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Show ; B Again, Mormon Republicans cannot afford to for- H Set that when a truce was called in the old conflict ; H and a treaty of peace was framed, one of the stipu lations of that treaty which the chiefs of the church signed, was that thenceforth they would cease to give political dictation to their people; that Church and State should be permanently separated until "He who has a right to rule shall come." They know that this covenant was shamelessly shame-lessly broken when the Senatorship was sold to Thomas Kearns, and if now they bend to follow in the wake of the Kearns machine they will simply advertise that they endorse the shame of his election elec-tion and approve of the breaking of the covenant through which Statehood was obtained and through the breaking of which the Kearns election was bought. This is the situation which faces the Republicans of Utah, and the question is what are they goingto do about it? Is any of the old blood left in their arteries; any of the old sterling stuff left in their souls? Who is to control their conventions this year; what pledges are they going to exact from their candidates? candi-dates? We tell them that party ties rest very lightly on men now, and that their only hope for victory lies in smashing the vulgar, brutal machine. New York city has been ruled most of the time for sixty years by an organization headed generally gen-erally by a rich, ignorant and unscrupulous boss. It has been, a frightful reproach to the city, it has cost it the wealth of an empire. An organization of that kind must not be fastened fast-ened upon Salt Lake City, hence the men in charge of city affairs must be looked to. There have been painful symptoms of late that some of the city offices looked to the machine for directions, while others have shown plainly enough that a request from the head of the dominant church was far more binding upon them than their oath of office. This means boss rule of the most odious kind. When superstition and coin, make a combine to control a people the outlook is as humiliating as it is discouraginc There is dangor that some of the city offices will be used as recruiting stations for the machine this year and this danger earnest Republicans should take measures to thwart. A square deal is all that will satisfy Republicans. |