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Show H UP TO THE PEOPLE. HHB lltiriil Itepulilli'iin Suit U'.. Jj When tho United States senate last HHJ week uphold the rights of a state to HHl rhooso whom It would as Its senator, as long ns tho man chosen wns living J within tho law nnd wns otherwise n good citlr.cn, It only did what wag ov HHJ pected of It by tho vast 'majority of HHl tho pcoplo of Utah, and of the tinprn- J judlccd pcoplo of the many If not nil nt tho otlior states of tho union The B senato, however, did not sottlc the H uestlon for tho people of Utnli, as H to tho advisability of sondlnic a high H rhurchman to the senato or of hnv H mg a loading olllclnl of any church H whatever assuming n command H lng position In the politics of the H state. H Tho question has to be settled in H Utah and It iniist be sottled by the HH common pooplo of tho state. It Is a K blessing that this can bo accomplished j without any prossuro from the out- l sldo, for If onco set nt rest by action H of tho pcoplo thomsolvos It will vex H tho commonwealth and tho nation no H moro. It Is uboIpss to hopo that tho 1 action of tho natlonnl body hag H brought a quietus to the quostlon ns H somo have already expressed The fight must go on, tho bltternoss must HH remain until It has been proved beyond H tho question of a doubt that church H and Btuto aro forovor soparated In K Utah. Is .not that the logics! V stop to bo taken 'to withdraw nil H leading church oOIclnlB from jiolltlosT Hj If theso offlclals for personal reasons H refuso to tako the stop thon tho peo- H plo must art. From nppearances at H the present time It Is up to tho IH peoplo |