Show girat election the following editorial from the denver times illustrates fairly well how election this year is regarded elsewhere in the nation fall election will be watched bv the whole country for hinges lie results the control of the united senate depends largely upon the two votes that the naw state will give in the august body lue have votes and if dupont ia will be ane ar y of thirty seven n i addition of three while toe apul ats count five and bopa for the uncertain toniee which abo democrats are claiming the three whose exact position cannot be determined are aen natorp butler irby and tillman if the two rutih senators nrc republicans and if dupont can be counted on the party will have just half of the ninety votes it is certain that utah will ben 1 republicans to the senate the parta in strong and the best element of the population of the new state in its ranks are a number of men of ireat ability and representatives of whom the people will bs proud can easily ba selected from the members of the party the chief uncertainty lies in the attitude on the dilver question while the people in general are strongly iu favor of free coinage there are influential politicians who are opposed to bim eta liam it is likely however that the will insist upon bendine men who are earnest advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of dilver at 16 to 1 the times is mistaken about the dilver question there is absolutely no uncertainty about attitude on that issue which ever party wins two senators will go from utah favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 both parties are irrevocably committed to that policy in that sense both are for utah and the west bat the democrats are not for a protection on lead though their del agate joseph L bolted party sentiment on that question in the house and asked for protection to that ai tide on that question then it would be unsafe for the mining industry to tie their faith to damoc baoy the democrats are also opposed to the wool industry of the west they think they were opposed to that industry for they believed their free trade policy would actually benefit abe wool growers wool was belling for 16 cents per pound in utah during abe baat republican administration and the democratic orators told the sheep men that they ought to voie for free trade and gatt 20 cents a pound for their wool free trade came and wool went down 10 8 cents per pound utah has large sheep interests and wool growers will not again be fooled by free trado sophistries sophis tries then utah has a natural desire lo 10 cn conrage home industries font was the policy of the pioneers pion pers that desire has led to the through abe bounty policy of more than a half a million dollar sugar plant that has a capacity ot a thousand sacks of sugar cpr day the farmers have found that their only cash crop this fall is sugar beets they want more sugar factories and are going to vote for the party promotes home industries then the all want republican prosperity to coma back again so we are quite safe in assuring the conn try elsewhere of senators from utah they need not feel alarmed on that score for utah ranks third in intelligence according to tho baat census report her people have education enough to kaow with which party to vote tor their own prosperity utah is republican |