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Show THE CITIZEN 8 But, of course, a party that contains within its generous embrace the sedate Mr. Wallace and Mr. Moyle and the bounding Bolshevik of the Rock- -' ies is so big and liberal that it is always harmonious. If the Reds are defeated they will lie down like good little lambs and invite the lions to eat them. And if the Reds win they will eat the lions in a spirit of the most OBSERVATION PLANE Democrats In Terrific Harmony Battles Q INCE we began to write our sym- - pathetic series about Democratic harmony our Democratic friends have tried to appear concordant by being silent. They have been playing possum, but at the same time they have been knifing one another in the quiet, artistic, finished fashion of Sicilian bandits, Here and there one less artistic than the others has displayed a crude longing for rough and tumble fighting. There was, for example, that rough affair at the city and county building the other day when two officials Democrats and, therefore, harmonious threatened to annihilate one another with bare fists. The din of their harmony could be heard far down the broad corridor and even found its way to the grassplots where the hoboes sat up with rapidly wagging ears, expressive of surprise and joy. Of course we could tell the names, but we do not think it would serve a high moral purpose in the present campaign. We cite the incident merely by way of showing just how harmonious the Democrats are. They brag about their harmony and boast that it will win the election and consequently we opine that the public is interested in knowing just how united they are as the convention days, the gladdest of the year, approach. The melee for the gubernatorial and senatorial nominations continues. It is said that Matt Thomas, the federal prohibition officer and state chairman pro tempore, is being talked of for governor. It is said that he likes to be talked about that way. Those who are booming him say that he can run on a wet and dry platform at one and the same time, which is an achievement in Democratic harmony that is as astonishing as anything that has occurred since Bamum said that tEe American people love to be bamboozled. Just now Mr. Thomas is traveling about the state on his Uncle Samuels coin. Of course, he cannot help being state chairman at the same time. And if Democrats ask him his opinions he feels that he has a right to give advise and counsel as state chairman while traveling at the expense of that excellent uncle who has been so good to hundreds of thou- sands of deserving Democrats. The Democrats who are backing Thomas for governor say they are tired of candidates who are not good no bootleg idea is here sigmixers nified. They are weary of men who dont know the varied arts of campaigning. Now Matt Thomas is a good mixer and a campaigner of extraordinary skill ergo, the Democrats who love pep are saying that he is the man who ought to be named for governor. All of which is dismaying to Speaker Richards and his eminent rival, Mr. Wallace, and to others who would here be mentioned but for the fact that they show no class. They say that James Moyle soon will be back this way armed, booted and spurred to ride into the convention and carry off the senatorial nomination. When he comes back he will have the surprise of his political life, for Senator Olson the bounding Bolshevik of the Rockies has been organizing all kinds of soviets In his own behalf and behoof. It is said that he has been tieing up railroad votes in bundles and laying them away for reference. delightful harmony. Help Letter Carriers Get Living Wage Unless congress acts quickly the bill providing increased salaries for postal employes will not be passed before adjournment in June. It will be a disgrace to the nation if it permits postal employes to work any longer for the pittances that have been doled out to them. The committee on improvement in the postal service appointed by the Salt Lake Letter Carriers Association has written to all the civic clubs ing them to urge upon congress the speedy passage of an act increasing salaries. Senator Olson reckons that radicalism, is so much the vogue nowadays that the Democrats, if they are canny, will want to nominate a candi date who is so pink that he verges His radical record, therefore, is al- most historic, although he Is still a young, handsome and, sad to relate, aristocratic radical who looking wouldnt think of offending his mirror by growing Bolshevik whiskers. remarks: a Business men are the greatest losers through the present inadequate service. They will gain by every provement in it. The unvarying state-- ' ment elicited in every city where the wage commission held hearings was that the service was breaking down due to the inability to secure or hold competent employes. Higher salaries alone will correct this evil. The bill in congress has been held up by the failure of the Joint Commission to make its recommendations concerning salaries. Senator Smoot . sends the encouraging message thatP this commission will report within a few days and that every effort will be made to expedite the bill before congress recesses in June. heartily in favor of increased compensation for the postal employes the poorest paid employes in the I am government service. And I shall spare no effort to secure tse passage of this legislation, Senator Smoot says. The Postal Wage commission has investigating for fourteen months, but has failed to report. While they have been pursuing their been swerable arguments for additional pay. It calls attention to the fact leisurely investigation postal ployes have been resiining by that competent employes are resign- thousands and soon only a minority of competent men will remain in the em- the service unless salaries are increased. 5 j Complete Line I Couch Hammocks I Porch Furniture , for the approval training of the radical voters since long before there were any such animals. Even before the European war, even before Lenine rode in a German parlor car to begin the Russian revolution he was tinting himself a pale carmine and associating, with soap box orators or those who could be soap box orators if they wanted to. In the legislature he threatened to scalp each and every capitalist, to make a corpse out of every corporation and to let the people rule all the time through him. unan- pertinent uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii lawyerlike gentleman who would appeal to the radicals about as much as William Jennings Bryan appeals to Woodrow Wilson. Among radicals he would be as much out of place as a preacher at a prize fight. On the other hand, Senator Olson has been in That letter presents ing from the service in large numbers every day because of inadequate com on red. Now Mr. Moyle, so far from being a Red, is almost blue. 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