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Show Something on the Electiou. Salt Lake City, Feb. 9, 1S74. Edituia Herald: , J have been on the streets all day. I bave gone everywhere cast and wust, north and south, and I have listened to everybody. I am a patient pa-tient man, quiet anci given to much natural rest. - I I have seen elections before ; but none like this to-day. This seems so curious ; it is like nothing else that 1 know of. It is a strange mixture ol fact and fancy. ' X awoke this blessed morning with the determination to vote something to-day. I hail not determined what I should vote the color or tlie ticket-had ticket-had not entered my mind ; but I ha(l said that I would vote' the right ticket -- I came into " Main street" that is the town I am told and they (every-Ixxly (every-Ixxly wiio spoke) said I should vote a little mean-looking white ticktt I forget whose tii-ket it was; but I resolved, very resolutely, to be obstinate, every man likes to be obstinate ob-stinate now and attain that I wouldn't would-n't do aj anybody else did! and so t would be, then 1 would Ijc a Liberal Lib-eral ! Of course I would. I never looked at the other fellow's ticket. I did not care to; but it was enough for me, for him to say that mine was not right. I knew, then, that mine was right, and his was not right. How could I think otherwise? It is all very wis to talk pf philosophy and all those sort of things; but when I am right, J an, fight, and when he doesn't agree with me then he is not right. What better evidence ? ' Now, Editors LIekald, what do you thiiiK of that '! When yon think as I do, then I am right; when you do not think as I dor then you are wrong. 'That is a cljar tiling I think so, It was so with tlie elections tday. I listened to' everybody, and everybody every-body would hai'e said that I was right had I spoken; but I did not speak! Now, Messrs. Editors, wtut is all this coming to? I don't know, do you? It appears to me that we are. what we are, and we will never be nothing else till we are something else! Whai do you think? 1 like these mountains, they are my friends. I like these old adobe, houses, and they aremy acquaintances I like to look upon them andjl fee that I am at home and I don't wan to go anywhere else. Now, ti friends, betwoon you am me, I don't think that this electioi will revolutionize the world. But i 1 it suggests to you that changes al ways have been, now are, and alway , will be, you and I are of the Bame ; Opinion'. |
