The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-13
TO DEMOCRATS.

Undoubtedly the Liberals will nomi-
nate candidates for the Offices to be
filed bv the general and county elec-
tons next month. That party never
fails to get in its work whatever Others
NAV Go. We all know of what the
membership of the Liberal party is
made up. Liberals are simply anti
Mormon Republicans and Democrats.
Every four years they are Republicans
and Democrats long enough to hold
conventions and designate delegates to
the respective national conventions,
and then they are Liberals again, and
nothing more is heard of their connec-
ton with the national parties.
At the late so called Territorial
Democratic Convention. it was urgei
against the Mormon Democratic dele
gates III at they had been acting with the
Peoples party and the timely and
truthful retort was tina. the Gentle
Democratic delegates had only been
active as Liberals. One class asserted
that whatever they had been they were
now Democrats and proposed to vote
only Democratic tickets in future; the
other class admitted that they had been
Liberals, and did not intimate that they
proposed to be anything else.
1t can hardly lie expected that
Mormon Den ocrats will vote a
Liberal ticket made up largely of
Republicans, and refusal to vote such
a ticket will not be held to be denial
of Democratic sympathies and afilia-
ton. It's expected that Gentle Demo
cats will vote the Liberal ticket made
up largely by and of Republicans, and
their voting such ticket ought to be |
counted as withdrawal from the |
Democratic party.
But if there is no Democratic ticket |
in the fl Id, what are the Democrats, |
Mormons and Gentiles, to do? Can |
they do anything without endangering
their political standing, and running
the risk of having it fired at them in
future that they are not Democrats
because they acted with other and
non Democratic if not anti-Democratic
partiesP
Those who are Democrats to-day, |
those who have recently protested love
for the great party of the people and
its principles, would do well to think OF
these things, and be careful to place
themselves in no awkward positions,
from which it msy be difficult to
escape. AS sure as the sun will rise
this morning, the great national
parties will soon assert themselves in
this Territory, and other parties will
have to go to the wall or struggle
along as inconsequential factions. The
records which Democrats make for
themselves individually from this time
forth, will be remembered and lasting.
There will be no more OF this thing of
being Liberals four years and Democrats
one day. A man cannot hereafter vote
for Republican ticket on Republican
platform under the name of Liberal and |
the next day claim recognition as
Democrat. He must be one thing or |
the other.
Local Democrats will do we'll to see
that they have ticket which they can
support at the coming election without
running the risk of being denied recog-
milton when they shall put in their
claim to be advocates of Democracy and |
believers in Democratic doctrine. There
are breakers ahead of the Democrats, |
and as they can be plainly seen, it will |
be recklessness of the worst kind to run
against them