Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-04
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y calm surrey OF tho field OF bat-
lle, the day nfter the election, when
the heal and passions of the conflict
are subsiding, reveals several things
poth Instructive and gratifying 10 al,
Interested IN the welfare Of Utah
The fret is that tho nation has ron.
dered It's verdict IN overwhcIuin.
iashsolt and the SON and substance
~ that verdict. boiled down into ~
/ single sentence. Is that lho people DC.
sire the policies pf President Roosevelt
continued. and believe that they viii
be II the rcina OF power are placed
III the hands of President Taft Tho
people Of Utah WHO weigh, think and
discuss national questions. just as the
pain people elsewhere throughout the
United Statcs do. have shown BY their
verdict that the majority here agrees
with the majority OF tho nation. The
minority everywhere will gracefully,
and III time checrfully, acquiesce, and
no doubt the minority In Utah will
follow the same common sense plan.
Second. and to Utah, Of equal i'm
portance, with the first is the over
| shadowing fact that the campaign of
hatred seems to have spent itself and
that in the recent conflict it defeated
| itself. Nothing more gratifying in Tho
figures of yesterdays voting In Salt
Lake City and County. can be found
than q study of the shrnkage which
| the American vote underwent In the
face of the acknowledged large in
| crease in the non" Mormon" population
! during the past year, these figures are
especially significant They simply tell
\ that hundreds OF decent Cienti)es re-
! fused to follow IN such a campaign an
their leaders. headed by the Salt Lake
1 Tribune, had mapped out. They were
dlsgusted ut tho insane policy of those
i leaders in allowing an apostate to sound
the Keynote OF the ca mpnlgn-"exile or.
i Imprisonment for the Church author
| tiles" and they manifested their dis
gust in the only way possible. at the
! polls. The result proclnms to the
4 world that the great majority of Salt
! Lake people, Mormon" Gentle and
jew. believe that 1t Is possible for men
l who differ religlously to dwell to-
gether, to do business together to
labor together for the upbuildng Of
a Greater and Better Salt Lake. In
peace and harmony. The feeling Of
charity an increase in business COM
ity, more of the spirit Of bearing and
forbearlng,, viii surely grow out OF
tho conflict which has Just closed
Third. nothing could have better de-
monstrated that the result in this City
and County was due to veritable up
rising of the people in defense Of tile
Church which was so bitterly assai~
cd 1t. needed no suggestions. hints
or whispcrings from any source. high
or low The people simply rose and
took the matter into their own hands
Thc action or hundreds Of Church
members Of the Democratic faith whc
stood by their state and nationa
! tickes. hut placed thefr votes on thc
local issue whcrc they would coun;
most against the common enemy--al
shows that 1t was protest from tbs
people themselves. regardless Of poll
ties, against un-American methods
hate. higotry. aud persecution TIL
victors. in the flush Of their triumph
should not. and we believe will not
I overlook or forget the part played Il
: the campaign by those who lent the
aid. even at the temporary sacriic,
OF their party convictions, for VIVA
they regarded as the greatest good o
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