| Show itGRAllTUDE ro RAWLINS A maR eminent in Utah eminent asa as-a churchman eminent as a business foice eminent in the social life of Utah eminent among the enlightened enlight-ened citizenship of the new state in all ways is Heber J Grant of Salt Lake city He supports lion Joseph L Rawlins for reelection because he is grateful for what he has already I done for Utah The republican party i has been in power thirtyseven years and has never accomplished anything in the direction of helping Utah on 1 her way to a seat at the council board of the nation The democratic party has been in power eighteen months and by the help of Joseph L Rawlins it has succeeded in crowning fair Utah with statehood full complete and perfect and that tco without any humiliating or disadvantageous conditions con-ditions A full frank and trustful act giving without let or Hindrance or unnecessary un-necessary delay a freefrank admission to perfect equality in the great family of the states It would indeed be etrange if the people were not grateful not only to the party Jut to the man as well We cannot help alluding to the generous sentiments expressed by the eminent Heber J Grant He has been through the rubs He has grown sick with hope deferred His patriotic sentiments and aspirations for statehood state-hood hare been so often withered before be-fore hatred of Utah that now he cannot repress his ardent gratitude grat-itude to the party and its peerless I young paladin the Hon JOB L Rawlins I Raw-lins linsThis This is the HOper expression and we may be well aeBOied that there are thousands more who have no other means of expressing their gratitude save by going quietly to the polls and casting a solid plumper for the man The people of Utah are not an ungrateful un-grateful lot They would have to be all this if they refused to elect this devoted and successful servant of the people to any position to which he aspires as-pires They would be lacking in all the graces of character with which they are credited if they failed to do tliB simple act of pure unalloyed justice jus-tice It is his due It is a guerdon he has richly earned and be assured it is an obligation which Utah will never disregard or go back upon Ingratitude Ingrat-itude is the basest of political crimes and the people would be ungrateful did they Jail to underwrite statehood by the last outside vote for Rawlins Ingratitude to Rawlinswould be treason trea-son to Utah Gratitude to Rawlins is loyalty to Utah Either this or the aspirations as-pirations statehood all these years is and has been hypocrisy of the rankest rank-est kind Utah is not peopled by a race of meanspirited false hearted hypocrites So lone as this fair new state remains a free independent and trammeled Ameiican commonwealth will the name of Rawlins remain one of the priceless heritages of the people Beat him for any place The proposition proposi-tion is a rediculous one A brave free people about to be crowned with the full dignity of citizenship citizen-ship in the Greatest and freest govern a mint on earth will not cannot fail to crown with laurels the brow of the faithful gentleman who stood alone on the floors of congress battling for the cause of the people while the republican republi-can leaders were vainly trying to shut the door in the face of the citizens of Utah while Morse and others of his Ik I holier than thou lot were crying out against a people whom they called a lecherous lot of poly amLtB Never fear for the people of Utah S They are not ungrateful and they have never yet failtd to fully appreciate and value services such as these performed i for her either by her own eons or any who have sought to build up a citizenship citizen-ship within her lines Gentlemen were we-re in earnest when we demand eight full thousands majority for the man I and the party which has always befriended be-friended and served Utah |
