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Show THAT MINE LETTER IS ANSWERED Editor Pyramid: My attention has been called to a fac-simile letter prepared to have been signed by A. W. McCune and addressed to John F. Howells of Salt Lake City which appeared in the Provo Post of Friday, October 8, in which Mr. McCune announces that he is for Harding and Smoot. Mr. McCune and Mr. Howells are certainly certain-ly a "pair" of good sports to draw to when it comes to the political game As proof of this I call your attention to a few facts in the political life of these two. In 1819, Alfred W. McCune was the leading candidate before the legislature leg-islature of Utah for the election for United States Senator. It looked one day that he was to be elected. As the roll of the joint session was called for the vote on United States senator Albert W. Law, a member of the house and the present Republi- can candidate for judge of the First judicial district, arose and annouced : that A. W. McCune had undertaken j to purchase his, Law's vote for $1,-500 $1,-500 and that $85 of the money ha'd been Daid. The writer has always given Mr. McCune credit for being too wise to do a thing like that, but the charge cost him the nomination, the legislature adjourning without electing a United States senator. 1 In 1916 Alfred W. McCune was a candidate before the Democratic state convention for the nomination for governor and received the second .highest vote on the only two ballots 'Which were taken. He sought the 'nomination for governor on the very platform which the present administration admin-istration was elected on and which he aocuses now of having raised the taxes. The truth is that the present state administration and the legislatures legisla-tures of 1917 and 1919 redeemed every platform promise which they made to the people of Utah. Would Mr. McCune have done less, or would he have done more. Johu F. Howells, who has evidently evident-ly ma'de public the letter which appears ap-pears in the Post, was nominated and elected sheriff of Salt Lake county coun-ty by the Democrats in 1898. In 1900 he was a candidate for re-nomination re-nomination but was defeated. He was a candidate for the nomination for sheriff at the hands of the Dem- ocratic party in Salt Lake county bi-annually bi-annually for more than twenty years. I Alfred W. McCune writes a letter knocking the Democratic' party, John F. Howells makes it public. I wonder won-der if either of them ever read that little fable by Aesop about the "fox and the grapes?" W. J. SLOAN. I ' I |