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Show Politics in I'tah. Omaha Bee. a. This election is doubtless the last one that will be held in Utah on the present basis. Tarty lines will surely be drawn soon. The Times, a republican paper, has boen advocating this policy, and the democrats, of which there are a great number, are eager for the day when they can enter the field as a distinctive dis-tinctive organization. When that time conies it will be amusing to note the positions that will be taken. It is generally gen-erally understood that the Mormons are all democrats. This is a mistake. On the contrary the lenders are nearly all republican. George Q. Cannoa, first counsellor to President Woodruff, Bishop Bis-hop Sharp and W. W. Rlter, three of the wealthest and most influential men in the church are republicans. Judge Goodwin, the defeated candidate, is a republican. As editor of the Tribune he has fought Mormonisra from the first day ho took the editorial chair. How he and George Q. Cannon could affiliate is a misery. Judge Powers, leading domocrat, is also a vigorous fighter of Mormonism. John T. Caine, tne delegate-elect, Is a democrat. It would be an exomplication of the old old saw "Politics makes strange bedfellows" to see these these mon work together, lint time will tell. |