| Show THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN UTAH Tho following article appears In the current number of the Womans Ex Exponent edited by Mrs B There have been few political cam campaigns in Utah which presented more vital Issues or wen of deeper general significance than the ono in which we weara ara now engaged In common with throughout the na nation tion tho people of this State are keen keenly ly Interested In the great national con contest test and partake of the enthusiasm which attends Its successive phases and developments Those whose affiliations and sympathies are with the Republican can party find much to please them In tho vigorous utterances and tho ener energetic getic campaigning of Sir Taft sup supported ported by tho strenuous backing of Roosevelt and tho mighty assistance ot experienced party ead ors Those who incline to tho Demo Democratic cratic party either by reason ot fond fondness ness for its principles or admiration for its are Hied with joy at tho popular favor with which Mr Bryan Is everywhere received and tho Which his Utah Republicans and Utah Democrats arc accordingly quite as hopeful as eager and as interested as their In Maine Texas Florida or Oregon In the great Kami which Is now being played before tho eyes of an eager constituency on tho merits of which the people will pasi judgment on the 3rd of next No But hero at home we have additional reasons for approaching the ballot bos next November with sober and thoughtful earnestness There ure issue which should lie close to toti ti heart f every good citizen At ond of these especially to women we refer to the in favor of anco and tin likelihood that with the election f good legislators tho liquor may lx It is the and the belief of the that the Influence of wo in politics and at z healthful and purifying H re Is an opportunity In mako proof of the one and strength to the other Men may and perhaps from sincere con conviction sometimes do disagree as to tho merits or desirability of prohibition tion Women do not There is about it In their minds If their could the issue it would speedily be puttied Is It not to expect therefore and to urge that they shall avail themselves al this time of every right of citizenship at seems to us that in important moment c Ml S fails to register and to vote shows but buta a feeble conception of her duty and a pitiful disregard of the righteous power In her hands Another Issue of purely local im importance but surely of enormous and terrible here where it Is best understood Is the announced threat that in the event of the success of a certain faction In Bait Lake coun county ty a large number of foremost cit citizens of the community will be cither into exile or into the penitentiary ary At tho recent convention of the American party this In Infamous famous was officially made and it was cheered to tho echo Certain tain twentysix were referred to as coming under this threat and consigned to this fato those twentysix being tho general authorities of the Church of Christ of Saints both Democrats and Republicans of them men who by their most and vindictive enemies have never even been accused of broken law lawIt It Is true the astounding brutality of such a program revealed Itself on sec second ond thought to those who had so mad ly applauded It and the shrewder of them promptly affected to lament if not the plan at least th revelation of It As a political weapon it promises to recoil with much severity upon Its original But that a program so vile should oven havo been thought of much less mentioned n depravity that otherwise would have hard to fasten upon any faction support from popular suffrage If it means anything at all It means that It that faction shall bo successful the angry elements of to be called up the racking hounds of persecution to be let In this prosperous and peaceful land Is such n pio pleasing to those whether Mormon Jow or gentile who and expect to live here answer to be found written plain and decisive In the next Novem ber who fail to in mok answer clear ami unmistakable able tho e who part in administering rebuke to a who would gorge fatten a com woes may not bijj sharers In plot but they show sure toms of the fatal s ings reigns arid the world burns Koj tho for Other sons which lip cited forth forthcoming coming lection is lull of moment to the of this state and tills Inter country fouls fully justified In urging all its readers the of and of that til true a t which the |
