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Show CHANGING IN DETAILS. While tho general result in the Nation Na-tion and in Utah arc unchanged from llrst advices, thore aro changes of detail de-tail that aro of "considerable interest. It was doubtful at llrst if tho Democrats Demo-crats had carried enough States to change tho complexion of the U. S. Senate. It now appeari clear that thoy have, and will control that body. The Hoiitra of Keirosciitatives is more than to to one Doniocratic.-.iind'.this puts the .National control completely in tho hands .pf the Dqinocrata. This is exactly ex-actly as it should bo. for the-voico of the people 'was omphnficaUy'lhut way. How much to will not bo exactly known until the full returns are received. It appears likely that the 'tremendous Democratic victory will resolvo itself into a plurality, of tho popular vote, and will show not so much a change of vote in favor of Wilson as that tho Republican split so divided the Republican Repub-lican vole as to give the Democrats the triumph they have achieved. , The probability is that the Republican vote, if it could ha.vc been consolidated., would have won the usual victory; but consolidation wag impossible! for the Jtcpublicau parly this year. And one man made it so. Wo consider this tho most menacing feature of tho whole campaign. The fact that one man can so emphatically change the result of a Presidential olection in this country is certainly a threatening feature of our politics. Tho result in California, which was supposed at first to be so tremendously iu "favor of Governor Wilson, is now getting in doubt, but with tho probability proba-bility that Wilson is still victorious iu that Slate. Illinois, which was at 'first reported carried by Colonel Roosevelt by an immense im-mense plurality; is now countod for Wilson. Ipwn nud Kansas, which, liavo.- been conceded to Wilson from tho first, are put. in. doubt' by .conflicting reports, but arc probably 'both-sure for him.. But. of course, all these things are mere matters of detail. Wilson is elected elect-ed by an immense majority in tho electoral college. "The popular vote, however, is still an unknown fjuantity, and an analysis of that vato will bo a most, interesting proposition. There is no change in Utah from the first announcement, except here ami there a local Democratic gain of a judge, a Slate Senator, or a Representative Represen-tative in the lower house of tho State Legislature. But in spite of these' occasional oc-casional changes, tho Legislature is strongly Republican and a majority of the district judges are also Republican. This State was saved to Taft by the Smith letter, and also by the poor polities poli-ties played by I lie opponents pf the Federal bunch. It would have been perfectly easy for the Democrats and Bull Moosors to get up a composite ticket that would have swept tho Stato. But both wcro "too eager or too positive, posi-tive, and a union against the Federal bunch was found impracticable. But unquestionably it would have been largely to the advantage of the State to have made a complete change here just as has been made in the Nation. Na-tion. For, conditions hero will linger on in their intolerable state, Utah lagging behind all other commonwealths in the same old deadeniug political paralysis as heretofore. It is fortunate, fortu-nate, indeed, that business does not depend upon politics, and that wo can progress in material advance, business, industry, aud improvements in spite of the paralyzing political grip in which llic Stato is yet and has for "many years been held. |