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Show UTAH SENATOR CHIEF SPEAKER AT CONFAB HERE Smoot Says He'll Oppose the League If He Loses Every Vote EX-GOVERNOR SPRY ANOTHER SPEAKER Weber Republicans Map Out Plans for County Campaign Organisation of Republicans of I Weber county to carry on a igorous 'campaign, to open at once and con-' Itlr.ue with intensity until election, wa. begun yesterday at a meeting of the county central committee with candidates candi-dates for office Senator Reed Smoot i former Governor William Spry. State (Chairman William H Wattls and "'lark Tuttle. candidate for state audl-tor, audl-tor, wcr" present at the meeting. In brief talks. Governor Spry and Mr. Wattls predicted Republican victory for tho nation and state Senator Smoot outlined I'resldonl V. il-.. n's att nipt to bring about the authorization by congress for the nc-cepfaTtOe nc-cepfaTtOe of a mandate over Armenia and explained his stand in regard to ,the lop.gue of nations. . oMMrrrEE named I mrlng the meeting an executive committee of seven members wae i I oseti to direct the. coming campaign and cooperate with an advisory com- imlttee to consist of twenty-fiw members mem-bers 'Ihe members of the executho committee will meet with county candidates can-didates at a meeting tomorrow night and name the advisory committee J Arthur oolle county chairman, who pn sided at yesterday's meeting, named1 the executive cornrnltte-. With four members from the city and three from the county . The committee member j named were Arthur YVoolley chairman: chair-man: George J. Kelly, W. J. Crltch-I lew, Samuel G. Dye, E- T. Hulanlski, of "tgden, T B Jones of Kanesvllle Lyman Skeen, Plain Glty and John T. ! By bee of Rlverdale SMOOT GIVES TALK Benator Smoot. In outlining the attempt at-tempt of the president to have con-Sjresa con-Sjresa authorise the acceptance of a mandate over Armenia called atten-iMi atten-iMi to the appearance of Herbert Hoover, former food administrator bl - j ! fore the senate committee In eonnec-i Lion with the proposed appropriation Of $ 100 000,000 foj Armenian relief. Tin speaker declared that Mr Hoover said thai the peace treaty had cut Armenia into four parts, which . OUld be termed as four banks; a coal banlCi an oil hank an agricultural bank and a bankrupt bank The treaty alloted the oil bank to Fngland, the coal bank to France, the agricultural agricul-tural bank to Italy, and the nations asked the I. 'tilted States to accept the, bankrupt bank, the speaker said M I Ii N AKMV Senator Smoot declared that the m ill porUon of Armenia territory into which the people had been driven by the peace treaty would provide so little that If the United States accepted the mandate it would be necessary to ap-propriate ap-propriate $4ou.o0o,ooo to furnish them food. Furthermore, he said, we would I be compelled la maintain a standing army at great expense in Armenia,! and would be faced with the possibilltv of I0s!ng American lives. President Wilson's proposal for the Armenian mandate. Senator Bmoot tatcd. could only guin twelve vote In the senate. The acceptance of the, mandate, he said would have been one of the burdens that would have been thrust upon the United States had vvt . entered the league of nations without I reservation which might protect , American Interests and preserve! America's freedom of action in accord-1 ancc with the constitution of the I'nited States. tils POSITION UNCHANGED In closing, Senator Smoot outlined the position taken py himself In the senate in regard to the league question i mi told of his open letter recently sent to an editor of a small paper in thoj state In that letter, he declared, he emphasised the fact that he would not vote for the league covenant, even though It might mean the loss of every voti In the state of Utah Senator Smoot ald his position In tho matter had not changed His address was well recelve.i and applause filled the hall as he stepped from the stand Governor Spry and Mr. Wattt-s. In brief talks, were optimistic over tho coming campaign and predicted Republican Re-publican victory both for the nation and state. Mr. Tuttle spoko upon State matters and also predicted victory vic-tory for tho parly It was announced by Chairman Woolley during the meeting that ihe party had secured headquarters in the Hurst building on Hudson avenue. He said the houth portion of the seond floor, former occupied as club rooms for the Eagles lodge had been selected for headquarters and committee roomSa |