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Show BADLY PLACED. Of course to those democrats who were informed and who had watched the course of the late politieal campaign cam-paign by which the members'cf the j constitutional convention were chosen, are not very much surprised at the outcome. out-come. Bleesed is he who expects little for he shall not be disappointed. But we confess that when Utah county nominated as one of her delegates, the most illustrious educator, not in Utah alone, but in the entire west, in the person of Prof: Karl G. Maeser, that) .be at leaEt would be recognized by be- j ing placed at the head of the committee commit-tee having to deal with educational matters. But we were doomed to disappointment, dis-appointment, and a man was placed there with little or no knowledge of educational matters, Now, when we consider that the sacred cause of education edu-cation in every country is held far above partisanship, as is the church we ' can well understand to what depths of slavish partisanship the Utah republicans are reduced, by this simple incident. Here is a man whose broad -ork in Utah has won for him the utmost ut-most confidence of all the people, .u which has attracted attention r-il oer civilization by it6 simple excel- nee, a man whose work has been the -ic't of all visitors, even the most . :LL'ious schoolmen, not of this nation na-tion . ' ne, but of Europe, as f!l. e man who evolved from va- riii'.e surroundings in Utah tie iiigr jili ' "Hit Brigham Youne academy acad-emy t 'hunt1, is contemptuously passed by f jt a Cian whose partisan republicanism republi-canism i" v ell-nigh his only qualihca-' qualihca-' tion. Utah has no higher or more sa- cred interests than those which cluster about her schools. Can the republican party, and the republican majority in the convention.affora to thus fly hi the face of the people of Utah in this way? We do not think so. We think they have committed a fearful blunder and one which will be likely to return and plague immeasurably the small-minded prejudiced patriots who projected it. Utah county also sent to that convention conven-tion one ol the most illustrious and broad-viewed lawyers in the state, a man of great experience who has eerved in one or two similar conventions, conven-tions, a man learned in the law, and. I I. prtcucs, ana withal understanding better than most lawyers of th tbe leeal ! future wants of the new Btate, the courtly and accomplished Thurman. He too, like Maeser, is passed over and I ignored for one who has little otner qualification than extreme partisanship. partisan-ship. Here is a sample of the non-parti-zanship of the convention prayed for by Cannon and presided over by John Henrv Smith. What can these tinkers tink-ers expect of the people? Do they expect to secure for the constitution a two-thirds vote of tbe people when it comes to the matter oi ratification of their work? The policy seems worse than moonstruck moon-struck madness from any s'mdpoint from which it is observed. The convention con-vention seems more a permanent caucus cau-cus of the worst elements of the republican repub-lican paity of Utah than a grave assem-blage assem-blage of her best citizens to form the fundamental laws of a free sovereign state of the American union, and one, too, which has been knocking at the door for upwards of forty years. Bat so it is, and so go glimmering our hopes for the efficiency of the new government, govern-ment, i o that a few mere partisans mav be rewarded. |