| Show IRE HB COMING ELECTION A A week from today to day the people of utah territory will be cd called ailed upon to perform one of those acts which mark choclis in the history of the nation the tile state constitution drafted and adopted by the territorial convention which lately sat in long session is to be decided on by the sovereign voters our subscribers and readers have somo some time ago been enabled to scan and judge the important document from our supplement and they have undoubtedly arrived at a conclusion concerning its ics merits there can bs ba no doubt that it is as liberal just and faira fair a constitution abany as any one odthe of the states forming the balazy of tile american commonwealth ever adopted it is a tree which has its roots in the common magma magna charta of a century ago whose brandies branches stretch over over all pursuits of life giving shelter and protection to every legitimate aspiration whose crown reaches into the clear realms of eternal truth and justice and whose whoso fruits will bo be a benefit and blessing to all who may come to dwell under its shade the new constitution provides for the proposed state of utah an order of things and anti a condition of society the equal ihnot if not the superior ofal of all others lothers utah as a territory has excelled all others in the devel ope rilent of her material resources as well in the creation tion of a wholesome social system as in the tile maintenance of a law abiding peaceful and moral population this her worst enemies can only dispute but not disprove still although there is no doubt that the overwhelming in majority of utah territory approve of and will accept the proposed constitution as the work of some of their worthiest sand tile expression of their sentiments and d desires e there is no doubt cither dither that the dwindling minority lashed by the scourge odthe of the clique that leads or rather inis misleads leads them will oppose the contemplated measure with all the powers of misrepresentation sen tation and malice with all the ingenuity of hatred and fer fertility tili of pe persecution ms cution once before the loyal women of utah territory tory have been defrauded oetha of the consummation of their legally declared choice and tile earnest and honest voice of U S citizens lias has been drowned b by y the tile pulpit poundings soundings of pious tors and the calumnious clamor of designing demagogues utah has been deprived of the few rights the constitution of washington and jefferson granted her as a territory she has only faint hopes of being enrobed unrobed with the purple mantle of state sovereignty but despoiled though she may have been other scanty garments for which cu cunning n and covetous carpet are already throwing the dice she does not go to the doors of congress as a plaintive beggar and sobbing supplicant with the tile modesty of true virtue and the s self elf consciousness of her inalienable rights she will ask for what the framers of the constitution of the american designed all citizens to possess in undisturbed heritage home bome rule and self gov ern ment LATEST dispatches tell us that the plumed knight from maine the twice defeated candidate forthe for the ke republican presidential nomina nomination the man of the mulligan correspondence and the ex friend of mr jacob in short jas G blaine esq is going to make it hot for the stalwarts Stal warts this year he ile has been in hot water so much himself that he be can stand a high degree of temperature and the stalwarts Stal warts will no doubt return the f fire ire GHOST finally did go down but it seems that the unfortunate dunate specter of the morey epistle is doomed to haunt the newspaper columns with irrepressible sible tenacity for tile latest see our fourth page |
