The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-12

perpetuate the san Democr acy uaIesi
the desire was to continue it as s
BAKERS dozen of men who would come
together once in four years, re.declars
themselves a central comm ttee, anC
then go off to work four years longer
with other and un-Democratic poIili
cal organizations.
1t will be observed that the cal
printed elsewhere is signed by the
chairman of the Ogden convention by
which hs was chosen chairman of the
central committee. Many Democrats
hold him personally responsible for
most of the meanness perpetrated
at that gathering, his rulings being
arbitrary and unjust, and N line with
what seemed to be an arranged and
we'll understood programme. 1t will
not be encouraging to the young men
OF Democratic inclinations to feel that
the gentleman referred TO occupies his
present position. They cannot but feel
that their first advance having been re-
pulsed in most brutal manner, any
further attempt on their part to get
into the Democratic party will be sim
ilarly met while the same persons are
in authority and control.
Regret 1t as we may we cannot but
feel that the Ogden convention was a
severe blow to the Utah Democracy.
The unwise action on that occasion not
only checked the growth of the party,
uuG-vHutuuIry r1uuoeu the numerical
strength OF the organization, old Dem
ocrats declaring they would no longer
train with it. 1t will take time to re-
cover the ground lost, and get the party
again on the progressive plane. Agood
many will have to forget Ogden and the
men who perpetrated the outrage before
they can again offer to march with the
organization that was in control at the
Weber capital There must also be re-
pentance, and manifest disposition to
undo the wrong that was done on that
occasion. If the proposed Provo con-
vention is step in the direction of the
recovery of lost ground, we'll and good
if Democrats are to be made welcome
and to receive courteous consideration
and fair treatment, we will rejoice. But
the Ogden affair is too green in the
memory to permit the hope of anything
like a repres entative Democratic con-
vention this fall. At Ogden the older
Democrats proposed to put the young
members on probation; now the youth
full Democrats will hold their elders on
probation. At Ogden it was insisted
that the new corners must prove their
the veterans will have to
demonstrate their sincerity in the COM
ing primaries held at Provo The
Ogden manipulators will have matters
their own way in the primaries and in
the convention, for we take ii
that few if any of the mis-
used and insulted Democrats will
have anything to do with the
old organization until it has shown re-
pentance and proven that it is Demo-
cratic in something more than name.
There is in the call recommendation |
which suggests that the committee i
anxious to place the Democracy on a
correct basis; it is this: that no one |
shall be permitted to participate in the
primaries who will not pledge his honor
that he will always cultivate and up
hold Democratic principles and at all
times and under all circumstances sup
oortthe nominees of the Democratic party |
against the nominees of any and every |
,ther party" At Ogden it was proposed |
% require such pledge of the new
corners, and the latter said they would |
make it provided those who demanded
he pledge would do the same. But
his was not agreeable and the young
)emocr ats were kicked out, the 'veter
ms" remaining in and retaining the
privilege they had always exercisedsof
icing Liberals, working for the Liberia.
party and voting Liberal tickets on all
occasions except during the quadren-
lial Democratic conventions. To-day
members of the Ogden Convention are
ctive members in the Liberal party,
md at the late election some of them
contributed time and money in an effort
o elect the Liberal ticket. If these gen
lemen shall be required to make the
lie lge above quoted, it will look as if
here were an earnest purpose to build
lp Democratic party, with Demo
ratio material on Democratic princi-
lies. Time will prove if this SUPPOSE
ion is correct.