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Show The most comical spectacle on exhibition in H Utah is a political convention. To hear orators H expatiate on the achievements of their party, to H tell how this or that man saved it at a particular time, is the jolliest buncombe ever fed to a re- H ceptlve people. Joseph F. Smith is a grave man. iM but he must smile when he readB such things, so must the apostles, patriarchs, presidents of stakes, bishops and elders. So must a good many j of the orators when they finish their speeches, for ours is a peculiar state, inhabited by a pecu- liar people. To reason about things political in fl Utah as in an eastern state, is so preposterous Bl that it is always funny. To reason on ordinary M lines from cause to effect here is grotesque and the description of a convention here always reads j like a thoughtful and elaborate criticism of a M Punch and Judy show. M |