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Show HOW TIIEY WILL CUILD UP UTAIL There is a feeling of unrest and, apprehension among the triumphant " Republicans " of Utah.. Their chiefs feel, somewhat, that they have rather overworked the business. ; Both their , organs clamor, now,-, to have , peace and , to build up lUt'ah. ' The News adds, naturally, that there must not be any affiliation with the Amer-icans,which Amer-icans,which is but. an echo'of the old, boycott of years ago.. .But the general disposition is precisely like that of. the man who stole into a restaurant, ate dinner enough for two, and 'when asked for the pay remarked that he "was a peaceable man and did not want'any trouble' and to' say nothing more about it.' ' They are awfully afraid that they have killed the ;. Democratic 'party,' - and that in ' the ' future the Smoot auxiliary corps, which has heretofore. been used, the way Napoleon used the old guard, namely, to hold it back, while the battle raged, until the enemy showed some weak point, either on the wings or "in the center, and then to drive 'that force," an irresistible wedge, to pierce that point,, has been putj out of action. . . , : One strong Democrat was asked the othCr day if ne was still. a. Democrat, and with a grim smile .he replied, "Oh, no; I belong to the Smoot Auxiliary RepublicanCorps. ' ' These jokes are worrying the triumphant party. They would give the small' remnant of the campaign fund which they have left, if they could suppress ' " the statement of the facts of the last campaign, and not have it read by Chairman Burrows when the ! Smoot arguments come up. Not that it would affect Mr.. Smoot 's tenure in. the Senate, because he has . fulfilled his part of the 'contract and those are all "honorable- menJJ- and ho- doubt they will keep theirs, but the telegraph is a disquieting thing in this country. It will be hard to keep so important a document as that from going out into the country and when the Republicans of other States ask how it : jg that the . Republican party in . Utah has become the sponsor of the Mormon church leaders, it will be acn uncomfortable question to answer. . The morning organ of the church jeeringly remarks re-marks that the Americans did not seem to gain very much in the last campaign, bat the fear is that in .the next campaign they will have with them every self-respecting Democrat in the State andv that a good many Republicans who, bound by ..party, ties this year, thought it Iheir duty to vote the Republican Republi-can ticket, will have a revulsion of feeling. and will . say: "We have had enough. . Hereafter we have either got to be Americans or we will have to get baptized so that we will have some chance in the church." No wonder the organs cry out for peace and for the building up 6f Utah, and that provokes the ques-. ques-. tion, "Who has built up Utah!" . ' If we go where this so-called "Republican party" is practically unanimous, is there much building up there! Is it not true that the part of Utah remains about as it did twenty years ago! They built up Utah, after working sixty years come next July, on these same lines, with the result that the president of the church, the apostles and a few favored friends of theirs, all together not amounting to 200, have more, money and property than "200,000 outside, and they all started alike. The same rule must have held good . down in southeastern Utah in the old days, with the result hat there is- nothing left there now except some ruins, here and there a bit of pottery and now and then a mummy left of the old race. |