Show candidates FOR OFFICE last wicks gru hail had an edito editorial on candidates for office in tit every 4 ord of which the pyramid concurs the article la in reply to a paragraph in thy the provo enquirer attacking an idea bet set forth by the ML to tn cri courage persons to announce publicly their candidacy tie for office this idea is 13 not new now in tit any state in which we me have lime been except in utah it ie is looked upon as not riot only legitimate but essential that aspiring to office should make their cand candidacy idaLy kno knori n and that before cons conventions mentions there is no man becking seeking the tile office in this it is perfectly honorable that capable and reliable men should let the people know of their willingness to a incept capt a public trust it gives a convention knowledge concerning whom to choose for officers A person understands under standa better than oabe othea s hie his fitness and desires dires to fill one position or an other if ho he announces himself a candidate for any one office the convention antion will know then eliat he is a willing candidate and in a position to fulfill the obligation 5 it may entail it occurs in tit aery every convention 1 specially county conventions in that nominations arc are made of nit ii N who lie do tit not riot desire the ot 01 attlio ha would have preferred another when luell oils lit tit to lot let their danils s go buforo n ton stutton it is after stud studying tug it will not riot too toa triciti 31 interfere with their bust nass relations iotis tin ina bo bt ill fit a position to atland to th tit duties of one tie baiter than those of another and if he hid to tuu nepta a oil call i ali it that ho he is ono out ni chos hoso other duties will not Coli conflict thet A ith of it public br vant it not riot chappuis thit nominations arft lut put upon people who du dj not riot desisti irti them as they burden thain with more bili ties than the enro to assume put if f a person has given his as sent before a convention meets I 1 tie the convention consention may well know that it will not riot be imposing upon linn him to nominate him there are plenty of people well qualified to fill the offices who cant find time to attend to them and who would not to accept them but conventions are not al wa waa a aware of this and often nomi n nate ate a man who cannot give gi ve th the attention to his official duties they deschi c e and arid who la is really over burdened with the trust thero there is nothing improper what everin ever in men announcing themselves tb through rough the columns of newspapers as candidates for office and arid we say the lina iu made a in the right direction and we endorse it pyramid |