Show IN THE I 1 ME when our democratic friends try to make capital out ot of the fact act that all the contentions ot of the years past were through republicans it la Is well enouf enough III to cat call ilip up the r record ecord tile the republicans do not seek to evade the fact act that in the old days they made a persistent fight to secure in utah the supremacy of 0 the laws at last lait la it it seemed as an though nothing would secure that except to take the franchise from the mormon people and a petition was wa circulated asking con cress to pass a law to restrict the elective franchise sri in the territory of 0 utah to those who shall declare their unqualified allegiance to the government ot of the united states and I 1 lt to laws this has been pointed out as 88 fill an act of 0 peculiar atrocity but we and among the signers to that petition such am eminent anent democrats as judge T J anderson lion ilon 0 W powers frank H dyer J 13 nos rosborough borough hon ransford runs ord smith lion freil fred klel R C chambers judge john A mara marshall hall hon hen thomas marshall hon P i L williams hon allen alien G ca camphell ab c U m hon R N baskin hon hom IL P henderson and others it will be seen from the foregoing that that petition conveyed the sentiments ot of the then party ot of the men who on national lines were viere democrats its as well veil as republicans and the present effort to convince the mormon people that the democracy havo have always been their especial friends la Is a sorry raud fraud I 1 |