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Show TO PUBLISH LIST OF CIPfllGOOlTIOi Democrats and Progressives Challenge Opponents to Tell Who Gives Funds. DENY GETTING $10,000 i Colonel Loose Asked to Prove Sincerity of Senator Sena-tor Sutherland The Democrats and Progressives of TTtali w 11 make publ c all of their earn paigu contributions and expenditures up to October 31 th s year if the Kepubli cans w 11 do hkew se This announce ment s made n a letter written yester day by Samuel B Thurman, Demo cratie state cha rman and W K Wal lace nat onal committeeman Senator George Sutherland in h s keynote key-note speech at the Republican state convent on this 3 ear made the state ment that the Kepublicans had passed a nat onal law for the publication of cam pa gu contribut ons and expenditures lor the protection ofc voters m nat onal elections To Protect Voters Democrats and Progressives insist that the same protect on be afforded the voters m the state elect ons In the absence of a state law on the subject the Democrats propose that the part es engaged in the present campaign, vol untar ly publish the names 01 the con tr butors to the campaign fund the amount of the subscript ons and show in leta I how the fund was d sbursed The organ of the Republ can bosses printed a statement saying that the local Democrats had received $10 000 from the Democrat c national commit tee S000 of wh eh was for use in this count The Democrats deny they have rece ved th s amount or any other sum from the Democratic nat onal commit tee or an other source outside of the state of Utah Colonel Loose Challenged The letter of the Democrats proposing an agreement to publish in deta I cam pa gn contribut ons and expend tores wh li was addressed to Colonel C E Loose cha rman of the Republican state con m ttee is as follows Hon C E Loose State Chairman Republ can Party Salt Lake C ty Tjtah ,1 Dear Colonel Loose The ofhc al organ of the Republ can party the Herald Republican, seems to be par ? ticularly nterested m our campa gn T' fund It has falsely stated that we S ' have rece ved $10 000 from the east to be used for the purpose of de-t de-t feat ng Senator Smoot We have rece ved no money from any source SL ot ts de of the state of Utah for sajd purpose or any purpose we earnestly wish that we liad. f Campaign funds are of great lm portance and the voters should know how and from whom, they come We have not received, and do not expect to receive a single dollar of which we need be ashamed and we would like the voters to know all about it. Will you join us n the publica tion. on the morning of October 31 1914 of a full and complete ac count of all receipts and expendi turesf We are glad to say that the Pro-gre Pro-gre s ve party joins us in this invi 1 tation. Verv respectfullv 3U S R THURHA2J 3 State Chairman. WILLIAM R WALLACE National Coram tteeman |