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Show POLITICS AND FACTS I Political placard writers are plastering the billboards, the street cars and various public places with various arguments in support of the candidate for which they are paid to do placarding and they are all very interesting, but many tend to an exaggeration exaggera-tion that rasps our sensibilities. For instance, we are informed that women should protect their rights and vote against all candidates of a certain party because some members of that party voted against suffrage when the question was recently before congress. As a matter of fact, woman suffrage has ceased to be a political issue. It is purely a geographical question, congressional representatives from the Northern states being practically unanimous in their support of the measure, a majority of the representatives from the Southern states being opposed to it. 4 The South is willing to grant the ballot to white women, it opposes giving the franchise to colored women, and so we might add that suffrage is a quea tion of color as well as of geography. In Utah the matter is settled and every vote Utah has in congress was cast in favor of suffrage. It is idle, therefore, to importune the women of Utah to vote for one set of candidates or another with equal rights as an argument for or against; in fact, if there be any argument it stands in favor of the representatives repre-sentatives who have already been put to the test and have cast their votes the right way. The biggest question now for the voter to decide, as far as -congressional candidates go, is whether the candidate, irrespective irrespect-ive of 'party affiliation, will support the administration to the uppermost in the successful prosecution of the war. The president presi-dent has had loyal support from members of both big parties in the house and senate and he must continue to have such support. The party brand the candidate carries is not the vital issue. The question is: Will he back up the president? If he will, he is deserving of your consideration; if he won't, he is deserving of ; the consideration of no man. The Telegram. tea to m |