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Show REPUBLICAN PAPER CONDEMNS STATE PLATFORM. The Utah Republican state platform is filled with promises. The promises are virtually confessions of party incompetency in the past. The leading Republican paper of the state rejects the platform and reads the party a lesson as to its past conduct.. The Salt Lake Tribune, Tri-bune, in a vigorous editorial, sa3's: The pledges made to tho peoplo of Utah by the Renublican state convention in Its platform may fairly be construed as of no binding forco upon the party; for precisely such pledges havo been made hereto,: fore and disregarded. h wiadi?not !orsll that two yearfi 5lS0 lhe 8tate convention pledged the legislature to tho ratification of the incomo tax amendment to the federal constitution; and yet the legislature next elected absolutely refused re-fused to ratify that amendment. i??e P1'0 Pleases the legislature to enact measures against poolrooms and forbidding tho issue of passes to public officials and vet t does not explain why, with continuous Republican legislatures, these measures now pronounced, beneficial havo heretofore been neglected. nwiJii Pi J? ftVorS tho rat,fication ot the constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of tho KXS & BlVf ?'B LB a gd PrP8lt,on- h' ha it n been adopSS heretofore by tho Republican legislature' And whether the proposition L 3 P u0r d' why 8Uuld there be supposed to be anv more likeli hood that the Republican legislature would carry out these pledges made in tills platform any more than it carried out the pledge made in the platform heretofore to ratify the income tax aomdnment, which tho Republican Re-publican legislature failed to do? mT-he Plattor.m fav the adoption of the amendment of the Btato constitution con-stitution providing general methods for the croation of new counties In this state Aro wo to infer, therefore, that the party is opposed to the other seven amendments which nre submitted? if not- whv single one amondment out of eight for indorsement? ' J Tho congratulation over the work of the last legislature In provid-ng provid-ng for a capitol buildhfg would fall with greater effeci upon the public pub-lic mind if anything in tho way of actual work had been done in the wav of getting on with tho construction of that building. But two full building build-ing seasons have passed by since the legislature authorized the construction con-struction of tho capitol building and set aside a big Sum of inouev to proceed with the work. Nothing has been done in (he way of real con- ClUtf(T!19et.'0rtl;,,1,,,IWi,1S is in scomebody's I tnl 1 "f0 b5 drawiuE Good returns, which the state treasurv, as far as heard from, does not get; for It is inconceivable that an amount Sli SontPPi?1mately ,a miHon dZU5TS 8hould lle unproductive for two iuu 6oasons with no return to anybodv Tbo congratulations of the stato on tho "high efficient of our congressional con-gressional delegation" was probably "writ sarkastic- for so far as known, tho groatest triumph of our congressional' delegation was in tho disastrous special session of 1909, when it labored sodllteenTlv and as far a8 It was effective, in affixing tho term "reactiionarv" to the Republican Re-publican party in its dealing with tariff revision, and fScmg a split in vGtharthnt ZU, th, e?d Proosaive eletnfntB thereof SJSftlv SSn, fr ,7 is '"V?1 of COn6tulat!on or not, there is ?SL J? til dlfforente tf P,n,on- So far as we aro concerned, border congratulations on that sort of work aro decidedly not The platform as a whole 1b woak and 1b conceived Mrlv on false pretense It is not likely to deceive anybody or tonrf anv snecial ThT bSU8 BeimbUcan art' b;helFXarbunPchCl,n |
