| Show DISPROVED BY THE RECORD A number of citizens have lashed themselves and a number of others have bare permitted themselves to be lashed by partisan whips hotd a greater or lew lens degree of excitement over the senatorial Benator lal contest which was wae brought to a close last evening by the election of hon jonesb JL rawlins the ostensible reason for this ruffling ot of the he social surface to Is the allegation that 16 church influence produced the result must an appeal to the reason of these citizens be vain cas caa they not be prevailed upon to cast one glance over the record will they shut their eyes and earn ean to all the relevant and competent evidence in the mattei matte fur their own oaken we ask aab them to give a calm consideration to a few toots that bear upon this church influence issue of the sixty three members who compose the joint assembly of the legislature two third as aa nearly as may be stated bated are enrolled as members of the mormon church J yet this body having such a 8 majority sit an this thib cast fifty one do balta ballots for a united states senator without bringing linto into alow the probable end and of the contest content when the fifty first ballot had bad been recorded the final result remit was wai to all ap much a matter of doubt an a on OB the day balloting began not till the fifty second ballot had been chat did the beginning of the end appear and even then mort strenuous efforts were made by members of the he ame embly to pi prevent the result that was waa finally accomplished on the clity third ballot by a here bare majority of one an election n was wai effected affected balloting began on january and closed on february ard on 09 each week day between theme hem dates date and including them ballots were wen cost no sane eane man who knows know anything of the proceedings proceed ogi of the joint assembly will devy deny that the contest on the part of each of the three leading combatants combatant was most moat stubbornly fought and that each faction ex boosted its every resource both of and generalship in the skill and resolution reao lution each displayed dle played the struggle ruggle Bt has baa seldom been paralleled the straid the anxiety the he efforts of members and martias ii 11 leaders were remarkable in their intensity and the evenness even neB with which the balance of power between the three chief contestants was so au long maintained was waa positively marvelous these facts are incontestable now it if the mormon church pos the over its members it to li credited with possessing nod and it if it be true that that 1811 dance was exerted to produce the result how bow Is ia it possible to account for the above facts facto which it to in godeny to deny again the record of the fifty ballot showed that mormon opposed mormon with resolute determination that mormons cormons adhered to each of the three leading candidates with unswerving fidelity that nearly all the biating bIf tIng from one candidate to another speaking peaking now of the wrest leading ones was waa done by non mormons cormons and that the consolidation of the he non don mormon voters in favor of one of the candidates intensified toe the deadlock the record further shown bow tuat lo in order to end the contest which had bad become so ao long and costly aa ato excite the indignation of thousands or tax payers a number of cormons mormons abort floed deed their own feelings and voted for a man who was their second cholm and that they did this in a puro spirit ot patriotism pariot lam dictated by no DO a except that ol of conscience for a lonz lone time there here was coupled with the cry of church influence 12 the assertion that the Chu churon de sired 1 l red the election of judge render 0 oil OD and it la Is undeniable that the mot most prominent in the legislature voted for him solidly until his bla cause became a forlorn hope among handerson Hen denona s supports Bup was kaaa a stake president a counselor to a stake pro pi fl bent and a bishop it church burch influence waa an element in the contest why was waa the he cand candidate laste who had much support in the rest rear of the race from start to finish A man convinced against big h la will loot la ot the same opinion still and poll pol ticiano in search of material out oat of which to make political capital often are utterly unscrupulous as a to their method but the proof that hat the sena aena contest was waa fought out on lines laid down by members of the ture lure themselves that hat the mormon members at least voted with absolute absolu to freedom and sud that the mormon church took absolutely no part is ia mathematical in itis if irrea a table character |
