Show the utah election the result of the election in utah monday was just about what might have been expected by those who have closely watched the progress of the campaign in that territory in salt lake city the republicans with very few exceptions remained in the liberal faiks while quite u number of old time democrats refused to divide on party laues it would have been unreasonable 10 have expected a different result prejudices aie not wiped out in a day with mondays contest for a bein there is every reason to believe that the tims is not far distant when politics in utah will be as poli lica in other states the prejudice which ai present exists against statehood will die when the gentiles of rutih realize that the maintain ence of liberalism means that utah must remain a territory indefinitely political parties in most states are eo evenly divided abet we believe it will be n good many years before the mormon vote could be overcome should they desire to vote solidly for that reason we believe they should encouraged in following the lines laid down by the two parties we believe some way can be found to prohibit the practice of polygamy if that is the only impediment in the path of statehood evanston register |