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Show H EXCEEDINGLY COMICAL. B Our comical and valued exchange, Bj the Lehi Banner, is one of the funniest B papers in Utah, and is deserving of a B first prize oil chromo in nine colors for B its inconsistency in some things and its B amusing frankness and innocence in K others It is furnishine indubitable BB proof that our friends, the enemy, are H using the church racket for all there is H m 'it. In its isBue of the 17th, the B Banner carries the county republican H ticket at the head of its editorial B columns and from which we clip the B following: H FOB SENATORS, HH BISHOP T. R. CUTLER of Lehi, H BISHOP JOHN E. BOOTH of Provo. HjH Comment is unnecessary as it is HH patent to every man, woman and child, BBj that the word Bishop is a bid for BHj church members to vote for them BlB solely because they are Bisbof3, be- BB cause those gentlemen have no other H -claim to -political preferment. HEB By the way, calling John E. Booth H a "bishop" iB not only a bid f or Mor- HB mon votes, but is a funny effurt at con- HB Bummate deception; because, if rumor B is right, that truly good man was re- BB leased from his bishopric on account of B his extreme partisanship. B While on the subject we will make a B quotation from that same funny ex- B ponent of republicanism and which is B B3 follows: B The ballot box Btuffing of last fall H and the taking off of the sugar bounty B nave doDe more t0 change the political H yiewe of the voters of Utah than the B talk of Joseph F, Smith and George Q. H Cannon. j Our friend, the Banner, can take B the cake for innocent candor. Suit B conceded that Joseph F. and George B Q, have talked and that their talk has HHj had some influence but not quite as IHr much as stopping the robbing of the B people and giving the proceeds of the HHk theft to the beet growers. BBHB Before bidding our innocent friend HBflB adieu, we will do a little more quoting SBSHB from a paper that will pay our republi- BHB c&n friends to bribe .to cease its prattle " i iBi 'BBB im hii i bi TTTTTrm' h"t ' r'Mi'Ti i irn'i umim.ac5S during the campaign. It says: 'Everlas'.ingly opposed to bounty" were the words which dropped from the lips of a gentleman who is now asking for the votes of the beet raisers of this county who will this year loose $22 000 because of the bounty being taken off sugar. The hard working beet raisers will say they aieeyerlastingly opposed to Eending such men to the legislature who uttered such words. Our Lehi exchange seems to think that $22 000 have been loat or burned, because the legislature refused to take that snm from the pockets of the farm ers, Etockmen and others from all over Utah and make a present of it to those "hard working beet raisera " who are now making more money, sheepmen excepted, than any other class of peo ple in Utah. No, that S22.000 has not been lost to the beet raisers because they never had it, and became that amount is now and will continue to be in the pockets of the ppople, and it is a sad commentary on the principles of republicanism and the people in and around Lehi when tbey have to be bribed to join the party of robbery. As it was "the legislature- who uttered ut-tered such word3,r' and not the gentleman gentle-man who was firit accused of such a noble sentiment as the Banner credits him with, the beet raisers ought to forgive him. |