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Show Hw ' Hit1 THE AFTERMATH. w HJ Ah, wcll-a-day, tlio mighty hath fallen nnd the H scorner now slttcth In the judgment scat! What HM a wreck It wns! Our hopes, our pleadings, our HJ tears all, nil In vain. Tlio Idols of our hopes have Hw becomo the playt things of the heathen, nnd our HJ camp Is left unto us desolate HI I And yet, strango Inconsistency of Kate yestcr- HJ day the sun shone. After a week of had wcath !cr, when tho whole unlvorso seemed bathed In deep gobs of morbidity, tho sun again sent forth his radiance And to think that ho should select HJ tho very first day following a Democratic victory HJ upon which to cut a shlnol Ho crept slowly up HJ behind tho cast mountain, his faco hidden behind HJ a cloud, and then when ho had attained to tho very HJ best vantage point he suddenly brushed aside tho HJ filmy covering and burst forth Into such a glo- HJ rlous glare of glco as If to say, "cheer up fellow HJ Republicans, tho worst Ib yet to come." H'jf Actually the sun laughed at us. Laughed till Hi his beams fell in splinters over the valley. Laugh- Hr . cd till tho clouds surrounding took up tho Infec- HHJj tlon of the moment and they too laughed till they HJV were black In tho faco. Laughed till wo finally Hf caught tho humor of tho situation and bum Into HJ" laughter ourselves and then as though bo had sud- HJ denly realized that his light mlndcdncss was not HJ nt all In keeping with tho prescribed conduct of a !good, old. reliable, stay at homo sun, and having got us Into a condition of resignation to our fate, mm , ho ducked suddenly behind a cloud and up to pres- H r cnt has remained there over slnco. HJ The question Is; wns ho laughing because the HJ Democrats hod again throtted tho nation, or was HJ, it not rather that ho felt an lrrcsprcsslblo desire HJ to Join with us In ono sunny smllo over the re- HJ turns from Utah. Upon second thought wo hnzard HJ tho suggestion that Utah was tho only state In the HJ Union In which ho shono yesterday, with tho pos- J. b11j, exception of Idaho and Vermont. Could It B't be that old Sol was Just Spry enough to Howell Bf his delight over tho fact that tho Republicans of n Utah had elected tho entlro state ticket? Who Js shall say? l Tako It as you will the old sun Is n pretty HJ Enfo old body, even If ho does have a rather ques- HH tlonablo habit of not showing up till morning. It Ht. is possible too, that ho may bo kept from falling HHj Into tho bands of tho Democrats. They have cor- HHJ nered most of tho great, green earth, with the ex- H ccptlon of Utah, and it Is not at nil Improbable HHJ that tho next national houso of representatives HHj will pass ono or raoro measures looking to tho np- HHJ proprlatlon of the "celestial bodies for tbe exclu- HH slvo benefit of tho Democrats. Why not? They've HH ddno things almost as ridiculous in the ,pnst and HH not with the entire machinery of government In HH their keeping who will dnro prognosticate the things D that may happen. fl Meantime, to our fellow Repuolicans, we havo l ' this ono consolation to offer: "When you get to 1 thinking tho thing over; when you get to tho point Ai that you Just can't contain your Impatience longer, H( Just glance up at the good, old, smiling sun, You'll H) find him riding high In the heavens with tho same HJ old contented look as of yore upon dIb face and H' then smile, damn you, smllo! Tno crops are big- HJ gor this year than they havo ever been before, HJ and "we've seen our auty, nnd wo have done It," li so what the hell's tho uso? .j. UTAH IS STILL REPUBLICAN; H CAMPAIGN WAS ABLY H MANAGED. HJ The Republican party In Utah may well cons' con-s' gratulato Itself that this commonwealth Is still In HJ the Hepubllcan column. Tho problems which wore H: presented for solution In this state wero no dlf-Hi dlf-Hi fercnt from those that faced the party managers HJ elsewhere and wero equally as difficult. Tho dl-HJ, dl-HJ, vision In tho Republican party caused by the dls-Ji dls-Ji loyalty and sedition of Theodore Roosevelt created HJ) a condition for which there was no precedent In HJ j j the history of the party. Tho extent to which tho U Roosevelt disaffection might go was unknown, and HJ '' j could not be measured. B 7 j The returns throughout tho nation show con-H con-H ' cluslvely that the policies and the principles of tho HJ Democratic party are still In tbe minority, opposed HHj by the majority of tho American people. Had those HJ who believe In the traditional policies of the Ro- HDj public an party not divided their voto between two il candidates, results of course would havo been vast- ly different. Wo doubt whether In tho flush of his HH victory Mr Wilson attributes his success to any- Hi thing he or his party has done; certainly be has HH no ground to do so. To one man In the United . States belongs the responsibility for tho election of HI- tho Democratic candidate. That man is Theodore Hf Roosevelt, who contemplates today this ruins of his H own ambition. B While In ono state after another the division Hi ' I in the Republican Toto uo reduced that party's, plu-H plu-H r1 ' .NI, 7aJlu.ekht the Democracy w the victor, Utah B) , too '? 'nepubllcan principles. nat Tlctory was : HHHHK .HHHKQhW HhI ":!.HHHHHm HHr'" !HHHHHHL HHl )AHHHHHHHl. won with a groatly reduced plurality Is no reflection reflec-tion upon tbe character of the campaign waged, or upon the candidates. With the part)' divided ns It was by the Roosevelt movement, it should have, and would have, surprised, no one had the Republican Repub-lican ticket been beaten. Stato Chairman .Gardner .Gard-ner should fqel greatly pleased thahe wqs' successful suc-cessful In a yenr when so many Republican Rjates were lost to tho party. The result horft lsn.trlb-uto lsn.trlb-uto to his efforts as well as to the excellent state ticket, for whose success he worked Indefatlgably. Salt Lake county nlso remains in the Republic-can Republic-can column; tho ticket presented by tho, dominant pnrty was ono that 'deserved, to win, anati'dliwo., To County Chairman Follnnd must go tho' credit'1 , for tho victory. He organized his forces with Intelligence In-telligence nnd cnorgy, was constantly on dutyi In the Interest of his party, and has good reason to bo highly gratified by tho result. Herald-Republican. .f. .J. .J. THK NATIONAL RE8ULT. I I Tho national result Is a sweeping victory for 1 tho Democratic party. A divided Republican party. I could not hope to win Tho Democrnts elect their President by a tremendous majority In the electoral elector-al college, nnd tho chances arc that they will have both Houses of Congress by substantial majorities. The Senate Is somcwhnt In doubt, but tho winning' party mny as v,ell make n clean sweep and havo It all, for It Is not llncly that n nomlnnlly Republican Repub-lican Scnato would bo cohesive nnd effoctlvo In any practical way. Thoro would bo nothing to gnln either by the country or by tho party In having such a frail hold upon public nffalrs as would bo given by tho control of the Sennte. Tho, winners might as well havo everything. Tho local Democrnts Demo-crnts nppear well convinced that the Democratic pnrty will not meddle with tho lead tariff. Wo havo our fears on this point, however, becauso tho Democratic Dem-ocratic blow has usually fallen most swiftly nnd strongly upon lead and wool than upon any other Items of tho tariff. President Taft sent a letter of congratulation to his successful rival, nnd Colonel Roosevelt did the same, showing both to be good losers to' tho common enemy, and to accept In the proper American Amer-ican spirit tho verdict of the people. - , Doubtless wo shall havo from President-elect Wilson from time to time announcements of his conclusions on various points. Probably he' will call an extra session of Congress soon after his inauguration in order to give as speedy effect as possible to tho vordlct of tho people. This is clearly clear-ly what tho voters expect; and in so doing President Presi-dent Wilson will bo simply doing whnt others have dono before him, nnd whnt tho logical conclusion of his victory dictates. Tribune. Tho Greek soldier Is saying to hla "best girl," "Mnid of Athens, 'ere wo start, give, oh! give me bnck my heart." J So prosperous are the farmers and so high ,the price of their produce that nd one now eve? speaks of them as "hayseeds." tin"1 --- -..----...--...-.,,.; 1 Ytlt 41 Tl |