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Show Politics And The Late Campaign. There were many curious factors in the late political campaign. Mr. Littlefleld, for instance, came from Maine to Utah to preach the doctrines of the Republican party and to tell how necessary it was 'i at those doctrines should be upheld. But Mr. Littlefleld had just come from a campaign where party principles were but of a secondary matter to candidates and voters. In Maine the fight was upon the prohibition question. The Democrats wanted the whole question ques-tion of liquor prohibition reopened by submitting it again to a vote of the people. The Republicans opposed this, standing by the old ironclad law. p - The cities went Democratic, the county saved tho H Republican ticket, but by greatly reduced, majnri- H ties. Party questions were merely of secondary w interest, and the fight was so hot that Mr. Gnm- Wl pers efforts to make a diversion and to array the jLf labor unions against Mr. Littlefleld did not, ap- mm parently, change a vote. H In New York there was but one question Hearst .and anti-Hearst. Hearst, who has never H denied himself anything that his appetites, pas- H slons or ambition prompted him to want, and H utterly unscrupulous as to the means he em- H ployed to gratify his longings, this year cm- B ployed unscrupulous men to manipulate the State H convention in his interest, and then started out H with two palace cars to carry himself and retinue, H to preach to the people opposition to monopolies H and trusts. This was after he had by a fraudu- H lent combine, made in restraint of honest politics, H obtained the nomination. H Opposed to him was every man of note in the H Democratic party and every Democratic news- H paper in the State. It was a question of whether H vast, inherited wealth could be so manipulated as H to secure a majority of the votes of the Empire H State. There was no question of politics on which H partiet, divide; it was simply whether the re- H spectabllity of the State could overcome the in- H fluence which vast wealth used to array every H vicious element and every element of discontent H into a solid voting mass, could command. H In Georgia Hoke Smith was elected Governor, H not on any national or political issue, but on the racial prejudices he could arouse. He promised, H If elected, to violate or make of no avail some H both State and national laws aimed to secure jus- H tlco to the colored race. The old "rebel yell," It H seems, Is still effective in Georgia. We cite the foregoing and similar conditions fl applied to many other States, to show that this H year's elections were not tests of strength he- tween Republicans and Democrats in very many States. In this State the fight finally narrowed I down, so far as the Republican party was con- H cerned, to an endorsement of Reed Smoot and to B any influence tho Mormon church chiefs can ex- ort over tho rank and llle of their so-called church, H and tho decent men of the State had to bear the I shame of reading, in the closing days of the campaign, cam-paign, what was equivalent to a command Issued by Joseph F. Smith for all Mormons to vote the Republican ticket. Nothing else could show so wp'1 how far Utah is from being an American |