The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-20
D CITY. NOV. 20 1894
IN DEFEAT.

Some men are greater in defeat than
others are in victory. When red lights
are burning, canpons are booming,
rockets glittering in the sky, enthusi-
astic hosts are cheering. and sweet
music's voluptuous swell fills the air
and the ladies smiling, it is an easy
task to play the hero. A few we'll
chose words, wave of the hand are
all that is necessary to satisfy the
crowds when one has just won great
triumph, but when one has lost great
fight while the field is strewn with the
wreck of war and the groans of the
dead and the dying are ringing in the
sir, when gloom has settled down
everywhere and no ray of light pene-
trates The soul, nothing cheers, light
breaks nowhere, all is gloom, all
dark and forbidding-then the quail
tiles of the great come into play. Then
effort is redoubled. The ground is
carefully chosen for the next trial Of
strength and every preparation is made
to insure the result-calmly made.
Every precaution is taken to make the
next battle success.
The democracy of Utah, owing to
some treachery, some darkly concealed
unfalthfulness. has just sustained a
q dreadful defeat where a complete
and glorious victory should have been
realized. We dc not care now to dis
cuss the occult causes of this defeat
further than to afford u5 ready means
ofguarding against the same causes pro-
ducing the same results in the next
struggle. That desperate and dishon-
est men did use the leaders of the
church to convince the common people
that they, the church, would look
kindly upon republican victory, there
can be no doubt. That this cause
helped defeat Joe. Rawllns there can
be no doubt.
This man had just returned to Utah
after dazzlingly brilliant and most
successful career in congress, in which
no secured more results for the terri
tory than all the representation she
has ever had present in Washington
during all the years since she has sus-
tanned a political relation with the
government, Besides all this the
mans character is totally without g
blemish of any kind. He is in fact one
of the ideal men of the west, big
Drained, big hearted, sober, industri
GUS, devoted, of excellent morals, hon.
est, faithful. Indeed possessing al
the qualities out of which great mer
are made. This man was beaten and
by whom? Here we may pause to say
that we have no disposition to belittle
or disparage Mr.. Cannon, the success.
ful competitor of Mr.. Rawlins, but g
slight comparison seems necessary in
order to enable US to find a probable
cause for the result so that a compe-
tent remedy may be found and applied.
Mr.. Cannon is a bright, sparkling little
fellow. Has been known only as a
trifer and an idler in the pleasant
paths of youth, wealth and high
social position. A young man
whose eager hand has only heretofore
clutched at the pleasures of life, and
these not always of the highest and
purest character. A brief career in the
city council of Ogden has left bitter
taste in the mouths OF the people ot
that city. These, had they been
pushed during the campaign would
most certainly have beaten him, bu!
Mr.. Rawlins refrained, even while be
ing cruelty and falsely assailed by Zane
and others himself,
Notwithstanding these terrible faults
he is elected and such q man as Raw
Inns is defeated. Now here is one of
the causes of the late democratic de-
feat. We are very sure that if Mr
Rawlins had fought Mr.. Cannon with
the same weapons that Mr.. Cannon
friend fought him with he would have
been triumphantly reelected by over
five Thousand majority, or possibly
more. We are very sure that in anothel
race this fault will be corrected, anC
thus will the result be reversed.
We are like TO have our Provo pow 81
dam in working order now. sooner than