Show gettine our people are now mostly busy gonring tho products of a years hard labor on field and farm and the material question quei tion of the supplies for the long dreary winter is paramount in many minds our husbandmen aro getting ready for the time when alie fiehs are covered with snow the brooks and ditches fettered with ice the trees and bushes that ero long bent under the generous load of luscious fruit stand bare and denuded and u rude inclement wind cheeps ivr the bleak landscape but we should not only be anxious of getting ready our granaries eels lars stables and barns with amplo provisions higher interests demand imperiously a portion at least of our attention time and efforts we should think of getting ready for the political duties which we shall soon be called upon to fulfill the second of november summons us around the ballot box with eight millions of other american voters the majority of those it is true have more to consider and the bal lots ii their hands may decide a nations fates while our immediate aal airs are all that is left us to settle the citizens of utah territory will elect their delegate b the national congress and we have ere this pointed out the necessity of being vigilant and alert in this matter the opposition is ever after position and they possess shrewdness means and some influence to oil jhb wheels of their political machine even in ogden city where the opposition seemed to have died a natural death there is some storm in the teapot notices ara posted up in various places and distributed around the streets which cill fora liberal county convention at some future date while we are perfectly willing to concede to aej party the untrammeled right to call hold and adjourn any number of conventions they please and have no objection to any individuals whatever issuing such summons we cannot but smile at the ingenuous ness of the call for the liberals of weber county remembering all the abue and derision burled at the cormons mormons Mor mons for being led by craft and languishing under the control of clerical influences weare glad to see the opposition following the example not only have the clergymen of the various denominations in salt luke city to lend themselves as mouth pieces and battering rams of the Lib cial party including freethinkers free thinkers ins eidels atheists of all gradations but here in ogden the worthy mins ister of a respectable congregation leads the van of the crusade against hierarchy and and raises high the bloody shirt banner of the liberals we wish distinctly to be understood as not imputing any ill motives to the gentleman nor to hia friends and allies we simply ask leave to direct their attention to the inconsistency sis tency of a party which is ever ready with denunciations of eat adden people tools of etc to be found officered and con clerical gentlemen to whom we are far from applying the scurrilous epithets which are the principle campaign ammunition of a few of their number we wish our people to know this and to know also that tha adversary is mustering all his piebald forces for a vigorous onslaught they are gets ting ready not indeed for victory hardly one among them is as foolhardy as to dream of such an impossibility lity but for a powerful display of their strength so as lo 10 bring als may and discord into our ranks it therefore behooves us to be alert in petting ready let everyone entitled to a vote take care that be or she his week which buirds the laaff opportunity then get ready for lie first tuesday in november and assert what little citizens has been left you in a manly becic ed manner I y supports ing the leoj lei taftt nd your candidate MRS died near ark a few days ago at the age of 00 years sho was born in north carolina during the period of alie indian troubles and learned to handle the aioo with great dexterity she chopped down trees cleared fields and made rails plowed and did other out at the age of 17 ehe married a alps tit preacher and removed to tennessee they had thirteen children |