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Show A LONG FIGHT NEARING THE END. There has .been no call for Ernest Bamberger No part of the Republican party, of its own volition, has demanded him. No one, outside a small group of tom-tom beaters, ever thought of him for senator until the machine started to buss and whirr. He was not considered as a possibility by any Republican beyond the limits of the wigwam in which the medicine man began to make pills and brew Indian hemp. From the beginning of Bamberger's candidacy those associated with this paper have labored to prevent the young man being foisted upon the party as senatorial timber Before the convention strenuous stren-uous efforts were made to avoid a party blunder. After the culmination of the plot, the resentment grew, and as the details of the convention became public property and the full measure of duplicity was made evident, sentiment in opposition to the methods employed spread throughout the state. The Republican party is not here temporarily It will be performing per-forming its duty in good government long after we are gone. One campaign in its history is but as a day. One man in its affairs is infinitesimal. The party will be strengthened by suppressing those who would use it in a discreditable way. The party will be made more useful by chastising those who would seek to pull down its '.' , standards. Those who went into the campaign to block the nomination of Bamberger, recognizing the danger of placing the destiny of the party in-the hands of a small gi oup of scheming politicians back of i i liim, have fought with all the power at their command and they will , continue to battle while the menace exists. They declared their op-position op-position long ago and served notice they would repudiate the coterie ol mischief-makers. With each disclosure of the machinations of the ring, the indignation of the rank and file of the party has been intensified until now there is open warfare. There is nothing to do other than drive home the lesson that the Republican party repudiates that which, if tolerated and con-! doned, would place the organization in sackcloth and ashes. And the administering of this rebuke is made easy by reason of the fact that no great national issue is involved and the prestige of the state will be undimmed by the prolonging of the services of .. senator who stands high in public esteem in Utah and throughout the United States. |