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Show Points for Barber to Think Of You a,rc a candidate for re-election on the democratic ticket. The oillclal organ of your party Is endeavoring to elect you by charging that "A vote for the republican ticket Is a vote against the Agricultural College." Col-lege." The republican party brands the charge as a malicious falslllcatlon, a charge that the whole of the democratic demo-cratic party can not produce evidence to support. A challenge, for a debate of the question between jourseir and your opponent on'.the republican ticket has been Ignored by you and evaded by your party organ, You, Senator Rarbcr, thus became a party to this Imfamous charge. You became a partv to this deception, decep-tion, this deliberate falslllcatlon. You virtually acknowledge that you fear you can not secure le-clectlon by fair and honest means and arc willing to permit your friends louse Illegitimate Illegiti-mate methods to secure votes for jou. is tills honorable, Mr. Rarbcr? You are a high churchman, Mr. Rarbcr, one who Is supposed to hold up Ideals for those who look to jou for guidance. Can a man be tiuc to himself or such a position as j on hold and be a party to a charge he is unwilling either (o sustain or repudiate? Can a man In your position consls-' tcntly endorse a misrepresentation? Can any man, who is a man, accept votes, accept a re-election secured by the misrepresentation of his friends? Mr. Harbor, why do you not cither be man enough to publicly repudiate the charge of your party organ, or else state your belief In those charges and then with the evidence In which you believe meet your opponent in the debate proposed? Until you do. all thoughtful, un prejudiced men must look upon jou as unwoithy the otllce to which jou aspire. In tho last legislature seven good republicans stood with yon on the college col-lege question. You were unable to secure one democratic dem-ocratic vote. Your state chairmana democratic senator was arrayed against jou. Mr. llullen, your opponent, and a number of other republicans were with you during the light In the last legislature, and jou, senator, havo given It out yourself, without reservation, reserva-tion, that to these men was duo the credit for what was accomplished. Now, Senator, you have been publicly pub-licly challenged to defend the charge your paper Is making, and up-to-date you havo been mum. Tho people hold yon as a party to the charge. Why 'don't jou come out and defend It or 'publicly repudiate your oigan? I Will jou tell why jou don't say something? ! Will you tell why you did not have democratic support In tho last legislature? legis-lature? Your paper gives It out that jou ttnadc- a trade with the Utah county senators In the last legislature. You know this is not true, and yet to-date you have not cleared up this charge against two friendly senators. Don't you think ordinary courtesy would dictate that jou icfute tills false charge? Oueof these seaatois will bo re-elected the other Is a republican national committeeman of ' this state. If jou should bo elected how will jouhae the nerve to face the republican senators sena-tors who gaye us tho victory? Would you mind saying publicly what you have said privately so many times, a to who saved the day forjou. Speak out, Mr. Rarbcr. |