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Show QUESTION THE SPEAKERS. At a meeting in Plain City on Wednesday evening a woman speaker was quoted as making a charge of corruption in this campaign. cam-paign. As soon as a report of the meeting reached The Standard-Examiner, Standard-Examiner, the woman was called over the telephone and, when asked the pointed question as to whether she had been correctly quoted, she slammed up the peceiver. A reporter was then sent to her home, but when the newspaper man was seen approaching, the woman went into hiding. Why should any woman, if she had truth on her side, resort to such evasion or in any manner try to escape responsibility for her offending? The Standard-Examiner is resolved to pursue those who perpetuate perpet-uate base libels in this election and lend themselves to spreading' charges which are without foundation. When a direct charge of corruption is made any person in an I audience is entitled to break in on the speaker and demand proof, at least such proof as may give a semblance of authenticity and ; genuineness to the attack, and The Standard-Examiner requests the j voters to do so and telephone the response to this office, giving the name of the speaker and the specific charge made. Do not allow the speaker to simply indulge in generalities. Call for the names of those alleged to be involved in distributing the corruption cor-ruption fund and the recipients of the money. Any campaigner who is fortified with facts will not hesitate to Teply to a request for full information, but the disseminator of a. slanderous statement, once challenged in this manner, will cover up if not possessed of the brazen effrontery of the imp of darkness. The dissembler and the hypocrite should be driven off the stump hi Utah in order that the clean-thinking voters be not deceived and 1 outrageously imposed upon. Now is the time to begin and The Standard-Examiner will do . its full part in uprooting this evil by the use of publicity and the j bringing down of the heavy hand of the law on those guilty of low cunning and deception. |