Show it will prove beneficial good will come out of the senatorial election it will prove to ambitious politicians that the road to political success must not be over the dead body of the unoffending church it will be some timo we take it befaro another citizen will eay to fellow in utah do nob the position cf united staica senator but if you want to elect me as slap at the church I 1 am at you eor words to that effect who can blame tho church for liking an interest in the defeat of such a candidate let a citizen aspire to political prominence by running down the lawyers for instance and seeking to break down one of the fixed rules of the bar and see how soon all the lawyers would resent such a campaign wo do not believe that anywhere else undy the sun such a canvass as was made by moses in utah could draw around it the support which it here received the antichurch fight of the past is of course responsible for the warped political judgment of the thatcher adherents in the south are states where the r methodists are largely in control the southern methodist church has al moat as large a per of 1 i i lov v lvov TOO alliy mormon church has in utah while the church and state cry is not heard there let some man seek to become senator as a rebuke to to the church or to break down some one of its rules and see how soon the church would arise and resent it we dare say such a warfare would be more effectually squelched there than was done here in utah the church in utah will not dabble in politics if left alone cither directly or indirectly but the alii church politicians can get up a fight whenever they want it by opening up on tho church as they did this time and A nd gradually the sentiment will grow in utah that the church must be left alone by politicians that not only must the church not entrench on the state but the state must not entrench on the church |