The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-12-21
PROVO CITX.
THE ELECTION NAsTlNEss.

IHE ELEG11ON NAOI1NESO'
The unseating of few men who
have taught themselves to believe they
were elected to the constitutional con-
vention of Utah on the sixth of last
November, and the accompanying cha
grin and mortified pride are not the
worst consequences to follow the rip
ping up of the result by Tecounting the
ballots of the irregular boxes. Utah
is young state, or rather territory
in process of induction into that rela-
ton to the general government. Like
the southern states her peculiar Sin
stitution" won for her far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of infamy
than she was justly entitled to, and
there was, as consequence, prejudice
against her, She rid herself of the
cause Of this prejudice and has been
on trial for couple or three years as a
monogamist land of promise. People
stood about waiting to see how the
experiment would turn out ere they
brought here the Lares and Penates of
their homes. The simple fact that the
people in both their political and re-
ligioue characters had, abandoned
polygamy, was a favorable indication
and in very many instances tipped the
scale in favor of Utah. Since that
these same intending new settlers
have been watching something else,
and that is, how this people may be
expected to act as independent suf-
fragans without the guidance and
superintendency of the church. We
fear that the condition of the boxes al
ready opened by the commission, to-
gether with all this talk Of Hanging
the Williams" may serve to dampen the
ardor of the intending new settlers to
the extent that they may either stay
away altogether, or leave their money
behind on the plea that the expert
ment with self government among the
Mormons had not progressed suffi
GENTLY to warrant them in bringing
their money within the reach of rogues
of the kidney of those who operated
in Ogden or in the third precinct in
Salt Lake, or the commission by whom
the boxes are being examined. Thus
great harm may be done unintention-
ally and unwittingIy under the plea of
intense partisan devotion.
Now the Tribune nor no other re-
spectacle paper. nor we'll informe4 Lar,
in Utah hAliezes as sscrc,r d ssge. .
men as that composing the Utah
commission, could or would, com-
NIT the crimes of which they are
charged by the wicked papers hound
ing them. If this were true, the hordes
Of new settlers contemplating settle
ment here would be turned back and
find their way to Gotham, notwiths
standing the revealments of the Lexow
committee. If nothing will move the
Tribune to let up in its devilment,
surely this dernier argument will do it.
Curely tne editor OF that great paper
has not taken into consideration these
sad results to follow persistence in
his wicked ways, or long since the Tri-
bune would have been found
complacently patting the backs
of the commissioners and CAL
ling 'em ''good boys with the glass
eyes" The Tribune has no more idea
that the commission is a pack of
rogues than it has now that Arthur
Brown is bull-dozer; o,in view of the
dire consequences above limited at, it
could abandon its advanced lines on
the general corruption of the Mormon
people without the least sacrifice of
moral weight or financial safety. We
hope it will do it, and in forty-eight
hours the national barometer will indi-
cate that respect for Utah has risen to
such an altitude that such barometer
will have to be stretched out indeii-
nitely toaccommodate the still rising |
tide.