Show was another of those false dishonest insinuations in last nighta of the democratic organ in re-lation to cosare J E booth and J C graham the insinuation was that these gentlemen have a and used it to defeat some candidate or candidates before the city convention the delegates in that convention hotly da nonnce the insinuation and the reporter himself knows he panned a falsehood when be brolo it mr booth and mr graham had nothing whatever to do with the city convention or ita nomi-nations either before or during taft sitting of the convention and now challenge the democratic sheet to name a dingle delegate either gentle-man or even sought to influence in favor of any candidate THE democratic leaders resolved last fall that unless utah could to in-to the union BS a democratic it should not be admitted says the oden press it by any means fair or foul they could prevent it the history of the constitutional election is yet fresh in the publio mind tb final result brought no balm to the democratic leaders to believe that future awaits them in other words it liaa been known for weeks that the loaders of the democra-tic party bad no hope of being able to win in the coming elec-tion but they have never given up the intention to defeat the admission of utah aa a Ite publican state wo took abi ground long ago and the events of pas few dagg have but nerved to confirm ua in the belief that e have mado no ODB y that if tha eleo tion 0 ibraham depended on the vote of newspaper men he would the most flattering comments on mr grahams nomina-tion tira made by the press of thein ter region where he is personally known evon the former editor of the dispatch in fact its founder has the following good word to say in the paris idaho post we notice that the ulah rt public ane lave put no oar old john 0 graham for arom abat country to the first utah alfs ia lature thia n the Lin to do and a fitting tribute l1o0 the newspaper veteran to whose individual eff ra in due to a preat degree abc which aba party is making in utah county HP will make a fearless and fathel representative and the voters broud eee that he bets elec teil CHATS of provo prefer nimg the term citizens as that might draw to their support a few supposedly dissatisfied republicans republicans prefer not voting for democrats it ia contrary to their creed republicans of provo are all right aud on nov ath will unite to a man in downing the party responsible for the troubles the coun-try is laboring under citizen of provo who bitnes cd the magnificent educational parade of the brigham young academy in honor of founders day must have felt a pride in eliat great temple of learn-ing situated in progressive provo the encouragement of that institution should ba the best aim of tha people great Is the brigham young academy ix their call for the convention to reconvene democrats state as their foundation for the call that a crisis has arisen caused by the efforts of unscrupulous republicans who have urd and distorted ill advised state-ments of high church officials the whole harm then i this alleged distor-tion yet powers has it in for the church THE gorman tariff works jut the reverse of aliat democrats predicted during the fiscal year ending june our exports fell off as compared with the lust bucal year of the mckinley tariff and our increased that is the wy free trade helps tho country we are the losera at both ends of the bargain no officer of provo city has ever made a better record or proved a more upright public servant than has marshal knight republicans honor him for hia faithfulness and will aea that he is el acted many even of those who supported other favorite candidates in convention admit hia honesty and ability and will now rally to his support SPEAKING of tha first presidency the salt lake herald bays no one could not fail to note that their names were being used perfidiously by some-body that construction of a sen-tence is democratic WE have been asked to publish the records of one or two of the demo-cratic nominees for the legislature there is no immediate necessity for doing so the people of utah county know them pretty well IT would be interesting reading if we wre to publish sam tThhuurrmmaannda vigorous attack on the church author at that secret meeting in salt lake monday last to |