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Show J 4 THE CITIZEN 5 t judge says ten years, it should be for ten years. You members of the pardon board and you judge? of the courts, does it not occur to you that this leniency is a creator of crime? The ordinary criminal does not fear arrest any more because of light punishment. We lead the world in crime. We are fast following in the fooststeps a f Turkey, another bone-dr- y country. It is charged that the saloon used to make our criminals then, what makes them now? We maintain that unjust laws create disrespect for such laws, and disrespect for laws create wilfull crime. You cant legislate a man to be other than himself. pecially desirous of guaranteeing and is taking steps to prevent. Ballot boxes about which there is any question will be protested. The Committee has sent out word that its purpose is not only to prevent fraud against the Republican ticket but to make sure that there is no question about Republicans election methods. All this program is at the direction of Herbert Hoover, who is particularly interested in having an election that is as nearly above question or disturbance as possible It is his keen desire to place politics on a higher plane and he is doing everything in his power to have a clean campaign and an election without fraud or collusion. - . ASLEEP ON THE JOB AS USUAL. OPTIMISTIC MR. RASKOB. THE SCENIC MOTORIST, official organ of the Utah State Automobile Association, gives credit, in its current issue, to the Salt Lake Tribune for stirring up interest against the build-.i-g of the Dotsero Cutoff, prior to the extension of the Spit Lake and Denver railroad through the Uintah Basin. This is, of course, an error. The Tribune and all other local papers were sleeping on the job until The Citizen, upon information of a very eminent engineer, published the first warning of what would happen if Salt Lake slumbered on and permitted the Dotsero Cutoff to be built, when, as it pointed out, Colorado would begin just east of the Wasatch mountains. This warning was widely copied and the issue of The Citizen adorned, at a very important, meeting, the council table of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and is credited with having influenced that body to see the advantage of building the railroad line through the Uintah Basin prior to the construction of the Dotsero Cutoff. And furthermore, the recent interest in getting a line through the Uintah Basin, was started by The Citizen more than a year ago, with its Rocky Mountain League stories, which were copied verbatum as big front page stories in Denver newspapers. Trouble is when local newspapers get scooped they peeve and pout and wont let their readers have the news. THE recent Republican vote in the. Michigan primaries was in round numbers 600,00.0; the Democratic a little under 9,000. This was disappointing news to John J. Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who has been claiming Michigan for Smith. Tabulations show 251,231 voters enrolled in Philadelphia with 214,937 registered as Republicans and 34,420 as Democrats. 8,000 more Democrats registered this year than 1927. Thousands of women have come out to register who never have voted before. German-America- n setiment is getting stronger for Hoover every day. There are many of these in Pennsylvania. Upon learning the result of the Michigan primary vote Raskob immediately issued a bulletin claiming Pennsylvania for Smith. He is indeed optimistic. NO FRAUD ON ELECTION DAY. t . p . FRAUD is going to be prevented in this presidential election. The Republican National Committee has formulated plans for nationwide ballot-bo- x protection and is organizing state and local organizations that will be necessary for this purpose. The plans call for theT. extensive use of women workers as it is the view of the Republican leaders that women are particularly suitable watchers. Voting will be superfor ballot-bo- x vised on election day, guaranteeing against fraud, not only in the voting booth but also against deals by party leaders. It is the Committees intention to have every voting booth in the counn try covered by reliable, alert watchers, and will be well represented in this work. Republican campaign managers are emphatic in making it clear that in taking these precautionary steps they are in no way making any charges against either the Democratic nominee or his campaign organization. It is against the local political machine and politicians that their operations are directed. This is particularly true of the situation in some of the larger cities where the problem is not only one of protection deals against ballot frauds but against between party workers. Sometimes professional out-rvpoliticians arrange between themselves the of an election so that they all profit. In such a bargain leaders of one party agree to throw support to the other on the national ticket for a share of local or county or even state offices. It is against this sort of inside rascality that the Republican National committee is es- wo-ite- so-call- ed me ANOTHER BLOW STRUCK. . THERE has been widespread propaganda for several weeks to the effect that the Negroes of the northern cities were organizing to support Governor Smith for President. The National Baptist Convention dealt a severe blow to these rumors when assembled at Louisville, Kentucky, recently. The convention represents a membership of 3,500,000 with 27,000 churches and ministers, largely situated above the Mason and Dixon line and they adopted strong resolutions opposing any laws or amendments that would make possible a return of the saloon and opposing any candidate who lightly esteems the Constitution. The Negro Baptists are particularly strong in New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Hartford, Conn., Los Angeles, Omaha, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and in many of the smaller idus-tri- al cities of the middlewest and the South. In many of these cities they may prove a deciding factor in the election. In a resolution adopted they declared that it is not safe to enact any laws or change any of the amendments that would make possible a return of the saloon, the greatest enemy of our people and of our civilization. The convention also declared for the separation of church and state. 200 delegates to a laymens meeting declared support to Herbert Hoover and to stand squarely behind Jhe Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. . ' WOMANS PARTY FOR HOOVER. SEPTEMBER 12TH a delegation of women representing the Womans party called on Herbert Hoover with the request that he pledge himself to an equal rights amendment to the Constitution and this is what he said: I think you will agree that any plea based on equal opportunity and removal of restrictions of any group would make a great appeal to me. I have long regarded that as an ideal of American life, but it has not been my habit to rush into determinations on any public question. I would go to any extent to remove restrictions on equality of opportunity. I have the utmost sympathy for you in your problems and I have asked some friends qualified to penetrate the maze of. this problem to make a thorough investigation of the effect of such an amendment as you propose. There is on the statute books of all states a mass of legislation designed primarily for the benefit of women and children. I would hesitate to say, without a thorough and exhaustive study that all of these should be brushed aside with a sweep of the hand. I want to be honest with you. I do not know of anything more serious for any public man than to pledge himself to a change of the Constitution. I am " not going to pledge myself until I have exhausted my, information on the subject. If I find to my satisfaction that this is necessary to obtain equality of opportunity, I will be with i i1 i i you. I could not be more frank with you and I hope you will receive this in the spirit in which it is given. . . The women vigorously applauded this speech and have, in consequence, pledged their unqualified support to Hoover. They make it plain, however, that they are only committed to the support of the Republican party for this campaign. The honesty and sincerity of the man is demonstrated to a high degree in these few words. I will do . my best is all that can be asked of any man and Herbert Hoover has proved, beyond any. doubt, that this is his attitude throughout. Had he been thinking of himself he would have promised, the 'delegation all that they asked for in order to get their votes. But Herbert Hoover is not that kind of a man. His frankness, honesty and sincerity, of purpose cannot help but win for him the wholehearted support of the American people. J . THOUGHT TREND. The definite trend toward the Republican ticket reported from the border states will be encouraged by visits from both the Republican candidates, one or the other of whom will speak in every one of those states. Herbert Hoover will speak at Elizabethton, Tennessee on October 6. Later . in the campaign Senator Curtis will wlil speak in both Missouri and Oklahoma. Both those states are near enough to Kansas to reflect the popular regard felt for him there, which is attributable to his record of never having broken a promise during 33 years in Congress. ANOTHER creative genius aligned with the Republican candidate is Thomas A. Edison, who says that Herbert Hoover will be elected president because he stands for the things a majority of the people are in favor of. . AS CIVILIZATION progresses, woman not only has the right to vote, but is in a fair way to exercise most of the political influence. Wash- ington Star. ONLY FIVE DAYS MORE. Millions, of men and women in the United States, American born citizens, fail to take advantage of the opportunity given them to have a voice in the government of the states and nation. On the other hand there are many citizens who have but little interest in the government who are herded to the poles to na-traliz- ed cast their vote. If you are not registered you cannot vote on November Gth. There are only five days left in which to do this, viz: Oct. 9, 10, 16, 30 and 31. We are not presuming to tell you how to vote but we do beg of you to register and then VOTE, one way or the other, but VOTE. 4 V) X I k I |