The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-10
TO LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.

We are going to assume that at to days
meeting of the territorial central commit
tee of the Peoples party such
action viii be taken as will com
pletely disband that organization. We as
sumo this will be done for the reason that
it is the proper thing for the committee
men to do, and as intelligent men keenly
observant of the situation they will natur-
ally act with the wisdom that the occasion
demands.
Then, the Peoples party being out OF
existence. what else can the Liberals do
than follow the same course and also dis
band! The Peoples was essentially a
Mormon party, as the Liberal was and is
an anti-Mormon party. They were depend
ant upon each other for an excuse for
existence. The Peoples was organized
to defend its members against the
assaults of the other, and the Liberal
party was formed for the sole purpose of
combating the political power of the Nor
mons. There no longer being a Mormon
party, there can no longer be an anti-Mor-
mon party. If the disbanding of the Peo-
pies party meant merely change of
name, if the Mormons were all to transfer
their allegiance to another political organi-
zation made up exclusively of mem
bers of their church, the Liberals
might claim an excuse for con-
tinuing their party and doing battle on the
old line. But this is not the case. We find
that with the dissolution of their party,
the Mormons are afiliating with
those who have heretofore opposed
and adopting party politics as understood
in tee nation; that they are announcing
their belief in Republican or Democratic
principles, and proclaiming their adherence
to the two national parties. In plain words,
they are Mormons in their religious belief
and partisans in politics, the same as
Methodists, Baptists, or members of other
churches.
This being true, and it cannot be denied.
what can strictly anti Mormon party
find as an excuse for existence. What
foundation can it have upon which to restl
Liberals should ask themselves this ques-
ton, and answer 1t in soberness
and Intelligence They ought not to
let passion and fanaticism frame the
reply. If they will be true, and
will exercise wise foresight, they viii not
be long in making up their minds that the
thing for them to Go is to disband as dis
tinct political organization, that which
kept them together having disappeared
never again TO confront them.
Especially does THE HERALD ask the few
Democrats remaining in the Liberal ranks
to deal fairly with themselves at this time,
and taking into full account the situation
as it exists, TO ask if they can afford to as
sumo and occupy position which cannot
be justified by the principles which they
profess. We ask the Democrats to
look ahead a few months at most,
and then say if in the light
of what they must see, if they
can afford to be placed in the attitude
which their continuance in the Liberal
party will place them. In the very nature
of things the Liberal party cannot exist
beyond the election next August. No mat
ter what may be the result of the voting
then, the Liberal organization will expire
with the closing OF the polls. VIII it not
be better for Democrats to get out before
the deaths To wait until the dissolution
will involve shame and humiliation deeper
than sensitive men viii care TO endure.