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Show -' - - - -- - TTjrJT THE GORED OX. Tho Tribune pathetically asks: Is It any wonder that the loyal people of this Stat are In revolt, and that they have determined to stand It no longer? Is It any wonder that they have resolved to devote their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, to throwing off this church domination, domi-nation, dictation, and lordly interference, securing se-curing free elections in Utah, and the redemption redemp-tion of the State from this Church jugglery in politics and thralldom in public affairs? Considering the past, it rather is a wonder; the more especially when, we keep in mind the particular people whom The Tribune holds In mind when it is speaking. The real loyal people pf Utah hjw iJjqqA a jood 4ffti in ttojf tbp. " if There was first the church domination, then the boss domination and later r mixed article which involved both the othdrs. For a long time there Were appeals fo the Ohurcli to heed its prairies, there were protests against the rulo of the boss, but the "loyal people" did not seem to.be very much affected. "When the boss and the Church jdlnefi hands to elect A'tfOstie Smoot to the Senate Sen-ate and it was pointed Out that trouble would surely follow, people did noL seem to he much oxoroised, and those whom The Tribune now designates des-ignates as "the loyal .people" "jes laffed." Of course we would not for 'the world question the perfect sincerity oTThit Tribune In this business, but there are suspicions people who wiil wonder that it required so lonja a tjime for The Tribune to begin to realize that thjfr$was such a wrong being perpetrated that it wrjfady to pledge "life, fortune for-tune and sacred hori"orRlftd eradicate it There have, been conventions ilreSalt Lake City within the recent memory of men when a loyal citizen could not obtain evenjgprpxy to attend unless he appeared wearing the foliar of a certain hoss. Stiii, The Tribune $as "nbt disturbed. Neither Mi, Litfpm&h nor Col. fttfifeon cried out in protest. Indeed, The Tribunea&precated any complaint. It said tht it was time tf Introduce something 'rdf the sunshine of Ufa." mfco the dally press. At that tim tihaull of ThjJ Tribune was goring the honest oxen. But now tfjfct huffalo has come up .and geoms to be gorlngTlie Tribune bull, Lord, how he paws the ground rind bellows. It Is a melancholy spectacle and Jindfa, men would weep if they could stop laughing Ipng enough. Meanwhile. iRepublican voters should keep their lieads cool and be isjurb th,at the Utah electoral Vote be given to Roojpevelt and Fairbanks, that a Republican Congressmen is. elected, that the legislature leg-islature to UQ electej shall in turn elect a Republican Republi-can Senator and that tile Statfc shall not be given over to the hunger "Democracy. |
