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Show 1 COMMUNICATION ' Editor Standard-Examiner: 1 I real with a great deal of interest our article in yeOterdaj morning's paper pa-per relative to the Mopubllcan con n ition held .it the iirph' i'.ni theatre jurday afternoon at which the Republican Republi-can party's candidates for the county 'and city offices were selected My at-I at-I tention was, of course, absorbed by ,the startling, not to say erroneous, declaration, dec-laration, that a young womnn swings vote for attorney You arrive at the fit IK luslon th it D young woman swung ithe ote for Mr. bnvld J Wilson, but 'It noems to me that your eoncluslon Is lentlrely unfouncb ti by facts 1 I'elieve the public should know what the I young woman said, and then Judge i whether or not vhe swung the vote. Those of us who Know Mr Holther cannot but laud his war record it la a source of great pride to us that we Know and arc the friends of a man who was among the first to volunteer) from Ogden and was among the first forty thousand of our soldier boys to luud In France. We who know him love to tell of hH" service, of his hard-, ships and of the unflinching way In Which he- mot them on Flander s iields. J 'Iri making Mr Holther s nominating speech, Mr. Arthur Woolley Could not but mention thl.-i Mr. il.-.m ,is iher placed before the convention as an as-; plrant for the candidacy for county attorney Tho convention was in an uproar, shouts of "Holther," "Wilson"! Iwere intermingled. Then a lady hid Ithe floor The convention was shocked i into silence as she began that she, for lone, wa s tired of listening to this sol- Idler sob stuff. The rest of her talk wan nothing but a foolish hysterical 'muttering for it was drowned, and complete!; swallowed b tho roar of t indignation that burst from the dele-, gates But to get back to the subject Did that swing the vote for Mr. Wilson? Jf anything. It should ha e killed every chance Mr Wilson ever had of getting the nomination. I make this plea not for Mr. Holther, alone, 1 feM duty bound, as an American Ameri-can girl, to tell the ex-servlco man that my memory is longer than two short years I take this space in your ; paper, w hich might otherwise to I moro profitable reading, to tell the ex- service man that America's girlhood laj true, and appreoja t! v e Two years ago I had no husband to' cgrry on hh arm my color no bioth-( er that went to Frunce to avonge the shamed womanhood of France and Belgium, and I feel that the thou- ind of unmarried young men of Amerli that did go to France, went with the colors of unsoiled irgln maids or America on their shields. Two years cannot erase from my mind that America's manhood was, willing to fight for me, for America's, girlhood. A thousand years will never leave the thought dim In my mind that a million boya were v. iDIiik to die, to give their all, that America's grlhood, Americas motherhood, might alwa -bo as unsoiled, as pure, as unquestioned, unques-tioned, and as beautiful as they believed be-lieved it was. nd so I Wish to 'ell the public of Weber county that I do not believe, cannot believe, that Miss Iva Steers! seconding oration had anything to do with getting the nomination for Mr. Wilson. It has left a taste In my mouth !.that I must erase In this way. I can-1 can-1 not endure the thought that the ex-: ex-: service man mipht think that Miss Stiers Voiced the opinion, the Inappre-I Inappre-I ciatlvencs.-; of American girls I Soidler man, we honor you, we thank you. we will forever believe in and. support you. I Respectfully, MARY K IIEYW " I. 3220 Ogden Avenue. City. |