The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-07-13

in the County have about complete,
their slate making and are now ap
prOaching the line of real campaigning
for the success of their various candi
dates. Each faction has given to tn,
Colored people representation on then
tickets.
Charles A. Griffin Of the Second Ward
is the Colored candidate for County
Commissioner or the Mccormick Brun.
dage ticket. Mr.. Grim was a eandi.
date for alderman Of the Second Ward
few years ago, and built up large
personal following among the voters.
The fight for United States Senator
is based upon different planes, by each
of the three great factions. The Me-
Cormiek followers represent the Progress
sive Republican element in the party,
and are appealing for the success of
the higher ideals Of society. The funda-
mental principles for which Mr.. Me-
Cormick and his supporters stand ex-
press the idea of government of the
people for the people and by the peo-
pie" Strictly party measures have
been subordinated to the welfare and
interest of the entire country, and Mr..
Mccormick is put forward as the repre-
sentative and patron of the higher
ideals of Democracy. His ability to fill
the position with credit is based upon
his training, experience and close re-
lationship with the industrial, CONNER
eial and economical phases Of our lives.
He has travelled in quest for frst-hand
knowledge throughout the principal
cities and provinces of the world, and
has been q close student of the relative
needs Of the people. He possesses q
thorough knowledge of our foreign and
domestic trade and has firm grasp
upon the underlying principles that win
determine the readjustment of our in
transitional relationship during the war
and the reconstruction period subse-
quent thereto. He has been travelling
and studying the present and coming
problems for many years, both as an in
vestigator of Commercial and Eeonom-
ieal conditions and correspondent for
leading publications.
In the readjustment Of our trade re-
lationship, no better man is to be found
than Mr.. Mccormick, and on all mat
tiers of international affairs he stands
abreast with the leading characters in
and out Of the legislative halls. In him,
the Negro win find the reincarnated
Abraham Lincoln on all questions Of
human rights. In all matters involving
q consideration Of human rights, he
knows no race nor color, but deals with
every problem strictly upon its merit a.
determined by fundamental principles
of right and justice. he il not of the
brass band type who seek to eamoufaRe
by appealing to the sentiment Of the
people. His record on the Negro ques-
ton is a. good and promising a. the
brief period of his public life eonld
he handles and settles affairs
with the ability Of the msst seasoned
eliminating in his delibera-
lions every superdnous phase that might
'reep In and sidetraek the main ques-
ion.
Among the many things that he has
'Aown real class in handling may be
henuonea mas record In the Progressive
Party to the Negro. Upon the as
'snbling Of the committee, the qaes-
ion was placed before the committee
or consideration. Mr.. Mccormick rose
md said, there was no Negro Question
n the Progressive party. that ii was a
'arty Of the people for the people and
y the people, and that the Negro was . II
itizsn Of the United States, needing
nd demanding no special consideration, /,
nd that color line found no place with
= the ranks Of the party. The commit
e thsrsupen adjourned, and reported
iksrise 70 the convention, and the
'ssro Question sailed into oblivion BE
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