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Show STATESMAN 17TAI! APRIL 27, 1928 on tha buainaao of tha tate of Naw York. Or mayhap, Nathan Straus, Republican, one of tho world's leading financiers and philanthropists, knows slightly more of Governor Smith's ability than our friand A Democratic state newspaper, published every Friday at from Casper, And Mr, Straus says Edited by Lake Women's Democratic Sponsored Salt Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to of him: rise of Alfred E- - Smith Tho promotion of the progress and prosperity of the state and from a lowly homo to tha goverMRS. D. M. DRAPER. norship ia a drama tlo Illustration party. of tho possibilities In American Ufa Office Room 111 Atlas Block, and tha bast answer to tha destruca Contributor.' tive criticism directed against our Slogan: "Every Salt Lake City, Utah. American Institutions by unbalancBERNARD T. FLANAGAN, Editor. ed propagandists. His racord as governott demonstrates the value of flcial Ufa, It waa hla ax pressed da wlda vote for a national a man TRAINED IN THB COM- Thomas Jefferson C. S. GODDARD, Business Manager. position. sire that tho rotlremont bo abso- Th womon at present ia Congress PLICATED PROBLEMS OF lute aa he held no wish to dictate ra representatives of aa Neond Clue Matter. July II. XIII, at the Foatoffiea at Salt STATE. A man who can aurvlvo Still Lives particular tho set of othars. However, auch districts In thalr atatea and lake City. Utah, under the aet of March I, 1171. art not that ordeal (four times governor of waa regard in which be waa oongroamoa at largo. A toast given by Mrs. Ivon Dal- held tha New York) and come out of it wa hia It that Inevitable that with an esteem of las Gore, Jefferson day banquet. Influence should go on and that ho the votes IS THE TYPE OF PlIB Provo, Utah, April It, lt!l.) should In a largo way continue to Corruption Upheld ADVERTISING RATES LIC SERVANT OUR STATE Shortly aftar noon on July 4, aet policies-- For example, wa find tho fiftieth NEEDS. of tha anniversary In hla voluminous correspondence till, From Washington cam a differOr If all those remarks of men Declaration of Indapandonco, Jef- with Monro that Jaffaraon Column Inch $1.00 practi- ent story of th public attitude on quit able to Judge ono'a mental ferson died at hla homo at Monti cally stated tho which principles corruption. To tho surprise. and LEGAL NOTICES attainments and qualities of states- cello. Far away to th north in wore six weeks later given to th disgust of all truly good cilia ns, town Uttl th of conMaas., are Qulnoy, to Insufficient world In what la now known as th th Jury In tho Sinclair fraud ease manship Notice of Assessment, 5 times $5.00 vince our Caspar contributor, pos- another great patriot lay on bis Monro Doctrine and universally hi ought in a verdict of not guilty. 50 sibly tho following from tha New death bad. John Adams wont with recognised aa th Delinquent Notices, per column inch policy of Apparently w hav far to go betha sotting sun. His last whlaparad th United States fixed Bun York Herald and wo (Republican) Thu fore Is sufficient sentiment there today Probate Notices, 2 times 3.00 Thomas Jefferson havo tha living Influence of on tho ova of on of Governor words wsrs: Thomconvict a powerful corporation Notice to Creditors, 4 times 4.00 Smiths gubernatorial elections, will till Uvea. as Jefferson. - its henchmen oven with such apparently in error at In thla connection and with th clear strike him as rather final. Says thaAlthoughseldom and unmistakable evidence. 5.00 Summons, 5 times hav words more time, of Mr. Smith, tha to aeont In situation Th verdict Is unfortunate too. regard truly prophatle bean uttered. In- Nicaragua In mind, aa wall horn It was not supporting: aa tha j that it la a bad Phone Wasatch 852. example for deed, today, Thomas Jefferson atlll discussion that took A1 Smith haa made a good govplace recent- other nations who are struggling ernor and would again make a good lives Conference to work out for themselves Demotho at ly At of the time of th founding in Havana. He hea United cratic forms governor if Cuba. th As on our government it was contem- State NO USE CRYING OVER SPILLED OIL. mad an excellent executive." can do no better than to turn American of government. most able tha that correspondent stated, plated waa who to Jefforaon probWyoming Eagle. again Is "It all very well for boy and would bo chosen president and no to rooognlso th simi- girls at school There is no use crying over spilled oil. Twelve good men to loom and reclt was antic!' ably thof first IN POLITICS OF division into parti in tha waatera th Incomparable Interests larity In and true have given Sinclair a verdict of not guilty and the UPHEAVAL ATLANTA. address of Lintha However, patad. experimentdes- hemlspher ae different and dis- coln at Gettysburg. But for a coungovernment waa those of th old try to matter has become history. The next step is up to the .six- Dr. Hiram Evane, emperor of th tined to ba short-livefrom tinguished repeat excellent maxims la world and dearly stated: "Conquest not Ku Klux Klin for life, says all two achoola of thought Inevitably teen million voters of the country. dovolopad enough. Tho real basla of tha Klan will be and assorted thamselvea In con- not in our principles. Inconsistent British rule In India and Egypt Is effort this year Sinclair, afraid to go on the witness stand and Fall, exerted for the defeat of A1 Smith, flict. Fundamentally they aro op- with our government." financial rectitude in public service. Aa wa today contemplate tha whose dying mans deposition was shown to be a fiber of th nulllflvallonlsl. That Is nlso true of th rule direct posite in conception and tn operaInfundamental our Ilia of present New This tho and Indirect which th United charge against tion: th on advocating governlies, can have their sweet solace of freedom out of the verdict Yerk governor la made because of ment for the people by tha strong, dustry, agriculture, la it not heart- States exercises In ths Philippines. to recall tha observations of In but the rank and file of the American people are still able Ills refusal to assist th govern- tho rich, tho titled, tha educated, ening Panama, In Porto Rico and Jefferaon In that earlier day and Haiti. ment In enforcing tha Volstead act. tha th able: tha other, the is mors thus It to form an opinion of their own. astonishing remedy he proposed? "Th that tho But tha real reason la found in a government by the people correction of what la corrupt earned so cltlsenshlp which has The afterglow of the verdict finds Governor A1 Smith, hla Klan Kurlar. which attacks through a eliciting th dormant In- only abroad high governof reputation form In our present for bring a Catholic. tellect and vlrtus of th whole ment will havo failed for th moment Senator Thomas J. Walsh and Senator James A. Reed, oc- theBegovernor be th augmentation of should d systhis aa It may, there can ha community by a to sustain so that reputation in fednumbers In tho lower house cupying positions of interest in the political world, and more no question that tha nomination of tem of free education, a close con- th eral and municipal activities. repr. Smith for president will trol of publle officials by tha peo- as to got a more agriculturalthat inthan ever are the voters of the country scrutinizing these Governor which may put be tha algnal for revival of th ple and a wide extenrion of suf- sentation, s. terest above that of tha three men and the records. Now at last the people see that Klan. frage. To thla latter belief Thomas ssld Jefferaon, th cul- High Royalty for. only adhered, but ha tivator of tho Jim Reed knew whereof he spoke when he pleaded with the One may witness this year a most Jaffaraon not soil "Are the most and waa also Its moat ardent and eftha remarkable political upheaval are the Democracy. voters of the country to turn the rascals out." Now, more breaking up of both tha solid south fective exponent and advocate. It valuable cltlsene: they most virthe waa he who founded tha Demo- moat independent, than ever, do the people of the nation realize that the re- and tha solid north. to their Viscountess Actor, Pssrsu, memcalled Republi- tuous. and they are tied then cratic Texas of tho British parliament, and and party, For Georgia instance, and wedded to Its liberty ber sponsibility of good government lies directly in their hands may ba found giving a majority to can, to oppose tho Monocrate, who country moat lading former daughter of Virginia, enth Interests and by now known are and that ways and means can be found to circumvent justice Republican candidate for presiRepublicans. bonds. tertained their majesties the king dent and Massachusetts, New Jer- Whan he observed the trend of afqueen of England, and also if the public relaxes its vigil Thomas Jefferson atlll Uvea am and set hla ha in faire Mr. and Mrs. Hsnry Ford at hsr quietly day Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Upon tha tomb of Jefferaon he homo near London The verdict is of much more moment to the Democratic sey. Wisconsin, th Dakotas and Iowa In about building an organisation to Inscribed last week. theae words which oppose tha autocratic form of gov' Lady Astor makes an Ideal column, own epitaph: his aa wrote party than it is to the Republican party. It is the Demo- thaThDemocratic those together hostess. of unreat and Intoler- eminent, gathering and faith, educratic party which must storm the breastworks next fall. ance arespirit abroad In tha land. Where of similar belief and HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS common tho poopla cating or haa tha had Klan llttl ct Democratic away It is the party which must bring back working re- JEFFERSON. AUTHOR OF THE Politics and the Busiwhere, aa in Indiana. Ua away haa bringing Into effective to the nation. tho damocratlo poopla of DECLARATION OF AMERICAN brought about corruption, w find lationship ness Man. tha time. In thla work Madison INDEPENDENCE. THE STATTo do this the Democratic party must unite to face the Smith tha favorite in November. and were two of hla moat UTE OF VIRGINIA FOR REwhere tha Protestant church valuedMonroe FATHwaak-anAND d Meredith Nicholson, noted auFREEDOM foe. Never was there a time less fitted for party squabbling. And LIGIOUS lieutenants and and feeling runs conferences with theae man aa hla ER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF thor, haa attempted in ths April Never was there a time when the shoulder of every one was high, aa in soma southern states, Rotarlnn, to analyx th avorago VIRGINIA. guest were very frequent. In th the ravers. needed at the wheel as now. Party differences must be sub- va find business man nnd his remote rewritings and utterances of allJeff arI still a significant sign of son It tlma chose lation to politics. Says Mr. Nicholhav praaorvad for W must bolleva that ha servient to the greater task ahead. the uncertainty and doubt among tha wo deof son: the fundamental principles for thla purpose Republicans that the feeling that mocracy, many of which hav be- to mention A rift in the ranks now may mean that the results of Mr. Mon who nr ha fait forthright nnd Hoover can win le not san- come th ostabliehod custom of our things in hla Ilf In which saloua in business acknowledge Tom Walshs astounding disclosures may be lost forever. A guine. pride nnd satisfaction. The "draft Coolidge senti- land and others to which we msy tha greeted men- their Incompetence to meet their find w those three le still strong among thorn. well turn In this Among rift now may mean that the staunch and honest democracy ment for guldanc as citisane, which 1. to tioned second, author of tho stat- first duty ia certain ha cannot ba nomitime. present which has made A1 Smiths four terms in Albany a shining Itnated men to office. It is ute of Virginia for rallgloua free- elect first-rwithout extrema preisur ths Issues are dom. when this In n day false Although also written by er Is Idea that tho Individual votlesson in good government come to naught. A rift now may from the White House. Having ex- so great and the condition so serito fundamental correct abuses and helpless Jefferson Into tho mean that all of Jim Reeds militant honesty may lose itself erted that and failed, Mr.the Hoover ous ws are confronted with ofmuch CondltuUon Uft higher tho standard of public our tha of land, Ur tho would and disregard indifference eay Coolidge tho matter service. upon the rocks. A rift now means that the great delegate hae shown hla aincarlty aa not roaponelbilltlea of cittsonshlp by of th United States,hao "Tho despairing cry that politics not yd feel ao helpless of religious freedom work of cleansing the nation, realigning of the nations re- 'choosing" to run and must run or good people whoaa Individuals. ws. bad and always will May hewn Ueelf In universal rallgloua always ao eo and how to hopeless th party. Ingratitude Is a cowardly whimper. remain sources, and equalizing the burden of government, started However, Charles E. Hughes has ws not follow Jefferson's example tolerance In the minda nnd heart our In wall not w private business wa address thee of our peoplo. May sixteen years ago by Woodrow Wilson and brought to a sud- gone to Europe. He may be there and arouse to united action ourselves diligently to th correcour great party if wa but ponder thee word of Jefforaon: during th Kansas City convention, people In them tion of errors and weaknesses But den conclusion in 1921, may be postponed indefinitely. Into effective work"I must aver ballovo that reliremoved himself from th organise hae lie It la quits otherwise a. to public More than ever the Sinclair verdict means the Demogion substantially good which Pro- business. eeenee, la known to ing relationship? Wa cheerfully assume "Wore parties duces an honcit life, and wa havo Jefferson said: ba a Coolldge-Hoovman and crats must stand as one. tha pavement before our here divided merely by greediness been authorised by one whom you that If coats there la a feeling, largely enter- for homes more than It ought. It In of either office, to take part and I equally respect, to Judge tained that he would bo tho host would CAMPAIGN BUNK. b unworthy of a reasonable a tree by Its fruits. Let ue not bo la only part of tha mysterious hanIf will candidate ha accept, and man: but whsre tha prin-clp- uneaey, then, about th different dling of publle affairs aa to which would If nominated. He la Just or moral of difference la aa substan- roads wa may purauo, but follow- wa aro helpless. If there le corThere seems to be a considerable diversity of opinion as he now a darker horse than General tial and pronounced aa ing th guidance of a good con- ruption in th local government, we to the number of victims of G. O. P. prosperity who are car- Dawea and has elements of popu- between aath strongly of our own science let ue be happy In th hope aro disposed to grin nnd bear It." parties to show larity that Dawea la lacking, al- country. I hold It aa honorable to that by these different paths w thoMr. Nicholson goes on third-ratrying the EMPTY dinner pail in the United States. Esti- though Dawea would be a e take a firm and decided part and hall all meet In tho end?" absurdity of allowing mates vary from 1,800,000 as fixed by the Washington candidate than Hoover, Itstronger line party a Immoral to pursue a middle and Incompetent men to continulives. dill Jefferson Thomai rather than personal aa between the parties" lord It over those who are Ever haa tha quedlon of slates ally standpatters, to 8,000,000, as fixed by Senator Henrick Ship-stea- d. organisation much better fitted to hold tho poThomas Jefferson Still Uvea. Popularity is to be relied on ae th Farmer-Labori- te agalnd centralisation of litical of Minnesota. Jefferson waa an ardent advo- rights aa hope of th party for defeat of the positions nnd calls upoa a live ona. Yet the tho cate of the extenalon and exercise power been business men and prosperous However, a more reliable estimate has been fixed within Democratic nominee. more more and haa been tendency Smith la sure of a majority of tho right of suffrage, throw off cowsrdlc end to centralise power with the re- cltlsene tonnd the last few days by the Citizen of Salt Lake- - This organ, of That by universal education. Ho elat- sultant to assert themselves. delegates though not tho wo hava timidity, which reasons his corruption with belief G. O. P. effusion ed administration this was shown by tha Iowa priIn Europe, Mr. Nicholson point being a standpat certainly result g a such degen today. government thus: "Every out. to bo mayor of a city or would not exaggerate anything detrimental to the G. 0. P. mary Saturday when delegatesto tor erates when trusted to th rulers of Jefferaon said: E. Is to attain an honor sought him defeated those favorable are "Our country Is too largo to have town In its last issue the Citizen said there are five or six men T. th people alone. Th people Meredith by 10 to 1. for by th very highest type of to a And directed single affairs by all ita safe depositories. Mr. Meredith, former secretary tha only In America thsr Is a cltisons. for every job. them eafa. their minds must government and X do vtrliy believe great commerce under President Wil- render opportunity for "th AmerIt that If tha prlnclpl were to precertain a to Since there are, roughly, 20,000,000 men in this country of be dogre. Improved ican man. now a good son, was ono of th forlorn hopes has boon thought thqt corruption vail of a common law being In deal business who depend on a job for a living, it is apparent that if there of tho h picked et and abuetd as a democracy. suffrage force In tho United States it would confining by restrained is movean inselfish There hae been a great people, become are five men for every job, there must be about 16,000,000 ment tho most corrupt on haler ofmaterialist, a Babbitt In a few of tho wealthier tho of negroes from aouth to to anodynes soothing more bo effectually would it earth." but Coolidge-Smomen suffering from prosperity. Since we north In recent years In some restrained by an extension of that Thomas Jefferson still lives gulso of 'service' that serves no have this on the word of the local G. O- - P. organ itself, can northern atstea these hold tha balto such number as would Ho never lost his faith In a ltrg purpose, and with a vision of pnwei for Instance In In- right bid defiance to th means of cor- sovereign democracy. Of thla he that la only narrow and myople, we any longer doubt that the Coolidge administration with ance to prove that ho doss not lack In diana and Illinois Theae negroes Our nation ha deemed said: and courage, but Is willits absurd estimate of 1,800,000 is trying to bunko the public are th backbone of tho Big Bill'' ruption." it Just and expedient from tlm to th duty and patriotism are of sensible tl'i priviextend the to excreta his faculties in voto In Chicago. Urn to further ing Mayor Thompson our for campaign purposes? of expediency submitting They are numerous In Gary and lege of euffrage, th latest inetanr opinions to the will of the major- leadership with a punch to It At the Hammond, Indiana. being the grant to women. constant nnd can with patience await THESE ABLE AMERICANS. ity, They are voters in the north and same time there hat been they get right If they happen The D. A. R. Black of universal, even until if the Issue be forced by the Klan, development with to bo at any time wrong." The Senate spends a large part of its time with resolu- no surprise need be felt If they, compulsory, free education Finally, in thla present crisis List. Its accompanytha Jews unite with tho Cath- training In civics tions to investigate and annoy ABLE Americans doing their and Its similarity of domination, with Govolics and other in support of ing In th public eye during tha week Its Thomas Jefferson MM Liven. of- - with Its greater difficulties and ws ernor Smith. days work." N. Y. Herald-Tribun- ewere the D. A. R. women end the retired from unprecedented corruption, msy Jefferson When Isaiia And of the as numerous all Ip over Just the corruption Yes, yes! policemen agitation ever their blacklisting not bcllovo with Jefferson: th Illlno'a and Pennsyl- elect for we aro com- certain organisations and Individtrue that It is unanimously Kremer Mr. country spend much time trying to annoy ABLE second-stor- y vania,nation, ia to be on of tha leading comaa halng a menace to true pletely under tho aaddlo of Massa- uals men, doing their night's work. What's the country laauea. Even Mr. Coolidge, popular hla sixth term aa natlongl ride ua very Americanism. and chusetts that they mitteeman. a he has been, might not be able black Aa ona of thnaa on th and w shall Now let ua aae Just how accurst hard. A little coming to anyway? considering hie leek of moral lead- Mr. Kremer'a knowledge of politi- see tha rsign patience of witches pass over, Hat, William Allan Wlilta. thnoted anthla In the to lead matter, In this Rocky Moun- their spell dissolved, and tha peo- Kansas editor, remarked. If want'd to (o to tho trouhlo of look-i- ership to cal cestors of ths present members of again trust hla party with tain sentiment ia. Four year ple recovering their true section sight up tho governor's rocord, has people There really of la a muttering power. a tha D. A. It. had adopted th presapparently swallowed hook, halt, discontent go when J. Brur Kremcr weeNew and restoring their government to ent that ran ha heard clear McAdoo In th Inker and all of the mallcloua policy of th prseidsnt-generUs true principles. For this la a leader floor across the nation. The people feel York convention, th Rocky Mounare at the society todny would have been where whispering campaign. game principles brown as the Daughter! of Amerrerhape Charlea Evans Huihca that they have been betrayed. tain elates were almost unanimous- stake?" ican Tcriea, Instead of Daughter! of Near York, former aacretary of Boulder Camera. hornas Jefferson still Uvea ly for McAdoo. Ten states of the tate and Republican prealdentlal of ehn American Revolution. Is a part croup of which Montana Governor GAUGING lOMTICAI, This limitation of free speech more A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS candidate In 111 I, known fN" votes ntna Just cast Illinois Votes SENTIMENT. and refusal to hear all aides of a balabout Mr. Smith than docs the genTO GOVERNOR SMITH. Smith on the eighty-seventtleman from Casper. And said Mr. overseer lot In New York and 4 8 for question strikes at th very roots Never baa a political In an adjoining oolumn tha edi- Hughes, or our drmnrracv. and tha organpublicly, Just last month: staked his rePuiallon upon surer McAdoo. Th 10 state had a total Reform. tor of this newspaper haa done Mr. Smith represrnta to ua the vision or more accurate knowledge vot isation I. not reflecting credit on or 10. According to present event A most political significant seldom does In government, and I might of the sentiment entertained by the indications, expert something which he tabulated by leaders of last week waa the primary elec- Itself nr Us tllustr'oua founders by poll-tirIn a master a when reader from the arlence of say, a letter prints people Im represents than la tha in thesa various states. Smith will tion In Illinois, where tho present holding such views. We have watched him, some rasa the latter has not elgnrd his name. with tha Hon J. Brure Kra40 of the 10 votes of these waa morally overwhelmed But we have dona that with a of ua carefully, all with fascina- mer. Montana, democracy's na- receive on tha first ballot. Six In regime 10 aisles we by Republicans and Demoerati In Busy Women Folk had the ruetom of oth- tional tion. If purpose, because the writer of tha aa tha doubtful all In Colorado are regarded an effort to bring nlout reform. fetter has attacked Governor Al- er landn he would long ago hs.r an-- i downs and tha Irs and and Montana's eight are expected In addition to a largo varl-i- y of Governor lien Small, former enfred E. Smith on a certain baseless been elevgted to the peerage. Rut ups SO years of service on tha to Thus outs Yorker. New of tho for now go of political performances of mnra or but Mayor emy, rommon ally the he hold le Just is title the that quite proudest natlnnal committee, Mr. Kremcr the more Partisan Smith adherent premise Iras pith and moment Juat ahead waa defeatof Chicago, Thompson now, but which can very easily be title any Amerlran can hold bethat by hla argu- declara that thla group of atatea ed for renomlnallon. of ua on tha program of national cause It ta a title to the esteem ami prides himself refuted. hla votes In that com- wh.rh gave Smith only nine voles ments Frank L. Smith, th United Stales fvrnta are eevcral qumhera of ape-riWe have no quarrel with anyone affection of his fellow clllsens." mittee and h he haa four ballot Intercut to the women of tho always consistently on the senator-elewho waa last winter who prefer some other candidate Possibly, too. Elihu Root, another reflected the viewe and aentlmenta yrnrs ago will glva him 10 votes declared not fit to alt In I hr semit. land. Tha biennial semlon of th to Mr. Smith. That ia ono'a privi- former Republican secretary of of Montana people. With realconvention a when courago the this year waa nomination. Young Women's Christian associaalso defeated for lege. But Jost now there Is a well state, known Mr. Smith better than seldom witnessed In political con tion will bo hold tho coming week In Chlragn Itself Mayor Thomply swings Into determined artlon. the gentleman from Caspar. organised whispering campaign does Mr. Kramer made It plain to Certainly hero la an Indication son's city candidates were swept at Sacramento. A "parents' exposithat would discredit the man by Mr. Root, perhaps tha greatest testa. tion," under tho suspires of tho of recent the Democratic elate central com of tremendous change In sentiment aside. falsely contending that ha ta mere- constitutional lawyer in 10 that Helena mittee United days ago Parents Association In tha congressional contest, th of .imong Democrats of the Rocky ly a politicise, not a statesman. years, presided as rhalrman over he was Is to or And fall aland there Mountain waa Mrs. by Greater New York. Is scheduled for chief person of Interest ready region. constitutional Nothing could bo further from tha tha New York 1 Mate sentihla of be reason I Dcmnrrafir to estimate assured J. K. that New with York Hanna Cltv Tho MrCormlrk At oho Ruth that tlmn eery April truth, for the rocord of Governor convention in In thla stela and In this secBrur Krenier of Montana, la 100 her elate wide support of woman's annual convention of tha National Smith show hint to bo ana of tha Mr. Hmlth was only a member of ment sencomHe tion. said In of hie that this Women rent correct Vetera wilt baof two har heat mala plainly per Root analyeia Mr. the said hut the club, moat rompttonr legislature, egoeutiies timent. was for Governor Smith th- - sentiment among the people petitors hr our with referenra to him then: sin In Uhirago on April 21. At largo inalnrity. ceunr, has ever eern. Yet. like -, naconda . le for president. Thereupon the slat alios- view he represents. Mrs. Mrl'ormlrk ths first Memphis. Tenn. A pul in, Mav t. Of all the men tn the conien-Ecnreeepcnd'nt from Carper woman to bs victorious In a stata thtro nlll b a convention of tho Standard. central committee Smith la tha teat proceeded to others who apparently hav nottlon, Alfred informed tatraman Wat Utah Women Voters Department by Salt Qub. Our Reader html Per ...................... ...... ...... .......... .j. ... Hun-Hora- ld ... an d. well-bor- n, wide-sprea- stock-jobber- Tea for Inter-nation- al self-respe- lc at er le safe-guard- two-thir- Foro-scsln- antl-Smlt- ot safe-guar- d. ni al for h e. al elghty-eevent- RAPPED BY WALSH Harvard Democrats Told Former Ignored and Latter Withheld Facts In Oil ScandaL Primary Defeat of (Th Now York Times.) Senator Walsh of Montana, addressing th Harvard Democrat io club in Symphony hall tonight. Included President Cool-Id- g nnd Secretary Mellon In n broadside of criticism interwoven with an account of tho oil scandals. Tha senator accused th president of attempting to belittle tho publlo significance of tho disclosure by injecting th Issue of politics. Ha charged th secretary of treasury with being personally possessed of Information which lie nevertheless sat hla subordinates th laborious task of soaking. "It was only by th bars accident of tho production of th fragile Pratt memorandum that It cam to light that Mellon know of th rsmarkabla liberality of Sinclair to th Republican committee, declared Senator Walsh. Tho fact was not even disclosed to th sen- Hawkeye Favorite Son Construed to Mean New Yorker is Unbeat- - BOSTON ate committee which, being ordered to find out what had bs corns of tha bonds, hsd solicited th aid of th oserstary of the treasury In Ito task and waa assured by him that ths secret aarvica would be at Its command. "While ths subordinates of th secretary wsrs delving through heaps of coupons snd laboriously sndsavoring to trsc then) to any of tha parties con earned In ths Continental Trading company deal, tha head of tho treasury was possessed of Information that would hav enabled th committee promptly to account for at least one block of 1160,000." that those promMentioning inently concerned In ferreting out tho facts tn ths old scandals wars charged with having no higher purpose than to secure partisan advantage, ha declared that It la ona of tho prim duties of a political party, particularly an opposition party, to expos th deficiencies, delinquencies and transgressions of Its rival, and that herein Ilea tha chief vlrtus of party government International Amodatlon of Police- women, May 1 will ba childs health day," aa usual, and tha American Child Health association ia urging Ua active observance throughout tho country. Sunday, May 13, will ba Mothers day and 1st nobody fall to taka note of it Th fourth Women's World's Fair." will taka The place In Chicago. May biennial convetnion of tha General Federation of Woman's cluba will ba held in San Antonio. Texas. May 2 I. A convention of tha American Nurse's association will meet at Louisville, Ky June 4. Thus there era scheduled from April 14 to June I conventions all composed of woman In aa many different phases of tho modern Ilf of women and with an overlapping membership of 10 per cent. Thesa ' aro exclusive of conth two great political ventions whera women will daman a 0 break in voting if In nothing also, America haa reason to b proud of Ua many alert, resourceful women who In every avonuo of progression civic Interest and community welters are working with an intelligence and warmth of purpose unsurpassed by tha men- Anaconda Standard. 19-3- 4. 40-5- Seattle Goes Masculine Now why did Seattle do that? It had tha distinction of being th only largo city In tha country with a woman mayor: It had a first-cla- ss Mra Bertha K. Lands had made an excellent record: a clean city, with unproved enforcement of tho law and hotter civic housekeeping. Ths respect that th country gava her. reflected credit on Seattle. But without any obvious reason, without any attacks on her administration, Seattle has Juat voted her out and put In a man with no record of public service a political unknown. Why? Wo wired Mrs. Landes for her own answer to the question, and her it la: "Aa In any campaign, many different factors entered Into th final result. In my own mind, the major factors were Brat, money much money and a campaign extending over a period of nlno months on the part of my opponent; second, an unwillingness to conred a woman any mors political power and prestige of the part of men politicians No real criticism baaed on facta against my administration was ever uttered. Ths common verdict Is an excellent and most creditable ad ministration, but wo want a man for mayor, and even many women Joined In ths hue and cry. Money secured worker women In the majority. The desire for an opsn town alao operated against me. So an unknown man, suddenly aequlrlng wealth, without any record of civic or community service, waa sleeted by a union of high power salesman, ship and political methods Personally. Iam mors than proud of my support that of tha finest ar.d heat people In business, professional: labor and social circles. I nlso had tha support of all tha dnll mayor too Waal-th- y We . aSJeJI m . (Helena Independent.) When ths news cams over tha wires from Iowa th other day that Governor At Smith of Now York had beaten Edwin T. Meredith ia that stata for tho Democratto national convention delegation by an eight to on vote, many readers asked. Who la Meredith!" People out In Montana may hava forgotten Meredith, but anyone in tha middle wait knows who ha ia, and four yaara ago h was much before tha country as a Democratic He la a presidential possibility. big man In Iowsf a big man anyclose a friend and where, political partnar of William Glbba McAdoo. Ho la a dry and rather a conservative. First of all Meredith la a great publisher. He la th founder, owner and editor of "Successful Farming, perhaps the moat able farm paper In tha United States, having a circulation of 1,031.000 weekly. Meredith la th son of substantial Iowa farm parents and is Just A1 Smith's kgs. Ha haa a fine college education, and after graduation publiehad tha Farmers' Tribune in Des Moines for alx years, then founded hia present paper. He waa a director of the Chicago Ftdoral Reserve Bank and ia a director of th Iowa Trust and Savlnga bank. William G. McAdoo appointed him a member of th board of excesa profits advisors during tha World war, and through th McAdoo influence ho waa named a member of tha Industrial Conference by President Wilson, and later Secretary of Agriculture in tho Wilson cabinet. Ho la a diractor of th Chamber of Commerce of tho United States and of the Associated Advertising Cluba of tha World. Mora than that ho to a leading Methodist of Iowa and a thirty-thir- d degra Scottish Rita Maaon. Ho la worth a million dollars or more. Thla la tha Iowa favorite aon defeated by Governor A1 Smith, in a tate which waa practically dry for many years bafora national prohibition, a stata of great Protestant church and a score of prosperous and wealthy Protestant colleges and universities. Smith had soma Job, but neither the prohibition question nor th rallgloua question stood In tha war of Iowa Democrats. And there aro a few Democrat In tha old Hawkey stats, tha Wilson vote In 1111 being around 131,000. .If the New York governor can carry off th Iowa delegation from uch a man as Meredith, there ia no telling whera thla Smith movement le going to end unless It ba In tha Whits House. newspapers and th two waakty Journals." Mrs. Landes diagnosis of tha la confirmed by everything elea we hear. Tha whole thing was apparently an exuberance of sex prejudice, building up and over- - As the Seattle puts It: "We suspect that. Mra. Landea waa defeated solely because Seattle n wishes to ho known aa a town'1 with a mayors office where feet may be put on tho desk and whara tha official greater of visiting delegations amelia of tobacco, and talks man-talIt la tha fashion for cities to personify their digand Importance by tha mat nity sex. yet out her In th far west whera men are reputed to be men, a proud and hustling city waa may-ore- d by a woman. So . f . . Seattle will ao longer be tied to a skirt." Well. It's a pity- - Thera hav been too few women In high office, and Mra- Landea flna administration waa a help and encouragement to othere to try. If her defeat Indicates tha strength of th prejudice till felt axalnrt women In office, tha long evolution that atlil lit ahead. Instead of discouraging women It should challenge them more and more candidacies. The men will Just hava to gat used to he-ma- k. - women In office, somehow- - Meantime, congratulations to Sirs. Lan des on a good administration and a Woman's good fight. Editorial, Journal. It often pare to make an Investigation of the markets before selling timber from a farm woodland, says th Forest Service of th United States Department of Agrlcul tore. Aa an illustration af this a Forest Service officer relates a recent experience In tha South, "In on Instance." lie says, while rid- ing along a road with a truck driver It waa learned that tho man's father-in-law had approximately fret of cedar lumber for sale-Th- e owner waa offered 131 per thousand for this material, by a local huvr. Information waa sent to him. through tha truck driver, a tn where lie could eell th asm lumber for 40 per thousand. Thia means a saving of 135 on a thousand feet, or a total of 1850." HERE IS MY SUBSCRIPTION THE UTAH STATESMAN Salt Lake City, Utah. Inclosed find check for which please send me The 111 ATLAS BLOCK, ct Utah Statesman for years months. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES $1 Year; 50c 6 months. 14-1- ...... .........a. .Street v.m. ....... .... ........ ....... ..... State ...... Name City r |