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Show AN EXPRESSION 0FJP19N I What Is Beinjr Said on I The Streets. A Republican Republi-can Airs His Views The feeling that seems to provnll Hinong locnl Republicans regarding the coming election is illustrated by tho following statements mndo by :'i prominent locnl Republican on thn stieot tho other day. This good Ropub bean expresned his lews as follows-"I follows-"I hao been a member 'of the Republican Re-publican parly all my lire, nnd In t He and national elections have 1 1-ways 1-ways voted the Republican ticket btralght. In city electluis I have fol 'lowed tho better plariof voting -fur I mon rather than for party. Yes, 1 am jit Republican, and 1 lovo tho grand old party, but little did I think I I would ever lle to see the day when the Republican party of 1-ogan City would assume a position so inconsistent inconsist-ent und wrong as the position that jpnily Ww occupies In Logan. The legislation creating our new form of city go eminent was passed by a Republican Re-publican legislature, and tho very nature and spb.ll of this legislation demands that politics be kept en tirely out of city elections, This being true, and no one will attempt to deny Its -truth, Just think of tho position It places tho Republican party ot Logan City In first helping to creato tho law, und second doing nil It enn to pievont tho spirit and vory purpoao of tho lnw from being carried out. This Is not right, and bellovo me, tho the Republican party or Logan City cannot prosper or prorit by anj such Inconsistent conduct. "True, Republican politicians, who nre by no menus tin Uopubllcnn party, par-ty, tell us that the Democratic party first put up a ticket nnd tho Republicans Repub-licans were compelled to follow as a means of paeservlng tho Identity of the locnl Republican narty. This contention con-tention only serves to multiply the wrong. If your neighbor abuses his family, aro you Justified in following his example by abusing yours? Is not (he rnther or a child mord responsible fcr the piotectlou nml raising of that child than a neighbor would bo? So it Is that tho Republican party, tho father of the new law, should reach forth Its hand as a party a pto-tcct pto-tcct and toster that new law, instead or making n dellbeiato attempt to kill Its own otrsprlng as It Is now doing. do-ing. So my conclusion, ns a Republican Republi-can Is, that when the Democrats put up n political ticket In direct violation viola-tion or the spirit of the now law, they did wiong, and when the Republican pint followed thorn by doing tho hume tiling, It not only committed one wrong, but two; 1st. It committed commit-ted n wioug by attempting to kill its own offspring, nnd second, by Uelib-eintely Uelib-eintely nnd Intentionally declaring war against the very spirit of a law legally enacted by tho legislature or tho fair State or Utah. "Uontlemcn, these aro my vlows, and I speak thorn plainly. Politics never should havo plnycd a part In our ell) affairs, and now that wo luue a law the spirit of which la against politics In city matters, It is u shamo that certain politicians have taken It upon thcmsoUcs to act nnd speak for their parties In such a way that the Individual members of theso parties becomo more or less tainted with the odium Hint must certainly follow. Republicans, who lovo their imrty, should rlsu up en masse, and show theso polltlcniiB-who-thof'iHo. publican party is, hnd-'lt would- bo' a blosslug to Logan City if tho Democrats Demo-crats would do likewise. A vory ef-fectual ef-fectual way, In my opinion, to accomplish accom-plish tho proper result and to administer admin-ister tho merited rebuke to tho poU- i ticluns would be tor both Republicans and Democrats to Mite tho Xon-l'nrtl- sau ticket stiaight through; and foi , my own part, that Is exactly what I jl iopoe to do," |