Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-20
BOLIVAR ROBERTS.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

1t has been customary for the people of
Utah to term themselves Democrats, and
last fall, when President Cleveland and
Vice President Hendricks were elected.
the people of this city held a grand jolli-
fication meeting, and were far more loud
in their praise of the Democratic party
than in their condemnation of the Re-
publican party. of the sincerity of their
sentiments they are the best Judges, but
the people of this county, and the Coun-
Gil and Representative district to which
this county is joined, have an opportunity,
the first opportunity, to vote
straight Democratic ticket. To calm
and thoughtful consideration of that
ticket we invite them. 1t is generally
conceded by all that the Democratic
ticket is a stronger and ADLER ticket than
the ticket nominated by the Peoples
party. If such is the case and the people
of the district are Democrats, why should
not that ticket meet with success? 1t is
impossible for the people of Utah to be
Democrats when away from Utah and be
something else when in Utah. A true
Democrat is always Democrat, and he
finds no need to be Democrat at times
and something different at other times
The members of the Peoples party, as a
rule, claim to be Democrats, but they are
such Democrats as are found nowhere
else but in that party. The people, or
demos, are the source from whence
all power comes, and the Peo-
pies party coniound the name
with the reality. In true Democracy
the power of the government is derived
from the people, to be used for the fur
therance of the Peoples interest, the
interest OF the people as citizens, without
regard TO the religious or political faith of
the citizen. The Peoples party has no
care or solicitude for any save its own
members, whose standing in that party
is determined on other grounds than
those of citizenship and individual excel
lence and worth of character. Whatever
benefits and protection it may confer
upon those who do not belong to it are
only incidental. 1t has for its main OBJ
ject the welfare of its members as mem
bers of an ecclesiastical organization, and
not as citizens of the commonwealth. SO
soon as a man sewers his connection with
that ecclesiastical organization, he is an
outcast from the Peoples party, and in
him as a citizen they have no interest
from that moment they look upon
him as their ecclesiastical and political
enemy. 1t is a significant fact that the
Peoples party includes none who are not
members of its church organization, and
the party has no adherents who are not |
members of its church. People may in
terpret this fact as they choose, but il will |
still remain significant. Another signifi- |
cant fact is that person does not cease |
to belong to one without ceasing TO be-
long to the other. Are not these facts
ineXplicable save upon the basis that |
the Peoples party is a union OF Church |
and State? Such unions have ever been |
detrimental to the State as political or
ganization, and those citizens who have
not been of the prescribed faith have
been outeasts, socially and politically.
They have ever felt that they were
aliens and without rights in their native
land. Such. is the case in Utah to-day.
In other States and Territories man
does not find it necessary to change his
religion when he changes his politics, but
such is the case with the Peoples party
The Democratic party takes no heed OF a
mans religion or want of religion, be-
cause in political affairs it does not recog-
nize religion. To it belong men Of ali
religious persuasions and no religious rer-
suasion. That party believes its princi-
pies the best suited for a free govern
ment, but it does not claim them to be
for they rest upon reason and
not upon revelation. In it is found no
est, no caste. Can the same be said
IF the Peoples party? There will result
1ne good from the present campaign, and (
hat is to show who are Democrats and
Sho are not. The Democratic party and
he Peoples party are totally unlike po- ;
itically, and some who have been loudly
claiming to be Democrats are already
alking in favor of the Peoples ticket
Papers that painted the town red last J