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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHfNG'CO.. INC. A. W. RAYBOULDr: BU8INESS MANAGER n $1.50 I subscription prices theUnlted State t, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign .countries,: within the Postal ' . Union, $4.50 per year. i"1:;:!1'- 1- 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Addrees all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce at Salt Lake .the-Act March 8, 1879.-- .. of City,. Utah, under ' Salt Lake City, Utah ; Ness Bldg.- Phone Wasatch. M09: ' ; - 311-12-- 13 AN OPEN APPEAL TO W. LI. WATTIS this tinie is inopportune, ill advised and detrimental to the best interests of the state. ... Do you. believe' that after your action of two years ago in rewith the State Republican Committee and lendfusing to letter. ing your aid and comfort to the activities of your home paper which You are one of the prominent successful citizens of our state,, was instrumental in defeating a Republican United States Senator, having extensive widespread interests, known for your. integrity and thus vetoing the acts of Senator Smoot, you should aspire to a leadpublic spirit, your success is bound up with the prosperity' of our ership of the party at this time, which must elect President Coolidge?' state. On .the, other hand, your withdrawal would be a That being the case, we feel you will recognize that towering that will always bring you honor. above every other issue in the November election the success of $ $ $ $ President Coolidge stands foremost, and that the important task REPUBLICANS ENDORSE M ABEY. before the leaders of the Republican party in Utah is, not to satisfy the ambitions of this or that man, but to do their utmost to place the We" endorse and commend the State administration tinder the .. electoral vote of Utah in the Republican column. able leadership of Governor Charles R. Mabey, which administration Utah needs President Coolidge at the helm of government in has established a record of' economy and reached a higher standard Washington if Utah is to prosper. Our wool industry must be pro- of efficiency than was. possible under Democratic leadership. The present policy of the Republican State administration curtected; our sugar factories kept functioning; the steel industry, just blossoming into life, must be fostered; mining development encourtailing public expenditures beyond appropriations has already effectaged and the general interests of the whole people kept on the road ed a saving in the public finances of the state of Utah amounting to of prosperity. hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the other hand, should the Republican party in Utah fail in The foregoing was passed at the Republican convention in Sanits leadership at this time the country is in danger of falling into pete county in July, 1922, and is illustrative of hundreds of others the hands of the radical elements, a happening that would bring stagall commending the administration of the officials at the state house. nation to business, for with our government in control of communSanpete County Republicans will come to the convention in Salt Lake ists, socialists, radicals, etc., capital would not invest in new or old City , two weeks from now strong for Governor Mabey for renomi-natioThe fact that you are a candidate for the office of Governor of the State of Utah at the coming .Republican convention, and the further fact that the success of the Republican party is the paramount issue in the State of Utah, prompts the Citizen to address you this . co-oper- ate self-sacrifi- ce n. . - undertakings. ; ; This condition might as well be looked squarely in the face,. for, as already indicated in the daily press, the radical party is even now getting ready to attack the sugar industry of which you are the head in Utah, and the employees of which by their activities in your wherever the factories are located, are causing comment. "Q: Nearly four years ago the party elected by the largest majorities ever given a complete set of state officials. They were elected on a platform that promised business efficiency and economy and in all fairness you will admit in that respect the officeholders have made be-,h-- lf, good. As is usuallv the case the officers should be accorded a second term and so far there seems to be no substantial reason why ernor Mabey.' should not be renominated. The convention must of ' necessity approve his administration and doing this, how can the delegates consistently turn him down for renomination? We do not believe the delegates will take that course, but nevertheless, l0".ause of the important ;isssue we appeal to you not to split the Republican party at this time ; not to be instrumental in placing the opposite parties in office ; nor do anything that would jeopardize the election of President Coolidge. Party welfare must actuate our leaders in guiding the Republican party and you, Mr. Wattis,- will admit that your candidacy at - MALIGNING SENATOR SMOOT. under cover men at the Salt Lake County Court House through their paid workers arc now distributing poison to the effect that Senator Smoot at the election two years ago assisted to elect Senator King, the Democratic candidate. Such work will only react to the detriment of the IlOW TO DO IT GANG for all Republicans in Utah at that time know that two years ago Senator Smoot stumped tlie entire state for the Republican candidate for United States Senator. In fact, so strenuous were his efforts- to elect Bamberger that he impaired his health. Senator Smoot is too The - loyal a Republican to ever at any time countenance bolters who come into convention and participate in its proceedings and when the will of the majority does not suit them lend support to Democrats. THE PERIL OF THE PRIMARIES It is not so very many years since political primaries were an unknown quantity in the United States and on all sides wc wrerc accustomed to hear incessant berating of the convention plan of selecting candidates for political offices. |