The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-22
THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY.

The proposed organization of Dem
ocratic Club, the announcement of
which appeared in Tuesdays issue of
THE HERALD, is highly proper and is
timely. 1t is not creditable to the
local Democracy that there is no organ
ization with which Democrats can af-
filiste. There has been a Democratic
National Administration for four
years, and it has been such
an administration as was satisfactory
to Democrats here, hard as the latter
are to please, and yet there has been
no organization to which and through
which the national Democracy could
speak. If Democrats were few in
number and were lacking in ability
excuse for this condition of things;
but this is not the case. The great
majority of the population are Demo
cratic in seariment, and no more en-
thusiastic members of the party can
be found anywhere. The trouble has
been the absence of harmony, and that
absence has been inexcusable from the
fact that there were no "spoiis" to be di-
video, and really nothing to quarrel
over. Only once in four years has the
pretended organization been called to-
gether, and then its proceedings were
so irregular and undemocratic that de-
cent Democrats were disguised and
some of them dishearter ed. We might
have had strong party, and one which
would have commanded the attention
and respect of the National Democracy,
and welded an influence; instead Of
which there is truly absolutely nothing
in the party that can be called DEM
Ocratic party.
The movement referred to above was
inRugrated by some young men who,
we are pleased to believe, have learned
wisdom from the unwisdom of their
seniors. They have seen the i'm
possibility of accomplishing anything
by pursuing the bigoted course hereto
fore followed, and if we understand
them Alright they have set out to do
what should be done in a right and in
telligent manner. If they will do this,
success will attend their efforts and
much good will come from the work
about t. be inaugurated.
We feel confident the young gentle
men will not take it unkindly if The
HERALD shall suggest that it knows
the youth of this Territory and is
familiar with their disposition,
and inclination politically; ard
we trust thai our young Democratic
friends will not be offended if We eau
ton them against some of the rocks
upon which there have been wrecks
The tendency of thu Utah youth is to-
wards Democracy; they want to be
Democrats, and will be Democrats if
they are not driven back and out of the
party fold. They love Democratic
principles, and their great desire is to
become part of the great Democracy
of the land. At the same time, these
young men are human, and are blessed
with the attributes and passions, the
loves and affections and the DISPOSE
tons of the race. They are Ameri
cans also, and are, therefore, proud
self assertiVe and independent. They
can be led, but not driven, and they
know their rights politically and other
wise. We take it that the aim OF the
prospective organization is to make
aud hold Democrats; if that is not the
purpose, then there is no occasion
for going ahead with the work under
taken. The ooject being to gain Demo
Gratis, the way to succeed is to do thing.
in q Democratic manner, to promul-
gate nothing that is not Democratic,
and above all to give no personal
offense when it can be avoided with
out a sacrifice of principle. You
M 1st not tell an intelligent man that
in order to be a Democrat he must
curse his father and denounce his
mother, you need not say to a young
10 an that it is impossible for him to be
Democrat and still retain the respect
and confidence of his own people. Let
him understand that Democracy re-
quires of him only fealty to Democratic
principles: that it does not require him
to be unnatural and vicious as an in
dividual; tell him that he can be a
man and Democrat at the same time
1t you will do this, the organization
will grow and prov and be some
thing of which all will be proud.