Show U hat people expect on the eve ot the greatest political convention in the history of utah it may be well to caution the delegates against any immoderate zeal for their respective candidates resolve to weigh fairly in the great balance of public opinion which the convention will be all candidates for office and let no influence swerve yon from your well understood anty remember delegate that the people 0 bah are more alive to honesty and purity in politics than ever be fore their suspicions having been aroused by a long line of minor incidents perhaps unnecessary to men lion now it to say however that the state republican convention will ba critically watched if the candidates chosen happen to be tarnished in any way by boodle r corrupt methods used to seccie their lecog the people of utah will not endorse the action of the conven tion toe men chosen to run on the ticket should be men of the people and bona fide residents of utah A candidates religion or e pen lack of religion should cat no figure but the people of utah it must be well are tired of voting for carpetbag carpet bag candidates they do nofa ask that men pub up for office hhall have resided here all their lives or since the pioneers came to utah but they do ak that those asking for the peoples suffrage have more in in otah than any whery elsa in the connary con in the recent past too many men homes in utah and without tangible interests here v ern given the best in beigh it will not be that way in the future if the convention keeps the interest of the people at heart in its deliberation we have no fear of the success of the republican ticket at the polls next november utah is republican by a safe majority and alia people will not easily bu led away from the party of home industries by the sophistries sophis tries of the democrats oar only fear is such a ticket le selected as will lead them to vote for persons rather than principles the convention must put on the ticket the best men in the party which includes the most respected citizens of otah finally we hope all candidates and their friends have already resolved to stand by the work of the convention come victory or coma defeat the convention is the battle ground of the party and it is there all republicans public ans should honestly arbitrate their the enquirer has strong likes and dislikes in different cases for men mentioned for the beveral offices but this paper will support the men honestly selected by the convention for slate office even though acma should bo men whom the paper dislikes we believe the judgment of the whole is batter than any part of the party and the state convention is supposed to be the concentrated judgment of the whole party |