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Show PUTTING QUESTIONS TO A CANDIDATE. Our contemporary, the Tribune of Salt Lake, would have the heckler put to death, or otherwise violently dealt with. In a comment this morning, morn-ing, the Tribune objects to heckling at political meetings. Wc know of no good reason for frowning down the heckler. In England Eng-land heckling Is expected, and is accepted ac-cepted as the right thing. When properly conducted, the questioning ques-tioning of a speaker should be allowed. The questions must be couched in respectful re-spectful language and must not be put without the consent of the speaker. No campaigner should be afraid to be heckled. We do not approve of boisterous In-terruptions In-terruptions or attempts made to break In on an orator's peroration, or a nagging intended purely to embarrass, but there can be no good objection to an interrogation which aims to bring out a candidate's attitude on important impor-tant questions. The speaker's protection protec-tion is to be found in his right to refuse to be interrupted. oo |