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Show WHY BAMBERGER? The issue in the present campaign for the election of a United States senator is largely one of choice between personalities. Do the people of Utah wish to be represented in the senate at Washington Wash-ington by Ernest Bamberger, a wealthy young man of agreeable presence but possessing no particular qualifications and without training in statecraft? Or, do they prefer to return Senator William H. King, whose wide experience in legislative affairs and great ability have placed him in the front rank among our national leaders? It is an issue of Untried Mediocrity versus Demonstrated Ability; a Bulky Bank Account, largely inherited, versus Mental Merit and Self-made Success. WHY BAMBERGER? The plea by the Republican campaign managers for votes for Bamberger Bam-berger as a vindication of Senator Reed Smoot's record of twenty years' service in the congress of the United States is like the drowning man reaching for a straw. Senator Smoot was the candidate of the Republican party in the campaign two years ago, and the vote he received in that election evidenced the confidence con-fidence of the people of Utah in him and his work. But he is not the candidate now, and it is the merest camouflage to tie the Bamberger candidacy to his coat tail. WHY BAMBERGER? Likewise, the appeal of Bamberger managers to Republican voters for party regularity is a confession of unfitness and lack of pop- ular appeal in their candidate Crammed through the Repub lican convention by a narrow margin by a combination of gag rule, political deals and trickery, the Bamberger nomination proved to be a dud. Many party leadei-3 throughout the stat6 had refused to stand hitched to his machine, and the great mass of independent voters in his party were in a state of apathy. The S. 0. S. was sent to Senator Smoot to come out and savo Mi. Bamberger It was a magnanimous thing for him to leave his manifold duties in Washington and come to the rescue, inas-- inas-- much as it is generally understood that the "gang," as they pridefully call themselves, who sponsored the Bamberger candidacy candi-dacy have been the principal snipers in the party at the senior senator for many years. The senior senator in his opening address ad-dress at the Orpheum in Salt Lake City promised to take Mr. Bamberger under his wing and see that he was given a place I upon the Claims Committee of the senate if elected. A self-bottomed candidate would have been humiliated to be thus tagged as a man-Friday even before he is elected, but Mr. Bamberger seem to enjoy the reflected power of his uarty's leader. WHY BAMBERGER? !The tariff is, likewise, not an issue in Utah at this time. Whatever may be the merits of the Fordney-Mc Cumber bill so far as western west-ern industries are concerned, that act has already been passed by congress and is out of the way. The law as enacted contains j a flexible provision by which the President may increase or de- j I crease the rates of duty as conditions may vary from time to 1 time so that the protection afforded by the law may be kept in I harmony with changed conditions without requiring a general I revision or amendment of the tariff. In all probability, no tariff bill will be brought into the senate for vote in the next ten years at least, regardless of what party may be in power. WHY BAMBERGER? I m - |