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Show THE ELECTION OF A SENATOR. Ver properly Senator Smoot has announced himself a candidate for re-election. Tho situation is peculiar. Those opposed to him outside his party would oppose any Jle-jpublican, Jle-jpublican, Those opposed to him within his party make no attack on his record. And it is by his record that Mr. Smoot invites tho judgment of his peers. Outside of half a dozen states, and not ono citizen in ten can name tho senators. Ask the next five mon you meet on the street the names (of both senators from any five states, and if they answer, you get a medal. They have to carry an almanac who can toll. But not a citizen of the nation with average intelligence and ordinary reading but knows who are the Senators from Utah. And they don't know as they know Lorimer of Illinois, or Tillman Till-man of South Carolina, or Bailey of Texas, or Jeff )Davis of Arkansas, or Bovoridge of Indiana. I They know it as th'ey knew Washburn of Illinois, or Sumner of Massachusetts,, or Root of New York, or Hendricks of Indiana because they did things for their constituents and fbr the nation. Senator Smoot has been b'lanled because he stood for the'protective tariff. Ho"Woild have been burned in effigy in every tdwn from Logan 'to Kaneb if he hadn't and would ho deserved it. There isn't an interest in this static that is not benefitted by protection and menaced or ruined by tho opposito policy. I don't see hdw any one in Utah can blame Senator Smoot for his loyalty to 4hat doctrico which clearly is in the interest c these people. But, outside from his stand on the main party measure; aside from tho fact that he is oqe of tho. foremost three or four foremost men m the greatest legislative body on earth stands the fact that ho has constantly and capably attended at-tended to the wants of his constituents and that absolutely without regard to their politics or .their religion. Did you ever, write him a letter that he did not "answer? Did you ever make a request of him that he didn't comply with if ho 'could? Is there an old soldier in Utah that ho hasn't helped? Is there a worthy cause that has called on him in vain? J The people of Utah have a right to elect any man they want as senator. If for any reason they can find a man who will better serve them, who is better informed as to tho needs of Utah, who is more capable of supplying those demands, whose record as a man, as a senator and as a citizen is cleaner then they should by all means elect that man. But, in my opinion, they can't find him. |