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Show THE TICKETS. The Democrats and Progressives have nominated a well-balanced ticket, calculated cal-culated to bring the strongest possible competition into the field against tho Eepublican ticket. Not the least among the Eepublican blunders was the failure to justly balance their ticket among those elements entitled to representation. representa-tion. Mr. Morris, if elected governor, will carry out the decree of the. Eepublican platform and will sign the prohibition bill. The two platforms are equally specific and binding, although not equally equal-ly meritorious, on the prohibition question ques-tion and Mr. Bamberger, if elected, will sign a prohibition bill. Mr. Morris has been a devoted prohibitionist prohi-bitionist for years, but Mr. Bamberger's 6tand on this issue cannot be doubted. The reputation he has gained during forty-odd years of residence in Utah is sufficient guarantee that he will abide by the platform pledge. Nor is that the limit of his adhesion to the prohibition prohi-bition principle. More than a year ago he came out for prohibition and the sincerity sin-cerity of his declaration was &ynon-strated &ynon-strated by the fact that he made Lagoon, La-goon, the amusement park which he controls, dry territory. "With the prohibition issue out of the way because both parties have given equally definite and binding pledges in this regard, the voters will naturally be led to study the relative fitness of the two candidates for governor. They will consider their ability, their capacity properly to represent the state and their executive qualifications to handle all the important questions and affairs that must come before them in the next four years. It must be said in commendation of the Democratic prohibition plank that it provides the just way for a determination determi-nation of this question. It provides not only for a law of the legislature, but for a vote of the people on a constitutional constitu-tional amendment. After the bill has become a law, the people could make the law permanent by voting for the constitutional consti-tutional amendment. This would remove the question as a recurring issue in every ev-ery campaign and would settle it once for all. The Tribune has maintained, aa Governor Spry maintained, that the right method of solving the liquor problem prob-lem was the submission of a constitutional constitu-tional amendment to the vote of the people and it would be stultifying itself if it failed at this time to point out the superiority of the Democratic plank to the Eepublican plank. |