Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-26 | Page 4 | Standard Invites Publicity

STANDARD INVITES PUBLICITY. Now that candidates for office arc being discussed, those who are ambitious must not be backward in conveying to The Standard their ! willingness to run for office. ii This paper is not devoted to any one candidate or group of candi- Ij dates, but is moving along the broad lines of serving the public with ; the news. We may have personal ambitions and preferences, but above that i is a desire to be fair and impartial in the treatment of all. i The larger the number of solid, substantial citizens aspiring to serve the public, the greater the choice and the better the prospects of our public offices being filled by competent servants. This approaching campaign is intended to be non-partisan, for that j is the liasis on which the law was framed, party emblems being exclude! ex-clude! from the ballots. In municipal affairs, where the problems are purely those of efficiency, business .indgraent and honesty, there I is little excuse for partisan bias, and The Standard will labor to keep 3 thai fitment out. of the contest. This is a good government affair in which the individual should be expected to stand or fall on his merits as a man and not as a politician. I