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Show THE CITIZEN 4 n and like a real dominating Tammanite is promising everything for a vote. No Al, you may be a good governor for New York, but we consider you poor timber for. a THE . CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People MW IWMIMmiH HMMWMWMIM MIIMWH MM . It is said that taxes in New York have trippled since Governor Smith has been inducted into office. Would he not be just as expensive in the presidential chair? CAMPAIGNER. MMMWMMW Published by THE GOQDWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Blanaffer and Editor Advertising Manager REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY. DURING the past eight years of the Republican Tariff policy national income has increased over $30,000,000 a year; 3,500,000 new and better homes have been built; 9,000,000 more homes have been equipped with electricity, lifting drudgery from the lives of women; 7,000,000 radio sets have been purchased and 14,000,000 automobiles for the utility and recreation of the people. A statement issued by the National Committee points out that the prosperity of American wage earners, responsible in a large measure to the protective tariff, is reflected in the increase in savings deposits from 1920 to 1926, it is declared. In 1920 savings deposits totaled $15,000,-000,00They jumped to $23,000,000,000 in 1926, under the first six years of operation of the schedules. The members holding shares in the building and loan associations have increased from $2,500,000,000 to $5,500,000,000. The number of individuals holding industrial insurance policies has increased from 50,000,000 in 1920 to 74,000,000 and the amount of their policies has increased from $7,000,000,000 to $13,000,-000,00- 0. And some one said our prosperity is a 0. Ford-ney-Macum- ber myth. SMITH HITS TOBOGGAN. GOVERNOR A1 Smith, you surely are a typi- DESPITE the fact that he is a very busy man, of William W. Seegmiller, First the State Republican Committee will take a very active part in the present campaign, according to announcement Thursday at Republican Headquarters, Hotel Utah. It was stated that Mr. Seegmiller will devote every minute that his business will permit to the furtherance of the State and National Republican tickets. Mr. Seegmiller plans to visit many sections of the state and may take the stump as the cam-- , paign progresses. Returning from Sanpete county where he attended the county convention, Mr. Seegmiller said perfect harmony prevails in Republican circles of that section. Evidence of that fact was shown in the election of the county and legislative tickets by acclamation. There apparently is not the slightest discord in the Republican ranks of Sanpete County, Mr. Seegmiller said. I am certain that the county which normally has a Republican majority of 1100 will double it at the coming election. Vice-Chairm- at Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, the under Lake Salt Postoffice Utah, at the City, Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, 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. FRANK E. SCIIEFSKI ED. S. DIAMOND president. cal flower of Tammanism. Your training as a carefully groomed Tammany wardheeler was displayed in large red letters in your recent speech to the corn belt district farmers when you promised them everything you could think of. Why yes, if a promise will get a vote why beat about the bush? Farmers are just ordinary beings and if they can all be made rich next summer by simply passing a bill why hesitate. If the prohibition bill made the country dry why won't the McNary-Hauge- n bill make the farmer rich? . But going back to that Smith speech. Now the governor had some good points, but he did have some bad ones, and that speech lost him more votes in this country than he made and if he comes far enough west with the same kind of speeches, by the time he Teaches San Francisco he will be lost among the forgotten ones. A month ago Governor Smith really looked like a fair bet in this presidential race, but today, what man would have the courage to bet a plugged dime on him? Smith did have a chance but his jumping jack methods have turned thousands of votes from him. He has brushed the Democratic platform adopted at Houston aside, an ' SMOOT IS READY. WHILE Senator Reed Smoot feels that Utah is safely Republican, yet the Senator is very anxious to remain here from now on until election. He is placed in a very difficult position. His wife has been very sick but she is getting better and wholly upon her future condition depends the Senators stay in our midst. While we need him here we all know how he must feel with his wife in Washington and so far away from him and we can only hope and pray for the best. Senator Smoot says that it would prove a calamity to the entire country to defeat Hoover. In no time in the history of this nation has the country been in greater need of a man like Hoover and the people are not going to be fooled by any one. He is ready to take the stump. i CAMPAIGNER. REPRESENTATIVE E. O. Leatherwood will do a lot of state campaigning for the Republican party. Leatherwood vras the unanimous choice for Congress fromzthis district and he is confident that the entire Republican ticket from top to bottom will be elected this fall. The Republicans have the best representative ticket, geographically and otherwise, they ever had and the people are for it. MARCUSEN IS CONFIDENT. NO MONEY, NO VOTES. to reports the National Democratic committee will not supply the Utah Democrats with any campaign funds. As the story goes, why should any money be spent in a state which is so overwhelmingly Re- publican by the opposition ? Every effort is be- ing made to get Governor Al Smith to come to Salt Lake from Denver, but Al wants to know why waste time and money in Utah and California where there are but few Democrats and no chance of victory. It costs money for campaign expenses and with no eastern money coming in the local Demo-cra- ts feel pretty gloomy. Why should they foot all the hills? ACCORDING UTAH COUNTY SAFE. GEORGE P. Parker of Provo called at head-- j quarters and said that Utah County was safe for the Republicans this fall. The farmers have had good crops, prices have been fair and there is a general good feeling. Parker is on the state ticket for attorney general and he is a man of wide experience and good judgment. . BOXELDER A CINCH. J. W. PETERS of Boxelder was a visitor in the city and he says the people of his county are nearly unanimous for the entire Republican tick- et. Boxelder is an agricultural district and the farmers feel that it is poor policy to change administrations at this time. Peters bases his opinion upon personal contact with the people in his district and he can see a big victory in sight for the Republican party. NON-PARTISA- get-togeth- er BUNK. N GOVERNOR Dern appears to be a man with- out a real party. In his talks he endeavors to but convey the impression of that wont do in this election. Four years ago he was elected by the Republicans and a few Democrats which may he some reason for his nonpartisan talks but this year he is up against a proposition where the Republicans will vote for Wm. H. Wattis, one of the biggest businessmen of the state. We will say this for Governor Dern; He is a good talker and entertainer and while Governor of the State of Utah, he has Seen America First. It is said the ' Governor has many friends in the state. His road commission, just one of the many departments in the state, it is said has 3,000 people on the payroll. Thats not such a bad political machine itself. No wonder they want to raise the automobile tax. The Republicans are going to elect Wattis and see if a more satisfactory tq adjustment cannot be had. . ftf' non-partisans- hip . IS LAXITY A VIRTUE? THE STATE pardon board turned loose some bad actors from the penitentiary a few .days ago, and thus society is jeopardized just that much more. It-inot only hard to arrest real crooks, but it is hard to convict them and after they have been convicted, the pardon board provides short terms for them. One of the men turned loose was in for his third term; another had been in twice, while another was a rape fiend and should have drawn long sentence. They say that the men are turned loose because of good behavior. Can a man be anything but good in an iron cage ? Is not this good behavior propaganda just a political stunt? When the s is greatly CHAIRMAN Carl R. Marcusen pleased with the support given him by the Republican men and women, and he predicts the greatest victory in the history of the party this fall. Marcusen is getting to be a real political warhorse and hard work is no punishment to him. Headquarters in the Hotel Utah are continually crowded with visitors and there is a spirit there not had for several years. No wonder Marcusen is happy and so confident of victory. V |