Show I I TELEGRAM LAUDED FOR ATTITUDE 4 ON ELECTION George Startup of Provo Praises Impartial Treatment Treatment Treatment Treat Treat- y ment of Candidates I IB B B By T r Tr Sl Special 0 News PROVO Nov 11 Commenting 11 on the election George A A. Startup of ot Provo organizer of most of the Bet- Bet leagues in Utah and founder of the State Federation of Better- Better nent lent leagues said saidI I I want to sincerely thank The for its its' fair and impartial ay of treating all aU parties and candi- candi dates Intes 1 Utah tall has been so used to the censored and colored press that I am amure sure rare many people appreciate your assistance assistance as- as to get the facts before the public v The seed for the downfall of Republican Republican Re- Re publican machine rule in Utah was sown eight years ago when the legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature and governor turned a deaf ear earno no to the petition of 85 per cent of the voters for prohibition They The roots of resentment went d deeper into the civic Consciousness when the l lei publican convention at Ogden six years ago Reed Heed Smoot presiding squelched th the substitute plank on the liquor question ques ques- tion on on which was sent up by the Provo drys by the previous question gag Irule rule I fl Had such men as Nephi Nepal L L. Morris I followed my brief introductory speech and real debate had been I permitted the ambiguity lit of that no notorious no 1 i platform may have been I saved laved and the consequent inconsistencies inconsistencies and double-dealing double of the party for six years past been prevented I Should Be Sooner I Had it not been so difficult to reach each the public on account of censorship censorship censorship censor- censor ship of the press especially of the Deseret News this answer of the people people people peo- peo just given at the polls to the machinations of the Republican machine machine ma- ma chine would have been forthcoming several years sooner As it was we have had to reach the people principally principally princ pally pally by pamphlets circulars etc The famous statement of Senator yer er following so closely upon upon I the the open letter to Governor Spry by y the Provo ovo Betterment league was the I clincher mall n which final finally public opinion as to where were responsibility responsibility responsibility lay tor for the train of high handed tricks culminating in Governor Spry's Spry perfidy in filing an illegal veto after giving his plighted word to do other other- wise The election in Utah while no doubt influenced somewhat by the popularity of President Wilson is is nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless nev nev- notice to politicians of any party that they cannot long Ions carry on one shoulder and water on the other When the people heard the clarion call of the peerless leader warning the Republicans that they must now put prohibition into their else ele we will again be charged with th another postponement their memories memories memories mem mem- ories went back to the key note speech at Ogden six years ago when Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor tur Smoots Smoot's denunciation of prohibition was a parroting of the arguments of the brewers brewers' year book Intrigue Must Fail This election demonstrates again that power and fame built upon in intrigue in- in igue h-igue must eventually come down That if it some of the politicians who have been so thoroughly repudiated had stood steadfastly Tor for high principle and for the general welfare instead of for expediency and with the interests' interests they might still have represented the people That the people were ashamed of I I being behind other states who had hadI I been wiping out their dives while I Utah was being made a a. hiss and a aI I byword and being made the dumping ground for the excrescence of comI communities com com- I not hampered as we were b by j unholy alliances alliances' I It is an answer to all tolls sorts of in- in in insidious I interference with citizenship I and of th the duplicity of trusted officials who have haves placed place private agreements I with tho antisocial nt element above their oath of office mild and a notice to future I public servants that they must enforce j i jand and ob obey y the laws I It is a rebirth of Utah's citizenship and is the harbinger of a freer and more progressive Utah which should result In reforms in harmony with I deep sincerity ty of the people generally generall |