Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-04-27
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DEMOCRATIC ENDORSEMENT.

EDITOR DEMOCRAT: Permit Inc as |
Gentle Democrat to express my appro-
baton OF the course of your paper both in
relation to National and local issues.
That you have taken the correct view OF
the matter there can be no doubt, and l
can assure you that your position is
endorsed by nineteen-twentieths of the
Democrats of Utah, who, while favoring
unreenting warfare upon the peculiar in
stitution of the Territory, do not consider
it necessary to renounce their National
principles, or even cast them aside tenn
porarily for the purpose of waging con-
test against local abuses, which are not and
which never can be made political issue
dividing the two great parties OF the
Nation. The necessity of ignoring
National politics was never urged by the
Republicans here while they were in
power, and it is only since the election OF
Democratic President that their eyes
have been opened to the liberal policy of
making no political distinction in the
tone OF the Territorial press or the dis
tribution of the Federal Offices The
principal Gentle organ has always been
extremely partizan upon all questions not
involving the general local issue, and
there is no reason why the Democrats OF
the Territory should not have q leading
paper to represent their principles upon
matters disconnected with the one upon
which the members OF both parties agree,
and upon which they can all act unitedly
without Strengthening the position of the
common enemy. During the last Presi-
dental campaign there was no State in
the Union where party spirit
ran higher, or where more interest
was manifested in the general result than
in Utah. The Mormon question for a
time sank into insignficance, or at least
was only referred to in connection with
the probable local effect OF the success OF
either party in the National contest.
Some OF the Republcans-perhaps only
n few-predcted the most direful results
to the .GentileS in the event OF change
of Administration Time has, however,
developed the groundlessness of those
fears, and know OF none who are offer
ing to dispose OF their property at such a
ruinors discount as they declared theiI
intention Of doing ii Mr.. Cleveland was
elected. The indications are that more
will be accomplished during the fouI
years OF the present Administration
towards the suppression OF polygamy and
its attendant evils, than was effected
in six times that period OF Republican
rule. Then why should not the
friends of the Administration in Utah
give it their political and moral support
by maintaining separate organization
as is done in California where the Chi
nese question is paramount to all others
or in Nevada or Colorado where the peo
pie OF both parties are practically unit
upon the silver issue? 1t strikes me that
the Democrats OF Utah would be guilty
OF the grossest dscourtesy and ingrat
tude to the Administration, if they failed
to give it such general support as theii
principles would warrant, while they and
their Republican Gentle allies are ex'
pecting 50 much from it to aid in theil
struggle to wipe out polygamy and trea'
son in the Territory. The DEMOCRAT is
certainly on the right track, and | hope
it will continue upon it, representing the
\ principles and views OF the Democracy o
the Nation, as well as the local policy o
the loyal people of both parties in Utah
DEMOCRAT
| SALT LAKE Cry, April 81, 1886.