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Show THE LIGHTNING CHANGE. Caught In the wretched attempt at Interference In-terference with the voters by the clrcu-j clrcu-j latlon of the church whisper on Satur-' Satur-' day, Sunday and early Monday, once more the hierarchy lost their heads and OUghl to recover endangered ground by the foolish puhln atlon In the peseret ' News on Monday night of the om. iai ( declaration that Republican use of I church Influence had been unauthorized unauthor-ized Still the whisper was allowed to go on doing its work until yesterday ; during the forenoon, when It became apparent th;il Morris was polling a stronger vote than the church leaders 1 had expected, and wieu It became ap- i parent that Lynch was much weaker than they had anticipated that he would be Then, at a belated hour, some of the leaders, after hurried consultation, concluded to try a stampede from Lnch to Morris. In this way they hoped, whatever might be the result of ' the election, to save themselves from , ! the gravest of the consequences of the Charge, already proved against Ihem, I ..f .i concerted effort to use all the hurt h whisper to elect the "Republl can': nominee for ihe Mayoralty. Know-I Know-I ing how serious would be the view I taken at Washington and throughout the East of their mal-aci U Ity, they i thought to destroy all proof thereof by making the vote for Morris greater I than the vote for Lynch, thus leaving It ' to appear that the church could not have used Influence in behalf of Lynch, otherwise he would not have fallen be-i be-i hind the vote for Morris That was the plan of affright adopted yesterday and partially carried out In the afternoon hours. Fearing that Thompson would be elected and that Lynch would stand next to Thompson In the vote they knew that they Would be compelled to expend much time, money and Influence to explain away their Interferes e. Hut this despairing effort Is but another an-other piece of the folly which has characterized char-acterized the vacillating course, the meddling, Hi.. Interfering by the high eci leslasts In this w hole matter They can never disprove the charge that the church whisper whs sent out for Lynch it was known to thousands of people in Salt Iake, the majority of whom will, of f ouive. kc. i tile seciet, hut :i CW of whom have already betrayed It. The Tribune's columns demonstrated that the Republican machine workers would be allowed to go to any length In the use of the whisper, su long as nothing could he directly traced to the prophet, seer and revelator himself It Is all as grotesque as their other recent erratic performances; On Saturday Sat-urday they permitted the sending out of ihe authoritutlve whisper for Lynch, on Sunday It reached every one of their movable votes; on Monday they were affrighted at the exposure whli h was made, and the Dcseret News attempted a change In words without a change In the fact; and on Tuesday, discovering that things were all awry at the polls so far as their calculations were concerned, con-cerned, they sought to swing what was left of the movable vote over to Morris to recover some of the ground which they had lost. |