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Show A CLEAN CAMPAIGN, Under the above caption the Herald of Thursday last had a brief but strong article. A clean campaign may be a very strong campaign. Cleanliness is not necessarily weak, even in politics . Principles are worthy or unworthy, Btrong or weak, just and correct, applicable ap-plicable or unapplicable without reference refer-ence to the nominee who is pledged to carry them out if elected. Yet such ie tbe nature of politics that you cannot can-not separate the principles from the character of the individual who is for the nonce, the accepted exemplar of them. Hence a man should not eeek for a nomination to a place of trust or great importance who knows himself to be faulty or of bad record. Just as eure aa that the sun shines, if there is a defect in his record it will come to the surface if he ever attempts to run for office, and the principles underlying under-lying the race will be injured. Who ie to blame under these circumetanceb? Clearly the aepirant and the convention conven-tion which chooses him. Now to insure in-sure clean methods or cleanliness in a campaign the one thing necessary is to lix upon men who are absolutely without blemish so far as their record go. If there is a dirty spot in the record it will be pounced upon beyond a doubt, and this is always the commencement com-mencement of an unclean campaign, or at leaBt it is in a great majority of cases. The man makes the strongest campaign cam-paign who to great ability joins a faultless record as a man, as a citizen, as a public servant, and whose private life, whose domestic relations are without reproach, In the hands of I such a mau our most cherished principles, princi-ples, political or otherwise, are always sate, and a strong campaign is insured. in-sured. So far the republican party of IUtah in thiB campaign has departed far from the above simple rules. Its ante convention nominations haye been most unfortunate and if the convention con-vention nominates the proposed men a bitter and unrelenting warfare will be made on them at all hazards. And yet tbe campaign cannot be called an unclean one. It is the province of cleanliness to fight uncleanliness to the better end, and this result will surely follow. If it does, the fault will be that of the republican and not of the democratic demo-cratic convention. Take the ante ....... .m vent ion nominations of the demo crats and no such things can be said by any one of them, that republican papers themselves say every day of their ante convention nominees. We want a fair deal and a clean campaign only, but if the republican convention weakly yields to check and money it is quite likely that all hopes for that Bort of a campaign will have to be abandoned. aband-oned. The decent people of Utah will fight like wolves before they will see any man of mere money buy his way to the senate of the United States. This would be uncleanliness in the raw, and the brave democrats of Utah I will fight that with the weapons wtr.ch will insure its utter defeat. The cleanest clean-est campaign will bs the strongest. It would be a jibe forever upon Utah if the republican tactics as now arrayed were to be carried out and be successful. success-ful. An injury would be inflicted from which the state would not recover for a generation or bo. All patriotic Utonians should strive to avert such a I doom If to do so they are comoelled to lay aside for the nonce their poliu cal prejudices and vote the other ticket. We are making history now. Let us Bee .to it that it is made right and that it will stand the test of cleanliness. |