| Show first stale election it id true as the american economist says that utah lor the number of its inhabitants has always received a great deal of national attention but our girat state election will cause ahn eyes of the nation to bo on utah as never before all citizens should ba very desirous as we believe they are of seeing the first state campaign conducted in an honorable manner they should especially decry machine methods such as rue tha politics in some of the older states and they should forever condemn the ne of money to purchase political promo tion let tha peoples toca rule in at idaet the first campaign the people of utah are generally pene rally regarded as a little different from the rest of the nation chev have been isolated and politically for a quarter of a century so it is not surprising if there should be developed marked characteristics in the utah commonwealth commonweal tb some of our differences wera not compatible with american Ama rican institutions others are looked upon with respect in politics the utah people have always been recorded as conservative and above all strictly honest and conscientious those traits ought to be cultivated politics ought nob exactly to be dear to a man as his religion as some of oar people now claim politics to csc but every citizen ought to have decided views on the policina poli cipa of government it really shows a lack of study and information for a man to say that he has no political preferences and then utah people ought to learn to differ on politics as they do on their business bu propositions A roan is not necessarily a rogue because he believes in planting potatoes in the dark of the moon nor should he harbor ill feeling toward a brother farmer who believes and so asserts that the moon has no effect on a potato crop no m attar when plant ed in fact farmers have learned to biffar on questions without calling each now why can they not differ as amicably on political matters we have had too much bad feeling in utah over politics the majority of the people of utah through their peculiar isolation before mentioned have bean led to be clannish they ought to guard against this in politics it is the rule everywhere in america to give minorities good representation toe mormon people in idaho and colorado are thus treated and the mor mons in utah should be equally liberal in fact there should be as little as possible 0 the old utah allowed te enter the new mormon and bentile Uen tile as far aa possible should be forgotten for goten we hava forgiven each other now let ua strive to forget I 1 |
