, 1891-08-06
RATES OF ApvERrIsISs.
TIE Result IN UTAH.


The hottest campaign ever known to
Utah-in fact, a campaign equal in in
tensity to a county seat war-was con-
cluded on Monday night. The returns
are now sufficiently full and accurate to
pass some Judgment on them.
Previous to this year parties have not
been divided upon the lines of national
politics in Utah. 1t was Mormon or
antI-M Mormon, or as they are officially
known the Peoples party, signIfSing the
Mormon element, and the Liberals as des
~ignating the Genules. 10 the judy
ment of many leading men of
the territory the time had arrived
when tie fight on previous and as they
believed suD~erannuated issues should be
dropped and the people OF the territory
following their natural inclinations should
unite under the banner of Democracy or
Republicanism. This movement was not
confined to either representatives of De-
mocracy or Republicanism IN national
politics but included both. thus drawing
into their ranks men from both the Nor
mon and Gentle factions. While there,
were many men who thus believed there
were others, also including representative
men OF the territory, who did not believe
that the time had yet come to divide the
local political parties according to their
national predictions. They did rot be-
lieve that the issues which the Liberal
party had been formed to fight were yet
dead even though they might be quies-
cent and proceeding on this basis the or
%ganization was maintained and the fight
was therefore a triangular one, including
Liberals, Democrats and Republicans.
In commercial centers like Salt Lake.
Liberalism was naturally strongest. There
the political cast assumes a more or less
commercial hue and considerations Of
lations as to how the victory of this, that
or the other party might influence immi-
grafton or investment. It was pretty
generally believed hat the Liberals would
carry three counties, Salt Lake, which
includes Salt Lake City; Weber, with
Ogden as its center, and Summit, with
Park City as its county seat. They did
carry Salt Lake and Summit counties
but Weber has gone Democratic by a very
fair majority. The Democrats carried
the territory, e%lecting about two-thirds of
the members of both branches OF the leg
lature.
TuE I.FAnEQ has ham nRa nj fha ma
pers which from the first has favored di-
visions of parties in Utah on the lines
of national politics. We believe the fu-
ture will justify the work done during the
campaign just closed. Utah has now
reached such a position that it can afford
to drift into the homogeneous mass of
states and territories. 1t should no longer
be held as a commonwealth apart from its
fellows. Mormonism is not now the
bugaboo that it once was and in the ma
ture OF things 1t must become less SO.
What it has been in the past is of in
finItely less concern than what it is now.
The territory is rapidly passing through
a transition state and the influx of popu-
lRtion to develop Its mines and other re-
sources will only tend to emphasize the
usual party distinctions, for each new
conner will carry with him his past party
affiliations. From this distance it looks
as though the Liberals had spent them
selves in the campaign lust closed and
that they will in no subsequent campaign
be a sufficient factor to merit much at
tention from either of the other two po-
litical parties.