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Show TRY TO KEEP UTAH CLEAN An Editorial on the Political Situation. Persistent charges are being made that great sums of money-are money-are being spent in the interest of a certain candidate for one of the highest offices in the gift of the people of Utah. Offers are being made to pay the expenses of delegates to the state convention, and also to advance ad-vance other sums. Inducements are being held out to obtain proxies. Certain delegates are being coerced This must be stopped if Utah is to escape the odium of a rotten borough. Political office must not be subjected sub-jected to barter and sale. Corrupting Corrupt-ing influences must be beaten 1 down with all the power of the better manhood and citizenship of i Utah, There is a corrupt practices law in Utah which should be invoked to safeguard the birthright of the people. Clean, decent politics should be demanded and . maintained main-tained Delegutes, open to suspicion, should be called on to make affidavit affi-davit they have been neither bought nor coerced. The Ogden Standard-Examiner is making an investigation and is resolved to expose whatever of corruption there may be in the , coming Republican convention which is to be held in Salt Lake City on July 14. There must be no Newberryism I in Utah! What every man of pride in Utah should understand is this: The moment the corrupt expenditure expendi-ture of money alone opens the 1 way to nolitical nreferment in Utah, that moment thousands of I decent men are denied the privilege privi-lege of aspiring, with any hope of success, to high office, and their 1 children after them have the door I of political opportunity closed. ! ; Who is the man of self-respect, ! with love of Utah in his heart, and j a due regard for the future of his i I offspring, that will subscribe to an offense so belittling or tolerate 1 the ignoxninity of such self-debasement? , Utah, years ago, rejected the! stigma of corruption, and Utah's! integrity today is quite as asser-1 ; live once the nature of the menace j to its political institutions is made i evident and unfolded in all its in-1 iquity. Utah, always under the eye of; nation-wide critical scrutiny, can-j not afford to be other than like Caesar's wife above suspicion, j |