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Show CLEAN POLITICS IN UTAH With the campaign drawing to a close, The Standard-Examiner feels content to stand on its record for clean politics. It is not an easy task to expose irregularities in one's owrTparty. This labor is much more inviting when the object of attack is the enemy, but there comes a time when the higher obligations of citizenship citi-zenship compel the setting aside of party pride in order to best serve the people. As a matter of fact, one best serves his party who rejects and condemns that within his party which is high-handed and extremely offensive A party is strengthened by being purged of its iniquities. Temporarily it may suffer, as does the patient when the surgeon's knife is applied, but, with the cutting off of the gangrene, healing takes place. Those who never see anything bad within their organization and condone all wrong, and allow themselves to be swallowed up by vanity, may resent the cauterizing of the festering sores and may squirm and say it hurts, but they simply are postponing an evil day of complete disaster. They never reach the point of helping to cor-1 vect that which is destructive. They close their eyes and deny there 1 is anything to correct. Ordinary transgressions may be overlooked for the sake of party regularity, but unforgivable offenses against party and country can-not can-not be ignored by any group of men holding to the primary require I incnts oi respect for decent government. Of late we have heard much about law and order. Too much emphasis cannot be placed on that subject, but what is at the very foundation of law and order? Can we have a country worth while, it the electorate is to be corrupted and our political conventions auctioned off? It. is farcical to ask the plain people to have high regard for law ;nd order, if those who are shaping our governmental activities, and selecting our representatives and making our laws are setting an j ,1 example of contempt for all that is clean and honorable in government. govern-ment. This is a serious situation, and men should step outside their party if necessary and go where duty calls. |