Show THE REASON WHY tim THE chicago herald commenting on the recent utah election bays baye eithe the result of the election Is that the mormons cormons hold full away sway and will continue to do so as long as aa their fields are green their harvests plenteous and their women have havo the ballot we do not think that a change of these conditions would produce a different result we have seen a time v when hen the fields were not green nor the harvests plenteous because the grasshoppers had devoured the crops and turned the verdant fields into black and dreary wastes and this was before the women of utah had the ballot yet the mormons cormons Mor mons had full sway at elections because they had the majority of votes if the elective franchise were taken away from the women of utah the fields wore another color col coi or anz anh and the harvests should fall through drouth or infect devastations the mor mons without counting a single angle practical polygamist could outvote their political opponents jn in the territory and the result would be ijo about the bama bame as now it is the political unity of the cormons mormons Mor mons which forms forma the strongest feature of their position and is ia the most obnoxious to their adversaries it Is also the most moat anao countable thing to people who imagine that that they know all about mormonism but have never fairly examined it they allege that the people have to vote as they are bidden dens deng but in view of the ab absolute secrecy of the ballot and the impossibility lity of discovering how the vo use the franchise they can sea see the nonsense of their charge that the people vote under dictation they do not seem to compre comprehend houd the fact that every mormon Is as much interested in maintaining the supremacy of the peoples barty party as any of 0 the leaders loaders that the present true freedom exemption from debt and honeas and economical administration of public affairs depond depend upon keeping out the adventurers and professional politicians who are hungering and thirsting for spoils in prosperity or adversity with bounteous harvests or famine strick en an bins with or without the vote of the tha faithful and zealous women citizens of utah the cormons mormons Mor mons will have sense enough to unite to maintain the balance of power and to thwart the schemes of the liberal locusts whose advent to power would be ban ben a worse annl ic lotion tion than any grasshopper par army that ever eief invaded and overwhelmed the territory |