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Show A WAY OUT FOR THE SAINTS. A great cry went up in a local paper a few mornings morn-ings since begging the saints, for their own sakes, to avoicljlisfranchisement, confiscation and banishment, banish-ment, to vote the Republican ticket this time. Nothing Noth-ing in the extremity of its woe has been heard since David heard of the death of Absalom and - ""Went up into his chamber with a great and exceeding ex-ceeding bitter cry." It was a gloomy picture, sure enough. It was that which caused Professor Hyatt to make a mistaken mis-taken prediction that day and caused people to look for "clouds and probable storms," with the further remark that "the atmospheric conditions have been extraordinary for two days." Certainly the showing made by the organ-was a lurid one, a reminder of what happened in a South Carolina court some years ago. A man who had been a long time in jail was on his third trial for horse stealing. In the closing argument, to stir the hearts of the jury, the prisoner's pris-oner's attorney depicted the sufferings of his innocent inno-cent client because of his long imprisonment, whereupon where-upon the prisoner burst into an uncontrollable fit of weeping. Finally the sympathetic judge looked doWn from the bench and asked the man the cause of his sudden outburst of grief. He mastered his sorrow by a great effort, and in a voice which was half a sob, said: "I know'd I'd suffered awful, but had no idea how much till Tom "Wilkins explained it." But is there no way to avoid these impending terrors! We think there is. For the saints to vote the Republican or the Democratic ticket would be but to postpone the inevitable. The majority rules in Utah. How would it do for every Mormon voter in the State to cast his or her ballot for Thomas Weir and Thomas Maloney and take the American party into camp? We will all vouch for Mr. Weir. His integrity is unquestioned, his ability is of the highest practical prac-tical stamp ; he has a fortune and can devote all his time to th best interests of the State. Judge Maloney is one man of a million. His attainments are first-class; he is so honest that he leans over backward; his temperament is eminently judicial, his industry untiring. As a soldier in his boyhood, as a citizen all his life, as scholar and lawyer, law-yer, he is without reproach. Why would it not be a master stroke for all the Mormons to vote for these two gentlemen and take the American party into camp, and henceforth run it themselves? |