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Show PEOPLE'S TICKET. Election on November 7th, 1882-Delegate to Congress John T. Caine. THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE. Hon. [Honorable] John T. Caine was, for a long time before the holding of the People's convention, a central figure to whom thousands of voters looked as a man eminently qualified to represent Utah in Congress as her delegate. He came to Utah when a young man and has been prominent in Local affairs in Salt Lake for many years, having been a member of the City Council of that city, and of the Territorial Legislature. He has, for several years past, filled in a very creditable manner the position of city recorder in the capital and, on the whole, has had an experience in business and official life surpassed by but few men in the ranks of the People's party. In his official course in the various positions he has occupied he has shown a discreet and conservative policy, and there are few voters either inside or outside of his party, who have ever questioned his personal or official integrity. He has an education, a training and an address that well fit him to mingle and obtain an influence with the nation's legislators, and he will be found no mean debater when occasion requires him to take part in the discussion of legislation. Mr. Caine has long been intimately associated with the Salt Lake Herald, of which he may be said to almost be one of the founders. He became connected with that journal in its infancy and its subsequent success is due in no small degree to his labors and counsels. The independent, outspoken love of that paper may fairly be deemed to correspond in a great degree if not entirely, with the personal sentiments of Mr. Caine, so that the public have a good idea of what his line of policy will be in the position of Delegate from Utah for which he will certainly be selected at the coming election. It is not alone because of his personal merits that we urge the voters of the People's party to cast their suffrages for Hon. John T. Caine. It is rather because he stands forth, at a peculiar crisis in the history of the Territory and of the party to which he belongs, as the champion of rights and principles as momentous as the ?[lives] of an entire generation, and which are in imminent peril. He has been named as the man to go to Congress, there to battle for the rights of a commonwealth, whose citizens will be stripped of every right and denied all protection to property, liberty, and even life itself, if the schemes of their enemies do not miscarry. Of course Mr. Caine's competitor for the Delegateship has not the ghost of a chance of being elected. Nevertheless the voters of the People's Party should not fail to cast their ballots. There is an undeniable and an almost irresistible moral influence in the action of an oppressed people, who, by the silent token of the ballot, unitedly as a ?[coincated] mass, protest against wrong and oppression. By voting for the champion of their rights and principles the voters of the People's Party enter a protest against the abrogation of those rights and record their ratification of those principles. For the sake, then, of the moral effect a full and united vote will have; as a protest against the wrongs attempted against them, as an indelible example to the rising generation, into whose minds it is so desirable to instill the principles of human rights, let the voters of the People's Party prepare to rise, as in a solid phalanx, and vote for the People's candidate, John T. Caine. |