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Show J Morri ; St i d Squarely for Prohibition Sutherlands Election an Honor Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho, during his found h this paper will ,'isit to Utah last week, laid pa$tijular stress up-- " .statement by the Betterment league of 1'ielo fel- dp theneedof'& Republican Congress' to assist t , Chart e E. laugher as president; and incidentally tiu- ted the Jiqnor question ..ml that onrumzatiuu occasion to .pay 'very high tribute1 to our took is urgriii'Z the people to pa. al s dutely - Senator own senator, Bo- to the report of the greater JJtah lousiness to th polls and to vote their league, but eomietion orr prohibition and to make thir own one 'ot the really per house choice in govcrror. Duriftg fhe past week the of men th country. JPrior to thu Republican naI desperate condition of the, Jemocrt tic campaign tion! convention last spring be af presideltial possibility and nf doubV would has forced Democratic leaders to make irrational r have been honored with the nomination had he chargesfegainst he Republican organization. Plm hailed from one of the more populous states of charge liflVe lultrn emphatically denied ly both ' the east - the campaign ehainnan and the candidates would eonsider theo failure t6 .return themsehes. George Sutherland to the United States Senate XexlliLtM orris publicly thivw down the d calamity, not only to the state of Utah, but to the nation, Senator Borah declared earnestly. gauntlet in the Salt Lakejlratre before one. of. George "Sutherland stands second to none the largest audiences eer ;'- niblcd in that among his colleagues in character and ability, building' and to justify his position he chalin poise and judgment. He is one of the active lenged the Democrats to prepare their stateconstructive minds of the Senate. While he adments and he would give it to them straight. dresses himself to a subject. he engages not only Needless to say they failed miserably in their attention of his colleagues but commands the attempts to prove their villifying statements and, the attention of the eountry. although they are shouting them from the houseSome of the ablest speeches made in the tops the charge that Nephi L. Morris and the Resince have been there have been those Senate publican party are tied up to the liquor vote of of George Sutherland. But he not alone a deUtah has met with the treatment it deserves. It bater; be is faithful, industrious and construchas also driven hundreds of fair minded cititive in the committee room. I have sat with him zens into the Morris camp for they are in favor on the Judiciary committee for years and I of a square deal. learned more and more as the months passed by With a great majority of the wet vote of to have a profound respect for his judgment in Utah declaring for Simon Bamberger, the Demoall matters of legislation. cratic state chairman is attempting to cover up It is of inestimable advantage) the West the falsehoods published against Mr. Morris and ' have - such men as Sutherland men of conto the Republican state ticket by claiming that the ceded ability and undoubted standing in the brewers ' are proselyting in Salt Lake, Sandy Cartoon by BERRYMAN in The Washington Stan Senate. Our western states sbe small in popuand Provo. The people of this city know how lation' and must make up their prestige by the' utterly. false the charges are here and if thev are strength of their representatives. George Suthfalse here there is just as much reason to believe erland is nOt only a credit to the nation but a they are false elsewhere. Why should the brewFour years ago Utah county elected a Demo- - have be?n considered during the last two years, distinct asset to the West. 1 doubt not that his ers, if 'determined on the election of Nephi L. whom he lias served so well-a- nd Morris, choose but three towns in which to wage cratic administration and Democrats took party interests were considered daring constituency, will so conclude; and tee that he is One of those towns having trol of every branch of countyjjpvernmeni. They the two years prior. Needless extravagance, and faithfully, there. l:tpt Jess thhn five hundred votes, and the' other served the people of the county two years when inefficiency not mention favortism, wap -- 0 o - : (PrCTCj alout three thousand votes. We would fused with the Progressives to ' entrench sponsible for Democratic failure.' The UTAH IS REPUBLICAN even give the brewers credit for better judg- in county government, but unfortu- - cans, have again put th county on the road to With the closing of thet bitterest campaign' ment than trying to elect a governor on the nately for the Democrats their two years of sen- j.guccess and will redeem the county and place it in Utah in a quarter of a century there has been votes of Provo and Sandy. vice had been so partisan and so ' extravagant where it belongs not only financially but in jteep-th- a decided swing toward the stable and sane poG- With the closing days of the campaign we eies of Republicanism that the election of the Re-the people arose and defeated them. The mg, in step with the progress of the time?, ( of Nephi L. Morris to the govsee publican ticket from top to bottom is assured in ernors chair. The people of Utah shill never Republican administration came back into pow- During the campaign the Republicans have Utah. . . fall so! far from consistency that it will be ne- er two years ago and since that time the Re-- thrown down the gauntlet to the Democrats and as Balt-- Lake county, which-hheeiT" more or' cessary for them to go into the ranks of ex-s- a publicans have controlled the county. 1 We do have asked them in pubGc to prove wherein the less of a conundrum since the opening of the loon keepers to- - choose a-- governor for this not claim perfection for the Republican admmis-- 1 administration has not been strictly efficient and campaign, has swung steadily during the past fair state. Utah citizens will not have to choose tration, but we challenge the Democratic party economical The ' Democrats have faded to month to the Republican ranks. On account a railroad president as the head of their utilities the extensive liquor traffic in the capital city ,how whereia they, eonld have bettered eoa-KVgte black.' mief.galnit the record commission,' nor hfts the time" come when "the ditions and could have given the people of this ... n there has been "more of a tendency, toward reChe work J, of the The voters will approve made. -- people of this state shall .feel so poor they will ' economical or a more better admimstrabellion than in some of the outside districts, county administration and .will return the Republicans Where carpet the governors office with a rag carpet. tjon ' prohibition is already in effect. In the desperate appeal the Democrats are In practically every offiee in the county an to office, next Tuesday by' an overwhelming But the Gquor dealers iave come to recog- -- making .for votes many roorbacks nize the inevitable and with the assurance that Republican officer has guarded his ex- - jority. before election day . charges and many-falspense accounts end has reduced the cost of servthe Republican party will stand squarely upon as a campaign of vilification has been started in ice to the its platform they have given up hope for an expeople and to the taxpayers. the hope of overcoming the great Republican In the clerk.'s office the Republican party in tension of time but know that they will be grantlead which threatens to wipe the Democratic the ed the' full six months provided in the prohibipast two years has saved over the Democratticket out of the field. , 0 ic party two years prior, $876.00. In the trea-- 1 T s tion plank to dispose of their holdings and to . With the Betterment league declaring .that ,retire from business. surers .Office, $441.85 ;in the recorder V office, jp HARD TIMES RETURN Nephi. L. Morris is above reproach and a maiTof $161.55; in the surveyors office, $133.64 thus the The labor clement, too, has turned from the ShoU,d the cm,rts hold the Adaon law to integrity and honor; with the, Hon. B. II. Rob- list goes. Iu the Sheriffs office two years prior lure of the Adamson eight-hou- r law since the erts declaring that he knows no man in Utah to Democratic rule,' viz. : 2 Sheriff be constitutional, how will the trainmen benefit pemiciousness- of that bill has been exploited. more Jabove reproach than Nephi L. Morris, we Judd conducted the affairs of his office for if conditions- - become as they were two years The. appeal of an eight hour day at a ten hour can see no .reason why the voters of this state the Democratic sher- - ago, just prior to the outbreak ' of the Euro-if- f wage has bGnded the transportation brotherhood $8659.20, yet in should believe the eleventh hour campaign caexpended $11,959.20, or in excess of the pre- - pean wart' Do the trainmen not recall that temporarily to the fact that the law was in renards issued by the Democratic leaders. vious Republican" administration $330; nor does time when traffic slackened, when trains were ality only an emergency measure rushed through Nfcjhi L. Morris is' a living guarantee of his this include contingent and automobile expense, laid off and when trainmen . were working part Congress by a Democratic administration to av-- . own integrity. lie needs no $10,000 guarantee which were ll sherwar-wisom time end time? higher daring the Democratic ert a threatened strike and really had no meanEuropean to assure fe people of this state that he will give iff s Berviee. This is in Democratic still the sheriff of trade free the and if power ing beyond that. The laborin mCn also Recyear party them prohibition law. He has straight,, iron-cla- d in' still in is law and its free .trade effect, there ognize that if it is possible for Congress o fix salary, etc., $11,609.30. expended, u. needs' ho $10,000 'guarantee that he will keep . We also desire to conditions of 1913 wages that it rts possible for the same body-ttax levies will be a recurrence compare the , otherparty pledges, for Nephi L. Morris has es- - ji for general purposes during the - two years of and 191 4. enact laws providing compulsory! arbitration, tablished himself as a man of honor and integ- - Democratic with administration.- condition that; is no more desirable tb the workrity among the people of Utah. ; those of the past two years. In 1913, the Demoing man that it is to the employer. When the voters of Utah go to the polls crats- levied exclusive of $95,- The Vpeaee at special levies, any price and too' proud next Tuesday' they should remember that Nephi 314.33 and In 1914 92.075.50, When the Re-- j Before the war order? began to pour in late to fight sentiment has also lost its halo.. With, L. Moms never ran a race track nor ha saloon. publicans came Into power in January, 1915, in 1914,' three million men in this country were the realization that no person nor party desired -- o o- they found 'the treasury exhausted and a big ov-- 1 out of employment or working part time. - What war, hut that war would be inevitable in Conerdraft staring. them in, the faee. When they would have been the1 condition of these milUons ! nection with( President Wilsons Kexican policy, - WHAT WASHINGTON SAID. left the. office two years' prior there was a com-- , today and dming' the past two yearsif there had there came a reaction.' It is not fth&t Americans -There is a rank due to the United States fortable balance to the county s' account1; But, (been no war orders?. It was not the'Democratio are too proud to fight; thfey are a peace loving which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost,- by notwithstanding the overdraft, the tax levy for tariff law or other Democratic" legislation; nor people W among: the quickest in the world-t- o 1915-w- as $85,290.35 and In 1916, $85,268.80, the rwas it any aet of the Democr&tle administrationreeent an insult to their flag and their eonntrv. the reputation of jweakness. I 1 ' as Thw .remark may be construed .a vicious difference. in the two years making a saving tA'ik.i put ah end to the bread lines and closed the men. Peace is to be desired .but at all times It j jgoup house. It was, the demand of. Europe at war cannhot.be baLiWith this idea iu view attack upon President Wilson, and his friends the tax payers of Utah county of $1 6,830.68. many of of- ""Mr. TaX payer, you are the judge and it. Is that" rekindled the' fire&in the factories "and that the former Wilson has Wilson may heenlyTesent supporters have, reasoned that ten suggested that criticism of this kind is unpa- - for you to answer whether or, not the efficient swelled the demand and increased the prices of if it comes to war they would much prefer a man -service given ' by Tthe Republican administration farm products. triotic: at the head of the nation who has definite poliWe! -- The man who uttered this rematk would fce the last two years deserves a cies and ideas and the courage to carry them out. The New Jersey returns show that the set down today as opposed to President Wilson. challenge the' Democrats oncemore to show the atmosphere of Salt Lake coun But the- man is not living now. His name was wherein they-coul- d possibly improve the record president has lost r his ' power, either to coax or ty and the state as a whole seems most propi-tion- s made by our county officials. Your interests hoax the voters of his former state. for the Republican party. George Washington - i:isv I.,. i 11 . - i . - 1 a Keep Extravagance Out County Officies eon-1-whi- le their-campaign- ? re-th- ey -- ! ! Republi-thhmselv- es - at j ' V ( -- it jf , ma-cfficie- nt e i 1911-191- - , 1913-191- 4, a iu;! e-'x- o r- - . , 1913-191- 4, " J - i - . -- n. -- . . - - ; |