The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-02
THE LIBERAL PARTY <oF UTAH
IN TROUBLE,

Efesto calling upon the anti-Mormon
clans to rally to an onslaught upon
Brigham and the Church-this new.
born organization is already threat
ened with premature extinction.
The elements are uncongenial, in
harmonious, and not to be CONSOLE
dated. Last Fourth of July the
anti church party met at Corinne to
nominate a delegate to Congress,
and succeeded so well that they had
two candidates nominated before
shutdown. One of them finally with
drew and left a Radical carpet-bag-
ger just from Michigan to go through
the farce of an election. That Cor
lnne Convention was only a single
illustration of an uninterrupted Ca
reer of discord. The party was, and
still is, torn into fragments bitterly
hating each other. Wings, cabals
and selfish combinations are the
order of the day. There is no har-
mony, nothing Lomologous, no
unity or organization. They agree
on nothing but a rambling, indis-
criminate abuse of the Mormon hier-
archy. To add to the general con-
fusion a new element begins to
mingle in the bubbling broth. The
Nevada immigration of the past
twelve months are Indifferent to re-
ligion-did not go there on a religi-
Gus crusadeto a%nnihilate or establish
creeds, but odevelop mines. These
men are proving unmanageable.
The loud call of the newly-organized
Liberal party falls on deaf ears-and
worse, on hostile ears. These miners
want honest, capable courts, judges
and juries, and that brings them into
antagonistic relations to the present
judiciary-also Gentle. And so the
great Liberal party which was to
immortalize itself by a religious en-
reimbursement of Utah. is rent wide
open and is already crumbling on
the heads of its authors and owners.
The "tender foot" carpet bag
element are at open war with the
new corners from Nevada. The Cor
inne Journal is the organ of the
Federal officers and of ourse finds
ample sweep for Wholesale charges
and denunciations against the Ne
vadans. 1t goes so far now, as to
charge that there is a scheme on foot
to again consolidate Utah and Ne
vada, and thus bring Utah into the
Union as a State, or part of a State.
These ex-Nevada politicians now
engaged in teaching liberality to the
petty Eastern Liberals of Utah" Ito
use the language of the Journal) are
charged with conspiring with the
Mormons to bring about this result,
which, If cOnsummated, of course.
would oustthe present officials. The
journal states the case in the follow
ing extract
When the project was first preached
the 'irrigators" opposed it clamor-
ously, bat now they are as still as
mice. They inti,nated pretty plainly
at the senatorial reception" that if
the Nevadans would not countenance
the attempt to extend the sovereignty |
of the United States over Utah they
would be used, dumbIy, IN any way
their new found friends and allies
pleased. There is little doubt, we
think, that Brigham would stoop TO
conquer Nevada, because, Onced done,
his patrimOny would not only be n
lareed and erected into a Stale of the
Union, but he knowStbat he could con
troll the whole with his -, 200 votes and
the occasional aid of the Nauvoo Lee
gion as easily as he now controls a
But how, in their turn. would
the people OF Nevada relish being
swallowed by the Lion of the Latter
Days, and digested at leisure by his
priesthood?
The first step of this UNHoLY CoALI-
TON was to Dust the Federal officials OF
Utah, because they are d~isintere>tedly
and infiexibly opposed to any scheme
for the advancement of Mormon the
ocracy in the United States; the next,
10 break up the Liberal party of Utah.
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