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Show oo IF UTAH POLITICS WERE FULLY EXPOSED! An echo of the liquor campaigns of the past in Utah is heard In the following from Goodwin's Weekly: Are there to he some changes in a local newspaper that will stir things up considerably and have more or less of a political effect? Rumors are persistent that the owner of a large block of the stock, whose name has never nev-er appeared in the public statements, state-ments, his stock being held by another as trustee, is about to have the stock put in his own name with the request that It be published when the semi-annual publication takes place. It is also al-so said that with some other stockholders he has enough holdings hold-ings In the corporation to dictate the policy and that there are to be some important changes In the staff. He is strongly lined up with the interests opposing prohibition, pro-hibition, and is said to be thoroughly thor-oughly aroused over the attitude the journal has taken recently. If the story is true and a radical radi-cal change in the policy takes place, it might noticeably change the political complexion of affairs, for one of the first moves in view is said to bo a change in the business bus-iness and editorial departments. Some day the inside political history his-tory of Utah, covering the period from the time Perry Heath came to this state with a secret message, which was a covert threat, to the present, will be written, and It will be a story of shame, and part of the odium will attach to those who blackmailed the liquor interests and politically profited prof-ited by whiskey money. How would tho people of Utah vote, if they could see for themselves the rottenness of their politics? oo |