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Show TO REPUBLICANS OF SALT LAKE CITY. The following extract from the address ad-dress of the Republican stato committee commit-tee of last fall is not out of place In this campaign: "Wo call your attention to the fact that four years ago the Republican party of this stato chose a senator then not generally known In stato politics. pol-itics. Ho was elected over the heads of men grown gray in tho sorvico of tho party, and whose Republicanism haa been tried in tho cruciblo of both victory and defeat, and whole party loyalty could not be questioned. Tho victory of tho senior senator in tho legislative caucus was tho cause of bitter opposition, but his opponents finding 'themselves in tho minority, gracefully accepted his triumph, and the entire party in this state willingly uphold his hands and gave him tho support duo his exalted position; and now, becauso tho Republican nominees nomi-nees of tho stato ticket are not his personal choice, or of his selection, ho deliberately insults the people of this state, attacks their good faith, and impugns tho honor of tho people who have so generously honored him, and is striving to organizo a party which has for Its object the revival of all the bitter animosity and hatred of the past; to sacriflco upon tho altar of his private plquo and wounded vanity all that has been gained In twelvo years of progress, peace, contentment and good will among tho citizens of this great state; and to defeat tho state ticket of tho Republican party. We deny his right and that of tho Tribune to offer this insult to the men and women wo-men of Utah, who comprise tho Republican Repub-lican party, and who carry Its banner in triumph to victory at tho polls. We deny his right to challenge tho good faith of tho delegates to tho lato state convention, nnd wo repel tho insinuations insinua-tions and charges that any delegate was influenced by any rvmslderatlon other than his desire to romlnate the strongest possible ticket. Wo deny his right to impugn tho motlvo or good r. faith of any candidate before that "i convention, and finally wo resent, on behalf of the good people or Utah, the unwarrantable charges of 'church In-' In-' fluenco' made by him, his newspaper and his followers. We denounce his action as not only hostile to tho Republican Re-publican party, but also as an attack upon tho peoplo of Utah, and the progress which marks tho civil and political institutions of tho stato. We deny tho right, as wo question the ability of any person to revive tho bitterness bit-terness of tho past. |