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Show SILLINESS BUN TO SEED. A few gentlemen get together and decide that they represent the non-Mormon non-Mormon tax-payers. They make a selection of names and invite those thus selected, by printed circular, to attend a meeting which they appoint. They make another selection of names of gentlemen whom they are pleased to term "representative Mormons," and invite them to be present. Aa eel ("-constituted representatives of the non-Mormon population they "Whereas" and "Resolve," and select se-lect candidates to be voted for on the regular "People's ticket" at the coming com-ing municipal election. They elect a committee to meet and confer with "a committee of Mormons;" and then they select the Mormon committee with whom the conference is to be held. Did ever any sane person know of any thing sillier or more absurd in the whole range of political absurdities? absurdi-ties? Kot content with assuming to themselves the honor of being the representatives of a body of tax-payers whose consent was never asked, they actually nominate a committee to speak lor the Mormon portion of the population! Svbo made these few persons the controlling power in Salt Lake? Who autborized them to act for the masses of the people? And by what authority would their selection of a committee speak in the name of the majority of the tax-payers of this city, who had never authorized such committee nor empowered any body to speak for theni? The gentlemen! whom they invited to their first meet-1 ing might speak for themselves Lndi-j vidually and express their own sentiments, senti-ments, but they could not speak for the people, as the people never conferred con-ferred such authority upon them. The gentlemen to whom they say I they addressed notes could express 1 their individual sentiments, also, and ' most likely would have furnished re-' plies to those notes if these excited persona had not been so fearfully hux-1 ried to crowd through matters and gut off their periodical, memorial Lo Con- j gress; but those thus written to could not give utterance to public sentiment ' and intention, not being empowered' to do so. The whole course of these' self-constituttd minority leaders has' been a compound of arrogance, ab- surdity, and silliness of the most ridiculous kind, whether their object was really representation in the Mun- j cipal Council or the basis for another yelp or two in the ears of Cougrc. A self-formed committee eailud a meeting to confer with what they esteem their political" opponents, and then selected the committee with which they said they wished to confer, seeking to insult the body of tax-payers whom they , pretended to represent and the larger . body of tax-payers with whom, tlu-v ( said they desired to havo joint repre- , aentation ! This sample of the man-1 j ner in which these gentlemen con- i duct political negotiations should ' receive wide publicity. A heaity , laugh about this time will do thc'( country no harm. j: |