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Show A PERIL TO BE AVOIDED. The efforts of the factloniBts to make it appear that Tho Tribune has singled certain persons out for political disapproval disap-proval will not win. The very reverse Is the case. Theee men, bolters nnd fnctionlsts, were put forward In their organ as fit representatives of the Republican Re-publican party, proper men to go n.3 delegates from Utah to the Chicago National convention; In short, as the slate. Against this we entered our protest. We believe in harmony and regularity In party methods. Wo don't believe In rewarding bolters, nor In giving them control of the party. Wo do not single them out, but when others single them out for preferment, we object to them. We say, In the Interest of harmony, that tho party should steer clear of fac-llonlsm fac-llonlsm and faction strife. If it will not, then so much the worst for lu An agreement was made to keep the prominent promi-nent figures out of the reckoning thin time. How Is that agreement kept if others, particular representatives of those who agreed to stay out, and the worst of the factionlsts, are thrust upon the convention with a demand that they bo nominated? On the ono side, this agreement has been faithfully kept. It is not being kept by the bolting faction, which hopes to be able to capture the State convention conven-tion and UEe it for their personal triumph, which would be a triumph of disorganization and party revolt. The witless whine that somebody has bolted Senator Smoot, Is the feeble Invention In-vention of a shifty mind which does not know the meaning of tho word. Unless the State convention Is wise and broad enough to sit ' down upon this attempt to use the party to its hurt, nnd for the advancement of personal per-sonal and sinister interests, then it will be notice to the party at largo that those who fight the party and Its nominees nomi-nees are the ones whom the party will roward. And that Ie) party disorganization, which it is death to recognize. |