Show CAN NOT SOT FORGET TILE THE EI ELECTION arJO Some Sorno people get set so o angry at their opponents In a a. campaign that tho they never sot got over it They Thoy never fool focI kindly to each other again Ono One of or the candidates for tor tho the governorship of Oklahoma Is a type of that unforgiving cla class Ho declines to ride In the carriage with his successful opponent In the ceremonies Incident to the tho inauguration of or the new governor H Ho will havo have nothing to do with any part of the proceedings which might Involve a personal personal per per- meeting between him and the man who defeated de de- defeated te him Then he Is hit hard Ho probably didn't have any more earnest campaign campaign cam cam- than we of Salt Ial Lake e had In the tho recent city election And yet there was a n perfect friendliness between opposing candidates and between the men who managed their respective organizations It Is all very well to be earnest in a a. campaign But tho the man who lets his politics run away with his judgment is almost as bad as that one who responds to no appeal of politics In any form torm If It the citizen citizen and and tho candidates would candidates would get the tho right idea of or tho the campaign would fully tully realize that It Is simply freemen giving orders to the officials whom tho the majority shall select ho he would not find amiability so 50 difficult when tho the polls are arc clo closed cd V I 1 i t Ot Of tours cours i a J. J man thinks ho Is t when ho hp for Cor thin th election candidate D t th h ho sh should uld remember that that oth other r men just just as honest honest honest hon hon- est and just as sincere and just as earnest are opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op posing him He doesn't know lenow until the votes are counted counte whether his side or tho the other side Is in a I majority And until that fact tact is determined neither has a n. right to assume Intolerant airs airs It If over ever And certainly when the majority has spoken It is the part of ot the defeated party and party and of or every member in It to It-to to ace accept opt tho result That is tho the very er essence of tho the American election elec- elec tion Any other course would argue arsue a a. preference ence for tor tho the Institution of a dictatorship In which an Individual or a a. few Individuals would make the selection sele of ot public officials determine their policy and e establish the tho rate of their pay And no man who has lived in a republic wants that sort of thing All AIl o oj us want to live lIvo In a aland aland aland land where the majority rules And AnI we know that in such state tho the will of the majority ma may b be expressed expressed ex ex- pressed In ways not agreeable to every ory one But nut still It Is the will of the majority That Is Its essential essential essential es es- es- es value And And a n. far worse condition would bo he that In which the power of or election Is taken away awa from the people eople and oven to our our- selves For the tho coming of or a n stronger would mean our certain overthrow Tho The one sato safe rule for gentlemen in Oklahoma or Utah or any other state new or old is to work 11 diligently m for tor the tho success of tho the candidates and the principles believed best and then cordially accept the result of tho the voting just as we wo would want wont i our opponents to accept It if iC we defeated them I I |