The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-05-30
THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK.

On Wednesday next the members of
the Territorial Central Committee Of
the Peoples Party will hold a very
important session in Salt Lake City.
The call for this meeting is published
in another column. The question to
be determined IS whether it is policy
to disband the Peoples party, and from
henceforth fight the political battels Of
this Territory on national lines. The
Herald, in reviewing the proposition,
very sensibly says:
The masses are emphaticallY in ia
vor Of the prompt disbandment of the
Peoples sparty. They realize that there
is no longer occasion for the continu-
ance of the party, and that to hold it
together longer would be almost a
crime against the community. We
say this advisedly, because we are ia
miliar with the views of scores of those
Peoples partisans who have been in
fluential among the voters in the past.
These gentlemen tell us that the great
majority of those who have trained
under the Peoples banner feel that
there is no longer a place for the
party, and that to perpetuate the Or
ganization would be to waste energy
and effort, and put to bad use political
force which might otherwise be di-
yerted to good purpose. The leaven
which began working year ago has
penetrated and permeated the ranks
of the Peoples Party, and now the
overwhelming majority are keen to
range themselves with the great
national organizations and conduct
the political battles on the lines
whic,- re recognized throughout the
Union The voters have come to
full Understand the truth, that so
lor IS they contest as nondeScripts in
pol los II will be treated by the
peos q q erica as undeserving con-
sideration unworthy of participation
in tire political councils and affairs of
the nation 1t has been a tiresome.
profitiess " arfare in the past, and to
proceed with it on the old lines would
be disastrous to the voters themselves.
Furthermore. it is not probable that
the party car be held together. The
Democracy is but few days old, and
already il has enrolled in its ranks
hundreds of men who have in the past
given their allegiance to the Peoples
party. Everywhere that Democratic
meeting is held Peoples partisanS
flock in and wisely and enthusiast
cally declare themselves in favor of
the organization and its principles.
This is true not only of Salt Lake City,
but of the entire Territory, strong
clubs being already formed in several
counties. At the Republican meeting
in the theatre last week, we also saw
that there was something of going
over to that party by the People.
Happily this was not great, though
there was enough of it to show that
there is a prevalent feeling in the
party that the organization should go
out of existence. If the central COM
mittees will take careful and intelli-
gent account of the situation they will
see that there is no longer the least
occasion for maintaining the Peoples
Party. and they will declare the organ
ization disbanded, the members being
free to unite with such parties as
best represent ther principles. Every
thing is to be gained by this course:
everything is to be lost by pursuing
the opposite course. Evidence has
been presented that never again can
either the Peoples or the Liberal
Party be forceful factor in local pol
itics, and now it will be tie part of
wisdom for the leaders of those parties
to confess the truth and not stand in
the way of the progressive movement
which has been lnaugurated.