OCR Text |
Show DEMOCRATS, PROVE YOUIISEL.YES. The eyes of the political nation are upon Utah. The eyes of the soehl na tioii are upon Utah. The eyes ol the moral nation are upon Utah. The eyes of the industrial nation are upon Utah. In fact, all classes of peop! e are looking at us through the press r ports that go out from here. The nation wants to see us coni out and defend ourselves, aud not only to cj do tffi. but to seejts con4out i nrfd tisstff 5uf rights and en7oyihni . unhampered. The division movement means that we shall hereafter govern ourselves more completely than we have been do-t do-t ing heretofore and are doing now. It i means that we shall from now on lead 1 out ard govern ourselves by American 1 methods. This is part of our rights that we must now stand up squarely, , boldly and fairly and unflinchingly contest for. Utah is Democratic. Republicans in the last Congress undertook to foist upon the people of certain states of the Union an election bill most infamous. Had it became a law, a commission with arbitrary po.ver would have manipulated man-ipulated the elections, and the people, instead of controlling their elections themselves, would have been under this arbitration. It was a measure to take away or curtail the rights of local .self-government. The Democrats, although al-though in the minority, met, fought and crushed this monster enemy. We speak of thu infamous force bill. Especially honored with Republican legislation, Utah is blessed (?) with the pattern from which the force bill was taken. We have that august and supreme, su-preme, but, however, entirely useless b;dy the Utah Commission. A carpetbag Commission with arbitrary arbi-trary power to dwarf the will of the people in the interests of a pet faction, is not American. Will the true American? Amer-ican? of Utah, the Democrats, put up with this condition of affairs without a manly effort in behalf of human liberty and freedom to abolish that useless and un-American body, the Utah Commission? Commis-sion? It is not one day too soon for Utah Democrats to move in this mutter. They should start petitions to Congress at once, praying for its abolition, aboli-tion, setting forth the partisan character charac-ter of the majority of the Commission, its unwarranted interference with the freedom of our elections, its continuance continu-ance of fraud and chicanery. Congress has once proven itself interested inter-ested in this subject and jealous of the freedom of its soverigns by the killing j of the force bill, and we believe it would act upon such a petition. At least it I should be asked to act upon one and I forever do away with the useless Utah Commission |