1 FOR THE STATE'S SAKE. We have stated our preference for Governor 1 Wells rather than Mr. John Cutler for nominee B for Governor, hecause we have understood and I believe it to he true that Mr. Cutler never thought H dt ueipg a candidate until he was named for the place hy Apostle Heed Smoot, We have hepld I that Mr. Smoot has a right, in strong measure, to 1! be consulted afc to nominations by virtue oj his I office as one of Utah's United States Senators. I Admitting that he is entitled to all the authority I which that high office carries, still any man of 1 Utah would bo blind to for a moment imagThe that I it is on his senatorial prestige and power that he I is dictating who shall, and who shall not, be can-i can-i dldates. He was elected Senator, not because of I any striking qualifications which he possesses for I the place I He is indebted solely to the Church of Jesus I Christ of Latter-Day Saints for the honors that I were thrust upon him; thousands of voters sup- 1 ported tho Legislative ticket which was pledged I to elect him, not because of his fitness for the place, not for any reason except that he was an Apostle, and they would have done the same had he professed to be a Democratic, or Socialist, or Prohibition candidate; it is the interest of that same church which prompts him to name candl- : dates and that is a shameful perversion of free 1 institutions, a defiance of our form of Government (and a covert but effective violation of that clause df the Constitution of our country which forbids any union of Church and State, to say nothing of making the State, as Apostle Smoot intends, a more creature of a Church. Necessarily, too, should Mr. Cutler be nominated nomi-nated and elected, he would understand where his first fealty would be supposod to be due and would act accordingly. He would be vastly more the servant ser-vant of the Church than of the peope; hence, as between a candidate so Involved and any capable arid independent man, we are for the other man. Governor Wells has held his office since the admission of the State. In his public office" he has made no mistake that we can Recall that has been an injury to the State. In, every emergency, in the running down of robbers, and murderers, in the raising of Utah's contingent for the Spanish 1 war; in the sustaining and vetoing of legislative enactments he has done well. As" between him and any man who will owe his nomination, if he receives it, to the power behind Mr. Out'-" he most certainly has our sympathy and & 1-aHpact 1-aHpact as weare able to lend him. It is nft $& sonal or in any ordinary sense a politico, $V tion. The honor of the State and the d, .$ rights of tho people are involved in the nov tion. tAfe fv