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Show THE RECENT CAMPAIGN. The publisher of this paper has always maintained that the publisher pub-lisher of a newspaper should not himself be a candidate for local , office or occupy a local office, because it gives the opposition too big a leverage to charge that the newspaper and the office combined gives one man too much power in a communit, and therefore it makes such newspaperman holding office alwaj's a leading target, because the public mind is fickle and is casil' convinced that a newspaperman holding an executive office reall' desires to run the whole commuuit'. Such charge is always made against the newspapermen news-papermen in cit" polities in other cities. It has always been done in Ogden, though in Ogden the newspaper has been more successful than elsewhere. Therefore it was nothing new to have the present ma3or and newspaper publisher made the target and, to a great extent ex-tent the issue of this campaign. The maor has onh- two months to serve, and he sincreeh hopes never to serve Ogden Cit' in an official capacity after that. He has served Ogdeu three terms, never once seoking the nomination for the office, in fact, lie never desired to serve as mayor of Ogden. ITis ambitions have always been in other directions. We, of course, make no complaint fn being made an issue in the campaign. It seems to be the nilo that a newspaperman in politics is entitled to all that he receives, complimentary and uncomplimentary. But the dirty campaign cam-paign made against spine of the candidates was cowardly as well as criminal. This paper has been through many campaigns and prides itself on having conducted a clean campaign. Congratulations have been numerous and have been extended even by those who were unfriend- to lis. Never in our twenty years newspaper experience have Ave experienced such a dirty, nasty campaign as wa& made by our opponents op-ponents in their mud-slinging sheets. This paper attacked no candidate's character. We dug no skeleton skele-ton from the dark closets of any candidate, although tho desk in our library will convince anybody that there were skeletons galore. Some of them would have changed more than one vote and possibly have changed the results. We decided to confine ourselves to the answering of attacks only and we have done so, and can face every candidate knowing that Ave haA'c not Avrongod him and, Avhile we may have hit some hard bloAvs aud held some responsible for not repudiating the slanders uttered in their defense, yet ever- honest man must concede that, compared with the opposition sheets, the Standard and Examiner have been as Avhitc compared Avith black. |