Show COMMON IGNORANCE OF THE PRESS iv IT seems that the simplest matters connected with utah affairs are by the press of this i country they never get hold of the right end of the string the most appalling ignorance prevails in regard to mormon doctrines and mormon nl doings in consequence of the indisposition of editors to inquire into facts to look at both sides of the mormon question and to correct errors agn anen they are plainly pointed out here Efer eare are a number num berof of american journals commenting on the election in salt lake city for a delegate to congress resulting in a defeat of the mormons cormons Mor mons who cannot hope to be again represented in con gross gress after delegate caines Cain esterm term expires and the american public are informed that the mormon shave have been so thoroughly beaten in municipal and territorial rit elections that their former great power has dwindled down to almost nothing ll 11 we are told also that mondays election in utah frees that territory from mormonism and it will be represented in congress for the first time by a christian J the boundaries odthe knowledge which most editors have acquired on T utah affairs are the lines of telegraphic dispatches from this city and even these intentionally misleading as aa they usually are are not scanned intelligently or with sufficient clent care to gain their full signification our contemporaries at a distance are hereby respectfully informed that the election for delegate will not take place in utah until next november that wi with th all the frauds by which previous elections nave have been carried by non cormons mormons Mor mons it is very improbable that they can succeed iu in stealing the and that delegate caine will favorably compare in all the qualities which make up the christian character as defined in the ibe new testament with the most exemplary christian that can be found in the halls balls of congress if a christian is one who gains political place by trickery and corruption by cheating lawful citizens out of their ballots and by voting non no n residents resi deals and purchased toughs and persona tors mr caine cal no is not a christian however it to ie not hot unlikely that a christian Christi anil of that modern stamp will be put up for congress by anti cormons mormons Mor mons moult but it is not likely that he can be elected will the editors of the eastern papers ever learn to be commonly sensible on utah affairs |