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Show STAND PAT. There is no new light on the local situation. The boom-starters have not yet shown, or attempted attempt-ed to show that the Apostolic and Ohlirch Influence In-fluence was manifested with any more intensity this year than In former years. They have not denied that if the senior Senator had only been able to make a business arrangement to his satisfaction satis-faction this year, his anger would have never been aroused, his patriotism never set on fire, his anxiety lest the perpetuity of free institutions might be shattered would never have been put on the broiling irons. The call, then, when it came, meant only this: "What, ho! Our Senator has been snubbed. Let every man go .vild with wrath! What if the occasion occa-sion has been just as urgent every day for seven years as it is today. This is the day to shout, for, io, our Senator has been taken In and done for." "Can Utah remain quiet under that? Come and join us and help swell the clamor. Our boss rule has been put in jeopardy by this Church rule, and all our idols are threatened." There would not have been much sense in an outburst of that kind, but it would have been quite as sensible as what was done; quite as sensible sen-sible and more honestly expressed. An undisciplined undisci-plined soul was thwarted and through his agents and attorneys ho squealed. That was all there was to it. As good men as he have been telling the people of the wrongs that were being perpetrated, per-petrated, belling them for years, but the only thanks they ever got was the assurance that they were disturbing business. When the citizen who is so aggrieved at present bought the Tribune, his first work was to assure the public that all that old bitterness had been put aside, and when in a publlo meeting a few days later he was complimented, com-plimented, and the city and state were congratulated congratu-lated on his performance, he swallowed the taffy like mother's milk. But the first time his own corns were a little scraped did he not squawk? And he could not delay for a short two months, though E an election was pending in which the momentous question is to be decided whether this nation is to continue on its steady, upward, glorious glor-ious course, or whether it is to be again turnod over to the incompetents that well-nigh wrecked it ton years ago. Whether, too, Utah should have a Republican State Government or whether every publlo office in the stabe wai to be turned into a recruiting station for the? Democratle party. Whether in tho Senate and House Utah is to b, after the 4th of next March, represented by Republicans Re-publicans or Democrats. To a stranger the act would look like an exhibition of unparalleled treachery as well as an utter lack of judgment, assuming that the movement was intended to be sincere. But it was not. It was started In pure 'i i ' i iinrilti : ,iv, SHH vindictiveness, to gratify a personal spite and with a perfect indifference to results, so that n spite should be gratified. , H The sensible people of a great state cannot H afford to forget their present higher duty In or- HI der to minister to the vindictiveness of a man who has not the slightest claim upon either their sym? a pathy or their gratitude, and so we suspect that 'i sincere Republicans, who appreciate how much JM is at stake, will see to it that, if possible,- the J state shall be saved to their party, and that the H electoral vote of tho state shall go to the men who stand for progress, for protection to American , jM Industries, for the glory of the country at home j j 9H and abroad. ' fiH |