| Show THE OUTLOOK As THE election returns returns come in the fact Is IR made clearer that the late mem bore berg of the peoples party or the cormons mormons Moro Mor aona mons if that term in im preferred have bave been faithful tp their allies and true to their party pledges it Js is also evident that wherever the republican vote has not come up to the expected figure as aa warranted by reliable data it has baa failed because of liberal defection that JP is the return of professed republicans to their old true love the liberal faction the salt lake and ogden falling cd c fl Is in plainly attributable to this the treachery has not extended very far it is not formidable enough to be alarming but it exists where we have indicated and nowhere else ehe we do not believe that members of the late peopled people Is party who formally united with the republican party have X been untrue to their promises thatis that is not their way they could always be relied upon they can be trusted now it is in beyond dispute that they they have not shown hown preference to men of their own faith the figures tell the story the republican vote of the territory notwithstanding all the obstacles in the way of the party foots up between and this we regard as abery a very fair showing it is scon con ceded we believe that the liberal faction is at least two thirds republican in its political leanings while this has worked materially against republicanism in utah the people connecting it in their minds with liberalism eral ism and refusing to support anything with such euch a tendency yet when the liberal faction dissolves and its death is certain and not remote the future republican vote will be something surprising to national politicians as well as to a great many people nearer home there is a sufficient number of undeclared voters however who will cut cast in their lot with the other party to make a walkover walk over by the republicans very improbable but the democrats will have to put in heavy work when the liberally liberal ly faction dies or its victory at this election will not be repeated the two parties have a fair field before them neither should abandon its efforts to educate the utah public in political doctrine national politics only willbe will be the issue of the future in this territory one more election we firmly believe will prove the end of local factionalism then will come a time for I 1 burying ug the hatchet hatche VP and cultivating the plant of peace so far as ac home questions question and interests are concerned and there will be nuffie chent encouragement in the support given to each national party to make national politics interesting and justify the best beat efforts of its best beat men on either side it will be found that the mormon support can be depended upon wherever it is pledged that henceforth it will be divided and that neither party can ever make it solidly democratic or entirely republican |
