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Show THE i CITIZEN Mr. Redman is one of our most progressive citizens, a leader in i;civic affairs and noted for his initiative and ideas. George H. Islaub, as county recorder, won the admiration of business men for his efficiency. Whereas in 1914 the cost of running the office. of county recorder was $35,700 the reports show that in 1918, under Mr. Islaub, the running expenses were only $24,690. Mr. Islaub is being fought by the machine which helped to elect him and the business men are quite aware that the opposition of the machine is due to his honesty, independence and efficiency. Auditor Bock is frankly a party candidate, being supported by the Democratic city hall machine which has turned against Mr. Islaub. Despite the letter and spirit of the law, which seeks to make the Democratic machine orthe municipal elections ganization openly announced its partisanship and then injected Mr. Bock into the campaign. He must survive or perish with the ring-stewho are his backers. An interesting feature of the campaign, a feature that has in it an element of the dramatic, is the appearance in the lists of Utahs famous ace, the gallant C. Lemar Nelson, who will run for mayor. He is the son of A. C. Nelson, who made one of the citys best superintendents of schools. Mr. Nelson has already gained a big following among the university students and undoubtedly will receive the support of the soldiers, who greatly admire the chivalrous flyer. One of the strongest elements of his candidacy is that he is involved in no class issue and will, therefore, win votes from all classes. Without experience and without the maturity of judgment that comes from experience, he is nevertheless a very able young man and should go far. non-partisa- ourselves with those who wish to rule the world by might, but by holding fast to the right. If we would preserve liberty and justice among ourselves we must be as willing to give them to the peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa as we are eager to keep them for ourselves. We have faith to believe that tHe nation which freed itself, from V European despotism will not now adopt the principles of despotism. A nation which freed the black man; will not commit, white men or yellow men to slavery. A nation which fought to free Cuba and the Philippines will not guarantee to uphold tyranny anywhere in the world. -- n, 1920 CANDIDATES rs MORAL LEADERSHIP his Salt Lake address President Wilson drew a magnificent and INmoving picture of the nations offering the United States the moral leadership of the world. The nations cannot offer the United States that which it already has. We need not speak as pharisees when we claim the moral leadership of the world, for we are in danger of losing that leadership through our own follies and misdeeds. The moral structure which the forefather builded so magnificently is in danger of destruction by mobs, lynchers, seditionists and, worst of all, by those in high places who are willing to compromise with the wrongs which Washington and his fellow revolutionists repudiated. It was the moral leadership of Columbus that gave us the New World. It was the moral leadership of Washington and Bolivar and thousands of other great patriots that freed the New World. It was the moral leadership of Hamilton, Jefferson, the Adamses, Jackson and Monroe that held our country true to the principles of liberty and justice and gave warning to the old world that it must keep hands off a continent dedicated to a free government. It was the moral leadership of Garrison, of Wendell Phillips and of Abraham Lincoln that lifted the nation above human slavery and gave it the moral leadership of the world. Today we are in danger of losing that leadership. Wc can lose it by surrendering to the enemies of society within our doors; we can lose it by leaguing ourselves with wrong in Europe, Asia and Africa. We can lose it by throwing aside those moral restraints which have made us great and prosperous, by permitting the I. W. W. and the anarchistic radicals to overthrow our representative government by the direct action of lynchings, riotings and revolutions in the name of the Bolshevik gods of free love, robbery and class dictatorship. We can lose it by adopting the European system which the fathers threw off. We can lose it by interfering too much in European disputes and warfares. We can keep it by being true to our traditions and our constitution, by never forgetting that ours is a government of liberty under law. We can keep it by respecting, as did our fathers, the rights of others and by fulfilling our patriotic obligations, by holding fast to our reverence for morality and religion, for just authority, for property rights and for human life. And we can shed the influence of that leadership into the dark places of the 'world, not by leaguing time that all of us were interesting ourselves ITcandidates, for the day approaches when one or the in Presidential other of th is conventions will nominate the next President of these United States. In the Democratic party the dominating perhaps it would be as near the mark to say dictating personality of President Wilson obscures the pretentions of other eager Democrats. The indefiniteness of the Presidents plans leaves the whole country guessing and his own rivals both guessing and gasping, and perhaps even sputtering expletives. In the Republican party there is no such dictation and represll sion. It is a pleasant and affords the observer many alluring perspectives. Already a good half dozen candidates are fairly in the field and running strong. No doubt the western man is inclined to have a somewhat different viewpoint from that of his brethren in the east. The eastern man is disposed to turn a distressed look of rebuke at the presump-tiou- s westerner, but the look fades into one of becoming humility when the easterner suddenly recollects that it was a western state that decided the last Presidential election and apparently changed the old rules of balance of power. To the western observer three men stand out saliently. There can be no manner of doubt that the country could not go wrong in choosing any one of them to succeed Mr. Wilson. By all the tests they are fit candidates and the Republican party w'ould honor itself by honoring any one of the three. But naturally, as we must make a choice, we cannot talk in terms of three. We must talk of one or, at most two, for, of course, candidate to think of. there is the To Republicans who have given the subject some thought, Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and Senator Johnson of California make a convincing appeal. The former is of the McKinley type ; the latter a veritable Roosevelt. Either one would head the ticket magnificently and triumphantly. The characteristics of each seem to publish him to the nation as just the man for the place. Surely a McKinley would be suited to these times a man of true nobility of character, a thorough American in the highest sensj-jkindly, impartial, cool of judgment, loving all who love America, a peacemaker, opposed to the radicalism that stirs up class hatreds, a great executive of a great state whose administration, wise, just to all classes and masterly, commends him to his fellow countrymen as one who, in the Presidential office, would adjust our most serious problem the differences between labor and capital without sacrificing anything we have that is good, without injustice to either side. Such a president is, indeed, demanded by the times. And, on the other hand, what characteristics could be more necessary than those which are so shiningly exemplified by Senator Johnson ? A fearless fighter who never dodges a challenge, a great, sane mind like Roosevelts and a very Roosevelt for energy; one who nej$ forgets that America should rank first in the hearts of Americans as it does in the esteem of the whole world; one who would not fail to stand for American principles against any betrayal, foreign or domestic, one who is trusted by all classes, one who has been fair to all, one who would lead his party brilliantly and represent the nation as free-for-a- vice-president- ial y |
