Show STI STILL L AT r SEA Sg It I would be a good thing for the Tribune makers to get up imp and get out of thy the town tOW 1 for fOI a trip or ur two They rhey seen seem teem unable to read an any history ex excepting ex- ex that which has been ma made e under their own eyes And nd that sort of habit Is bad for perspective Tho The following paragraphs from Saturdays Saturday's editorial columns intended to prove Juve that sonic some fome sinister Influence Is cont controlling Salt Lake Is a sample of the effect of subjective observation In H 1904 04 on on the the other hand band hanl the counsel was In favor of or the tho Republican lIe Re publican Uc ticket et and the Democratic Democrat ic party was practically wiped out in Salt Sal Lake The Thc vote on President was 1325 Republican to Demo Demo- cratic That Is to say the Republican vote had practically doubled In a 0 year and the Democratic vote voto had shrunk fifty per cent The Tho figures are arc an object lesson leson to the tho people of Utah They show cearly clearly In hut concrete ete form the wor working of an undue force ce In the political arena arena of hb state tato which hicl Is at once malign n. mals-n. secret unwarranted and not pot amenable amenable amen amen- able abc to an any real political ton tion ion It I IK is I. I an evil Insolent Influence Every Everyone one knows where it comes from every overy one deplores es t It denounces It I. I and fervently hopes for Its Is disappearance To everyone one else esc however It I Is clear cear that Salt Sl Lake is not alone in the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of changed voting And nd local In Influences In- In can hardly be charged elsewhere else else- where Chicago elected Mayor Dunne a Democrat in the thc of 1905 andIn andin and andIn In the fall fal of 1906 reversed its Is vote and gave ave the lie Republican candidates on the state ticket a big biS majority Milwaukee Mil Mu- 11 waukee has been electing David David Rose nose mayor maor for tor repeated terms tei-ms but at Is last election electon defeated him and elevated Becker a Republican to the chief executive scat seat Illinois which In 18 1896 G. G went Democratic by thousands went Republican by more thousands at the very ery next election and Indiana which made Claude Mathews Democrat governor in the same year ear returned a Republican plurality o of almost a hundred hun hun- hunI I dred tired thousand in 1901 In 1896 1896 there thele was wan aM a wave of of local ocal Interest to incline many people in Utah to vote ote tile the Democratic ticket The total of that vote was by no 10 means mean a measure of ot the tho Democratic strength and no one in his senses would make It I the ba basis ls of or calculation toda today Critics should get out of tho the habit ot Salt Sal Lake as a peculiar community People here arc are subject to the same influences that are arc felt tel elsewhere They rhe are aro human beings much the same as human beings s all allover allover al over tho the world They hey reserve reser the right to vote as thc they see fit f. f and they did did not see sec fit to vote ote the American tc ticket et at the recent count county or tho the still stillmore stillmore more recent school election We c think one reason reason perhaps perhaps the greatest toro greatest the Republican demoralization In the tIme fall fail fal of ot 1905 was the fact that there was no Republican dally daily daly newspaper hc here hei-e. rl There was vas no publication cation caton which could advance the ar arguments arguments u- u ments of the nations nation's naton's dominant party parly Thero There was was' no proper means of ot de tie- fending And it Jt was as in n a time when attacks were so constant and bitter that members of or the party were singularly d defenseless The hd same mo condition condition condition con con- anywhere c else se would have pro- pro the same results i Our people are Just like all al other people A little be better we c think j and und anda undu a u little more to be admired But lut they are c not victims of an any mysterious In Influences Influences' In- In which can be explained only on the theory the theory that the electorate JS is s depraved de tie- prayed or Imbecile |