Show AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE While the air is full of appeals to various prejudices and an factional forces while the Republicans are arc predicting dire disaster if they lose and the Americans are predicting worse if they arc are defeated It is worth noting that the tho Democrats are appealing only to the common sense of all aU the tha th people To say that Utah will be ruined Jf it the Americans win or that a n whole state will be put in mourning if the tho Republicans happen to elect their ticket is to assume that these theae moun mountains mountains thins and valleys are full fulI of fools No Nobody o body believes for a minute that it Is 5 in tho the power of or any fillY one party to work worl wholesale disaster even if it desired d no noone noone one is crack brained enough h to think honestly that tho the mines will be closed I tho the farms deserted and the cities over overwhelmed whelmed helmed with woe woo because some co 00 coterie terie of politicians is installed In power for a n brief brier season That sort of o argument argument ment is obviously designed to ploy r upon the credulity of the tho public and an I the man or woman n who c uld be ho af tf affected seriously by such argument is isa isa h a fit candidate for the home of the th feebleminded If It Utah could be damaged hopelessly r rby by internecine political warfare the th damage would have haxe been baen done before this No other state in the Union n has isa had so bitter and senseless e a factional I struggle within its borders none has ha 3 been so patient with its political guerillas guerillas las and none nono is more urgently in tn no noe d dof i of restoration to the basis of legitimate S politics tics Doubtless the tho election elect on of eIther cither the th I American or Republican tickets ticket S would mean a continuation an aggra aggravation of the conditions that have so 50 c 0 harassed and bedeviled the tho th people of o f Utah for the past three years but the th 0 state will manage to pursue its wy w m prosperously If it not cheerfully no nat ter what ticket Is successful The appeal of the Democracy Is to t c the common sense of those Independent voters comprising the majority of the th theopIe people who want rational politics Bound sound business administration of rr public C affairs and complete completo cessation of the th C yawping and howling and fighting of o f I Ithe the tho two Republican factions To this thi 8 class tho the Democracy appeals with I con eon I because it offers the simplest t solution the only way out of a perplex perplexing ing situation The Democratic party is I S Sunder under obligation to no man it tt line has no n 0 factions it has since Its organization n here ere iere decried the use of improper in hi influences L in elections and It has fought II it consistently the tho men who used or c r sought those influences It is pledged ci only to secure the welfare of the whole people cople regardless of or their religious be bc beliefs ibis or their political bell beliefs belief efM Its Ita I suc success success cess COBS would mean tho the elimination of cf r and Americanism or o 0 any My other ism as a political foree In the affairs of Utah The man or woman who ik ikes s the present condition of affairs has only to vote for the tl k tor the Amen loan Ican J an ticket to see s e those th se conditions continued The man or woman who wants to see the tho county misgoverned as the city Is now misgoverned Jt 18 only to vote tho the American Am can ticket But Butt the t o voter who wants to see a n govern government government government ment of tho the people on business principles ples plc lc f only who prefers clean straight straightforward t forward fot ard politics without tho the wrangling and wholesale defamation of the state that has been the chief political lea fea feature ture tura of the past three e years will vote yoe oto fo tD ther the Democratic ticket The choice I I is Entered on sensible grounds ground to sensible s ble people and if it common sense gov governs gOverns erns ems the voters as it should the tho com cam common non mon mono sense Democratic platform will wilI win |