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Show JAKE JOHNSON. ?BK H WE must express a deep sym- 9ll 11 pathy for Judge Jacob John- sfiHiliBa, IH son of Sanpete county, who is j " running fcr congress on the Republi- I" 4jte "1 H can ticket. It may be said, without flKfcE 1 fear of contradiction from any one "TwfW. H beside Harry Joseph, that he was W-frM H nominated in fullest regularity; that vwmtm Mil H his name was put upon the Repub- .g.., M lican ticket by the most regular miotli- MSjj$$$ od according to the regular Repub- iJsuK' 1 lican standard. Yet Mr. Joseph in- iSSffiHS- Bl forms the state committee that Mr. ;HfPPS&' jE Johnson's nomination was brought about by one of the governor's appoln- $$& tees who voted a proxy from a iJSk 1 county other than his own and from w&k 1 a district wherein no primary was jiXAV 1 For Harry Joseph to draw about 122221 m himself the mantle of piety and decry WKKmh 1 this method of procuring a nomina- ImRmR M tlon In a Republican convention is for SflnBP H him to repudiate the practice of a ifSSSjJ H generation of Republican conventions a'mu1'" f I in which he has been an active nnd ft,ffiP H acquiescent participant. -ttJ H If there Is any logical argument wSim H against the eligibility of Jake John- 'jllfflirrf' H son It is not found in the imethod of H ,B his nomination. That was perfectly B prope -in a Ropublican convention. B There may ho a more serious argu- H ment, and one with more logical H basis, touching, porhaps, upon the B moral side of the man's character, but K surely no true organization man in H the Republican party will Impugn the B motive of a worker who reaches B across the border of his county, writes B a proxy from a district in another B county, where no delegate was elected B and then gaily jumps into the con- B vention arena with all the power and B prestige of a real dolegato. B If this be the basis of Harry B Joseph's objection to his successful H opponent he might extend his aotlvity B still further and show resentment of Br the (method by which the nomination B of Mr. Taft was brought about. |