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Show ""EDITORIALS (By C. P. McNeeley) J. GET READY FOR ELECTION ; The time for selecting candidates for the various county offices is not long off and it is time that both parties begin casting cast-ing about to see how they will make up the slate. We are not greatly interested in how the slate is made up provided Bingham is given substantial recognition in th way of candidates and that ,n are named as armor bearers. . ' ' It is an undisputed fact that heretofore this community has not been given proper recognition in the matter of county officers. Bingham pays the taxes, but other sections .of the county provide the candidates of both parties for the county offices. There is no getting around the fact that a section of so great importance as Bingham should be represented in the administration of the county affairs. , . It must be remembered that Bingham pays the bulk of the county taxes outside of Salt Lake City and it is nothing but fair that this community should be allowed to have some say in governing gov-erning the county. There are those here who think that Bingham should have the sheriff and one county commissioner, and we think that this demand is very modest. Still this matter depends to a great extent on what Bingham people themselves do about the matter. If they want representation they must not only ask for it but must get busy and go after it. It should be made known that the political party which is to get the vote of this community commun-ity must have some local candidates on its ticket. But if Bingham . goes to sleep on the matter of course she will be overlooked. This district has a population of some 10,000 and is in a position to secure recognition. This paper is taking no part in partisan politics, but it is intensely interested in the good of Bingham and it believes that the best interest of the community can be secured by being represented repre-sented in the county administration by some of its good men. People Peo-ple from one section of the county frequently misunderstand the urgent needs of some other section. There are men in this section well fitted to discharge the duties of any of the county offices and it is nothing but right that the town should bring them forward. for-ward. How many county commissioners have been elected from this community? How long has it been since we had one? How many men from this section have filled any of the county offices? They are so few and far between that it would take a well informed old-timer old-timer to name more than three or four. A few days ago we inquired in-quired of a man who has resided in this town for a long time relative to the number of men from here who had been elected to a county office, and he was only able to mention one county commissioner com-missioner and one legislator. This should not be the case. Bingham Bing-ham should at all times have one or more representatives in the official family of the county. So before the slate is made up the public-spirited citizens of this community should take steps to bring forward some of its ' best political timber. It can be done and it would be a great help to the community. . RED CROSS SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE ALMOST DOUBLED Fortv-seven million people, subscribed to the Red Cross fund during the last drive, and, according to the latest estimates, the total amount raised will reach $170,000,000, an oversubscription of $70,000,000. This is a remarkable showing, and it proves con-. con-. clusively that the work being done by this great mercy organiza- tion is fully appreciated ; so much so in fact, that pocketbooks as V well as hearts have been touched. We think in terms of billions , nowadays, owing to the enormous expense attached to the war, " but we must all agree that the $300,000,000 given to the Red Cross during the two campaigns is a very large sum, and that a precedent V "t has been set which will have the effect of moving all of us to still greater endeavor and bring a shower of blessings upon the heads ? of the people of the United States. The conquerors who have rav-- rav-- aged the earth in past ages have been swollen with pride as they contemplated the wreck and ruin wrought, and they may have derived a sort of satisfaction in the exercise of autocratic power, ; but they could not have experienced the genuine pleasure that has rome to the subscribers-to the Red Cross fund. We pay taxes because the law compels us, and not infrequently we feel that we are being robbed. But the Red Cross contributions are free-will offerings of kind hearts, and we are elevated by the act of giving. The poor man or woman gets more out of it, on account of making the greater sacrifice, but all share alike in the glory of having made it possible for the American angels of mercy to continue their work for suffering humanity. ROOSEVELT AND HEARST ' Roosevelt has saidsome very harsh things in his denunciation denuncia-tion of William Randolph Hearst. In the early part of the war the Hearst papers were pro-German and they did not get right until a discriminating reading public had kicked them right. So Roosevelt, in his attacks on Hearst, has found a large and sympathetic sympa-thetic audience. Now Hearst has turned on the man from Oyster Bay and has called him the Asquith of American politics, declaring the former president is out of power and he is greedily eager to get back into power. , Hearst, in a signed article, says : "Let me say in conclusion, that the attack upon the administration, adminis-tration, and the incidental attack upon the Hearst publications, which are only seeking to secure justice for the administration, emanates from the reactionary influences of Wall street. The New York Tribune, which supports Mr. Roosevelt in his unpatriotic activities, is owned by the Mills and Reid estates, two of the greatest great-est and most sinister of New York financial forces. The Metro-1 Metro-1 politan Magazine, which hires Mr. Roosevelt at a dollar a word, as professional vituperator of the president, is owned by the Whitney Whit-ney estate, which is administered by Harry Payne Whitney, : grandson of Henry B. Payne, the Standard Oil magnate, and son of William C. Whitney, the New York traction magnate." Lately Frank H. Simonds resigned as editor of the New York Tribune, one of the large dailies devoted to vilifying President Wilson and his administration, and the reason he gave was that the Tribune management repeatedly had worked faked cablegrams from the war zone into the paper for the purpose of belittling the administration. We talk of shooting German spies ! A newspaper that would deliberately proceed to discredit its own government during war times by manufacturing false news, in an effort to gain a political ; advantage, is stooping to lower things than a spy could be induced to accomplish, a3 a spy primarily is loyal to his own country. |