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Show CAINE RENOMINATED. So long as the Mormon church needed a representative in Washington to keep it advised on any move affecting its interests, the Hon. John T. Caine was about as useful a man for delegate to congress as it could get. Adroit and alert, like his predecessor, and fully as subservient to the mandates of the church, ho had the advantage over the latter of living in monogamy, though firmly believing in polygamy, andj thereby carrying water on both shoulders, shoul-ders, at which be is an adopt. Mr. Caine sat in five consecutive congresses and he will probably not demur when we say that the sura total of his services to the people was nil. Whether the house was republican or domocratio during his five terms Mr. Caine cared not; he was not aroused to activity until polygamy was touched, then he haunted the committee rooms and committee com-mittee men, equivocating, prevaricating, prevaricat-ing, shuffling, and evading, any thing, in fact, to avert legislation oa that one subject. We are now told polygamy in Utah is dead, and a new and happier era is dawning. The Times was prompt in accepting the chango in good faith, but we do not believe tho new era can be accelerated by keeping the ancient crew on guard. It is pretty difficult to bend an old tree. Having announced a new departure which eliminates an obnoxious ob-noxious local feature from our politics, it would have been moot in the People's convention to put forward a candidate embodying in his person the new gospel rather than tho old traditions. There are plenty of young mou in tho party who. no longer handicapped by a vicious issue, would make creditable delegates; young men of progressive ideas who would lepresent Utah und her needs rather than a enacious clique. Caine is not one of them. The People's convention failed utterly to grasp the situation. Fortunately the Liberal candidate offers the independent independ-ent men of that party a happy alternative alterna-tive to redeem themselves and Utah. Will they do it? |
