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Show Three or four legislaturea are still in deadlock trying to elect United Statea senators. Ve suspect it would be good idea if each state would pasa a luw that no man ahonld remain before the legislature legisla-ture a candidate for achate and be voted for every day, longer than one month. This could be justified on the. score that the state haa great deal of important im-portant business and that no one man has any right t' remain a candidate and sacrifice so mnch time of the legislative body. If that had been the rule they would have had a senator now in Colorado and another an-other in New York. Look at the atate of New York with five or six million people. Weaee the legislature legis-lature aclectcd to do the business of the state continues con-tinues to ballot day after day for senator, not one randidate of whom haa ever shown that he ia entitled en-titled to the consideration of his fellow citizena for more than thirty days certainly. Had that slate been wiped off and new batch of candidatea presented pre-sented the cbancca are ten to one that New York now would have the needed senator. We believe such a law would be of more value to any atate than would the direct primary. I The statement that President Diaz does not thiuk that the rebellion he has on hand ia of much moment ia not altogether reassuring on this side of the line; rather it would look better to see his men take bark some positions, keep his railways open and re-establish order through four or five of his northern states where for months there, haa been ehaos. f The world haa thought that he had an arrov most of which waa effective, but there have been few evidences of it so far. From this aide of the Hue that rebellion looks aerioua and Dial will have to do something more than talk to change that view. ' We suspect we are all paying too much attention atten-tion to Mexico and what ia going on there. That rebellion haa been in full progress; now for aix months and atill we do not believe that it has thus far coat 100 lives. At that rate it would be safer to' live in Mexico. than in some of the lower wards of some of our cities. Salt Lake ia but a little city, but we believe there have been ten murders in this city in the last aix months, and we suspect that more men have been killed by violence in Chicago tinee the Mexican war started than there have been in nil Mexico. The moral is plain it is safer tt live in Mexico iu time of war than in Chicago n time of peace. |