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Show I"" ' '' J UTAH G. 0. P. PREPARES FOR YIC-TORY YIC-TORY I By the selection of Henry Welsh of I Park City as state chairman the Repub lican state committee has begun its or-1 or-1 ganizing campaign with every promise of i success. The choice is being commended i on every hand and Mr. Welsh assumes his duties with a united party back of m i him. Whatever factional differences m showed signs of developing disappeared m I and he was chosen by a unanimous vote 1 ! The spirit of optimism that prevailed as H ! the result of his selection will do, much to instill the necessary energy into the work I of organizing and financing the party. But this optimism must materialize in deeds if the Republican party of Utah is to come into its own and, make itself felt in national .politics. Never before has a brighter opportun-i opportun-i ity present&l itself to the Republicans of j Utah. They can .uftliz'e'.'that opportunity H 1 f to the utmost;.o'r they can neglect it. They ' 1 j can go f orward from this time sweat vie- 1 torv because" thev'have the will to victory. or they .can dawdle along with the cus-M cus-M J ternary lassitude and! deliberately destroy M 1 j their chances as they-have done with mel-B mel-B I I ancholy frequency in, other days. 1 i 1 Utah has a reputation for doing the m .1 right, thing1 at the wrong time. When the : : Republic achieved, yiqtory in the last 1 electionsV.Utah disclosed that its thinking apparatus' had been running in low gear. It was far'behind' the" procession. It permitted per-mitted i&elf, fa,, l)e,. discredited among its I best friend's the Republicans of tho na- I tion. I I It remains to be seen whether Utah will continue to emulate the ostrich, to I bury it head ,in ,the spuid and expose its a ,. I body to the sj)gs and arrows of the out- H I raucous Joe., ,,n , M I Republicans of Utah must not try to B I hide from themselves the difficulties of M I j thei ta$k. T, hey cannot take it for grant- 11 ed that beqause the country is growing H r more Republican everyday they will have M J r a s'-fqqth and easy joy ride to victory. On " I tho contrary thy must use their brains M I as never before. m I Combiners are, being formed to keep M 1 4 Utah in the enemy camp, for Utah is nor- M ; I mally Republican. It has bert .Republican at times when it the nation was in grip of the Democratic party. Some Of our leading Democrats, I lay and clerical, are trying to persuade the people of Utah that Wilson is infal- M I libe, that he cannot err when he adopts m ; I fourteen points or when he abandons M them. No doubt, they.mourn deeply that M ; I Wilson is not to be a candidate for a third b j term, or even for a fourth. m j ; I We believe that the Republican party M j will win the next national election. Is m I h there any doubt of it among the leading M j Democrats of the country? Even Wilson LH $ himself, after sending for Secretary Bak- IM er, who had made a scouting trip about Ja -. the country, became convinced that there M was no presidencv ahead of him. Is it m likelv that he would have oven thus gentle gent-le lv thvirt aiide the nomination had he be-0- lieved that the Democratic warty was . JL marching to victory? Remember, Wilson IiH M has no scruples about second or third h , tenns. His party platform in 1912 com-( com-( mitted him to the doctrine of the single J term, but he hastened to repudiate that plank. He is for as many terms as he can get, and when he shows fear of run-1 run-1 ning again he shows that he fears the i defeat of his party, ; But the signs of the political situation are so clear that it is not necessary even , to ar,ue about them. ''They are as clear sm.; , , as the inoon and the stars, as clear as the E ). sun at noonday. The" , Republicans feel Kn i assured of a national victory. The Dem-H Dem-H i cvats, that k to sty tfce e?er le&senki number left, feel that Republican assurance assur-ance is based on a rock foundation. Utah's course should be as clear as Republican Re-publican victory in the nation seems clear Utah can obtain a prestige it has never had before. It can elect a United States Senator who will be in accord with the nation and who will be one of the really dominant powers in the councils of the nation. If it throws away this opportunity opportun-ity it will become of less and less account nationally and less able to obtain for its people, that which is their due. This is .the probem ahead of the party. The solution is not easy, for the Democrats Demo-crats have become entrenched in high places and have perfected an admirable organization. They will move heaven and earth to maintain themselves in power. They will resort to all the customary tricks of politics. They will try to avail themseves of1 every influence that offers. They will try to convey the impression that they are chosen of heaven and Wilson Wil-son to make Utah safe for the Democrat- ic party. The Republicans ishould be prepared, 'therefore, to counter every move of the enemy and they cannot do this unless they too, are organized efficiently from one end of the state to the other. Good win's Weekly. pj n w EATING CROW In a special dispatch to the New York World, dated Washington, May 31, is to' be found the following: Many letters are being receiyed by Senator Reed, approving his re cent speech in which he sought to demonstrate thai; the blacky brown, yellow and red races would, entire-, ley dominate the League, of Na-nions. Na-nions. ,i ,''.' . .Ninety seven, in eyery hundred, of these 'communications .extend qongratulations'andi give warm com mendation to Jus utterances,, A large nunibei of these letters come , from the South',, to, which section the speech of Mr. Reed was chef- " ly addressed. Nearly a million copies cop-ies of the speech are being hasten ed into all portions of the south. This is the address which the World , condemned editorially, descending to personal per-sonal abuse of Senator Reed. It must be something of a nauseous meal to our Free Trade contemporary but it. is not the I first time it has been compelled to "eat ' crow.' American Economist. Fl b r3 WHY THE FARMER IS INTERESTED The American Beet Sugar Co. announces announc-es that it expected to make 30 per cent more sugar this season than last, in spite of recent, unfavorable, weather conditions in California. Due to growth of sugar beet industry land suitable for raising beets that could formerly be bought for $100 an acre, is now worth from $250 to $500 an acre. Aside from raising a highly profitable crop, this increase in land value is one of greatest assets to the farmer and shows why he is interested in encouraging such industries as sugar production,, f ruit.apd vegetable canning, etc. It all makes markets mar-kets for his products and incidentally increases in-creases the value of his land. . t n fe m . PARLOR BOLSHEVISM Dangers of revolution in our country emanate from two sources the over educated ed-ucated college theorist and the under educated ed-ucated toiler who takes all his ideas from the soapboxer. Neither of them is a taxpayer. tax-payer. The great middle class, who have homes and pay taxes, who read and think for themselves, who earn their living by labor or crry on business by their own initiative do not accept the doctrines, of Bolshevism. The son of a college professor at Boston Bos-ton who is master of five languages has 'been arrested for Bolshevism and for the use of language which consigned the American Am-erican flag to the hot place. Ke graduated from Harvard at 15 and now he is twenty one years old and a full fledged Bolshevik. Chances are he would not know a pickaxe pick-axe or a crowbar if he met them on the street, and could not distinguish the dif-ferenpe dif-ferenpe between a trowel and a dornick.. He is a horrible example of the kind of "workmen" who do all their laboring with their mouths and who absorb fantastic notions about labor. People have been' known to recover from this by going out into the ppen(and I doing some real work. |