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Show The nominations made by the Democrats in their recent convention must have been a sad disappointment dis-appointment to the Republican Gentiles who are members of the American party, s the defeat of the Republican ticket in the county, which is the object of the originators of the independent society, would mean the election of a Democratic ticket containing the names almost exclusively of Mormons. Even the Gentiles who are sincere in making their alliance with the Kearns-Lippman society admit that there Is no chance for the Americans to carry the county, but they had hoped at least to administer a staggering rebuke to the church and church Influence. This was to have been administered admin-istered by the defeat of the Republican ticket, but now that the Democrats have prepared thelr county and legislative Mormon menu card, Gen tiles will likely see the folly of their original plan. How are they going to deliver a blow at the anathematised anath-ematised Mormons by electing the Democratic ticket, on which, out of a total of twenty-four nominations, sixteen are Mormons? If the Mormon Mor-mon church really intends to control the politics of the county, the Americans could do them no greater service than to assist in the election of the Democratic ticket. In every respect the Republican county ticket should be vastly more acceptable to Gentile Republicans Re-publicans than the ticket nominated on Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday. Out of twenty-four nominations, nomina-tions, Gentiles are given fifteen places on the ticket. The ticket is confessedly stronger and better In everything, including what it represents, than the nominations provided by the unterrified. If the Americans follow out the original intent of the organization by assisting the Democrats at the polls, they will bo forced to sacrifice Gentile Republicans, whose conduct of the county administration admin-istration would be entirely satisfactory to all fair minded Gentiles. They -would have to sacrifice B. D. Miller for Stephen Hays; P. O. Perkins for Orson P. Rumel; I. M. Fisher for G. B. Blakeley; W. O. Oarbis for L. H. Young; J. B. Swonson for Alma H. Roclc; Parley P. Christensen for H. C. Lund, which would moan in almost every instance the victory of a Mormon Democrat over a conservative and honored Gentile Republican. The election of the Democratic ticket means consequently the defeat of the very object for which the American party is supposed to have been formed the retirement of strong Mormon church men from control in municipal and state politics. |