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Show THE ELECTION RESULTS. The result of the election is a disappointment but not a surprise. There wie many disgruntled disgrunt-led Republican Gentiles, enough without considering consid-ering the Mormon Republican vote to change what would have possibly been victory into de- feat in a fair election, supposing no Mor-. Mor-. mon landslide had been precipitated. On general principles in this city and state when a Gentile heads ono ticket and a Mormon the other, the Gentile goes down. In B this late campaign the brethren and sisters were B beautifully coached by the non-partisan News. It B told them one day that they had a right to com-B com-B bine to elect the best men. What the News B means by best men Gentiles as well as Saints B know. Again it quoted from Doctrine and Cove-B Cove-B nants that all the Saints were free and that it was B their duty to vote for the best men. Tor an ab-B ab-B solutely non-partisan sheet that gets in its work B commend us to the News. B But what the News did was nothing to what B the Tribune did toward demoralizing the ticket It B tried to favor. No such an exhibition of assinine B journalism was ever before seen as the Tribune B has displayed for the past few weeks. When the B new manager came, he had been studying the Bl-B Bl-B kins and Payne methods and fondly believed he B could successfully imitate them in the dull and B provincial west a mustang entering for a blood-B blood-B horse, four-mile race. Someone had evidently told B him the great Cardinal's motto, "Everything to B conciliate," then if that fails, "everything to crush." B His first essay was to lie down and beg the Saints B to walk on him. He seemed anxious to make them B understand that to feel the barbed nails in their B heels would be a joy to him, apparantly all un-B un-B conscious that if the time came when good jour- nalism would compel him to criticise some of thejr methods he, by his course, would be disarmed and powerless. When the time for the late elec- tlon drew near he made his journal assume a cud-H cud-H dling tone one day and filled it with covert threats the next, oblivious to the fact that he was making no impression on Mormons, but was disgusting H every Gentile in Utah. At the oame time its flab-H flab-H by and flatulent anne, tho Telegram, was adyo-H adyo-H rating an Independent ticket, When, finally, the primaries and conventions were carried by purely base methods and some gentlemen who had been bulldozed and betrayed by men who had pledged Hem their full fealty-men fealty-men of the Elmer Jones stripe and those gentlemen gen-tlemen in natural indignation expressed their opinions, then the Tribune blhuted to its own ppsition thought it smart to deride and denounce them, to associate their names as if in fellowship with some of the scum of the, earth, to personally and daily assail them and read them out of the party. . We believe this cost the? ticket, the Tribune essayed to support quite enough votes to have changed defeat into victory in a fair election. elec-tion. It did, too; knowing that the people know that it exists merely on the sufferance suffer-ance of a boss, and the vengeance prepared pre-pared and worked out on Tuesday by the friends of the men assailed was only -aimed at Mr. Knox and his associates on the ticket because through them was the only way to reach him wjio pulls the strings that make the JPunch Tribune and Judy Telegram make spectacles of themselves. Still the result is lamentable. While some good men have been elected the effect of the election elec-tion is deplorable in many ways. There will be no m equal adjustment of taxation, the Church corporations corpora-tions that have nearly all tht public utilities will have everything else they please to ask for; the word has already gone outvthftt all Utah, state, counties, and the chief city, is under absolute Mormon sway and that will bring no new-comers here except from Scandanavia. A period of drifting drift-ing with the tide will bo inaugurated. It will be another example of the "blind servitor" and "the dead rowed by the dumb" w(ll "float upward with the tide." It will be called a Democratic government, govern-ment, but the real government will continue to hold forth at the corner of Brigham and State streets, and so it will go, this year Democratic, next year Republican, all just the same, until by and by the Gentiles will either get together and vote together, or until they will decide to stop thqir side of the farce of taking an interest in any save presidential elections.- |