Show CAUSES OF THE LOCAL LANDSLIDE the heram thinks we would have the people of utah believe that there has bas been no democratic victory hero here the horal herald quite mistakes us eliat was said was that it 1 every democrat had staid at home the result would have been just the slime arid and that wa wai i not because as the herald intimates that the voters of this county had lieen been dissatisfied with will it republican administration of its affairs that was waa not thought of the republican convention in st sl louls I went directly back on oil what the tha great majority of men in the hie silver region held to be the most vital tenet of their political faith the 1 revulsion against this carried away I 1 two wo thirds thorda of 0 the republican party quite CS 23 2 3 per cent the organization of the party in was lit in tile the oilier office third that Is 18 they had the executive committee they insisted upon holding a convention still naming the next executive committee and the result was that thai when the final nominations weco made the one third thought they had been misused tile the two tiyo thirds thought they lad had been misused and both slashed the ticket unmercifully fully then there was a fear that if a republican should be elected somo some one would be elected senator who alio did not hold sliver silver to be the arnot essential thing thin to work for and to tight fight tor for and then N v lien hen tho the news front from st louis came a great many of the foremost men of f the republican party declared that this year they mcie going to vote it a straight opposition ticket the result was that on oil election clec tion day there was just exactly what all reasonable nion men expected so no far as ar utah was concerned a regular landslide away from the republican arid and this was vas so 50 pronounced that men in their and indignation did not binate at all but because of it 11 to say cay that tho the republicans of this county believed that judge norrell would make a better judge than judge thic or that air ill dunbar would make a mure more reliable l clerk that than mr reese or that mr would make it a mole moie satisfactory assessor than arthur it ir parsons or that naru calno would keep the county audit auditors es office in better form than would mr fisher or that mr wilkes would make a more able county surveyor than mr air joseph or that mr van cott colt would make a more faithful attorney than mr nye or that mr if lynch would make a better belter treasurer than mr spencer or that mr raw lans and mr air hall would make better commissioners than mr air geddes and mr perry would bo be ridiculous the original singer anger was toward the national republican pal pai ty and that the party divided dl idad here part in favor of bryan part in tai fa or of mckinley intensified the ill feeling of the whole arid and a cicat majority of the republicans went in simply to smash things the campaign was exactly as it was in new york when mr cleveland was elected governor over one of the most able and accomplished gentlemen lit in this country country |