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Show The Wooing M HP HE coy manner in which the leading Demo- jl crats and Progressives aro pursuing their H courtship is doubtless delightful to them. It cer- B tainly is entertaining to outsiders. To them it M looks like a case in which expediency is the ruling M thought on the one side and a vast desire for a H home prompts the other. In his own smooth way H our friend, Chairman Thurman, does not know a m thing that is going on, but since his attention M has been called to the fact, ho can see really M nothing in Progressive principles that might not M be swallowed and assimilated with the all-embrac- fl ing Democratic bill of rights. Friend Moyle ap- H H parently takes tho same view, and while the Pro-H Pro-H gresslves are not making any pronounced dom-H dom-H onstration of their affection, they are proclaiming fl far and wide that they would remain single even H unto death rather than to promise to love, Cheryl Cher-yl Ish and obey that old absorbent, the Republican j party. Indeed, they seem to contemplate such a H thing as an exaggerated reproduction of the out-B out-B lawcd unlawful cohabitation practice and trench-H trench-H ing very nearly upon tlie white slave trade. H We think we see the probable outcome. He-H He-H ccntly a domestic who has long been the reliance H of a certain family in this city, paralyzed ho. employer by announcing that she had been mar-M mar-M ried for a fortnight. fl When the astounded lady got her breath she H exclaimed, "Why, Arabella, who married you? ' H To which Arabella replied: 'We wanted to H keep it quiet for a bit, so we went to Fanning ton." H To judge by what is going on it should not H surprise anyone to learn some morning that the H Progressive and Democratic leaders went to M Farmlngton a mojith ago because "they wanted H to keep it quiet for a bit. H In the meantime tho Republicans are pursuing H the oven tenor of their way. Governor Spry is H looking closely after the state's business; intent ! upon its progress and helping every good cause H with presence and voice; the courts are doing M their part; the wool men and sugar men and H miners are wondering why Divine Providence has M afflicted the country with a Democratic admlnis- H tration, and watching the Democracy's subtile M wooing of a party of which Mr. Pinchot is a blind- B ing head-light and wondering if, when every Utah H interest shall be trodden upon the final act will M not be the declaration that for the good of the M country the state of Utah has been reserved by H the government. H Still the wooing of the Democracy and the Pro- H gressives goes on and is reaching the point when B scandal-fearing porsons will be forced to say: M "If they are not married they ought to be." |