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Show THE CONTROLLING uf'k The shadow of the guiding astical hand was heavy trposS. publican county convention iiu( i yesterday. Chairman Smith, ing at the opening of that ex repudiated and scoffed at thf any ecclesiasticism in Republfjj tics in Utah. But he very y-and y-and understands that the 8&r the Republican party in UtafiAl church endorsement, aid, and"j-church and"j-church is anxious to maintaii publican party in supremacy State, it is able to so mamta does so maintain it. "WifCj church favor thero is notjjpf doubt in the world but that jtt'j; lican party, as uoy constitufi be in a pitiful minority in tHij The Republican party as ap: trammeled organization, indf, priestly manipulation, woola"! power in Utah; always progs the church favor and swayjjj extend in the other directions tho establishment, upbuilding port of the Democratic pajt-i the church absolutely out in fact, as it is in fraudulent we could have in Utah frej-parties, frej-parties, with the voters '6 the' do in other btates, accu their owu convictions, and ribEj? or separated in the various!! ties, as the voters in UtahE church command, into equaljf originalli in the different sel in order to mako the division lines appear fixed and fair, the same time leaving in bot a sufficient number of contr-sli so that the occlcsiasts could tt victory where they chose in ; or general election. Instance far-reaching importance of tblfl lated division on party lines hi many and arc well known in to the disgust of all, until J. against it resulted in the font-the font-the American party. 'jj Yestcrdai-'s convention w.j atteuded. but there was an at, spontaneity and enthusiaanSi ono understood that it waarfiLj fixed affair, and that the pjff as agreed upon in tho chnrj conclaves must bo carried on$ was willing to f3cc tho risk ojl I of apostasy in opposing the, "wlj church, either in declaration!! The conventiou was a tamS dried affair, tho ring knomn-aj well the night before the dayjjj tho convention met, just wjrt givings would be, and howj5: contests for nominations ronsf 1ft A |