| Show THE UTAH ELECTION THE follo following wing article la Is clipped from the editorial columns col coi of the omaha seg beg and gives a pretty correct idea of the situation here if the term peoples peopled panty Party were substituted for church chulch and cormons mormons Mor mons it would bo be exact but sa as the mormon deop belong to the peoples People lis the BA no doubt thinks the terms still stin it ought to be understood that it tho the church does not figure figuro in the politics of this territory and that the tha peoples party which manages the political affairs of the great majority ol of the citizens Is an organization jn in and ol of itself and distinct entirely from the church of jesus christ of datter dattor may nay day saints sainta returns petunia from the general election which took place on monday in utah proves that in spite of the tho machinery of the edmunds commission and the disfranchisement of all polygamists the church is ia still atul politically supreme in the territory with a single exception the mormon ticket was elected in every county by overwhelming majorities salt lake gave four mormon votes for every Cl gentile entile and the proportion holds good in many any of the other voting districts if the edmunds act was intended to wrest the political control of utah from the hands of the ehrich it has signally failed the useless and ex pensive v e commission which was created mn cli t to 0 pension onn oft a few chronic office seekers aud bud throw a sop to that portion of the party which demanded that the cormons mormons must go have now performed all the duties required of them under the law they have put in beveral several months work through their secretary and clerks in revising the registration lists and guaranteeing a fair election to the gentiles according to their report every polygamist has haa been dis franchised and the legislative and territorial officers who were elected on monday receive their offices at the hands ot of law abiding abiding citizens of utah and the united states the commissioners have done all that was required of them under the law so bo far as meeting the demands of the tho Is concerned they have accomplished nothing the territory is as thoroughly mormon today to day as it was before the election the lats may have been driven from flom one ome e but their pisces places are fitted by men who if not themselves lawbreakers law breakers are ardent supporters of the right and duty of plural marriage the influence of polygamy is as supreme in utah as it ever was and it cannot be eradicated by commission or slip flip pressed by law it is difficult to say what the next atop step will be towar towards ds suppressing mormonism the abolition of polygamy is only a peg upon which the tho mormon havers baters hang their hopes of taking the entire territory out of the hands of the men who have reclaim ed it from a desert and made a garden out of a wilderness no one who knows the intense hatred which exists between the gentiles and the mormons cormons believes for a moment that if every polygamist were excluded today to day from utah that matters would be much helped the gentile looks upon the mormon population as a foreign element recruited from the slums blumb of europe controlled by ignorance and aud priest craf tand dangerous to 0 american can institutions and the ormon considers the a gentile an intruder in zion and nna su an obstacle to the fuli suil development of the church on earth As utah la Is overwhelmingly mormon and is receiving constant additions to its saintly population the church holds a position of vantage from which it will be an exceedingly difficult matter to dislodge it alithe aalthe all ali the commissions rufa rula slona created by congress and the sets seme passed by that body cannot eradicate a religious sentiment in utah politics are so closely entwined with religion that it is difficult to separate them it Is ia hardly probable that congress will feel called to adopt rad ical gramme pro of a territorial government to which gesy gery aluce office shall be appointive and it is Be scarce arcely jy likely that if it did that the disfranchisement of U utah tau tab would break the back ot of the mormon theocracy orston or stop that spirit of religious religions proselytism which la Is yearly bringing thousands of emigrants from europe and transporting them across the continent to the hills and valleys of president Tayl taylors orlis modern modem zion |
