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Show FRANK KNOX. I Mr. Knox was beaten for Mayor because he stood in the line of flre aimed at some one behind him. This is the fortune of war and there Is no complaint com-plaint on that score, especially when we know that the mountains of Utah) are precipitus and no one can anticipate what havoc a land-slide may while no gentleman ever bore himself with more dignity through a campaign, while no gentleman over held himself more aloof from anything any-thing unfair or ungenerous during the campaign; no gentleman was ever subjected to so much secret abuse and unqualified lying as were hurled at him by skulking character assassins. No more despicable and cowardly warfare was ever made to blacken the good name of a man than was made on Mr. Knox. But it will not hurt him He will be a respected and self-respecting gentleman as his traducers will be as they always have been a pait pf the eannaille of thp slump, |