Show PIONEER DAVT Too late for UB to treat the matter editorially ed-itorially yesterday evenin the republican republi-can party authorites concluded to meet the democrats in a nonpartisan effort to celebrate Pioneer Day and statehood on the same day and to do so in a really non partisan way They act wisely in this way but in the vain attempt to filch from the democrats their well earned honors in this statehood matter mat-ter by a mere trick they acted verv unwisely un-wisely The people of Utah will see that those deserving praise shall enjoy en-joy its meed to the full The work has been done by the democrats The republicans re-publicans can under no circumstances justly claim any lot or part in it still less now than ever since that party opened its ranks and took in the great body of the liberals The ranks of the advocates of statehood contain the selfsame self-same men today that they did four years since This is not the case with the republican party The bitterest foes of Utah including the liberals have found congenial association with the republicans the only place on earth where they could have found it We are averse to bitterness in the conduct of politics but we will fight bitterly any arid all attempts to wrest on any scale the well honestly and fairly won honors accruing to democracy democ-racy in securing the boon of etutehood for Utah This jewel is a democratic iewel and let him beware who would attempt to steal it away This effort let it be made by whom it may will be sternly met by the democracy This concession on the part of the local republicans re-publicans is a graceful act They were Airly met and as fairly beaten and the acknowledgment is a graceful thing Now let all the patriotic of all shades of political opinions meet on the 24th and rejoice as citizens as neighbors and friendsas well as fellow Utonians that at last the day has come when there is no bar sinister across the escutcheon of a citizen of Utah He stands before the world today without prejudice because of his allegiance to the gem state of the mountains as was the case formerly Let U3 rejoice re-joice t that the will of the majority of the people will hereafter choose our officials and our own statesmen will make the laws by which we are to be governed for all the future years of the life of the new state We differ today from the people of no other state in the union We have the same rights privileges and dignities of other states Our representatives will vote and acton act-on the floors of congress and senate as those of other states The sting of opposition op-position will be drawn Something more will be necessary to beat a proposition pro-position than simply to say it is a Utah measure Polygamy is gone theocracy is gone and there is now nothing in our getup purposes that differs from other states There is no more justifiable justi-fiable reason that we should be discriminated dis-criminated against Now that the republicans have withdrawn with-drawn the offensive partisanship of their proposition to celebrate and have adopted the day chosen by the democrats dear to every true Utonians heart upon which to act let all patriotic citizens with one accord and with one impulse join and make it a celebration which will be a marvel as long as the state of Utah maintains her state organization A people thoroughly united can do anything and do it to perfection This coursegives us a higher opinion of the wisdom and sense of justice of the party of the g o p We are glad to know that they are more Utonian than republican They have abandoned aban-doned every position and now agree to act as Utonians and not as republicans republi-cans |