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Show FALSE MESSAGES OVER TELEPHONE. Has any good ever come out of a wrong? NO ! When the Bamberger gang bad Harold Smoot impersonated' over the telephone, in order to convey the idea that Mr. Smoot 'a father was supporting the candidacy of Ernest Bamberger for the J nomination of United States senator, the ruse was thought by the perpetrators to be a clever deception which would win a victory at the expense of honor, but the day came when the citizens of Utah j were told the story and then followed condemnation. All over the state heads of families are talking of this unsavory mess and are indignant, because this offense of falso impersonation, j tending as it does to undermine the pillars of the temple of righteousness right-eousness in public affairs, finally strike at the foundation of orderly government. The unscrupulous must not be allowed to win on those tactics ! or they will be encouraged to go on deceiving and treacherously overturning majorities in the strengthening of gang rule. Utah has too many men of fine character, free from the odium of tricky politics to be expected to place its destiny in the keeping of men who would deliberately resort to the sending of false telephone tele-phone messages in order to gain votes at a state convention. The voters of Utah never will give encouragement to a gang of that kind seeking to dictate to the electorate. The people will put an end to that which is unwholesome in politics poli-tics by administering a stinging defeat to the tricksters. THAT OATH-BOUND SECRET SOCIETY. If there were no other accusations standing against the Bamber-' ger machine than that of having organized an oath-bound, secret society so-ciety to control the Salt Lake county convention, the knowledge of that un-American action would be enough to stir the people of Utah. There is too much danger to our political liberty to allow a se-1 cret order to operate in this state for the purpose of dictating a senatorship or any other office. The people of Utah have a right to be highly indignant over the disclosures which have brought "The Order of Sevens" into the. light of day. How can any upright citizen, devoted to fair play, countenance Buch a state of affairs as allows a secret, oath-bound political so-! ciety to absolutely control a county convention and, through that control, dominate a state convention? To what end is this perversion of party leading the people of this state? Who, in order to be politically successful, is willing to place bis conscience in the keeping of this kind of a debased gang? Our politics will be crooked enough without injecting dark-lantern methods. There will be enough to complain against without giving to the leader of a gang an oath-bound, secret following. There is nothing to hido or cover up in decent politics, and why , have any other kind of politics in Utah? Let us be fair, honorable men and women, whatever be our I Jparty affiliations, and, by our votes, insist on clean methods. We must place the stamp of disapproval on the holy "Order of Sevens." I I |