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Show and yet they were perfectly willing to put a whip in the hand of tbe common enemy in ordi r to make a showing of trength for thomielvee. The attitude of the liberal gave them the opportunity oppor-tunity and with characteristic un-sorupulousness un-sorupulousness they embraced it. The plan worked well. Tho (treat mif-s of the mormon people who had not joined either side went for the democrats, dem-ocrats, and hundreds of re- ; publicans among Dittm, declaring that lh"y wanted to defeat the party I of disfranchisement, deposited demo- ' critic ballots. It was butpan nature fur the mormon vo'er to tr.ke such a course under the ' f.'vi oioi..i4 of the democrats, but : t hny ai- no fr.- from blamo. The re-' re-' piib'irius among thm who voted with I the Vr:acra' s'uml l hive remem'Mired j .hat there were greater issue at .r-.ka than I lio mere success of candidate. ( They should not have permitted them-i them-i selves to be caught in the democratic 1 net. Tboy should have borne in mind ' that it would be impossible for the i liberals to control the leif'tiduturo in any I evxnt, and that thoy could not a (lord to take such a risk as was it-I it-I volved 'in votirig the deuio-! deuio-! ciatio ticket. Today they are met by tho churfrs that they were voted like caitle by the church authortieg; an I, while the charge is absolutely untrue in I-very respect, it is Riven a ni isoic of p'suslbility ttint make if a serious injury to thivvhole inovemntit. 'I'h democratio plan failed of its purpose; and the democrats stand con-deiunod con-deiunod bWorethi coiiiiutinily because of it. 'Iliev would have been condemned con-demned in .uy eveut, but under tbe circumstances tho voters whom they deluded liuve peculiarly good rn.'ons for turniu? their backs upon them. If we mistake not, tbe wrong done by the democrats in this matter will cause a reaction here (list will not ceai-e until the normal str. iiKth which that parly had among the mormon people will be reduced to a hopeless minority Enure. The return from the outside counties show that tbe territory is democratic on the prnsent showing; but the republican re-publican vote cast is sullicient to tfive "Teat encouragement to those who have the interest of the party at heart. It must be remembered TIIK FLECTION. 'Not one or twli e In our roah Iflnnd story Tli path of duty lias bi u tbn way to glory.'. The liues of tho English poet may be recalled with a feeling of satisfaction by the republicans who niada the liht for their party yesterday. Not that anyone any-one was seeking glory; but g'ory belongs be-longs to those who do their duty and iu the course of time it will come to them whether thiy seek it or not. Consideration Consider-ation of justice, and a sense of obligation obliga-tion to tlio republican party led the men who car-ied the republican standard stand-ard to take the stand that they did, and in defeat they feel prouder far thau ever did victor in a bad cause. The republicans did not expect much in yesterdays election in Salt Lake, and ihe fact th:U they got a little luis than thev hoped for will not dishearten or discourage them. They know that they are right; they know that hundreds who voted the other tickets are in full nvmpAthy with the in; and tliuy know that the cause which they have taken up will evcntu.-ill triumph la this ciiy and throughout tins territory. terri-tory. They knoiv that great movements move-ments have always had small begin-niiiki begin-niiiki ;md that those who have taken tiieii stand ou tiie rock of fairness aud jii-oioe alway come out safely from the wl.irhiools of chanzH: and thev know that tnree months ago there were not aupposed to be any republicans amoug the u.ormon people, with the exception of a few men who it was thought would not dare to oppose the democratic sn-tininnt sn-tininnt presumed to overwhelmingly prevail. Tho democrats got luto the held firat snd have work ! it with great thoroughness. The republicans entered I .ne, and the success achieved as shown by the votes is greater verhaps than could have been caudidly Loped for. In addition, the tinscuipulous of the demoorata in holding up the idea lliat republicanism re-publicanism and liberalism were synon-omous synon-omous had a direct effect upon tho vote, thousands of me a going to the polls with that idea in their minds. Ihe lesion to be gleaned from the election by republican is th.vt it is neeesary (o nianin more thor -ngh'y and continue tiie campaign more vfgor-ouidy. vfgor-ouidy. Let the publio mind be thor-ougaiy thor-ougaiy disabused of tho Ji'aa that there is any similarity between republican-' republican-' ifun and libcralinn. WhiW this work goes on let those republicans who have voted with tha liberals make a thorough thor-ough study of the evidences of the good f.iilh of tho mormon pjoji'e mi l deter-minn deter-minn to enlist iu the work of making Utah a republican territory. Tho v mi has been well begun, and that it can be carried to a successful issue does not admit of a doubt. that the rule w ll hold good iu the case of tho republican party hero. They have nothing to be ashamed of and much of which they justly feel proud. 1'lioy appealed to no man's prejudice; they resulted to no methods calculated to lower th.iir owu dijrnity or to discredit dis-credit thotn in tiis public mind; and they stand forth today clean-handed and confident iu the final judgment of this people upon tho principles which they have espoused. It is not ditlicnlt t. analyze the re-lulls re-lulls of the election in tins county. The drift was clearly discerned by the republicans re-publicans long before the election occurred, oc-curred, aud there is nothing is the figures of the count that causes them seiious sui prise. The liberals elected to iM.iko Uii;l' vi ar u ) iu ti.e toot ti.ca element ef the population, aud it v, ,,s but human nawiri thai tho mormon voter should seulc souiu nay of striking back. They hid dis-lolved dis-lolved their own party and the great body of them had been left without political po-litical allegiance. The tendency amoug them has always been toward democracy; democ-racy; but as this campaign progressed a strong republican sentiment devel-sptd devel-sptd among them. Thev were confronted, con-fronted, however, by tha bilter assaults of the libr.rala upon themselves and their church and human nature led them to co-operate in this election with tho party that promised to make the greatest headway against liberalism, and their votes went to tbe dainonraev The method of the dpuiocritlio leaders lead-ers in this matter wero of the most objectionable ob-jectionable character. They iuduslri-ously iuduslri-ously appealed to the mormons to vote their ticket on the ground that they could doeat the l;berals. In other words they wi re promised that they should see their bitter encmios beaten if tbey would cast their ballots for the democratic ticket. To furthtr this feature of tho democratic dem-ocratic campaign, the democratic organ which has a lare circulation among the mormons, faKely and wickedly wick-edly asiflrlcd that tho republicans and liberals v.-ere alike, and that their principles prin-ciples were identical. This was carried so far as the circulation of a widespread wide-spread report in many sections that there was a ileal whereby ton mormons ihouid vote the democratic ticket. Thid policy oa the part of the democrats demo-crats was unpatriotic aud we may say unprincipled. The campaign was designed de-signed to establish division on national party lines and to bury the prejudice and the bitternesses of tho pai?.;yst ihe democrats, upon the bare aud unwarranted unwar-ranted hope of securing temporary advantage, were willing to plsy upon the feelings of the mormon voters to induce them to vote their ticket and thereby place thc-mselves in a position which gives plausibility to the eharge that their votes are controlled and bargained bar-gained away by the church. The democrats dem-ocrats were as much interested in establishing es-tablishing division as the republicans, |