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Show ASSERT REPUBLICANS ALWAYS WAR PARTY. : The Republican committee claims that the people of the state are awakening to a realization that the Republican party is the war party and that it ia riving support to the win the war policies. poli-cies. The committee declares that this realization means the election of Republican Re-publican congressmen from Utah and that' it is going to mean victory for the Republican ticket down the line. The Republican bounty chairman for Salt Lake county claims that the party ticket in this county will make a clean sweep. Charles M. Morris, the county chairman, says that reports to Republican Repub-lican headquarters from every section of the county indicate the election of the entire ticket in this connty. The Democratic leaders are pointing with pride to the fact that Utah Demo- and ' 1 stumpless ' campaifru conducted. Hut it had to be. The iuflueu-a epidemic played an important part in politics this year, at least from tho standpoint of camprfinin. In addition the corrupt practices act passed by the last legislature placed a decided damper upon political activities. The result has been that from this combination of cratic representatives in congress went to the front to learn first-hand information informa-tion of the needs of American soldiers that they might be in the better position posi-tion to act intelligently in congress to back up and aid these soldiers in winning win-ning the war. The Democrats claim that the attack made upon the Demo cratic congressmen from this standpoint i but a boomerang that will return upon the attackers. This has been an unusual political campaign iu Utah, and, for that matter, everywhere else It ip the first time, perhaps, in the history of fhe state that there has been a meetingless, speechless to be conducted 1 through the newspapers" news-papers" in an advertising way. For an advertising political campaign, it has been a spirited one, one of the most spirited in some time. What the speakers speak-ers and candidates have not had oppor-tnnitv oppor-tnnitv to sav to audiences bv word of mouth, which is the usual medium, they have said tn them through the columns of the advertising sections of the newspapers, news-papers, through the media of big posters and other advertisements. This method of campaigning has apparently ap-parently aroused considerable interest in politics, at least among the poli ticians, but just what the general mihlic thinks of the campaign and the relative merits of the candidates of the two parties will be known when tho votes cast tomorrow are counted. |