Show y N f CAMPAIGN OF OP SLANDER En Enemies of the Republican party part have ha conducted a n campaign of or slander 1 this year ye year r. r It has been the custom of or the tho Tribune alwa always s 's since that pap paper 1 t. t f. f tell fell Into Into its present management Years when the Republicans have haYo h y purchased its services Goo Goodwins Goodwin's Weakly has been fairly free from this objectionable procedure ure This year the Republicans have havo not needed the I Weakly and It has has has' fallen into the only camp that could use It In the theto R. R to course of or Its Us efforts to harm the Republican ticket we the find it ft has printed the following comment upon a congressman of or the United States Slates If Ie the voters of or Utah were left eft to themselves free flee to cast their I r i V votes as their judgment should 1 dictate Joseph Howell could coul 1 not come within fort forty miles of oC defeating either cither Thomas Weir Yell or Ju Judge ge O. O W. W Powers Howell ell is ig a mere creature or of the church machine which dominates the tho politics of Utah Ho lie Is without ability his record In congress Is a stupid blank he knows nothing of public questions questions- doesn't even know why he lie Is a n Republican except that the priesthood priesthood priest priest- hood hoo 1 of his church chuich set him apart as one when the division was ma made on party part lines Ho lie Is stolid unlearned and bigoted he was raised In Inan iV T an ecclesiastical atmosphere and his range of ot knowledge Is com com- 1 lf r- r c b by what his church ChUlch has taught him It Is a a. little curious that a n man of so o small mentality of or so little t V equipment should have won the confidence of or the really big men in r V Washington There has never nc been a question at al the departments or In Inthe Inthe inthe the ho house se the committee rooms room or In the clo closer er circles where the conferences were held Joseph Howell is recognized as a man of ability lIe He has ha been been effective ve for his constituency He has been a a. credit to his state Would It be better to have a congressman who would startle the tho f a bl es of ot Washington with the tho hilarity of or his Is car carouses Would it bo e better better for Utah to ha have havo a n congressman who could coul 1 so ns- ns assail the f that h t lh tho administration policies fall 1 Would H I l b botter for 01 UtAh to to have o a a n congressman congressman who w ho o w would ul strut up and ana down Pennsylvania avenue a displaying fine clothes riding on complimentary tickets going to the theatres on the prestige of ot his position of congressman and never attending the sessions never visiting a a. department on the business of t his pe people at nt homo home never sitting with his committees never working Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the gathering of data which a n legislator for the people must have The state has had hall some of Gf these sorts sort and has hns had chances to re employ all 11 of them The state has never ha had 1 a n man better fitted b by nature and I training for the work of a Western congressman than in Joseph Howell And V It never has had a congressman who has done more for the state To say that he Is Ignorant that he ho doesn't know wh why h ho he e Is a Republican r to slander cr him with the little characterizations of or the extract above quoted quote 1 these are are arc the of or what Senator Sutherland Sutherlan 1 has so well called petty measures measures of petty pett men X 1 An And 1 the they will not hurt hurl Joseph Howell anywhere In Utah or in J r I t. t The evident emptiness of ot the the tho accusations their plainly expressed spitefulness will null be bo detected everywhere Joseph Howell has been a n. good congressman for Utah He TV will be bo an equally good servant of ot the people in future But it is to be hoped hope 1 that Utah p people will no longer hamper their representatives in either upper or lower lowerhouse house with the guerilla attacks that have been tho the rule for tor the past two years ThC three Tho-three c a men from Utah have been true and useful to the state and tO toV to k V V the n nation tion i Let t t their people be true to them I i I i 1 V |