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Show . i A BAD SHOWING. Tho other day the Tribune rapped Judge Powers' Pow-ers' knuckles for saying in his theatre speech thac "the polltcal evils complained of here might be cured by voting the Democratic ticket." Surely that was excusable in the Judge. He is a candidate. candi-date. If all vote for him there will be no political evils left in his estimation. Everything will be cured. He was the more justified from the fact that since the springing of a now party, it is quite possible pos-sible that enough Republican votes will be drawn away from the ticket to elect him. Certain it is that his chances, which were at zero point a month ago, are up to the boiling point now. But the Tribune takes a fall out of the Herald on the same score, declaring that it has alwaya been a consistent renegade, so to speak, that it even supported Roberts for Congress. But just then thinking what a chance for a come back it was giving the Herald, it hedged a little and admitted ad-mitted that the Tribune itself had been something of a journalistic prostitute a few times. But tho question is raised here, is the Tribune's repentance repent-ance the result of contrition for the former sins, or because it is no longer sung to by its sirens? When it was advocating the election of Apostle Smoot's legislators, did it not know just as much about church rule and church influence as it does now? If it did, and it certainly must, why was it necessary to select the eve of a most important National Election on which to spring this oloud-burst oloud-burst of indignation over a great and crying evil? Does it come from a disturbed conscience, or a disordered spleen? It is not very hard to answer, not difficult to understand, and the knowledge ought to keep every Republican's head level up to election day; Utah must give her electoral vote to Roosevelt and Fairbanks. It must elect a Republican Governor Gov-ernor and Legislature. The United States Senator to be elected next winter must be a Republican Senator. To defeat this Republican State Ticket and to have a Demo-cratic Demo-cratic Senator elected is what caused the Tribune to become all at once so patriotic that it could not wait another day before raising its reform shout That would have been bad faith and bad business in an off year; it is criminal in this Presidential election year, because it is clear that one who had received high honors as a Republican was willing, to gratify his spites, to smash his party in Utah, even if in the cataclysm a Republican Presides tial candidate should be defeated. It is noticeable that within a few days past the Tribune has been supporting the National Republican ticket with some zeal and deolaring that Roosevelt is safe in Utah. If that proves to be true, we do not be lieve there is another house in America that will be more chagrined over it than tho same Trib- JfH une, for so sure as tho world, had Its earnest de- 1 sire been the election of a Republican President, H it would have held back this movement until after vH the 8th of November. M iH |