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Show UTAH POLITICS. I There is going to be a local election here after I M I awhile. Have the aspirants who hope for nomina- ' ' I tions taken the necessary precautions? Have they J I joined in the daily paean over the blessings that '( I have come to Utah because of the way we are I represented in the Nation's capitol? Have they I smothered the nausea they have felt on reading f I the dispatches from Washington, smoothed down I their faces and come out on the street smiling? I Have they dally praised the enterprise and public j ' spirit to say nothing of the disinterested charity ,j that in three years have pushed a railroad from ' San Pedro out some sixty miles toward a sugar ,f ranch in San Bernardino? Have they got themselves interviewed that J they might have beautifully written up how they ' know from actual experience that there 4s noth- . ing like Church rule in Utah and know that no 1 1 syndicate governs nominations and elections in 1 1 this poor distressed state? Have they given no- j J tice that they are,wlllng to swallow anything in jj order to obtain 'e ltle offices to which they ' aspire? Are tht Ming to surrender inanhood, I li i flf self-respect and all that gentlemen are supposed I l I In to hold dear in order to get into the nasty swim? I 'I'm If they have they stand a fair chance unless I III I am some who want the same offices have been more I II H servile than they have and can give better evi- I II B dences that they will be faithful to the syndicate I II ; in future. Queer times we have fallen upon. There H jl III was on old theory that offices should be given to I J f fflE men who seemed most capable of filling them, to I I H! men wll would have the manhood to perform 1 i' I fH their duties under their oaths without prejudice I m ' ' m against enemies or favoritism for friends; to men I I Wi wno would take offices as trusts from the people H yg ' Kj to be accounted for to the people. Those old fogle H m P ideas have happily all passed away. Now public I J office has become a private snap and there is only H M tnQ head of a syndicate to report to, and with I 'I fl proper servility to that head, it will not be too H f n Ik v critical over what may be done. Still when Utah l ' f ' f officers get away from home they like to claim I I iH I j, Utah as a bright particular star in the galaxy of H 1 If1 the Union, as a state especially distinguished for iH II I j, 1 jf its pure and untrammeled Americanism. i 1 And young Utah learns from the time-being I orator that all the people here are free and that ' 1 anything like a political job would be, if tried, 1 a spectacle so distressing that the sense of stern I 1 justice in the state would rise up to rebuke it. H I if" And the syndicate which has matters in charge H ' . " smiles as it listens. H ! l In point of fact, Utah will never be an Amer- Hj ,,, j lean state until her people gain the strength to de- R ' H i mand what is right and by their votes compel the H ' i right. The prospect now is a little discouraging H , m? but who knows? The rieht may come sooner than B, 1 1 1 1 the most sanguine are looking for it to come. B 1 1 u |