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Show PRINCIPLES COUNT, NOT MEN. It is possible that back in the days before history was written nominations wero made that pleased everybody. Certainly there have been none since the records of men have been kept that entirely satisfied everybody in the community. com-munity. Enemies of the Republican party are seeking to make it appear that that party will be divided because some other man than Mr. Cannon has not been nominated for congress. But the great fact is that Utah is now engaged in a contest which will determine whether the people are for Republicanism Republican-ism or Democracy, and in that contest the question of men is nothing and the question of principles is everything. The renomination of President Harrison Har-rison was bitterly opposed at Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, but the majority said he should be the candidate, ami every vote cast for him is a vote for the protection of American industries and the equal rights of man. The renomination of Gkover Cleveland Cleve-land w as bitterly opposed at Chicago, but the majority nominated him, and every vote cast for him is a vote for free trade and the outrage of the ballot box. It is the principles of two great parties, par-ties, not the personalities of their candidates, can-didates, that the people will choose between be-tween in November, And so it is in Utah. The Republican candidate for congress con-gress stands for protection of our wool industr against the Democratic assault as-sault upon its right to exist. He stands for decent wages for Utah miners against the Democratic attempt to cut those wages down to the Mexican level. He stands for the policy that will build up great industries in Utah, as it has built them up throughout this union. He stauds for home labor and Utah material in public work. He stands for all the past and all the future of the greatest political party that ever dealt with the destinies of any people. No matter what his name is. No matter where he comes from. He is the champion cham-pion of Republicanism, and let the Democrats, or the peculiar Third party of Utah politics, name a man who dares to meet him on the stump if they can. If the object of the election in November No-vember was simply to pass on the relative rela-tive personal qualities of two or three citizens of this territory it would be useless expense and trouble. There is something more than men in this contest. con-test. It is the character of a state that is to be moulded. It is the future of a great people that is to be determined. Every man who believes that Republicanism Repub-licanism is better than Democracy for the people of Utah, and every man who would rather cheer the heart of Benjamin Harrison than that of Gkover Gko-ver Cleveland with the returns from this territory next November, ought to vote and will vote for the candidate whom the Republicans have named. |