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Show the cc:;vENTio:rs les:oijs. - Not many of even the enemies of the American party will say that, the mass convention of Friday afternoon last, the meeting and addresses on Friday night, and the convention on Saturday, were nDt ail V 'gpl.niid demonstrations of ability, and the numbers and enthusiasm enlisted were most impressive. State , in the . Union, could make a more intelligent in-telligent showing of alert men and women, and the earnestness and the real American spirit which never haH, even when, the' convention' of Saturday i dra?ged far into, the night ought to have "been to onlookers an earnest of the sincerity of the host Yet yery man and woman there was either at heart a Republican, or Democrat,, and under normal conditions con-ditions would 'Lave much preferred to nave been in a convention . f their party. That they had voluntarily vol-untarily left their respective parties to stand in protest against intolerable wrongs ought to be potent po-tent evidence of .their sincerity. ?v-vln every, political .convention there "are doubtless doubt-less a few place-seekers. We dor not suppose that any gathering of several hundred people could be t . had, be it convention, church or. funeral, that there would not be a few.'at least who'would not be thinking think-ing of how, out of it, some advantage might be gained, but that charge vould not lie against that assemblage which, watched and worked and waited through the. long nours of Saturday's convention. : And the chief interest of it ill shonki be to the ' Mormon people. '. They will know, if they stop to -think that the meetings did not come through any enmity to themthat all those present would have greatly preferred to have been in conventions , of 'their own parties, that they were there, because they . believed it was their duty to be there. - And when the Mormons ask what these people demand, and find the. answer to be simply that Utah shall be an American State, some' of them at least should have fairness enough to ask. themselves why Utah is not an American State. A little reasoning would convince them that it is because the fifteen men who control the Mormon system are determined to- subordinate the civil government of the State to church control, which will cause increasing" clash-in clash-in gs until it is' abandoned, because it is the direct defiance of the principles on which American institutions insti-tutions are founded. That is the issue. The best hopes of Utah hang upon its decision; Those Mormon chiefs can settle the matter in fiveminutes if they please, and do it honorably, or they can persist in the present course until, after much heartburning and suffering for their people, they will have to do what they did be-' be-' fore, surrender. The question is up to them. It is no tiumiliation for men to agree to obey the laws of this great Republic; they should do it or ge't out from under the flag that symbols the mercy and justice jus-tice of our great' country. |