Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-20
SMOOT GOT IN HIS WORK
MORMON SENATOR STANDS BY
PRESIDENT AT DENVER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DENVER, Col, June 2).-The makeup OF
the public lands convention was publicly
exposed here today and thereby the Presi-
dents representatives on the ground re-
garded all danger of harm to the admin
ist.ation as passed. no matter what reso-
lutions were adopted. With charges and
counter-charges from each side that the
convention had been packed by the other.
the remarkable point is that the report Of
the credentials committee. usually the first
order of business in any convention. was
not finally brought in until today. 1t re-
vealed Wyoming with $50 delegates and
Colorado with 40. while none of the other
states had more than ten each and some
not even that number. 1t Is Wyoming and
Colorado which have all along insisted
that the Presidents policies should be con-
demned.
The tide was stemmed to a degree by
the ti-:ely appearance Of Senator Warren
Of Wyoming yesterday, who urged fair
ness and conservatism, and b4 the sudden
action and effective participation of Reed
floor vigorously for the admin, stration. Up
until today 1t has been the voice Of the
rich man and the big interests" that have
been heard. The only exception was late
yesterday afternoon, when an Arizona cow
boy, fresh from a ninety-day roundup in
the saddle, took the stage and championed
the administration policy with picturesque
language that swept the convention or its
feet. Otherwise the delegates who have
spoken and the men In charge Of the con-
vention have represented the interests
Spirit of the Convention
The cry throughout has been against all
government control. and lurking behind
every act Of the convention SO far has been
opposition to paying the government any
no Tor h0yy for right
either on grazing Of forest lands, The
slogan of the attacking interest has been
bureaucracy" and Capitalization" and
too much government landlordism." And
some Of the speakers have not hesltated to
apply the words GEAR" and "sutocrat.
to the chief executive Of the nation.
With all the ado the anti-administration
leaders have made about bureaucracy
and with all their efforts to get it out over
the country that the west had openly con-
nothing sensational at any time, md the
speeches have read great deal like the
Congressional Record of some days Of last
sesso,
Tn, administrations friends say they are
not at all surprised, for behind all they
recognize the old wheel horses OF the
anti-administration movement as 1t relates
to public lands and forest questions.
Those in control of the convention pri-
vately admitted today that they ''let bird
co. when they permitted the organization
of the resolutions committee by the selec-
ton Of one delegate from each state and
territory, which greatly neutralized the OPP
position to the administration. They sad
they ought to have engineered it On a
ba. s that would have recognized the bulky
Wyoming and Colorado contingents, but.
having failed to do that, the plan when this
dispatch Is sent Is to try to overthrow
which are conservative in tone and ID sub
stitute others more radical