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Show THE VOTER'S DUTY, Some mQst important offices are to be filled in Utah in the coming election. A Governor, a Supreme Su-preme Judge, several District Judges all the" array ar-ray of State offices. This ought to make everybody, every-body, man or woman, a politician for the time being. Still on every corner can be heard the expression, ex-pression, "He's a Reams' man," or "He's a Smoot man," or "He is a church man." Are then the people peo-ple all political orphans that they must have guardians? The theory is that this is a government govern-ment of and by and for the people. Is that statement state-ment a mere Action in Utah? Have the political herders been around and branded all the mavericks? maver-icks? Must It either be for Kearns' sake or Smoot's sake, or Christ's sake that the people are to vote? Can not Utah redeem itself this year and demonstrate that its people think for themselves? them-selves? When the people assert themselves and place men in office they have a right to hold those officers to a direct accountability for their acts, but when those officers are the mere selection of this or that boss what obligations are they under to the people at large? When Mr. Kearns gives a man a plaoe as shift boss in the Silvor King that man never thinks of making any reports except to the directors of the company Indeed, If he finds a spot that Is not muoh mineralized, he keeps very quiet about It to the outside world. Suppose a Governor or Judge is selected In the same way, how much will he feel It his duty to report and how mUrh suppress r But the mine is simply a matter of dollars fll and cents, while in politics such a selection of ' fl State and county officers is a perversion of free Hefl institution, a slap in the face of the Government, a direct debasement of the people. This every , H voter should realize and be on guard accordingly. -H When our country's government becomes a ifl Government of the bosses, by the bosses and for M lhe bosses, how much have we a right to boast j M ver the despotisms of the old world? IH The way to fix the business Is for every voter j H Ncrowd the primaries and the conventions and M insist that only such men as they select to ! M serve them shall be given offices. One such an j H exhibition as that would be of infinite good to 1 H this state; it would give to it a reputation which H would be of worth to it for years to come, and . H it would be years before the experiment would H again be tried to herd and brand tho voters In ! H any boss's corral. H But In this connection there is something else , H to guard against. ! 'H When man aspires to office It is a favorite j vH practice for the friends of other men who are can- ' jHH dldates fpr the same office to say: "Why he is H a Kearns man," or "He is a Smoot man," or "He i M is a church man," when there is no foundation for M the charge other than that he has friends whp are 1 M likewise friends of the Senator's or who belong to 1 M the church This is a manifest injustice, because M it places a man In a situation where he cannot M defend himself. 3 Eor Instance, Judge Zane and Mr Straup ' J are on good terms with all classes of H people, but it would be a most cruel j H thing to say that were either to be nominated ' H and elected any faction could influence any de- H clsion of his either directly or unconsciously 1 jH through any personal obligations that he might be jH under to any friend, for the sense of the public S Is that his oath of office and his sense of honor ( ' H as a man and a Judge would be all that could In- s jfl fiuence a decision of his. Or In the case of Governor Wells. He has friends in all ranks of life, but his record is that H where the interests of the State are at stake he H has been governed by his sense of duty toward H the state, and that no fealty or friendship has caused him to swerve from the straight line of pub- ' lie duty. His course in the Carbon county troubles t H last winter was sharply oriticlsed by many of his close friends, by many of the members of the la- H bor unions, but he did not hesitate. H That he was right Is pioved by the differences H between the conditions in Carbon county now and H those that prevail In three or four counties of Col- H orado. H There is as muoh need of discrimination one 1 way as the other. It Is just as necessary to give j H a man credit for what he is as to avoid him when I ' for money or tho promise of favors to be rendered him while posing as a free man at the same time H wears the collar of a boss, or is the slave of a fl superstitious fear, , And the voters should through all there days 1 1 H be qo the alert to judge correctly for themselves I who among the people, because of their abilities and character, are best entitled to the people's ,fl support. The final selections will be the supreme |