from widening is Naturally Utah Republicans felt proudly elated and they did not he speaks omit to greet each. word of homage with praise. And they were to emulate the muted music which only silence makes. If walls of the Democratic Jerico. justified in feeling proud and in making good resolves that Senator at all it must be to tear down the The very fact that the President and Mr. Bryan confront one anRut good resolutions are not enough. Smoot would be in a disagreement on any issue is to create a split in the party. other the must action. into cheers their translate must stop They They thunAssuming the role of peacemaker, at a time when he has mismanagement. They cannot hope to win if they do not inject new not conceal the life into the Republican campaign and also much common sense and dered a challenge to war, is a camouflage which will Hays departed from Utah with the impression that IFtheChairman state was certain to go Republican at the next election the honey-tongue- rs we-counse- l re-ele- ct WE re-elect- i ion re-elect- ed. |
