The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-06
PROVO CITY. NOV. 6 IS9
WAIT, EF FOR THE VERDICT.

The polls have closed and night has
drawn he lark mantle over the earth,
and Whi' le stars twinkle serenely
the peopl Utah are anxiously wait
ing for ths yef- =. What will it be?
Throughout ture there is action
and react on. sLu in the delicatelY
poised maCh Aery Q he mind clothed
in mortality, reacti0r follows action
with almost high e. ng like velocity.
Like vast piece OF machinery, a
political campaign ib difficult to get
in motion. Slowly me wheels re-
volve-almost imperceptably at fist,
but moving with ever-increasing yeloc
ity, until the minds of the workers are
wrought up to that condition where the
tension is almost painful, The elation
and excitment become So Intoxicating
that in hotly contested campaign the
most self-possessed. of men are often
carried off their feet.
A large number OF the workers are
candidates for offices OF honor and
trust, They have not only put in their
time and best energies, but have in
vested money. Yet, when it comes
down to a question of interest in the
results, it is doubted if they feel
more anxiety regarding the outcome
than do the humblest workers and
voters in the party, Each mind
has been poised between hope
and fear until the eventful
morning of the election. Then every
nerve is strained to almost surper-
human tension in each of the workers
70 get in the full strength of the re-
spective parties, and to win as many
doubUfuls as possible. The polls close,
and the great machine that has been
running for weeks at a terrific speec,
comes to q dead stop, and all but a
few cease work while all are waiting
for the verdict.
The reaction has come, and the
mind recoils from the unusual labor
and almost refuses to act. SUBJECTS
that, under ordinary circumstances,
might present themselves and upon
which the mind would love to dwell,
became stale, and the effort to think is
almost a failure and mental exertion is
irksome. The thoughts will revert to
the all important question, what will
lie verdict he?
To democrats the campaign has been
productive of the most serious and
conflicting emotions. There have been
the usual questions that divide the two
great parties. The republicans fight
ing for the supremacy of principles
that are believed by the democrats to
be subversiYe of the material interests
of the people, and fatal to personal lib
erty. The democrats contending for
those principles that they believe
will decentralize wealth and thereby
insure more equal opportunities for all
men, In addition to the foregoing is
sues, the democrats have been forced
TO meet purely local question and the
most difficult of all others to meet-that
of ecclesiastical influence. Democrats
have gone through the campaign with
heavy but with brave hearts, determ
ined to beat back, if possible, the
danger that threatens to enguIf the
people and which, if not checked, will
reverse the wheels Of progress and
force the people of Utah back into the
darkness from which all friends of
Utah had hoped they had former en-
erged.
In the face of such dangers, demo-
Gratis are waiting while the counting
goes on, and ever and annon ask them
selves, what will be the verdict?