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Show SUSTAIN THE RIGHT. Yesterday morning the Herald told every one legally entitled to vote to go up to the polls on Monday and vote freely and fearlessly for the man of his or her choice. It likewise urged that no person should attempt to vote who had not a clear right to do so; aud it must be remembered that this includes in-cludes those who have not resided six months in the Territory, or do not pay Territorial taxes, no matter how good their claim to citizenship. Let the law be magnified aud sustained. But, while we have told all to vote as they please, we urge upon them without distinction of party or opinion, to vote for Hon. Wm. H. Hooper for Delegate, and thus sustain the right. There is no necessity to tell the people generally to vote for him. They will do it, for they know his honesty and worth, his ability, and to some extent his unwearied labors in behalf of the Territory. But could the man be elected whose name has been put up by a few, what would be the result ? He would use every means in his power, every influence he could bring to bear, to have prescriptive and oppressive op-pressive measures adopted to drive the people to desperation, and if possible give their worst enemies a chance to have them dragooned and driven from their homes and habitations, that their possessions might fall into the hands of those who now covet them. This is the programme, pro-gramme, however much it may be hidden; hid-den; and the people of the Territory are Dot blind to it. Business men, yoa have made money here in the past; you may not be making much now, but there is a fair prospect of your doing so again, as the resources of the Territory continue to be developed. Are you likely to win popularity by eustaining such a programme, however impossible its success, and however pretentious may be it3 assumptions of "liberality" to cover up its miserable tyranny? Did not the present feeling with regard to trading with Home you originate in the illiberality with which Mormonism and the Mormons were treated, and in the continued plotting-", by men who were making plenty of money here, to bring trouble upon the community? Of course every man and woman has the fullest right to his or her opinions, and to the exercise of every constitutional right; but the only thing to be gained by such a political contest as is now proposed, is the jrratifioation of a self-appointed clique that would like to control the Terri lory, ruin its prospejti and see it-t inhabitants in-habitants scattered to the four winds of heaven. As a matter of wound policy we invite our friends who are not of the Mormon faith to show their desiirc for the welfare of the Territory and a disposition to be identified with its interests and prosperity, by voting the People's Ticlct on Monday. |