Show WE IT is As a hard bard matter to kill a newspaper A few days ago there was a groat great fire in philadelphia and as our oar readers will ivil remember it destroyed the times building presses andall and all tho the fire broke out at 8 at night in an adjoining theatre in in an aa hour the newspaper building was in a sea aaa of flames but ant next morning the times appeared as usual giving tho iho details of the destruction of its own plant the manager of another adoth r paper kindly gave tho use of his office and presses for the occasion and the times is r still lill flourishing THE ESQUIRES has gone through several political fires worse than the firo that dest destroyed roved the plant of its 1 contemporary and still it lives and is a power in the laud land when we chase the republican side in the division moye movements ments some of cur dear democratic friends came around to sympathize with us on the course courie we had taken they explained that in the ha past they had been admirers of this paper and acknowledged that tau had done much for this part of the tha country cju citi for these thebe reasons they hated to see us take a course coarse that would certainly le lead ad to our ruination well wel wo we weathered the worst attacks of the demoa ats today their bitterest affords to injure this journal I 1 amount to very little because democracy is on the wane THE still a prosperous course and its predictions of a year ago ago C are fast coming true we said the natural conditions existing in this thia territory would cn daca to make the people Ro republican publican and all that was required was study on the part of the public darin during 11 the past year they have been s studying iu and hundreds who once onca thou thought ht they were democrats have now concluded clouded that the democratic party is is not the one for utah we know this not alone by the recent municipal cipal elections which have shown such mighty republican gains but by the steady in increase creasa of our subscription eption lists men who once stopped their ENQUIRES because of its republican sentiments are coming 11 back again to their first love they tell us ua this paper was right und and they were wrong it only only emphasizes emphasize i ane fact that truth troth caused to earth will rise ii again ain |