The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-27
PROVO CITY
A CLEAN CAMPAIGN,

Under the above caption the Herald
of Thursday last had brief but strong
article. A clean campaign may be q
very strong campaign. Cleanliness is
not necessarily weak. even in politics
Principles are worthy or unworthy,
strong or weak, just and correct, ap-
plicable or unapplicable without refer
ence to the nominee who is pledged to
carry them out if elected. Yet such
is the nature of politics that you can
not separate the principles from the
character of the individual who is for
the nonce, the accepted exemplar of
them, Hence man should not seek
for nomination to place of trust or
great Importance who knows himself
to be faulty or of bad record. Just as
sure as that the sun shines, if there is
a defect in his record it will come to
the surface if he ever attempts to run
for Office, and the principles under
lying the race will be injured. Who
is to blame under these circumstances? ?
Clearly the aspirant and the conven-
ton which chooses him. Now to in
sure clean methods or cleanliness in a
campaign the one thing necessary is
to Gx upon men who are absolutely
without blemish so far as their record
go. If there is a dirty spot in the
record it will be pounced upon beyond
a doubt, and this is always the COM
mencement of an uncIean campaign,
or at least it is in great majority of
cases.
The man makes the strongest cam
paign who to great ability joins a
faultless record as man, as a citizen,
as a public servant, and whose private
life, whose domestic relations are
without reproach, In the hands of
such mau our most cherished princi-
pies, political or otherwise, are always
safe, and strong campaign is in
sured. So far the republican party of
Utah in this campaign has departed
far from the above simple rules.
Its ante convention nominations haye
been most unfortunate and if the con-
ventlon nominates the proposed men
bitter and unrelenting warfare will be |
made on them at all hazards. And |
yet the campaign cannot be called an
unclean one. 1t is the province of |
cleanliness to fight uncleanliness to
the better end, and this result will
surely follow.
If it does, the fault will be that of
the republican and not of the de mo- |
cratic convention. Take the ante
~nnventlon nominations of the demo
Gratis and no such things can be said
by any one of them. that republican
papers themselves say every day of
their ante convention nominees. We
want far deal and clean campaign
only, but if the republican convention
weakly yields to check and money it is
quite likely that all hopes for that sort
OF campaign will have to be aband-
oned. The decent people of Utah will
fight like wolves before they will see
any man of mere money buy his way
to the senate Of the United States.
This would be uncleanliness in the
raw, and the brave democrats of Utah
will fight that with the weapons which
will insure its utter defeat. The clean
est campaign will be the strongest.
1t would be jibe forever upon Utah
if the republican tactics as now arrayed
were to be carried out and be- success
full. An injury would be inflicted from
which the state would not recover for
3 generation or 30. All patriotic
Utonians should strive to avert such
loom If to do so they are compelled /
10 lay aside for the nonce their polin
,al preiudices and vote the other :
icket. We are making history now.
LET US see to it that it is made right
nd that it will stand the test of clean
mess.