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Show THAT PESKY COMMISSION. When on Tuesday last the Utah commission com-mission counted the votes in the third precinct and discussed and announced the defeat cf Hon. John Henry Smith and Air. Emery, it projected an excitement excite-ment and rai3( d more merry eheol in Utah than has been seen for many a day,or eince Albert Sidney Johnson appeared ap-peared at the head of an invading army in Utah in 1857. It was a clap of thunder fro- a clear sky, and it was loud, to be sure. What an impudent body of men this board must be to dare to take a position which unseats the distinguished John Henry and brings the ultimate result to 54 republicans and 53 democrats. It is unheard of. It is dreadful. But we only gather the full significance of the event when we recall the fact that in it all, John Henry Smith, a leading republican politician, poli-tician, goes down in a cloud of dust, ignoble dust, never again to emerge into public political significance. We do not pity John Henry, and we think it a very good thing for Utah too, at the same-time, same-time, because it really seems that after all there is a small democratic majority in the constitutional convention. con-vention. If this is so, then indeed, in-deed, will we have a constitu-; tion which, instead of containing a subsidy provision, will include an eternal eter-nal inhibition of any such mode of wringing money from the people, the already overburdened tax-payers of the v new state. Lord, but wasn't the patriots mad when the morning papers from Salt Lake arrived with the full reports of , the matter yesterday. The loudest threats were made and the declaration was made a thousand times that "the d d thieves," meaning the commission, commis-sion, "should be hung" so hard did they take it. The Dispatch assured one enthusiastic and determined fellow fel-low that if he lived until there were enough republicans in Utah to hang the commission, he could tilt at old MevViueelaK witU some chance of out- counting that worthy by the weight of the years In hiB favor. "Why," said J one, if this thing is suffered to go on, ! they," meaning the democrats, "will have the convention, as sure as fate." Well, if it is found by 'the official offi-cial count that we have more honestly elected delegates, we will have it beyond be-yond the faintest shadow of a doubt. If we haye not, we do not want it. The commission will go on and deal with this matter in the future as they haye in the past, honeBtly, but fearlessly, and without the slightest reference to the vapor ings of the disgruntled and disgusted republicans. We venture to make a prediction. It is this: When the final result is -announced by the Utah commission, that result will stand, no matter who or how many are angry or dissatisfied because it will be an honest hon-est decision and the votes will be there in the boxes to verify the decision, and democratic or republican, the result will be final and beyond recall. For amateur bull-dozers the republicans republi-cans talk too much and shoot off their mouths too readily. They cannot help an honest count which seats the democratic demo-cratic majority which has been apparent ap-parent all along. If they try to interfere inter-fere with it in any way Bave by due and proper course of law, they will call about their ears a bit of a storm, the vigor and extent of which they have but little conception. Let them gather behind the republican minority on the commission and closely watch every step made. If they find anything any-thing wrong on the part of the democratic demo-cratic majority, let them go into the courts and make good the charge and the democratic supreme court will throw out the spurious democratic members, if any there be, in less than a minute. |