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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the fl Including postage $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, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake of under Act . March 3, 1879. the Utah, City, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. Salt Lake City, Utah: . . 311-12-- 13 UTAH SENDS DELEGA TES UNINSTRUCTED Delegates returned from the Republican convention well pleased with the results and delighted with the hospitality, of the people of Price. The convention was held in the splendid high school building on a slight eminence above the city. The auditorium is commodious and fully served the purpose of the big convention. The delegation to Chicago is headed by Senator Reed Smoot. It was the prevailing opinion that the senator would add to the influence of the delegation because of his national prominence and his accepted position among the leaders of the Republican party in the nation. No light was made on him and he was selected unanimously by acclamation. The convention, however, did not pass into history without some lively contests. The old Progressives and a younger element attempted to defy the steam roller and emerged from the process fully flattened out. It may be said with truth, however, that no element nurses any grudges and all are satisfied that a most representative delegation was chosen. The delegates at large are: Senator Reed Smoot: Mrs. Jeannette A. Hyde of Salt Lake; J. U. Eldredge, Jr., of Ogden, and J. C. Lynch of Salt Iake. The alternates arc Mrs. Lily C. Wolstenholme of Salt Lake, Wilford Day of Iron county, T. .11. lUirton of Nephi, and P. C. Scorup of Salina. elected at the convention of the First Congres. The delegates sional convention are L. R. Anderson of Sanpete and Clarence P. Cardon of Logan, with Mrs. Alice Collins of Weber and James Knud-.- Q of Poxelder as alternates. From the Second Congressional district the delegates are Harold P. Fabian of Salt Lake and C. E. Loose of Provo, with Judge F. C. Loofbourow and J. Parley White of Salt Lake as alternates. There seemed to be no division of opinion as to the advisability l of sending an uninstructed delegation. If there had been any sentiment for an instructed delegation it was swept away a few days before the convention when Senator Smoot announced that he favored an unpledged delegation. There was an almost unanimous opinion that the best interests of Utah would be served by sending to Chicago a delegation which would be able to take advantage of any situation tliat might arise. Utah is recognized as a battleground and the Republican party needs all the prestige it can muster for the campaign. lhe lines of cleavage in the convention had no relation to presidential candidates. Whatever contests developed had nothing to do with the aspirations of any of the presidential candidates. Those who created a diversion in the interests of a free and untrammeled convention had no regrets and nursed no sore spots after the fight was over. Nevertheless they believed that they had. made a necessary fight against a vicious system. One of the Salt Lake deleproxies and he voted them for the dominant gates held thirty-fiv- e s. The practice of getting proxies and wielding the power of a proxy syndicate in the Republican conventions of Utah is to be condemned and calls insistently for reform. Primaries are dull things at best, but if the proxy evil continues to be rampant there will be a very general desire for presidential primaries. Inasmuch, however, as Utah will fare better with an uninstructed delegation the general results of the convention, aside from the means by which they were obtained, are satisfactory to the vast majority of the delegates and, presumably, to the vast majority of the rank and file of the party throughout the state. One of the incidents of the convention which stirred some bitof the Salt Lake county delterness in the breasts of the egation was the fickleness, or as some preferred to call it, the falses. ness of Webers They agreed with their Salt Lake conferees to vote for Mrs. Hyde and Mr. Lynch in exchange for votes for Mr. Eldredge. Mrs. Hyde and Mr. Eldredge were successful on the first ballot, but Mr. Lynch fell short by five or six votes. When an attempt was made to select Mr. Lynch by suspending the rules and selecting him by acclamation to be a member of the delegation to Chicago the Weber county delegates voted in the negative and this made it necessary to ballot again. Meantime all of the Salt Lake delegates got behind Mr. Lynch solidly and he obtained a majority. Weber split its vote between Mr. Lynch and Mr. Lee. his leading rival. slate-maker- slate-make- rs slate-maker- This, however, was a natural result of trading and Weber had given so many promises during the process of its negotislate-makin- g. ations that it found difficulty in keeping them all. These incidents all served to add zest to the convention which was one of the most interesting in the recent political history of the. state. APOSTLES AND APOSTLES Some of our good friends who love us so much that they do not wish us to go wrong and others who write anonymous letters filled with malice have hastened to point out what. they deem to be an inconsistency between the attitude we took in the editorial Apostles Rarred" and our attitude in the editorial Political Czars Must Keep Hands OIL |