Show KEEP COOL THOSE who are unacquainted with the quality of the active politicians of the Ll liberal beral party would naturally that their success in gaining possession of salt lake city by recourse to gigantic frauds would have mollified them this idea had some plausible grounds on which to ta rest seeing that chat they had only to pay their chief political manipulator orlando W powers a comparatively small sum for his extraordinary work of the campaign when such an inventive genius as he proved himself to be in michigan Uld higan politics was secured at such sach a low figure it looks as if a mollification of feeling should pervade the upper branches of the liberal party i seeing that the prize secured the control of the city government it ib by no means a light alight one A day or two after the election a more humane sentiment seemed to pervade the leaders of the opposition which was however only momentarily appeased perhaps there may have flickered under their vests for a brief space apace a faint symptom of remorse in 1 orse which with them could hardly ever blos blossom into even an infinitesimal intimation of sympathy we take the cue of the pervading sentiment of the active portion of the upper crust of the liberal clique from the tone of the party press which keeps breaking out in fresh places tes like an old sore it fairly runs over with venom surrounding ro itself with poisonous pools of expended spite and does everything but recommend a process of physical extermination of the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 such heat beat in frosty weather is phenomenal phenomena and suggests the propriety of the llie feverish writers having their heads enveloped in snow to prevent spontaneous cranial combustion the choleric condition in question causes a blinding confusion of ideas leading to the most ridiculous blunders relating ing to matters and persons As an in rabid article points with characteristic ferocity to seymour B young you ag as counselor count elor to the president of the salt sale lake stake when it is a commonly understood fact that he be has never occupied that position or any other similar to it but if he did there is no particular reason for getting in a rage about it war to the knife seems to be the cry of the fanatical scribes to be continued until the mormon church ceases to exercise domina tion and compel its members to vote bhe ticket PP P peoples peopled that which ails the opposition is embodied in this quotation it is true that at no election in this city for ten years have ao few mormon votes been cast for the liberals more than 96 95 per cent of the registered mormon vote was cast and the best judg ment is that tot rot two per cent of it was cast for any part of the liberal ticket p the logical I 1 inference is that if the percentage or of mormons cormons Mor mons who voted for the liberal ticket had been say 25 to 80 per cent the su sun D of complacency would have now been sh shining I 1 ni ng I 1 in n at tb the e wi windows endows of the angry scribes A cormor Mor mor can vote as he be pleases so long as his ballot is for the liberal Ll beral candi dates this is freedom with a vengeance on the other hand when they cast their votes for the peoples peopled candidates they are in serfdom to the priesthood this kind of alleged reasoning associated with a secret ballot system under the complete and absolute control and manipulation of the liberals is vulgarly foolish and decidedly unmanly what about the four hundred liberals who voted for some of the peoples candidates we were rethey they under the domination of the priesthood or was their act simply based upon their dissatisfaction with thia the selections selection suf of their own party those cli liberal beral voters h i ardly rd ay d dared come out beforehand in a square declaration against certain candidates because they would have been b blackballed they were warned ahead that any one of their party who should express opposition to the ticket or any portion if it would be ejected from the party darty at the head of the liberal drum corps that threat was publicly made through chairman powers many expressed their disapproval at the polls however when they could do so secretly without fear of the cowhide of the liberal press if there were any mormons cormons Mor mons who wished to vote the liberal ticket the way was open they made their choice and did so wisely to say that they did so at the dictum of the priesthood has no more truth in it than the same charge would contain were it planted against the noble fout four hundred liberals 11 |