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Show INSURGENCY IN UTAH. i Parley P. Christenseu is out with an appeal in behalf of insurgency insur-gency and his candidacy for congress. While Mr. Christensen in his open letcr to the press, which is reproduced on another page of this paper, hints strongly at church control, he does not openly assert that his campaign is to be an anti-church affair. He should make himself clear on this point as there are thousands of Insurgents in Utah, willing and ready to espouse the cause, who will not suffer to be made a party to any conflict compromising the religious convictions con-victions of those who hold allegiance to the dominant church in this state, and this paper for one will not be an instrument in such an undertaking. Whatever be the abuses involving church and state, those derelictions will be solved by the natural trend of events. We have an abiding faith in the political independence of the people of Utah. Freed from the criticism which warps men's minds by inciting religious bias, the citizens of Utah can be depended on to vote as intelligently in-telligently and independently as the citizens of any other state in the Union. The issue with us is the purification of the Republican party the deposing from leadership of those men in this state who are mere tools for the great corporations and predatory interests; who are Republicans simply because it is popular to be Republicans and it icrves as a means to an end in turning the political power of Utah over to their masters. A great political rather a moral awakening has come over the people of the United States, which finds expression and encouragement encourage-ment in the insurgency within the Republican party. For the purpose pur-pose of extending that influence to the voters of this state and of offering of-fering them a medium of protest against the old system of political duplicity and rottenness, rampant throughout the nation, the Stand-ird Stand-ird will aid Parley P. Christensen or any other man or group of men, but it will not go further and turn the crusade for clean politics poli-tics into a bitter attack on any religious organization to satisfy the demand of a coterie of politicians who have made of the bugaboo of church interference their sole claim on the people for recognition. The Standard is heartily in sympathy with the insurgency of Dolliver, Cummings, Beveridge, La Follette, Murdock, Pinchot, and of Theodore Roosevelt and, in support of that insurgency will do its utmost to force a purification within the Republican party of Utah, in harmony with the principles of civic righteousness a3 enunciated by those great leaders of public sentiment. |