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Show H SENATOR SMOOT RETURNS. Hj - Having returned from the cast, Senator Reed Smoot has been interviewed in Salt Lake. The senior senator of Utah says he is pleased with the outcome of the Republican convention at Chicago. H; If Senator Smoot is not delighted with the platform and the Hi nomination, no one should be, for the senator played a very big part in framing the planks of the platform and naming the candidates. He sa3rs: ''Senator Harding is absolutely free from promises i made. "and. will be in a position, when elected president, , to j select the best, qualified men in the United States for cabi-net cabi-net positions, "llc is free from any political promises what-H) what-H) ever, aud, as he Has atagcly stated, this country is too big 'ZL to be run by one man. Senator Harding Avill make a splcn- j did candidate and a great president. His nomination is I meeting with general approval. Senator TTarcling'sdomestic H and 'public life is spotless." Going back to 1912, Warren G. Harding was one of the-men who stood firmly for everything that Senator Reed Smoot advocated. He 1 was the man selected to nominate Taft in defiance of those who H hurled threats and imprecations. Eight years have brought a re-H re-H markable change. Senator Smoot has lived to see those who rebelled fl brought back, wearing the smile of humility. Returning from the convention of the Stalwarts in 1912, Sena-J Sena-J tor Smoot predicted victory and lfe succeeded in convincing Utah that the proper thing to do was to elect Taft, and Utah, as one of two states in the entire union, held firmly to the faith of the senior H It is evident that S'enator Smoot has a strong personality which H makes him a leader of men. It also' is made plain that the'scnator H is a power within the Republican party and, in eight years, has wiped H out much of the opposition which existed when he and Warren G. H Harding were in tlve minority. |