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Show SMASH THE MACHINE. H Preparations are being: made already for the election this coming autumn. The Republicans H are handicapped in advance, because there is a H feeling which is as universal as it is natural that H there is a purpose on the part of a machine to run H this coming election in the interest of, not the H State, but of a few men. Republicans also labor H under the reflection of the fact that the Republi-H Republi-H can Senator, who was not the choice of one man B in one hundred in the State, who bought his com- : B ra'ssion, or had it bought from the then President ; B of the Mormon church, is the main lever of this I B machine which is about to start its wheels in. the B Merest of some of Senator Kearn's tools and B favorItea Every self-respecting Republican will B flght that programme. The old-time Liberal Re- B publicans of Utah made the most splendid fight ; B ever made in this country for a principle. It lasted B TOre than thirty years. It was waged, not in hate, : B not in malice, but .with the determination if pos- B sible, to make of Utah an American State. It : B ended in the spectacle presented by the purchase ; B from the head of the Mormon church of a Senator- : B ship for a man who" knows nothing of the spirit ; B or Benius of our Government, and whose qualifica- j B lons for the great office had never been discovered. ; H If to this man's will, the Gentile Republicans bow : H this year it will be a reproach to the splendid rec- ; B ord they made during the years when the fight H offered only as rewards, disappointment and loss, : B and will prove that, after all, they were not fight- j B InB for a holy principle, but for such camp spoils : B might fall into their hands after the battle B should be won. 1 E |