The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-30
SmoOt's False Position
Provo Herald. sept. 27th.

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OF the bosslsm OF Reed Smoot over the
Republican, machine than he himself fur
nishcd In his speech before the state con-
vention at Ogden yesterday? Could a
more imposing monument be raised 10
contradiction than the one furnished by
Smoot Yesterday when he made the state
| insurgency. and branded as false the
| statement that the Republican party OF
the state had been sold to the brewers
not the boss of the party organization
! how docs he know what the party Will
or Will NOT do; what II has done? How
does he know so surely that the party
- not In sympathy with insurgency so
Tar aS It's voters are concerned? Why,
| ne has been in receipt of reports from
| his licutenants. of course, but ir he Is
| not the dictator and boss OF the organiza-
tion. why should nc be In receipt of these
| rcports which arc never sent TO any
| over accuse Smoot OF being leader. be-
cause leader represents tho Will OF his
| party-the sentiment OF his constitu-
| cnts.
Smoot may and without question does
represent the will of the machine. but
| only a fool will contend that the ma
chine and the people are the same. and
that because he represents one II follows
that lie represents the other.
The speech OF the temporary chairman
yesterday showed him to be n. most pro-
nounced dictator and that he had at
least believed the people were willing to
stand for It.
bloody headline Yilihcation organ. willing
to go In partisan politics in defense of the
administration OF President Taft and the
tariff libel on the Republican party that
everything else is thrown 10 the winds
There was a time within the memory
of man when. Smoot and tho bunch
dcnc Roosevelt, and unless all signs fail
that time is approaching again. Does
the fact that Mr. Roosevelt was once IL
friend In need, and that he was not found
lacking cut Ice now NOT
one could discover 1t. The machine In
Utah Is a machine OF federal office
rules, which forbid employees taking
part in politics, other than as voters
and which makes IT plain that the heads
OF departments arc forbidden 10 take "a
ever catch one OF tho bunch rcfraining
from taking "a conspicuous" part when
the machine was to be perpetratcd?
In Provo do not come much into
direct contact with members OF the Vari-
ous federal offices. yet we have a post
master, James Glove who 1t is popularly
than he would be if elected TO office by
the votes of the people. and II this is
true. why should Mr.. Glove be allowed
by his department to take "a conspicu-
ous' part in the politics of the state any
more than arc his subordnates I'm office :?
Has the fact that he is in Utah anything
TO do with the ease? Is he not as amen
able 10 the rules of the department as II
he held office in the District of Colum-
bia?
Surely no ono will contend that Mr.
Cloves part in politics is inconspicuous.
lie took conspicuous part in the pri-
marlcs of his ward, and. while he was
not mentioned as delegate to tho state
convention, he went to that convention
yesterday on the proxy Of q delegate
from another county, and was denied
seat To most readers II Will he Il mat
ter of surprise that he was denied n scat
in the convention on any pretext, but he
was. That fact. however. is not the
question Just now. which is the charge
rules of the civil service by taking
conspicuous part In partisan politics
We maintain that Postmaster Glove
ever willing TO defend the machine and
It's manipulations, and tpat he himself
proved this when. not being delegated by
the people OF his ward to represent them
at the state convention. he took proxy
from another county and attempted TO
III a seat in the convention by virtue Of
the same
Mr.. Glove. as stated. IS public SER
want, and such is being paid by the
people to fulfll the duties OF an office
which tho whole promise and effort con
the surface at laasD OF his party in tho
past has been 10 withdraw from poll
tics. II rlghtfully should be, He Is
master, out of the peoples money. and
not TO attend state conventions.
No one will deny thai Mr., Glove has
a perfect right TO take as active part
providing he first retires TO private life
to do il. but we protest against his do
ing so while he holds the office or post
master under department whose rules
strictly forbid H.
Will It do any good TO protest while
the machine controls the Offices OF the
state and those Of the federal govern
ment within the state? Certainly not,
any more than this: We do not propose
to quietly submit To such things without
registering a protest. even though we
know there is no immediate relief We
propose TO keep right on kicking because
we know tbat some time if we kick hard
change, and with IT relief from the
autocratic bossism which sits galliDgly
astride the public neck and merciessly
Welds the goad
Senator Sinoot may shout with righte
Gus Indignation that he Is not a party
boss: that the Republican party will not
that the man who says the party was
sold out is q liar, but these assertions
prove nothing 20 the people who have
harvested In tears and oppression 'oo
To say that some one Is liar neither
answers an argument nor proves any
thing further than the wrath OF the per
son saying 1t. j; does not convince any
one and. on the contrary rather
strengthens the belief In the challenged
assertion. and Mr.. Smoot will discover
that Il Will take much better evidence
imam the unsupported word of cam
puign orator. hurled with great Vehem-
cpco though II be. TO make tnc people
believe that all the other evidence. cir
cums,antial and otherwise, during the
past two years is lie.
The machine is hghting for its life.
Federal officeholders. 1t Is true. have
nothing 10 fear In the matter Of de-
capita fion during the next two wears. buI
the result OF this election will define the
strength and worth of those henchmcn
OF the administrator al present. and
have much 10 do with deciding the DO
iitical dcstinies OF the state In 1912. be
yond which time the fedora! officchold-
ers now in office cannot Eope TO live II
,hey fall to deliver tho goods now. Reed
Smoot II ne fails to deliver the vote Of
the state 10 the administration by sub
stantial vote. can say farewell To his
political future in tho United States
senate and no one knows Il better than
he. vet when he stands before n con-
ycntlon and SAYS IL is a lie that MS party
has been sold. ne is giving the lie IN Re
pui,licans from one end of Utah To the
other. and Republicans who dcnourcc the
manipulation OF party votes by the ma
chine With lust as rruch yi@or nnd more
truth than he can defend 1t. II ii Is
iIc & came ap1 is still coming, from
within the Republican party.