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Show I THE STANDARD'S POSITION. H . !The Salt Lake Tribune, quoting from the Standard of last Tuesday, in which this paper forecast the victory for the "wets," and in which the statement was made that the prohibitionists labored under the handicap of advocating a "measure which was defective and promised but little in the direction of 'lessening the liquor evil, fj says that the Standard was tardy in its announcement. ' The Tribune, after reproducing the Standard's editorial,- com- ; jnents: ! There is no doubt but that the opinion thus expressed i by the Standard on the evening of election day is correct. ' The Tribune lias shown that fully at various times during j the campaign, by quotations from the law. We have shown B I also the vicious political bargain made b. the Republican B i bosses, whereby this bunko game was worked upou the R I people in the interests of the liquor dealers. One of the 1 most scandalous things in the whole eainpaifni is this very . i thing now. admitted by the Standard, thai the Republican bosses and the newspapers under their control have kept a i persistent silence until the election was virtually over as to t the bunko game that was being worked upon the people. The Tribune is mistaken. The Standard was the first paper in ' the campaign to editorially point out the fact that the "no sale" feature of the new liquor law provided for the sale of liquor in I wholesale quantities and that prohibition could not have been at- I tamed under such a measure. i - - The mayor,' in his message to the council at the beginning of the f campaign, 'referred to the defects in the proposed prohibition law 1 and urged that as a reason why regulation 'would prove more ef- I fectivc than the uno sale" measure. This message was published j in the Standard and given prominence: j, This paper opened its columns to both sides and, after dcclar- i ing for regulation as more effective than "no sale." did nothing to j add to the bitterness of the campaign. . |