Show TRE SEE IH UTAH with a a great deal of 0 comfort the ct VMS copies from the st louis jm bublic tho the following the defeat ot of tho the mormons cormons to in the salt tako elections 1 lb a matter 0 of course they have no chance cl tin coot of holding hold ing their own under the F doral laws that have been enacted to kuppr ss abom As tar far us they aro concerned the sall imirage rage Is a i farce they arvo no lid that will tie be respected as against the iho wattward movement of immigration end and 1 liliar arononi milli nir to accept sup pro pre j i on they will hai hae a to find some tre coun coubry y than tho the united states elates tho the sympathy ot of the st louis ic for thu the mormons cormons is very touching considering tha it Is printed in evidently it all the in missouri had felt liko like the editor of the the mormons cormons would never have acon in utah at all they fixed LL ii place in III missouri and their prophet told thou them it was to be their central stake that thoro there they were to build their temple and there the savior was to come and reign in person in ills own good time for some reason the gentlemen in tile the neighborhood interfered drove the saints out and smashed the prophecy all to smithereens the gentiles of utah may bo be a very bad sot but they have never dono done anything like that the utmost demand that they have ever made of the saints Is that they sull shall bo be american citizens and accept for their goa goern mont tho the same laws that all law abiding citizens accept any where in the republic bic the Gep gentiles have never wronged them in property or in person and what the republic moans means by talking about the mormons cormons being suppressed it would trouble wo we fear the tha editor ol of that journal exceedingly to explain there has never been any talk or thought of suppressing the mormons in utah there has been a good deal of talk about suppressing two features in mormonism onisia which are alike repugnant to tho the laws of the land and the laws of civilization why the editor of the republic should assume that the american citizens pt of utah are not quite as respectable as the american citizens of missouri it is hard to see the mor me mons come about as near holding their own in utah even at the iho elections as a republican would woula in a back county in missouri taken as a whole we think the morals of the Gend lesof utah would compan favorably with those of tile the american citizens of missouri wo have never heard of the gentiles interfering with freo speech in this country wo we have heard ot things in missouri on general principles it strikes us that tile the is not published lu in a state which justifies it in becoming a censor tor for tho the morals of any other community at nil all events when it assumes es to talk about something a thousand miles from its own headquarters it ought at least to back its statements by a a shadow of truth commenting on tho the foregoing extract oi tract the kows lias has tho the subjoined sub joined thu the fault Is not so fio much lauch in laws all a in tho the administration ot of tho the Is laws we it 1 they ivere fairly executed aed und and all citizens sub inis sive to tho the laws and legally logi illy qualified tl ere per permitted witted to cast their b bulluss allots freely there would bo be no defeat of tho the cormons mormons Mor mons nall at tho the polls and the iho tact fact that political robbery is permitted und and winked at it riot not condoned tor tho downing ot 0 uio tile Mori at the polls does doc not reflect great honor apon those iho are cliar barged cd with vun tile administration ot of alio llio lc leral laws be 10 they lual just or unjust chisco this II 11 li good enough tor for the mormons cormons Mor mons but some changed in its government hlll ill bo be found cisco hal to tho liberties of all good cuzzens beford long thu the question immediately arises whether the acus is in a position to criticism criticise critic ise tho the methods ot of men its charge ol of fraud Is ill all gratuitous its assumption of dis als I 1 I 1 I 1 honesty it is morn more gratuitous still for something like thirty years here elections worn were conducted under mormon mus auspices lAces entirely in III those days tho the gentiles were told it if they did not like the tha rioth in I 1 ague they could get out during a groat grent part ot at that time every oscr thing was voted train from fifteen years old up to ninety aliens were era voted who had riot not been six months irom from scandinavia ani and who knew no more nebout tho the principles on which tile alio government of tho the united states Is founded boundo 11 thail tile tho editor of 0 bo be nelva knows news about ill that t modern egyptian language an giago which to have on tile ill platos aws the tha waa cognizant of and endorsed as gigantic frauds here last winter ns avei ever were tried to ho be perpetrated rated in order to carry art an election and though without any stir on an the part of the aft gentiles tho the city was carried last AIll Ai iusti st because of at tho ilia swiftly increasing gon clon tile population it was ferried curried again in february clio bews yews hns has ever sinco since worn itself out lit in shrieking fraud tho the whole matter will ba worth a review ind gioro serious consideration when tho the canvassers now at work on oil tho the returns shall havo have completed their task r |