Show SPURIOUS ARGUMENTS outwitted at every point the democratic leaders have become desperate the they y arc are well assured that their party cannot win in the election and their hearts arc filled with bitterness toward tho tile republicans whose good work for more than a year liaa has turned the political tables in this territory and made democratic defeat a certainty alie fact that many prominent members of tho the democratic party are threatening to vote the liberal ticket simply shows liow how unprincipled some men arc are their courso course in this respect will be bonuro sure to add votes to the republican strength a arul I 1 make sir majority muc much tc I 1 larger than was anticipated thel Tho Provo enquirer shows what spurious arguments the democrats employ saying it really dignifies dignified their statements too much however to call them arguments the more appropriate term is threats they threaten tho tile people of utah with diro dire disaster it tho the republican ticket wins in utah this fall they refer to their seven thousand majority 1 last ast year and decro declare that the people must not wipe it out your honor ia is at stake declares sir 18 and you must vindicate it next tuesday all of the democratic orators tell tho tile people tho tile same thing and say the nation will not trust the mormons cormons it if they now show themselves republicans they argue on the theory that if a man is once a rogue he lie must musi always be a rogue it if he lie lio lie cant bo be trusted former i asso associates clates will despise him leaving him without it a friend in the world hence they would advise a man to continue hia bis wicked course that all roon men might know he lie is sincerely a rogue they would have the people of biah butali remain democrats even though converted to republicanism lican ism in order that tho tile nation might consider them sincere in other words 4 they advise cormons mormons ta become laypo y j crites in order that they may not thought thou glit hypocrites and democrats democrats are apparently in earnest over the matter many declare that they aro are through with politics if utah goes republican and some few members of the church eay say they are dono done with mormonism if such a tiling thing happens let us look at the question from another standpoint let us consider that since the earliest settlement of utah the mormon moron people have been taught the principle of protection in the doctrine of home industry let us remember that bounties had always been freely given to start different industries in utah until the last legislature found out it was not a democratic policy keep these facts in mind and then admit that last year national issues were very little understood der stood that hundreds yes thousands did not know but what democrats believed in at least incidental protection that they thought and were taught by such men as W II 11 KING kino that the bounty was purely democratic and last but not least that democrats prejudiced many people against republicanism lican ism by declaring it was the same as utah Libera liberalism liam anti mormon when you acknowledge all the facts it can readily be understood how it was that democrats got such a big majority last year at that time republicans were under great disadvantage their party was not organized and inmany in many southern republican counties where the sheep industry is tho the main support of the population and the tile conditions naturally make men republicans there was not a republican ilcken ticket placed in the field there were many such counties and this year they are strongly republican tile people have been taught they were given object lessons inde in democracy by the acts of tile last legislature and learned that it did not agree with the tile teachings of mhd founders of utah and the policy which the people had formerly pursued this year they understand better the differences between the two national nati ohal parties and utah is going republican democrats know it they seem to scent their coming defeat in the social atmosphere and hence their wrath not willing to admit the superiority of republican principles they go after the mormon church and accuse it of havin having accomplished their ruin whom the tile gods would destroy they first make mad personally frank J cannon s a bright man we believe that in congress he would make a much more effective delegate than mr caina has made we believe that if mr cannon could get to congress he would take an active interest in all material affairs of utah W we C believe any one gentile or mormon r who would apply to him for assistance for any material cause pr interest in this territory would woul d meet with a prompt response and hearty operation cooperation co coop op arati on SALT LAKE TRIBUNE |