Show tactics thai aill bot win there was no thought of either mormon or gentile in the state repa alican convention all the delegates wanted were the bast men for the several offices they got them and it seema a are non cormons mormons it makes no difference because a candidates religion will not influx a loyal republican all that be asked is Is he a good citizen the of this is not for any particular part icolar beet for the constitution garao teeB perfect religious liberty in altah we nave furthermore bad the religions of 60 prominent ana me people vere glad to have a c for the better and a strenuous effort baa been made especially by republican to keep down the religions features of a campaign democrats have acted differently from the very beginning of the division movement thy have been posing as the mormon party of utah they did thia at first with a lie on their lips by classing all republicans as liberals next they appealed to the people of utah on the score that if all democrats were not cormons mormons Mor mons they were the friends of cormons mormons Mor mons whan we told them the would boon bavo andge powers with his well known anti mormon record at the bead of the party they became frantic and one of the leaders of the party in this county went eo far as to say that if ench a thing ever happened he was dobo with democracy powers is pretty well to the front now when chosen as chairman of their state contention then they resorted to threats saying statehood could alone corre through the bands of the democratic party and if yon want statehood they said vote the democratic ticket bat throughout through ont the people of utah were true to their political convictions and they elected hon frank J cannon to congress come statehood or come continual territorial vassalage this year the democrats anro still at their old tactics with malice aforethought as the attorneys say they met in convention and deliberately put up a mormon ticket which ia alright enough for a mans religion ought not to be considered but they go about advertising the fact that theirs is the mormon ticket they little understand the mormon people lf they think such a campaign will win it has been our experience that the mormon people have been truo to the very letter to the division amov ment they have been more loyal than politics elsewhere for they jeopardized even statehood by their vote and they will be just as true this year democrats may try as they like to defeat the spirit of the division movement by interjecting into it the old guption of mormon and gentile but they will find the people true to the newer utah and ater dext november the terms mormon and gentile will be for ever de adlet us hope in utah |