| Show A MOMENT FOR reflection the election which has just passed proved in its concluding stages quite as exciting and noisy as the most en thusia partisans could have desired in this respect it departed widely from its earlier promise and must have been a disappointment to those who expected a calm sober quiet nun non sensational affair with no appeals save gave to the intelligence and patriotism of the voters it has not indeed been characterized by the bitter recriminations and the brutal personalities that have been conspicuous in other campaigns campaign but it went quite far enough in these directions to wound the benei sensibilities bili ties and disgust the good sense of the whole better element in the nation it to is with sincere joy therefore that such persons dersons see the great contest ended and sent to its place in history whether in its results the country will be benefited or otherwise depends alto sether geher qu on the future and even then to 0 6 a great extent on the point of view but that the country is relieved of a great strain and will breathe easier now that the strain is removed no DO one will for a moment question all will rejoice that the blare and turmoil is over and all ought to be anxious to see business resume its ite normal state and animosity and hot partisanship relegated if not forever at least for a time to the rear in order that so desirable a condition may be quickly reached it devolves upun ului the victoe to exercise moderation and magnanimity in the hour of their triumph and upon the defeat defeated td to display cheerful hope tempered with calm resignation there should be no disposition po on the one hand to gloat or on the other to despond the popular will as a manifested at tb lb polls polla is ia at best beat a fickle and uncertain quantity and it behooves those launched upon a career of power and flushed with success to remember that their sway away may be brief and derest defeat big as sweeping as that bowl now administered to their opponents may be their portion next time under no circum stances can undue exultation and cruel jeers at the expense of the losers be justified surely burdy those who are victorious can content themselves with the joys of success without being ungenerous ill mannered and un we would especially impress upon i the saints the necessity of restraint and charity upon the present occasion they have pawed passed through a trying ordes ordeal methods that cannot be justified by any right minded person in nis his moments of reflection have been employed by both parties the hearts of the people have been pained at many of the things said and done during the cam campaign men who have no love for the saints and who would be pleased to see them torn by dissension have rejoiced at the discord and the ill feel ing that some have sought to introduce and which they have called a feces sary eary part of our political education such precepts prec epta have in too many ill binl stances found ready irk IQ flamed by party zeal some have been willing to believe the worst wont that their political friends could say aay about opposing candidates or ar their friends and while have been growing into slanders andere sl harmless words have ha woven into base much of la is known to all our on readers adera re otherwise we should not speak of it the subject is un pleas ant and we would far rather ignore than magnify it one allusion to it la in permissible perhaps if there is re reason amIr for the hope that we may never be re quiren to refer to it again indulging in that hope the NEWS urges upon th the people of utah that they now put away ill feeling rancor and bitterness and set themselves t ts the duty 0 cultivating forgiveness charity faith and unity their tbell 2 r neighbors confess that they have fur dished abundant evidence of their ability to com comport ports themselves properly in political affairs laira af now let them prove prova t to themselves and their god the more important fact that they are broth brethren and sisters in the same covenant concerned with one accord for their own salvation and the redemption of the world |
