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Show CHEEK. Smoot's only hope is to emasculate the Democratic Demo-cratic party and draw from its ranks the strength necessary to triumph at the polls. There Is no other way, not one. Tribune. It is curious to see that in the Salt Lalce Tribune; Trib-une; changed around a little li would read this way: "The Tribune, the organ of the Republican party, has drawn so many Republicans away from their allegiance for the purpose of electing a Democratic ticket that it will surely succeed if the Democrats only stand pat." That is the real truth and if the Roosevelt electors elec-tors are defeated it does not matter. To the chief director of the movement that fact would probably bring this response: "He interferred with my preserves. He would not acknowledge my complete boss-ship, now let him rustle." J3ut is it not strange to see what has always been looked up to as a Republican organ, straining strain-ing every nerve to place Utah in Democratic hands? Is it not the more strange when in one breath it says, "all Mormon office holders must be slaves," and in the next advocating the election of a ticket that has half as many again Mormons on it as has the 'ticket it is striving to defeat? That very fact shows that there was not one iota of principle in starting this excitement. The boss was beaten. He has never received the slightest slight-est discipline. His will and his appetites have been his only control through life; he was always al-ways impatient of opposition; no principle was ever permitted to stand in the way of his desires; he two years ago and four years ago was not in the least disturbed over church influence, Jmt this year he was thwarted and since then he has had no idea except revenge. That is the whole story. And so vindictive is he that to wreak t!:at revenge he IS willing to place Utah in the grasp of a party which he has for years denounced, and if need be to return to power the party that wrecked Utah twelve years ago. That he does not realize the enormity of his offense is shown by the cheek he manifested in meeting Senator Fairbanks. He is directing the publication of a journal that Is doing its utmost to defeat the Republican ticket, to send a Democratic Demo-cratic representative to Washington, to elect a legislature that will send a Democratic senator there, and if in doing this the Roosevelt and Fairbanks Fair-banks electors are beaten in Utah he does not care a flllip, and still he goes out to meet the senator sen-ator and to assure him that he is still loyal and true. No finer display of chilled-steel, gun-metal, armor-plated cheek was ever exhibited. It ought to be a fresh incentive to Republicans to close up their ranks and determine each to be a committee of one to work until election day to save the state to the Republican party and pro-giess, pro-giess, and to see that when the long roll of states is called the morning after election day, Utah may answer, "Here. We have kept the faith." |