Show Cannon No Good If Elected It does not matter much what the Provo Enquirer says one way or another but we notice one admission it makes because it shows what the consequences would have been if the desperate efforts to unite the Liberal and Republican parties in Utah had succeeded It says The defeat of the Republican party In Utah was due to the Liberal party and that fact ought to be heralded over all the broad land If men who say they are Republicans in national affairs would have voted for FKAJ K T CANNON he would today have been elected and the Tribune Tri-bune would have accomplished what it sought outside of the regular party lines viz the post ponement of statehood While tho Enquirer is decidedly in favor of statehood for Utah it would be idle to say that FUAMC J CANNON could obtain it if elected with both houses of congress and the chief executive Democratic A Republican delegate from this territory would be a block in the wheel as it were and I statehood could thereby have been postponed for at least four years As it now stands statehood will come in spite of all that the Liberals can do and many who have claimed to bo Republicans may sit by and see Utah go in as a Democratic state Those citizens who were induced to vote the Republican ticket on the ground that HABRISOV was sure to be elected and tnere tore we ought to have a Republican delegate dele-gate will now sea the position in which they would have placed the territory if the bad advice they accepted had been more generally followed Republican for principle prin-ciple are to be respected as well as condoled con-doled with Republicans for policy are neither to be pitied nor respected |