Show A HUGE BIAJXDER TO BEGIN WITH The agony Is over The delegates i from the Third precinCt elected on the face of the returns have been admitted admit-ted as members of the constitutional convention and that we suppose will end the strife The settlement of the Question no matter how effected will satisfy people who are not sticklers for propriety or the rules that govern parliamentary par-liamentary bodies The end with many people justifies the means Notwithstanding the relief that the public will fee over the result the fact remains that the constitutional convention con-vention before its actual organization while in an embryotic state has made a most egregious blunder There is nothing clearer than the point made by Mr Varian that the action taken could only be proper when the convention con-vention was actually and fully organized organ-ized as a legislative body We have not the shadow of a doubt that he was right Messrs Evans Roberts and Thatcher also were on the sensible side of the contention It may be asked why the committee on credentials which properly could only pass on the question of who were entitled to seats In the convention as shown by the certificates reported unanimously in favor of seating men who had no certificates Why did the three Democrats on that committee vote with the Republicans on that question The answer will be found in the proceedings pro-ceedings of the convention Thewhole I committee were at first united in de dining to consider the matter But the convention by a very large majority vote sent this thing back to the committee com-mittee instructing them what to do The convention decided that they must consider the question of the right of the candidates in the Third precinct The committee simply acted on the expressed ex-pressed will of the convention They examined the case heard the testimony testi-mony for the claimants to the seats there was no contest and so they reported re-ported the matter to the convention What else could they do The responsibility rests on the convention con-vention The Republican majority had a plan mapped out which comprehended comprehend-ed the selection of certain men of their party for officers of the convention To carry it out it was necessary to seat the claimants who had no certificates cer-tificates and that had to be done right or wrong before the permanent organization organ-ization took place The blunder committed is part of the Republican scheme Those who concocted con-cocted it care nothing for parliamentary parliamen-tary rules the precedents established or the dictates of common sense and common decency The point to be gained was the one thing determined on and to reach that they have trampled tram-pled on everything that stood in tho way The question is asked will these proceedings pro-ceedings and those that are to follow including the placing of a man in the presidential chair of the convention who has no certificate while the law of Congress declares that shall be the sole evidence of his election vitiate the action of the convention and endanger en-danger the admission of the state We think not We believe the people of Utah are too desirous of the liberties that are to come from statehood to stand on these or other irregularities but that if a constitution which is acceptable to the masses is prepared the vote of the people next November will cure all such improprieties and the President will pay no attention to such things when a constitution voted upon by a large majority of the people of Utah is submitted to his inspection He has to see that it is republican in form that it preserves complete religious re-ligious liberty that it prohibits polygamy to the gamy and that It conforms other regulations provided in the enabling en-abling act and then it will becoms his duty to issue his proclamation for the admission of the new state into the Union The tactics which have been followed follow-ed in the preliminary matter form one more illustration of the methods of partisan Republicanism It should have due effect on the public mind It shows how unscrupulous that party is when it has a certain end in view But if no worse blunder or more vicious act mars the course of Republican Repub-lican control of the convention we will all rejoice and be glad to adopt the instrument that will be framed But we will watch and see what the immediate imme-diate future has in store |