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Show CHANGING THE TUNE. The editors who placed confidence in the ring dispatch from thiB city denouncing tbe legislature far passing and the governor for approving the election law, are discovering that they were deceived. The law baa reached them and, wiili few exceptions, they OQQitneud it us liberal in the extreme. The teuor of their comments is-that the law ia more generous to the minority than the election statute of any state. The only objection that we have seen from an editor who has read the law, is that it permit wumeu to vote. In Utah they have had that privilege for eight years, hence the new statute ohanges nothing in that respect; and even female suffrage was adopted to satisfy tbe appeals of tho same persons wbo now rail against it, At first many of the newspapers east and west were misled as to the provisions of the law, by the falsehoods tolegrapbed to the sorehead delegate in Washington, and they sot up tbe usual wild and senseless sense-less howl against the people of Utah; now that tbey have been disabused and have learned the truth they are turning on the radicals here and pertinently asking what thsy want. A secret ballot was all they asked in the begining and that being promptly given, the question arieB, Do tbey ask thut it be annulled and the old system restored? re-stored? We believe the breeze raised over the matter by the soreheads will result in good, as it has already turned upon those who started it-Such it-Such proceedioga expose the men engaged in them and show them up' in their true characters, aa strife breeders, malcontents, and grumblerB without cause; and intelligent people outside ot Utah can discover the class of individuals who are engaged in keeping up ibis senseless and injurious inju-rious local trouble. |