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Show (THE COMING CAMPAIGN. ; Just what elements will enter Into the coming campaign no one now knows; juBt what the issues are "to be ia in the eame interesting condition of doubt. The republicans and dema-crats dema-crats of Utah are together, measurably, upon the financial policy but neither or both together can do anything effectiye next fall. The constitution forbids Bt&te subsidy or the loan of the state's credit for any purpose. The consiitu-tion consiitu-tion will be enthueiautically supported by both parties so that there is absolutely abso-lutely nothing in sight at this moment upon which, to divide. This condition will remain until the primaries come along when little waves of excitement will come up and the placid boeom of our political lake will begin to move. Personal ambition will take the place of party aspirations and the battle will rage and surge about us with all of its accustomed rancor and yet there will be nothing in it Jsave the purpose to triumph tri-umph on the part of those who seek to serve tke people. We may enjoy the coming quiet in that respect because it will be the last. The next time we resort re-sort to the polls a new and untried element will be injected into the struggle. strug-gle. The newly enfranchised women with their graceful plumes, with their I smiles and witcheries, will be there, and it remains to be determined if the men will surrender at the first charge or fight as they have always. The election of a legislature which will choose two United States senators will, it is thought, make things a bit lively, but after all it will be simply and only a struggle between four gentlemen to get into office. They will battle for nothing else or more. No grea; principle will be decided. We are in the formatiye stage and like a young bear all of our troubles are before us,or to come In the future. In choosing these senators sen-ators all we have to do is to see to it that no matter who is elected, they must be sound on silver and equally devoted to the other leading interests of Utah. That will about fill the measure of Utah's demands for her senators, and the same rule will apply ap-ply with equal force to the representative represen-tative she will aemi to congress. Let these be somnd on the silver question and all elie will be simple indeed. The next in importance is to be the state administration. The governor should be a representative man of Utah, a pioneer, a man in full sympa thy with the Utah of the past, but above all things in touch with the Utah of today and for the Utah of the future, or the Utah which is now looming loom-ing into sight so promisingly. The first state administration will determine deter-mine if Utah is worthy the new dignity dig-nity confered upon her, and it must be in full sympathy with the one great purpose of financial policy hinted at above. In other words Utah must have a state administration distinctively distinc-tively free silver, not one pledged to an "enlarged use of the metal" to bi- j metalusm only, but to actual restora tion full and complete. No child's play, no monkey business, but actual and eternal warfare against mono-metallism,and mono-metallism,and tor free coinage at 16 to 1. This is to be Utah's platform of politics. If she is wise enough to adopt it, all well and good; if not, then her future will be dark and uncertain indeed. We have no fears, no misgivings, misgiv-ings, but we hpve the utmost confidence confi-dence that her vote next fall will fully indicate this. This ib all we ask. |