| Show MORE SENAI senatorial ORIAL ASPIRANT the crop of cantil candidates dates for the united states senate becomes more and more prolific day by day and the element of the ludicrous referred to lo in this thin connection by the NEWS some dome days daya since loses iowa none of Us its prominence as ae name after name to is paraded before the public as ae being that of a man suited to the exalted position for which he aspires the multiplicity of candidates candidate the utter otter absence most moat of them display of qualifications for the place and the unseemly scramble that is being made for legislative votes in advance of the meeting of the legislature make it appropriate to again urge the members elect of that body to avoid committing themselves in behalf of one aspirant it is urged that he to is what has recently come to be termed in american politics politico a 16 logical candidate whatever that may antan of 0 another it is insisted that he to Is a staunch and strong democrat as if radical were a great qualification for is a high office of still another it is alleged that his bis party owes him a debt ol of gratitude which only a term in the united states senate will canoe cancel and ana so 0 o on ad nasseam nauseam nau nause seam amIn in behalf of one who has long aspired to the office in question a strong plea pies is being addressed to young utah based almost wholly on the alleged independence 10 which the receptive candidate for the office to Is said to have shown what constitutes real independence in ili the char acter of a man way may be a matter of question or but unless all his competitors are slaves this one trait trail would hardly be sufficient clent to alstin guieb him ab ve ove all others as qualified for the senator ship hip furthermore Further mores the nims opines kopines that the abandonment of an admitted religious principle which an individual has been publicly and privately taught I 1 it if not himself testified to as an such for half a lifetime and the disregard of sacred and fraternal ties and obligations whose disruption have filled many hearts in the community with profound grief all in pursuance ol of vaulting ambition are no not the fruits of that sort of independence which is admired or endor endowed ped by the right thinking among young utah nor by the good intelligent and conservative men of any olaes class it is yet to be shown that the mem bers ot of the legislature desire to cast their votes in a isi manner anner calculated to wound a vital principle of th the diec luline of the most numerous oun ibrous religious body in this state does the be political party which will so absolutely control the next legislature desire to array itself in pro bounced and distinctly defined opposition apposition to that religious body I 1 Is it the purpose deliberately and flagrantly to that entire religious society Bo clety by gratifying the of any man who may have occupied an exalted station elation in its ita councils and for whose present differences with his alb brethren his bia independent political course ap la Is given by the uninformed as the cause la Is it to lo be expected that a church thus assailed sailed aa and antagonized will not try to protect itself anti strive to maintain ltd its organic prin principles ciplet Is it desirable to precipitate upon the state a conflict whose end and consequences cannot but be deplorable common sense abnee as well as the commonest corn idea of good politics ioe can give but one to these queries all that is ia nece ece Beary esary in taso promises premie ea Is s for the legislators to come together free and un trammelled and under cendt tiong that will admit of calm tion jand deliberation the exercise of their better judgment will avert all danger of the nature here indicated |
