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Show BAMBERGER REMAINS THE ISSUE The present political campaign for United States senator nears the election day finish with the machine gsng, sponsors of the Bamberger nomination, making the last desperate fight to prevent his defeat and their annihilation. Faced by a landslide of public opinion opposed to the reprehensible methods used in securing Bamberger's nomination, the gang, back to the wall, is grasping at any straw which might stave off defeat. Every ruse and trick of the gangster in politics is being used to cloud the real issue, B AMBERGERISM ! An army of p?id workers has been sent throu.fjHout the state spreading false and slanderous slan-derous tales and odious propaganda with the hpe of diverting the minds of the voters from the only issue Bambergerism and machine poKtics. Whisperers, mostly women who have bee i misled, are sent direct to the homes to spread trumped-up and vicious rumors, which no member of the gang dares to personally sponsor as facts. Insinuation and inference are spread broadcast in hopes or directing public opinion from the real issu e BAMBERGERISM. Yesterday It was an invasion of Cuban sugar money. Today That the big interests of the country have adapted the Democratic party, and have made them the recipient of untold thousands. Tomorrow It will be the ficiitious tale of political trades of the future of which the public knows not and cares not to itnow. Thrown into confusion by the searchlight of publicity which has bared to the public gaze the gang methods of "Camouflaged Issues," "Lavish Expenditures of Money," "Hog-tied "Hog-tied Delegates," "Steam Roller Tactics," "Secret Oath-bound Political Klans" and "False Impersonation," and faced with the toil of honest labor, the end of political favors and csy money, the leaders of the gang are trying to gather their henchmen for a last desperate rally. WHY BAMBERGER? The barter and sale of high office in Utah by gang politicians must never be permitted if this state is to escape the odium of a rotten borough. The moment the possession of money alone opens the way to political preferment, that moment able men and women are denied the privilege of aspiring with hope of success, to high office, and the door of opportunity oppor-tunity closed. Individual effort and individual merit must never be denied the right of the reward of achievement in this country if our great system of free government is to endure. en-dure. Whenever wealth alone becomes the sesame of success in political activities the hope of youth is dulled and the inspiration to achievement by labor is lost. What single citizen in the state of Utah would ever have pointed to Ernest Bamberger as a fit candidate for election to the United States senate from consideration of merit and ability? WHY BAMBERGER? ! |