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Show out against tho very conditions for the arrival of which they have so long hoped. Taking a position in the calm shades of reason they are not going to permit them.-elves to be ruled by unreason un-reason and injnstioe. They are going to analyze these (1000 republican vote oast in Utah on Mondtty last, and when they satisfy themselves of the sincerity of the motive of tho men who put tlieni in the boxes, they arc going to throw their influence in favor of supporting sup-porting and increasing that great army. LESSONS OF lllli ELECTION. A gentleman (a liberal) who was in tho southern part of the territory on election day, tells of having witnessed a controversy between a mormon republican re-publican and a mormon democrat which finally camo to blows. It was in very bad taste, to bo sure, for them to light, but tho circumstances, combined with a great many faHs noted by the gentleman, convinced him that division was very much in earnest iu that section, sec-tion, that the people were taking hold of the idea, and that it was doing great good. We bolieve the gentleman's views will come to bo the views of all when the condition of things iu the outside counties comes to be understood. under-stood. The result in this city where the bitternoss of the campaign and the falsa promises of the democrats led the mormon mor-mon voters to yield to the urgent appeal ap-peal 10 vote the democratic ticket in order to boat tne liberals, furnished fur-nished no index of the real feelings of the people. A prominent Salt Lake gentleman said when tho division di-vision movement had just begun: "Why don't tho mormons divide iu tho outside counties, where they are in a majority. If they will do thai I will be ready to believe that the movement is genuine." We believe that the thought uppermost in his mind at that time is the thought that will solve the problem. After all, men are inclined to be fair. With the noise of the campaign, the glare of tho torches, the music of the bands and the appeals of the disciplinarian eliminated, eliminat-ed, the mind of the voter begins to turn over the various facts and suggestions sug-gestions that Host in upon it, anil thought begins to crystalie about tho ' most tangible point of tne situation. Tho thought in the mind of the Salt Laker whose words we have just quoted quot-ed was that earnest division outside would clear the way for division here; that a sta'.e of mind would be engendered constituting a long step iu advance from which there could he no going backward. The same thought is quietly revolving in hundreds hun-dreds of minds; men are thinking that they do not want to do anything to turn back this division and that they would feel far more at home iu assisting assist-ing it by their counsel and example. P.epublicans wiio really desire the best interests of their party, but who have remained in tho liberal ranks, are not goiue; to assist in wailing up the breach that has been made. They are going to study that breach; they are going to determine what it means and when they see that it is daily enlarging they are going to do something to assist it. huch republicans are not gum 2 to stand |