Show SIGNS OF THE TIMES The recent Democratic victory in Rhode Island is acknowledged even by the Republican press in the East as an indication of the growing strength of the Administration and of the necessity of extraordinary efforts being made to offset off-set the inroads which Mr Clevelands course is making in the Repubiican j ranks In the light of the adverse circumstances i1 cir-cumstances under which the Democrats r were at the last election n the littleSt little-St te it may be safely concluded that ilc lblican control is at an end there for i many years to come What is true of Rhode Island is true in a wider sense of the whole country For as an exchange Bays truly lithe Democratic party will enter upon the next Presidential election with the prestige of success to help and encourage its appathetic voters for the first time in a quarter of a century and the incrrise in its vote from this source alone will bo an element of no slight importance im-portance in deciding the result Revolutions Revo-lutions never go backwards because the victorious aide flushed with their victory cannot in the nature of i things be beaten by its old antagonist depressr efeat The Republicans 1 have good i on to feel depressed by i the upheaval in the little commonwealth t because < i the b t ieral tendency of public opinion of win hode Island is an index If Re Mn L i are beaten in one of their surest State what can they hope for elsewhere If t a Administration commands such cwfldence that its friends elect the11 entire ticket and I control the Legislature its success elsewhere must bo lr cd upon as 1 assured Republicans in Utah should look upon the signs ° the times and should make up their mds n this Territory Ter-ritory is to be redeemed within the next six years that it will bo gooil policy to invite in-vite rather than discourage aid from the party which will hold thJ reins of government gov-ernment for at least that length of time |