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Show JuiiN Henby Smith kicks vigorously at being left out in the cold, on the official count. If anybody is to be so left we would rather it be ,1 ohn Henrv than almost anyone else because he was the most intemperate of all the intemperate party with whom he was operating. We are not shedding any bitter tears oyer John Henry's defeat, rather we rejoice at it. Of course he feels bad, but that is the lot of the politician. He will get it in the neck at times, no matter how he looks after his fences . John Henry is no exception excep-tion to the rule. He will now perhaps fall back on the church and perhaps find surcease for his sorrow. Thk Tribune now has a bit of war-fare war-fare with the Rev. T. C. Ililf as to ' whether it or the christian churches I are to be credited with statehood. We still adhere to our original opinion that to Joseph L. Rawlins and to neither of the other influences is to be ascribed the present happy situation In the territory. ter-ritory. If the christian church entered politics far enough to influence matters in the way Mr. Iliff claims, they went far out of the line of duty, and as for the influence of the Tribune in the matter, there was not enough in it to quarrel about now. m Ikdeed owill Secretary Carlisle's bill be closely examined before it becomes be-comes a law. It contains a'l the crave objections which ar found in grean-backism grean-backism as well as the fiat plan. No Eir, Mr. Carlisle's bill will never le-come le-come a law, at least it ought not. The country i3 tired of this eternal tinkering tinker-ing with the currency. Give us something some-thing solid. It does seem after all, that the constitutional convention is realiy democratic. dem-ocratic. The last sensation in this way reaches up for the scalp-lcck of one ot the loftiest republicans in the state, the Hon. John Henry Smith. The lightenings picked out a lofty and a shining uark for once, for certain. Now next year it will pay the republicans republi-cans to be honest at the ballot box, if nowhere else. The manipulation of the ballots in Salt Lake do not appear to have been made originally Ly the democrats. The God And Morality party did that bit of work, it would seem. J'erhbps it is this circumstance which makes John Henry Smith feel so disconsolate. The opposition of the republicans to a recount ii explained by the condition of the boxes already opened in the third precinct. We should oppose it too, if we were a republican. The Utah commission is - not composed com-posed of a set of men whocaube driven by force, or ridicule either, from the straight and narrow path of plain duty. The verdict in John Henry Smith's case will not produce tears in this community, at least among the democrats. demo-crats. , . The Uintah and Uncompahgre commissioners com-missioners are in Utah and will commence com-mence their labors at once. |