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Show HHflH u. s. senators. HBShH' The subject of the election of U. S. BHHH senators by vote of the people is one HHH '' thai will not down. Senator Dubois HHnBB 1 on the first day of the present session HSSBJIHj of congress, presented a resolution of HhHH the Idaho legislature urging that steps HjSH be taken to amend the constitution so HHB as to pprmit it. HBE -Idaho eeenis to have had already RH enough experience to feel the need of 9HHg the adoption of this mode. Senatorial HHhIH dead locks are not to be deBire '. Wv- 99HH oining,and Idaho have not set an ex- BBH ample in this regard that we need to HHH emulate especially; but these are vcr, hHHHH plain indications that our Benate will jHBR spend a great deal of vaiuabie time in HHB electing our U. S. senators that would HH be far Getter spent in laying deep and HB broad the foundation of our new state. H Had the democrats elected a major- HflB ity of Eenators this difliculty would H have been avoided; pledged as HIB they were to vote for Joseph L Raw- H lies una MoEea Thatcher their duties BflH would have been merely formal and H performatory simply to execute the IH wishes of their constituents, by cccu- HH pymg the first few minutes after or- HHH ganization by casting a majority vote H for, and electing them. BH Who may be favored by the repub- HH licaus is unknown and conjecture will H probably be the order of the day un- HHHK til the final vote is counted, but thero IH is but one thing for democrats to do IH which is to stand firm to their pledges H and vote first, last and all the time for HB the men they are pledged to vote for. B Whatever contingency may arise let PJB the republicans take the consequences BbHk of their o vn policy; they can elect sen- HB ators on the first ballot if they choose B to unite, or they can fritter away the HBj time in balloting tor representatives of B factions, and create a deadlock if they BBl 3 Let there be no faltering, no corn- H promise; all the world knows that H Utah democrats are pledged to Raw- H Hqb and Thatcher and our senators H must carry out that pledge. If we VH have republican U. S. senators, which H we expect, let them be elected H by republican voteB, and then if they IH do well that party is entitled to the VHK credit; of ill, the blame ; we do not de- HHOS sire to share cither the honor, or con- H VSm" Bure that they may prove to merit. 1 mr . , |