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Show ' About the most impudent thing that has hap- I pened in local politics for soma time was the ac- 1 tion of the Republican auxiliary cmmittee in attempting to make a political coup out of the Wtf prospective re-districting of the city. This auxil- HR iary appears to bo a political maverick that rose out of 'the cinders of the late lamented Young Men's Republican club, although maverick is probably prob-ably not the appropriate word as the Smoot brand must be located somewhere on its calloused hide. This is the aggregation of political orphans who HR were rendered homeless by the election of last iBst year, and who are looking for a place to fall this year with the minimum amount of Impact In this re-districting business as on former occasions members of the auxiliary have shown that as politicians pol-iticians they are deaf, dumb and blind. The blindness blind-ness can be accounted for. It was probably superinduced super-induced by scrutenizing too closely the bulletins from Washington to see whether or not their ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical angel, Mr. Smoot, was to be thrown out of his senate seat. |