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Show A REPUBLICAN FAIR. The Standard of Ogddn and our Provo contemporary are a precious pair of . The Standard on Thursday Thurs-day night had a half column editorial entitled "The Democracy's One Hope" in which it indulges in its usual warfare war-fare against what it calls the "Richards' "Rich-ards' contingent," and then indulges in a fulsome eulogy of Judge King in which it tpeaks of his "congressional nomination" as "the democracy's one ! hope." It is a good sign that the Standard can speak well of "one" democrat; we think the reason probably is that the judge is the only "Utah county democrat" demo-crat" that the Standard man has be-come be-come acquainted with, and we are glad that he has bo worthily representee, us. We will gracefully accept all the good things it says about Judge King, and will add that either Judge King or any one of a score of other democrats in the south half of the state would wear conereseional honors with better grace and more honor than any one the republicans re-publicans can nominate. Hut we suspect there is "milk in a cocoa nut." In another article the same paper says: "Democracy is an idle folly, and no one but an uneducated uneduca-ted fool can believe in it." Judge King is a democrat and even the Standard Stand-ard has not the gall to apply the above epithet to him or to charge him with insincerity, hence when a writer classes us all as "uneducated fools" and singles out one for fulsome praise, we cannot help but inquire what is there behind this, and as we have long ago discovered dis-covered the sharp trick that has been heretofore played by the Standard and I our contemporary, it is not difficult to scent the game. The Standaid Bays: "There is some talk of running o. it. xhurman against him," King. On reading this the most natural thing for us to do was to follow the Bcent, Dd see whether this slight peg would De seized upon by our cotemporary to hang its dirty rag of abuse of Thurman upon, and eure enough our guess proved a certainty. Friday night Frovo'e nondescript had a mess of Btuff headed,"Thurman-King Fight." The Standard's "some talk" perhaps between two Ogden repub licans becomea at once a battle royal between twa -Provo democrats" and people are expected to believe there are Borne facts behind the vaporing imaginings of those who would like to create a conflict between democrats so as to withdraw attention from an existing ex-isting one in republican ranks. This attempt to use the name of Mr. Thurman in this connection is utterly ut-terly unjustifiable. He is in no manner man-ner a candidate in opposition to Judge King. He doubtless has friends who may feel like nominating him for some position. Many men are spoken of by heir friends as being suitable for different dif-ferent positions. The truth is that democrats select their men for office in their conventions and there has been and is so much conflict amongst republicans repub-licans as who will be their nominees, that they insist upon democrats doing the same thing. Now we eay that when our convention meets we shall then nominate our candidates, and it will then be early enorgh for republi cans to discuss them; or if democratic papers suggest names with the consent of their owners, it might do to discuss their merits, but for republican papers to suggest a elate for us as an excuse to canvass the character of individuals individ-uals who have not consented to be regarded re-garded as candidates at all is so premature pre-mature as to be contemptible, but we are not going to be silent when it comeB to such stuff as the nondescript nonde-script writes about Thurman, discussing dis-cussing his personal appearance which it does in the following language: And as for him being a ladies' man, we believe he is not so slow in that line. He is good looking, has also curly locks, which are raven black, and is considerable of a flatterer, which trait could win the ladies. Th3 people of Utah county do not like personalities, and we not design to utter any unlesB driven to it, but we Bay emphatically we will endure no discussion of pereonal appearance of any democrat without some sort of reply, re-ply, and if the parties who write fr,r our cotemporary again attempt to soil democrats with their dirty fingers, by innuendo or otherwise in which the gentler eex is referred to, we shall not refrain from returning the attack in their moBt vulnerable point; but we now advise them for decency's sake 10 let us forget those parts of their life's history. We would much rather not parade anybody's shame, but we now give fair warning that if others accuse any democrat of their own sins we will saddle the right horse with the burden, and if you will fling dirt we will show what kind of element constitute your filth. But oh, how the ladies of Utah county are regarded 1 A "flatterer could win the ladies," eh? Is that your experience? If it is we can only pity your victims. Is it true ladies, that, unwittingly Perhaps, the writer of the above quota m ii l ii win ' nun mil i "in mi m n inn 11 mi m .n uim 11 tion has exposed his true character? According to our life's rule be has, but his covering is too thin, the whole game is exposed. The ladies of Utah are to be won by flat'ery are they? Is it true that the nice utterances of cur cotemporary are "flattery?" In our heart of Leans we believe they are. Ladies, beware of the "flatterer,"be he who he may. |