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Show gress this fall involves no local issues. The campaign should be entirely free from the old contentions which have j divided our people heretofore. Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats are trying to lay here the foundations for political supremacy su-premacy in a future state. When sovereignty comes to Utah, as in the course of events it surely must at some period, every man in the United States to whom the cause of Republicanism Republi-canism is dear hopes it will be a Republican Repub-lican state. The people are getiing their political education at this time. They are taking their first lessons in national politic;. They are forming conclusions which will not be easily overturned hereafter. The future political po-litical thought of Utah is largely being moulded in the present campaign. We say it is a crime against Republicanism Repub-licanism for Republicans to vote for Weaver, or to fuse with Democrats in the silver states. We say with the pro-fonndest pro-fonndest conviction that it is equally a crime against Republicanism to support the peculiar Third party in Utah politics at such a time as this, and in an election elec-tion where only the future of Utah and the great national issues are involved. What is good logic in Wyoming is good logic in Utah, too. Indeed, it is . . . i i. t : vr- : : . : ueiiei lugiu ueie, iui ia vvyuimug it is a matter of temporary politics, and in Utah it probably involves the permanent perma-nent attitude of our people through all the years of the future. IT IS COOD LOGIC IN UTAH. Our esteemed Liberal contemporary is not entirely out of politics.- It is using its powerful influence with splendid splen-did effect in exposing the Weaver fallacy to the silver men of surrounding surround-ing states. This morning, for instance, it directs attention to the fusion in Wyoming by which the Weaver and Clkveland men agreo to pool issues in their common com-mon effort to defeat Benjamin IIakei-son. IIakei-son. Our contemporary's logio on this matter is witnoui a caw. ii is true mat the Third party has no hope of success. It is true that a vote for its candidate is a vote for Cleveland and a blow to the Republican party and all it means. It is true that for a Republican to throw away his vote on a hopeless cause is to unite with the Democrats in an effort to humiliate the Republican party and defeat its aspirations. We agree with the Liberal organ on these propositions, but we ask its attention at-tention to the fact that it is doing itself it-self in Utah precisely what Weaver Republicans are doing in Wyoming and Nevada. It Is supporting a hopeless Third party, and thereby lending its influence in-fluence to an attempt to humiliate and defeat the aspirations of the great Republican Re-publican party in this territory. . The election of a delegate to con- |