National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-14

Kean and wife. The Genera, is now chief JUS
tice of the Territory of Utah.
SALT LAKE CIrr, November q. M
hrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife
of Brigham Young, has been q guest for some
months at the same hotel where we are stop
ping. Her ladylike department, and her
modest womanly instincts, have won our re-
spect and esteem. Born Of Mormon parentage,
it was her misfortune rather than her fault
that she was entrapped into polygamY. She
now proposes to expose to the world q system
that has been 90 cruelty imposed upon her, and
upon thousands Of the women Of Utah
We have heard her lectures. They are well
written, well delivered, and very interesting;
We think they will do good. We commend
Mrs. Young to the kind regards and patronage
of those who respect the laws, both human
and divine. JAMES B. McKBAN,
MRS. JAS. B. McKRAN.
General Shanks, member Of Congress from
Indiana, who takes most lively interest in the
success of the mission in which Mrs. Young is
engaged, has consented to preside at the lecture
tonight, and Is he has visited Utah and knows
something Of Mormon life snd Of the trials
which this lady has passed through from OBJ
servation, will probably preface his presenta-
ton Of her to the audience with some intro
ductory remarks.
THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
tFrom the Cincinnati Commercial.I
We saw at one of the ward polls yesterday q
colored citizen going about, wide mouthed, In
quiring, ssWhar is de Liberal Republican partyp
Whether he was an old-line Republican, or one
of those black swans who affiliate with the
Liberals, we are unable to find out, but he
seemed sadly puzzled by the mysterious disap-
pearance of party that, in his ward, had been
a significant political force.
So far as this city is concerned, the Liberal
Republican party is nowhere in particular. 1t
has yanished-mizzled-go out. There is no
trace of IT in the result of yesterdays election
as an entity; an individuality. And yet It was
a promising child, of robust constitution and
healthy growth, and fair future before It.
We helped to foster that infant, and mourn
its early departure-cut of, as It seems, in the
flower of its youth. The taking away Of q child
is always a sad event. We know not what pos
sibilities were wrapped in the future of its ex-
istence. There might have been great orator,
a great statesman, a great poet, or q great
soldier. Who can telll The saddest of all
words are, says the poet, cit might have been"
And so the early demise of the Liberal
Republican party becomes regrettable. Had
its existence been prolonged, had It lived until
its muscle was developed and its faculties of
mind matured, It might have worked q valua-
bic reform in American politics; It might have
introduced honesty into Office, economy into
administration, purity into politics, and genius
and culture into high places. There Is no say
ing how great q revolution it might have
wrought in public affairs.
It was lovely child as far as il got, but II
did not get far enough. 1t died-died in the
city that may be said to have given 1t birth,
certainly where It received the kindest and
most tender nourishing. So singular and sud.
den taking off of so promising an infant is
what distracted the brain and gave pathos to
the tones of the inquIring colored citizen.
Our readers have all heard of the man who
made bet that he could eat six dozen hard
boiled eggs. He won the bet, but he died oil
the performance. The eggs were too much for
him. This was pretty much the disease Of
which the Liberal Republican child died. 1t
was a case of indigestion. It undertook the
feat of devouring hard-boiled Democrats-the
entire party, in fact, and an insufhciency OF
gastric juice led to fatal consequences.
The Democratic party survived this effort to
bolt and digest IL. It lived as miraculously as
Jonah in the whales belly; and in its turn it
swallowed the Liberal infant. There Is where
the child is now-in the belly Of the Demo-
cratic party, helping to protruds its abdomen,
and give it a pursy and prosperous appearance.
Our colored citizen, who was in search Of the
infant Yesterday will find In the RETURNS of the
election this morning the only evidence we
now have that there ever was such thing as
the Liberal Republican party in Cincinnati.
And so passes away the glory of the world,
and 1t may be said of 1t with slight paraphrase,
as was said of one of old: "He hath flown
away as q dream, and cannot be found; yea,
he hath been chased away as vision of the
night. The eye, also, that saw him, shall see
him no more, neither shall his place be any
more behold him."