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Show 1 1 i j ) THE ELECTION TO-DAY". j j j j .The Democrat will reach many of its j' readers this evening in advance of the i designated hour for closing the polls, but i the circumstances under which the elec- jlj tion is held are such that we feel no hesi- : tancy in announcing at this hour that the i Church ticket has been elected in its 'ji entirety, by the usual large majority, rjj What figure the "reform" ticket has cut ,' J in this farce, we are not advised, but it is i not necessary to wait for any official or ii Bemi-official returns to announce that the I :' j straight-out Saints have carried the day 1 ; ! and elected to office every man and thing ! ! I whose name appears on the ticket which ! President John Taylor, in his underground I . ; i etreat, so kindly consented to make vp j and, through the medium of the recent I j convention, forward for "this people" to 4 j vote. ; j The ticket elected is an average one '! as Mormon tickets go with one excep tion; but" as to that exception, it is safe j to say that in any other community in ! . . AmeVipa where tire citizens might be i - coaiizant of the ' nominee's rue charac ter, as developed within the past three months, his name tacked on to any ticket would have sufficed, to damn the whole j f outfit. It was an insult to all the decent IT element of society here, Mormon and j Gentile alike, to name that individual for I i the responsible office of City Marshal, j ' and we doubt not that many who, at the Jj direction of their . politico-ecclesiastical leaders, gave him their suffrages, did so ' i only after a Graeco-Roman wrestling bout ' ' . with the scruples which must have risen ; within them at the bare thought of en- dorsing, or appearing to endorse, such a j man for office. I j . Of course, the press of the People's j party will point to the result of to-day's " election as a complete "refutation" of all j ; tliat has been urged against the fitness ! ; for office of Solomon or others of the j ' nominees, and the argument will be ad- j vanced that the people know them to be j , good men and true, and for that reason j voted them into office. . The answer will ; ! be that the fact of Solomon's election, or the election of any other man on the ticket, considered as an endorsement of i character or ability, counts for nothing, ' lor it is everywhere in Utah apparent j that the members of the People's party, j and the Mormon Church the two or- ! ganizations are really one and insepar- able when they vote at an election vote I , i only as they are instructed, and even : though they may have personal knowl- ; ' edge of a nominee's unfitness for office, they know that, to retain their Church j standing, they must-sacrifice their own" ! . feelings and take the medicine as di- ; rected. If the services rendered to this community com-munity by the City Marshal-elect were of such a nature as to entitle him to any reward at all, then we submit that he has not been sufficiently rewarded. As an j - additional and fitting memento of his ser- i vices, we suggest that the incoming City , - Council appropriate out of the public - funds sufficient money to purchase an j elegant assortment of knot-holes, which ; by the deft fingers of Mrs. Fields or ' Fanny Davenport could be woven into a magnificent chaplet, on which might be inscribed the words, "Am I knot-hole-ier I than thou." Present this to the gentle- man. He will then have something to hand down to posterity, and the measure I of his reward will be full. |