Show our frioud hie standard The Ogden standards connection with the purported letter from american fork raking down chairman graham of this county could not be considered yesterday for lack of time and space we beaire to briefly review its kind and cunning editorial reference to the letter the standard says we think le mr graham would ba guilty of mixing up the inac brement of his paper and the chair mahshid of hie county then acain if graham to talk to the people we believe he would do so an excellent medium for that purpose those two strangely contradictory statements appear vary close to bethar we have ft oufa only two linea indicated by asterisks we agree with the latter that if the latter statement that if chairman graham wanted to talk to the people he do it through the party organ an excellent medium for that purpose acain J 0 graham would hardly preaulo to advise free born Araen caBB not to malab auy pledges to support friends for office etc what tho et cetra standa for we cannot say in reference to the aghta of frea born will agree with the standard that usually they may support friends for office but they limit their help to their own individual efforts and not involve the party machinery in the fight that is what mr graham meant by sending out circular to the committeemen asking them to bo on their guard against the advances of candidates for effice chairman crane may have no in using the party organization to promote his own and others ambitions for office but in utah county it is tha patriotic desire of all that the party organization be kept free from such alli the standard will aaroe with the republicans in thia matter after a few moments thought personally haa nothing against mr crane it admires his past services cervices vices fer the party but it does contend that the gentleman is doing wrong to retain the chairmanship while being desirous of a candidacy on the party ticket also contends that crane nize the party organization in the county and not hold irregular corn chairman with mem bars of the party he must see the dissatisfaction such a course will create the standard truly bays mr graham haa made a hard fight in utah county and he does not take kindly to chairman oranea of and co babor ors in his utah county communications furthermore ier graham thinka it nothing less than despicable for mr crane to suggest so utah they visit him at salt lake that mr graham is very unpopular as county chairman back of these suggestions lie bidden the kind intimation oi the standard to the effect that mr grahan undoubtedly will be glad to lay down the mantle of authority at the next county convention wo will suggest in no loss kindly terms that mr crane will also ba glad to lay down his mantle of authority at the next territorial convention whoever shall ba tha coming chairman of this county will brook no interference from tho territorial chairman such as has been done by mr crane because republican sentiment in this county is adverse to such interference in the standard it trusts TUB will promptly deny the authorship of the circular in question and until ahn the standard suspends judgment As we cannot deny the authorship we make this explanation of the reason for the circular and kindly invite the |