The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-13
FITCH AND THE LIBERAL PARTY.

AAS
from Nevada seems to have taken a
new and final departure and
drifted indefinitely into the afinities
of Mormondom. He scouts the So
called Liberal party of Utah, and re-
fuses all association with it. He
appeared at the Tabernacle at the
Mormon celebration on the Fourth,
and delivered a speech in which the
situation is recognized and his po-
%litical position hereafter accepted.
In his speech he remarked: " 1 be-
lieve it is understood that every per-
son who participates in this celebra-
ton is to be forever excluded
from communion with the Liberal
Church" That circumstance did
not restrain him from making his re-
marks, and to proceed to give the
Gentle organization an excoriation,
after the following style:
But a Liberal" party which antago-
niZes your peace. your order. your
low taxes, your strict police regula-
tons, your good government, every
thing except your pOlygainy; laugh
teri, a '.liberal" party which proposes
to retain the only feature of social life
in Utah to which the outside world OBJ
jects, and 20 oppose all those other
features which a taX-burdened, ring
ridden people admire; IA ''liberal"
party which opposes your measures
and your men, because they allege
that those measures and those men
are dictated by prophets in place of
politicians, by a theOcracy instead of a
ring-ocracy; a ''liberal" party whose
organ endorses an executive order to
prohibit American citizens from prop
erly celebrating the Anniversary of
American Independence; a ''liberal'
party which has TOR its head an apes
tate .Mormon," who proposes to sur
render every feature of his former
faith except his three extra wives:
(cheers) and for its tail-a Federal officer
who has recently immOrtalized him
self as a member of the "dam phOOl'
family; daughter and cheerS) for sue a
''liberal'' party / have neither sympa-
thy nor support. Great cheers.)
/ am afraid, besides, that this Glib
eral'' party in Utah has fallen under
the control of men who desire to use
its organization for their own pecun-
larry advantage. l am afraid that the
object of those s'Ieaders'' is to keep
courts and juries in a state of stagna-
ton, while they fill their pockets.
1 am afraid that the debris of the
Palmer, Cook Il Company n the
remnant of the Fremont ring" have
got control of the ''liberal" party.
am afraid that this animal with g
moral reform head and mine-jumpins
tail is something like Lord Dun
dreary's little dog:-when it move:
YOU can't tell whether the dog wag.
the tail or the tail wags the dog.
The Liberal party is evidently
growing shaky. The elements dc
not fuse. Religious bigotry is not
as potent as it was a year or two ago
Already parties are calling for al
abandonment of the religious and
political crusade against Brigham
Young and his followers, and for the
organization of a Democratic anG
Republican party there, as else
where. This project is likely tc
succeed eventually, and Fitch knows
how to trim his sails for the time
when Mormons and Gentiles will be
voting the same ticket. The Liberal
party can never be of any service tC
that Territory, for it is al organiza'
ton outside of the actual bulk of the
people. We remember a year age
while passing through Corinne hear.
ing a Methodist preacher, still 6
shining light in the Gentle party
refuse to attend a celebration of the
Fourth becausea lady who happened
to be living in Louisiana during the
war, and naturally sympathized will
her relations. was appointed to reat
the Declaration of Independence
What sympathy can really exist be
tween a bigoted fool of this charac.
ter and a man of real liberal senti
ments? Yet Of such is the so-called
, Liberal party of Utah! Fitch shows
r his good sense by steering clear o.
the entire concern.
; Quite a deputation of Washoe In
" about An at..zf.