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Show SENATOR SMOOT IS UNGRATEFUL Hj Senator Hoed Smoot's attitude to- M ward Theodore Roosevelt, in view of H the colonel s support to the Utah sen. M a.tor at tjie time the latter's seat in H the senate was contested, was rc- H ferred to last night by Stephen H. H Lovo in a speech at a Bull Moose H rally in tho Twentieth ward hall. H Sa)t Lake. A parallel was drawn by H the speaker with the controversy ov- H er the right of Brjgham H. Roberts H to enter the houee of representatives. H He said: H ''Utah is under obligations to H Roosevelt. I was in Washington when H the Brigham Roberts case came up H in the house of representatives. I H went to see Mr. Roberts and sup- H po3od that I would find the Demo- H crats standing up for him I was H surprised to find not a single soul at H his apartment to give him the 'glad. H hand' and tho only man who Btood H up for him was Representative Lit- H tlefleld of Maine. Jn tho Smoot case H this condition was repeated The H ; capitol was flooded with tons of pro- H tests from all parts of thQ country H aginst our senior senator, yet in the H face of the clamor the. only man who HJ had the nerve to stand up for Senator H Smoot was Roosevelt. But for Roose- H velt's support, things might not have H been as they aro. On election day H -we aro not going to forget wh&t- H Roosevelt has done for Utah," H Mr. Love reviewed at Borne length H his version of the history and present H . status of the Utah rate case, based H on tho "long and shprt haul clause'' H of tho interstate commerce law. In H referring to letters written by him to H Senator Smoot and othors thanking H them for treatment received at Wash. H ingjton, he claimed the senator was H, presenting them to the public to give H the impression that he (Senator f Smoot) was responsible for oheaper H rates since obtained for shippers of this H "The charge has been mado by H Governor Spry that Mr, Morris and H myself are disgruntled Republicans 1 and officrQeekerB, I havo held no of- B flcq except that of state senator, and H for that ' received the magnificent 1 salary of $4 a day, Mr. Morris has H held no office other than that of rep- H resentatlvo in tfle legislature. Govor- 1 nor Spry has said that if I had been 1 chosen the nominee for governor by the state convention I would still be a good Republican. This is not true for I was out of the Republican party h and in the Bull Moose' party before Hj the state convention was called. I j quit the party at the time of the Chi- j cago convention, and I think Mr. H Morris quit it at the same time. ' H "What Governor Spry's board of H Equalization Is Doing to You'1 formed 1 the major portion of a speech by R. H S. Farasworth who devoted his speech H to a discussion of high taxes and the H influence of the railroads on lcgisla- j tlon and the state administration in H Utah. He said in part: 1 "The state board of equalization M meets yearly. Its members receiving j salaries of $1500 a year, to see that H the burden of taxation shall rest 1 equally upon all In proportion to abilT 1 ity to pay Private individuate are H assessed about 50 per cent of valua- H tion, but the railroads are not aa- H sessed on any such genteel basis. j Governor Spry's board ha8 assessed H them on an average of $13,000 a mile. H The railroads are bonded In this 1 state for $60,000 a mile, capitalized 1 for $110,000 a mile and stock is sell- Hj ing at $2, making the total valuation H about $280,000 a mile. Maybe Gov- j ernor Spry is too busy to notice this. j "When the hoard of equalization is 1 appointed by the governor it prosents H a cape about as near 'taxation without 1 representation' as can be found.'' |