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Show THE VICTORY FOR RIGHT. The result of the city election on Tuesday last was most satisfactory. It ought to have the effect of quieting the unrest that has prevailed pre-vailed here so long; it ought to give to business men a confidence they have not for a long time felt; it should give to business a new impetus because of that confidence and enable men to make something like definite calculations for the future. It ought to have the effect to retire the Mormon Mor-mon church, through its leaders, from politics. We do not believe that any more apostles will be candidates for political offices, we wish we could hope that whatever high church officers may hereafter do in politics may be done as citizens only, not as men who by virtue of high ecclesiastical positions demand special recognition recogni-tion as candidates or advisers. If such officials will scan carefully the re- i turns, they will be satisfied that quite 1000 good Mormons voted' for Ezra Thompson. "This'ought to be a notice to -them that to j save their church positions, to save the respect which the lay members of their church want to render them, to save themselves from humiliation humilia-tion and loss of prestige, they should at once de- termine to keep out of politics, or if that is not I possible, to resign their priestly offices before again they aspire to be candidates. Such work j; as putting Mr. Fernstrom on the ticket after he had been repudiated by his constituents; such work as putting out as a blind a notice that the church wanted one candidate elected in order to lure Gentiles to vote for that candidate, and Si1 then to covertly instruct their people to vote for i another, will never work in the hands of ama- F teurs and bunglers in politics and should be p abandoned by those who tried the game in the last election. We tell these high priests that they can no $ longer hold their own people up to the old time unquestioning obedience. The people want to revere and respect them, but there is a leaven at work in their souls which causes them to de sire to be real citizens, to think,- talk, meet and vote without hindrance or dictation. When that feeling takes possession of a man it is never i given up. The priests should take notice and stand from under. The result of the election should be a great thing, "almost a new era for Salt Lake City. We expect that more real estate here will change hands and at better prices, during the coming year than has changed hands during the past four years. We expect that there will be a great expansion of business; that the old residents will remain and new ones will come--that uncertainty "willchange to certainty, that unrest will give way to the peace that comes when disturbing elements are removed. Tuesday was a great day for Salt Lake, one of those days in its history when the skies were filled with promises of both prosperity pros-perity and peace, and the promises must not be broken. They will not be if, in future, the people peo-ple can trust to a dead square deal. |