Show IK A BAD WAY The republican party of the nation is not prospering and in Utah it is indeed in-deed in a bad xvay and from every point of the compass at that It failed to dive statehood to the territory when it wielded national power and could have done so with infinite justice But it did not alleging that the Mormons were not yet sufficiently purged of the am of olygamy to be trusted Wait awhile said they HWe will hold you in probation a few years more Perhaps Per-haps in after years you will attain the standard of purity which will entitle you to draw your chairs up to the national na-tional hearthstone and join your sisters sis-ters in the general good feeling not now Turning thus coldly from the patriotic appeal of Utah for the dignity of statehood they had no idea that the landslide ot 92 was BO near at hand Well it came ana with it statehood for the territory This great party of God morality and purity now asks the free suffragans of Utah whom they have treated so shamefully to forget and forgive and cast their votes to enthrone them in power here Was ever anything any-thing more impudent V Was ever anything any-thing less likely to be granted Since our experience with the Mormon people peo-ple we have found them to be anything any-thing save fools They are very much like other people in short They have the sense of gratitude largely developed devel-oped and they also have a good modicum modi-cum of resentment Anyone of these causes would be sufficient to keep out the republicans both together will show up a minority for the grand old party of hipocrisy perfectly hopeless now and for all time Procrastination is the thief of opportunity as well as timfl The republicans put it off too long They see it now and regret it with unavailing tears Cranes confidential circular will not help them out It does not take their feet from the mire and place them on the solid ground of reasonable reason-able probability He may urge them to claim Utah but Utah repudiates the claim It is remarked that the republicans of Utah are slow and cold in rejoicing over the new dignity dig-nity acquired by the brave territory THio a ut urOOeo the eufllvigan of Utah who have labored prayed for and hoped statehood so many years to vote for the very men and party which played the role of obstruction EO successfutly for so many years A well developed sense of justice will induce in-duce them to try the party which has always been friendly to and which I at last crowned the territory with atehood This is but natural It is the correct thing for a warm hearted justiceloving people It is the course any man would expect Utah to take who knows her people To vots the republicans into power now would be foreign to every instinct ot right and justice with which we clothe the people Ingratitude injustice and unfaithfulness un-faithfulness would be charged upon our people by the world which understands under-stands the simple facts in the case Let Crane claim all Let him claim that Utah is ungrateful It will not hurt The fulfillment of his claim I pnly can disgrace Utah while the rejection re-Jection of it will cover her with glory His claim is an insult a bitter cruel and causeless insult to a brave honest and just people If we Would do simple sim-ple justice we chould give the democratic demo-cratic party a majority but little under un-der ten thousand |