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Show CANDIDATES NOT PLEDGED. In referring to thy matter of Logls-lutlvo Logls-lutlvo candidates pledging themselves to auy Senatorial candidate in advance, Stato Senator Aqulla Nobokcr Is reported re-ported to have said: This plodglng Legislative candidates In advance of the election Is not right. Wo want tho asslstancoof oveiy Senatorial Sen-atorial candidate in till- State.m every part of the State. Suppose Mr. Mo-Ctiue Mo-Ctiue hears of it man in one ot tho lower counties being pledged to Mr. King, or Mr. Hlolmrds, or I'rank Cannon, Can-non, or Judge Rowers, or anyothor candidate, and ho Is asked to do something some-thing toward electing tho ticket down thopj, is It natural that ho would take tliu samo Interest In this work hu would if the candidate had said nothing? noth-ing? Suppose Mr. Kin hears of the pledging of a enmMdato in any other comity of tho State, will ho naturally work us hard for tho success of the tlckol In that county as he might otherwise other-wise have done? Tills poes to tho bottom of the whole matlor. It Is all wrong. Whut we want Is for every Democrat, to got In the harness and work. Work hard and late. And we want no such business, Tho candidates candi-dates cannot ntTord to jeopardise the success of tho ticket bv indulging in tills sort of work. It may hurt us and it should bu stopped right pov, The tlmo ip dhcuss tho election of a Senator Sen-ator Is when a Democratic Legislature shall have been elected, not before. Wo budovo that Uio ideas of Senator Nehckef- aro perfectly correct upon this point. And wo will go further, and say that wo do tint hellevo that candidates for county olhcors should pled so thoinsqlvcs for tho appointment of deputtes,. Catirtldutcs should go into tho iie)d unpledged to anything but to do their duty to their party and to the "people 'wlio elect theiii, Tho Irty should noyer huye to meet tlio (a . cinbumssmeiit created by candidates pledged In advance ti particular Individuals. Indi-viduals. We 1110 pleaded to lie able to s,ty that tlio Democratic candidates In Uiali county, either Legislative or enmity, am not pledged except to do the will of tho people If elected In this connection wo may say that our statement of tiomu time since that al lenst a portion of tliu Republleuti Legislative Leg-islative tioket In Utah county U pledged to John Henry Smith for United Stales Senator has not. been challenged by the local g. o. p organ. |