Show senatorial CONTEST THERE THERB has been a good deal of ill feeling engendered among the rawlins thatcher and henderson Hende raon forces in m the fight for the senatorial plum this is a very very regrettable reg retable fact for democrats should always act with a spirit of liberality and charity chanty nothing should be said that would in in any degree militate against the character or integrity intern i ty of adv any candidate each force should saw and split wood in in their own wood pile but should be very careful not to fly chips into the faces of the other workers all that we des desire ire is 18 to see a fair and honorable contest and without doubt merit will win win the crown if all act with due propriety the victors will have nothing to regret and the defeated can look the whole world in in the face without feeling the crimson blush of shame next tuesday the I legislature will commence balloting for the election of a united states senator of course everything is is speculation as to w who ho will be chosen the thatcher men at this writing are quite confident of success and from I 1 what we can learn the rawlins and I 1 i henderson forces respectively are as equally confident confidence begets confidence and therefore who is ie farseeing enough to be able to tell the result the good old book says that the race is is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but to those who shall endure to the end we cannot tell who is is the swiftest or the strongest 0 est the broad ax is is rei reliably ably informed that four hundred good and prominent democrats of utah county have requested their representatives to vote for the hon moses thatcher also that a large majority of the prominent democrats of park city have made a similar request of her legislators petitions of a similar character i are being signed by a large number of prominent democrats I 1 from all parts of the state the broad ax am is of the opinion that it would be more in keeping with the dignity and calling of the apostles if they would devote thel their r time to the spiritual culture of the people and not try to be our political teachers also every man in his appointed sp ere of action the history of the past year and the condition of the immediate present in this state emphasize the necessity of such observance in terms so strong that language is inadequate to ex express p ress them let the statesmen and politicians look after the politics of the people and the churchmen will wih have more of the confidence oi of the people in ecclesiastical matters than they have today and the people will have a better government we have the highest confidence in the legislature and believe that when it shall have done its work in the choice of a united states senator the will wih of the people and not that of any church will have triumphed that the man chosen will know na no one but the whole people 1 and that he will in in the council of the nation act in in accordance with the maxim of democracy equal and exact justice to all with special privileges to none |