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Show oo Beautiful sprays and fu-leral fu-leral designs at any price you wish Weber Floral Company phone four-one-o, where the I flowers grow. " amBomm H Republicans-to Your Tents I Will You Let a Few Professional I I . . . Politicians Misuse Your Loyalty? , B Who is trying to inject politics into the war situation? V 1 " ! Who is trying to induce voters to repudiate loyal congressmen in the interest of political friends? I s Who is ttying to convince our allies and our enemies in Europe that the American people refuse to sustain the 1 J. : President? I jH g Who is trying to persuade voters to defeat Congressman Mays, whose votes are always right on war ques- 1 t IH I tions, while his sons are fighting at the front? ' I ; I Who is trying to induce voters to repudiate Congressman Welling, whose support of the President has been unfaltering and whose loyalty is unquestioned? H i 11 I Who is making this partisan political fight on these two congressmen, who have stood for Utah and Ameri- 1 canism on every test? Republicans! Republican politicians would throw out every loyal congressman who 1 ' I did not wear the collar of their organization. 1 c Isn't that what they are trying to do here in Utah? 1 I On the other hand, what does the Democratic organization of Utah say? ( It says: "STAND BY LOYAL MEN IN CONGRESS REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICS. EVERY.' ,1 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN WHO HAS STOOD BY THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED, I 1 AND EVERY DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN WHO HAS STOOD BY THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ,1 jj BE RE-ELECTED." '' jj Who, then, is trying to inject political consideration into the national situation, where there is room only for I j tH j patrioitism? jH !i From their respective answers to these questions both parties will indicate the comparative value they place on H " politics and patriotism. H Republicans say: "Throw out loyal congressmen if they are not Republicans." ) H 2 Democrats say: Retain and return all loyal congresmen, whether they be Democrats or Republicans! i !H . Jl And the people of Utah have need to be proud of the patriotic record of their two Representatives in the Na- H tional Congress. I 1 I jv Champ Clark may have stood out against a declaration of war, and Kitchin may have differed from the ad- H ministration their own constituents will settle with them. No reasonable person, only an unreasoning, des- I 5 perate partisan, will ask you to vote against Mays and Welling, on account of Clark and Kitchin. 1 But what political party put La Follette in congress and kept him there? Who is responsible for the grumbling 1 j Sherman of Illinois? The nagging New of Indiana? The sneering Wadsworth of New York, and the I t hissing Frelinghuysen of New Jersey? Republicans all, and chronic fault-finders, who have said things that I no foreigner could say without someone suggesting the intern camp. Do these carping obstructionists need 1 reinforcements at Washington? I ' THEN WHY OPPOSE CONGRESSMEN MAYS AND WELLING? . I I J ' I ' I' Theodore Roosevelt, the prodigal son of the Republican Party, during the - I. - I Spanish-American war said that your votes for congressmen would indicate to . ' ." . 1 I k ' European powers whether or not you were standing by the president. "TO ELECT ' ' . I I i ' . A HOSTILE CONGRESS WILL BE UNDERSTOOD AS A REBUKE OF THE 1 ; ' ' PRESIDENT, AND A REFUSAL TO SUSTAIN THE EFFORTS OF PEACE : I J v COMMISSIONERS TO SECURE THE FRUITS OF THE WAR." " . r 1 I ' This is Roosevelt's own declaration what have your Republican friends to ' ; ' 1 3 J say to it? Doesn't it ring as true as anything he ever said? Is some little partisan advantage or sectional spite to be thrown in the balance against the effect a con- . : I .-' gressional reversal would have on our European friends and enemies? V I I Benjamin Harrison, one of the brainiest leaders the Republican Party ever . I J elected to the presidency, said that during a foreign war, or during the peace ner I a . ' gotiations following that war, to defeat congressmen of the same political faith as , . 1 the president, to elect congressmen of the party opposed to the president, "WILL .. . I I V MAKE DIFFICULT THE WORK OF PEACE COMMISSIONERS AND WILL :.;;'!& 1 ' v; RAISE HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF THE ENEMY, NECESSITATING A V I . . LONGER WAR AND FURTHER SACRIFICE TO SECURE WHAT WE HAVE 'I j ALREADY WON." ' I jj In the light of these warnings, sounded by such eminent Republicans as Roosevelt and Harrison, what right' 1 I have Republicans to ask the people of Utah to oust two loyal congressmen in the time of war and install in I their places two candidates because they are Republicans? 1 Has the Republican Party of Utah shown a disposition to stand by the President in these soul-trying times? I 1 Now, let us see : v I The spirit of every Republican convention held in this state this year has been anti-president. ' '1 I The tone of every Republican platform adopted in Utah this fall is anti-president. I j This is a sufficient indication of the attitude of Republican candidates for congress. They may openly indorse I the President to parade their patriotism and please the people, but in their hearts they are hostile, the men who 1 placed their names on the ticket were hostile, the platform upon which they stand is hostile, and they will be expected to harass the President with hostile partisanship, while all the rest of the civilized world is proud to honor and applaud him. This is no time to experiment no time to reverse no time to repudiate men who have stood by the President I in these, the darkest hours the world has yet passed through! This is no time for party politics. People are 1 i not in a mood to hear partisan talk. Our boys don't stop to ascertain the politics of the men who lead them J across NO MAN'S LAND. Those who feel that way never intended to go to war. They remained behind 1 : to criticise the President and the War Department, and the Navy Department, and tell exactly how the war should be conducted. i W Democratic State Committee - ... ,.,V,', (Political Advertisement) - B |