Show I AFFAIRS IN UTAH A salt lake correspondent of the omaha dee bee writing under date x of sep september 12 on n tho the present condition of affairs in utah makes as fair a statement in rela relation to the cormons mormons Mor mons and their present in movements ove and the movements of the gentiles as any non 11 mormon k writers on the tile subject that we have seen of late like many others however he lie is is puzzled to adov just what the mormons Mor mons will do in the matter r he ile thinks ive we are too many to move and to too few to fight they have no idea of doing cither one or the other knowing their cause is just they can afford to await the timo time when they will ho be fully vindicated and put in full poa possession of all the rights of citizenship of which they have been unjustly deprived ye ive reproduce the article believing it will be perused with interest by all our patron SALT LAKE CITY september I 12 utah is now passing through a bloodless revolution it it is registration week wee kand and under the provision of the r edmunds law all polygamists and wives of polyn amista are chased so wide is the tile latitude assumed bythe by the commissioners and registers that not only those who are now in polygamy but all who ever have been A mormon lormon or non moi mon men aro are being str struck uck off the re registration gis i enlists lists it is even asserted that men with only one wife which wile was formerly the wife polygamist ofa re ruled out if this thie is BO so it is punching ching lor for crime imparted by n with a vengeance what will the mormons cormons Mor mons do now frequent inquiry it is not safe lanzard zard a conjecture they dont aar a t to know themselves you have bably P ably heard of tha the norfolk mana mand clep e that was too big to swallow I yo ano hard to bite bo it seems tu daye le mormons cormons Mor mons are too many to ind toofey too few to 10 fight even if re inclined to either of these of settling the vexed ques lub mission to the inevitable be the only other aeterna alve I lit at we all know that religions diio diehard hard NO matter be they true or false that it a factor that tes does not n ojen en one if it bo true to him that is is sum clent no one of average sanity will accuse all the latter day saints ol 01 being hypocrites such would bo be to too great an absurdity and their past his tory does nut warrant bo 60 sweeping an all assertion licence we have a conflict in w aich one mic side at any rate largely believes that the issue is a religious one thus far the policy seems to be to accept the situation as gracefully as possible and test by legal suit the right of congress to pabs a law which dib men for an alleged crime without a legal conviction it is held that registers are n nut u I judicial offic officers erg and conse consequently que n t cannot decide the question of a amann mant criminality only after men havo been proven guilty by a trial according to law can they and their families be de barred the exercise of the tho voting power such is the position of those who aro are tho the rights of the disfranchised franchised dis another complication lias has ellered into the contest no election waa was held eld in august th the e governor under an amendment to the tile civil a sundry appropriation bill claims the tile authority to fill till the offices the present incumbents cum bents declare there are no cies as they hold over under the law until their successors are elected and quaI qualified ed As yet the governor hai im not made ad public any of his appointments but when lie does we are notified lie will commence firing all along the line there are nearly local cal offices cesin in which the tile incumbents are are now holding oyer and awaiting a quo warr carranto warranto war nto mandamus or somo some atno other r Illis missive sivo by which the legality of their poul position tion may be tested the election forter rit orial De delegate lerate will take place will it be an easy victory for the gentiles opinions differ and that widely notwithstanding no votes will be cast by polygamists past or present their wives and widows yet there the re is is still a mormon majority the disfranchisement f many of their co religionists has raised the ardor of tho the section of the church and they are hastening to naturalize by the score and hundred I am not exaggerating the united states courts in the three several judicial districts aro turning out full fledged citizens from early to late with monotonous no rapidity I believe two thousand aliens have been naturalized naturalised during tho past ten ton day to these add the native born just coming to age c and those who until now have been too indifferent to vote and it will bo be found that tho the registration list is not eo so nonder wonderfully fully diminished the next point of attack must be tb the e woman weman voters they form fifty per pr cent of the voting population that is ia of the tielese party arty who form the ity take these away and tho the two forces would become more inore equal to t lest est tho the validity of the tile territorial woman halli ago law test cases hayo have been got ten tell up by the registers refusing to record tile the names of certain ladies on their poll sheets the org organizers of ol this argument in which governor murray takes much interest are sanguine ofa of a favorable decision and that a stop will be put to women voting n in utah it is however problematic ati cat cal if the judges will take so heavy a responsibility in the face of the strung feeling that is manifested in in i many parts of the nat nation ionin in favoron favor ol 01 an extension of the suffrage but in so many respects utah is sui rul ceci generis M and what is sauce for the goose ia is not sauce fo for r the ganderson gan derso so far as she is comer ned d t that bat it is unwise to speculate on n what wa t will bedone be dune neither party has yet held iti its nominating convention fio so nothing definite can bo be said with i regard to who will be Th the liberal eliberal gentilee Gen ar t y will nominate mr parley L williams a salt lake attorney the son and tao ben I inlaw in law of mormons cormons Mor mons but himself is is not that sort of oan a young man th the e surmises regarding pardina re the lie notion of the tile mormons cormons Mor mons is all at sea many think that mr jolin jelin T calno caine city Il ecord er will bethe be the fortunate one othera others w with t prophetic prop heti hetre eye namo nanie W writer I esq manager maii aier of the utah nevada rai railroad road whilst others imagine arf S It richards ichards a rising dounn oung attorney of ogden will be selected amr ros probably a dark horse will win notwithstanding all tit coin 14 icat ions busi business nebs keeps good ziona zions co cooperative is doing a business equal to about per anum smaller linns firms are also doing well A large number of new firms have sprung into existence this year very gener generalis alIv of mormon proprietorship the passage of the edmunds law has doubtless done lone some non Mo mormon irmon firms a heavy injury and aming establishments ants are real in the benefit it has been the tile poll polio cy of the INI mormon ormon leaders to discourage these young people from going into pu pursuits but latela lately this policy lias has been moderated and it is possible tile thir thiap ig may be overdone cut as ions long as rail railroad rowl build dint dinv con continues the tile minea mines yield reasonably and the wheat and potato harvests arc are good the cicet of this bibb fur fir merchandising will not ba be elt but when there is no more roil railroad building or crops fail fall then look ut |