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Show , KOLL CALL. We are on the eve of a decisive battle, "All these weeks the opposing foroes have prepared for the fray, and tomorrow tomor-row the die will be cast. The issues ire well defined and as well understood. under-stood. The combatants know what they are contending for. Let no one fail to respond to the roll call at the ballot box. Indifference is cowardice and absence is desertion. The Liberal party is fighting for a grand cause; it is fighting for the regeneration re-generation of Utah. Blessed as few countries are with every requisite to prosperity, this territory has lagged a hundred years behind the march of progress. It has neither voice nor influence in-fluence in tho councils of tho nation. It is distrusted, suspected and negleoted. How long shall it remain tho outcast that it is today? Let us answer with our ballots tomorrow: No longer! Judge Goodwin is the candidate of the Liberal party. Personally a generous gener-ous and genial man, he has battled for the redemption of Utah in the hour of darkness and gloom to this. He bas never wavered, never halted in the fight, and the surrendor by the church of its cherished practice of polygamy is due to him. For this, civilization owes I Judge Goodwin a debt of gratitude. Let us, Mormons whom it relieved from obloquy and Gentiles alike, pay the debt off with our votes. Through all the years that Goodwin bas been a citizen of Utah he bas labored lab-ored manfully for the material interests inter-ests of this territory. Singularly able, his voice had a potent influence in shaping national legislation. What Would it bo could Goodwin speak ofll-' ofll-' cially for us? Let us answer at the polls. Gifted and devoted as he is, no man could benefit Utah more thanDelogate ( Goodwin. No man would toil more aealously and assiduously for the welfare wel-fare of the people and of all the people. For manifost reasons, no man could be more effective in his work than he. As to his opponent, let us draw the Teil of charity over tho vacuity. We say this is to be a decisive battle; decisive to the degree that we demolish the stronghold of the enemy; decisive to the extent that we weakon the power of an insolent theocracy. Let no Liberal fail to respond to the ' oil call tomorrow. |