Deseret Evening News | 1908-11-10 | Page 4 | False Pretenses

A peculiar feature of campaign Is tho of victory by manager Indeed It they do not claim for their party To tho average ob observer server It Is obvious that managers know very little bf an will go But they admit ignorance They al always ways know ahead almost to a vote the election will put persons who reflect know oC course predictions are absolutely They know that they heon upset and again They know furthermore that tin put Cor seldom represent candid opinion of those Issue thorn In other words the is should the nonsense bo Indulged in it ca u Narrow partisans perhaps to tos s o the of their managing geniuses They lovo to dwell for a time in u fools paradise It may also be that some voters express any principle or In the voting but always with what they con consider sider the winning side Bold hoods as to tho certainty oC victory may be to s that kind of a vote but It would bo just as voll vollIn In tho future If It w re understood that tho that arc based on nothing arts not legitimate ammunition The elimina elimination tion of deliberate prevarication from campaigns would bo a distinct moral gain to thu country