Show ju just t before the battle those who attended the opera house rally saturday evening must have been impressed with the singular F in gular fact that brother partisans were n not ot at all assailed but only the non martiz partisans ans why is this we can other reason than the politicians who make politics cs a real profession are scared of the people there have grown up in ia utah conditions that none could have bave borei foreseen ean before the division movement the enquirer used to argue that it was just as easy to differ rationally on political questions as on business propositions without the usual prejudices and personalities of politics that could have been done had politics been relegate relegated ed to its proper sphere but the politicians stepped in and pushed politics politic c into everything it got into quorums of the priesthood and other church organizations and into business affairs outsiders used to laugh at this foolhardy state of affairs and 0 E allen alien when candidate for congress was much amused when telling of being told up and down the state which was the republican barber shops and which the republican stores utah people seemingly do nothing halfheartedly half balf heartedly but rather go to extremes in many things certainly taint ly they have quite gone wild on politics and in the comparatively short time that utah has had national parties quite a large class of professional ional politicians and office seekers have sprung t into existence once a man who would publicly push himself forward for office would be frowned down in any utah town now it is ia quite the fashion for one to tf make a strong canvass in his own beh behalf alf Is it de degen deen Z en beracy we could perhaps endure the politicians and office seekers did they not succeed in pushing a themselves and friends into office whereby public expenses and taxes are increased go to the public offices today and see the lot of deputies emple employed with officers as superintendents where there used to be no deputies deputes a few years ago are we the enquirer is quite as partisan as it is possible to be where partisanship is right and proper but we say it without fear of successful contradiction that utah people have not profited by pushing politics into almost everything it is time to call a halt and it seems to us a good beginning could be made in purely local elections where national politics cannot properly cut a figure if there were any benefit could accrue to silver if we could assist along the annexation nejat ion of hawaii if the tariff were an issue or if any national policy could properly be discussed in local elect elections ions we would say let national party lines be kept up but every one knows our ballots in a city election can cut no figure either one way or another on any national issue why not then tale the advise of president woodruff and put good goa men in ia effice regardless E of politics |