The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-24
POLITICAL PLEASANTLY.

The Liberal organ continues to grind out
its dismal wall that the people of this terri
tory should not have any politics, except
those of Mormon and non-M Mormon.
For years it has contended that there
ought to ne national politics in Utah as in
other parts OF the country, and that the
only obstacle TO the existence of national
parties was the existence of the PEOPLES
party and the conflict incident to the prac-
tice OF polygamy. Just before the day of
the last November election, it declared that
If the Peoples party were disbanded, there
would no longer be any use for the exist
istence CT the Liberal party. To-day
among its incoherent rawlings, such stuff as
the following is common:
| Those were red-hot old days, and this people
| that Just now, without any preconcerted move
ment without any instructions from their
chiefs, suddenly all at once received an inspira-
ton TO become good American citizens and be
Republicans or Democrats, even as they might
( be set aside 10 be, were a little rampant in
those days, only seventeen months ago.
The foregoing argument is intended 70
show why the good men Of the Liberal
party, ''men that fear GoD, men that every
day say their prayers tthese are the exact
words OF the Liberal organ) should still be
Liberals. If any one can unravel the
snarls in the logic so as to get any particu-
lar meaning from the argument he is
welcome TO do so.
But these good linen that fear COP,
men that say their prayers" such as
POWERS and BAsKIN and BURMEsTER and
LANNAN, are they not in danger of pollu-
ton by contact with others who have not
yet become good American citizensp'
The organ says the people are ''set aside
to be" Republicans or Democrats, the
proof Of this being that the meanest paper
in America, after the most frantic search
for two months, has failed to find anything
that malice could distort into even an ap
pearance of ''setting aside"
At the same time that the organ is GEN.
suring the people of Utah for not being
Democrats Or Republicans, it is doing all it
can toprevent them from being either.
Knowing only too well that the peo
pie are in earnest in this political
battle, and that it is a mere question of
political campaigning and argument as to
which way the majority of the people may
oeclue, IL prebeBus 10 oelloy6 that SO maQy
have been 'set aside' to be Democrats. so
many to be Republicans. for the time being
only, and that this whole earnest debate ia
a mere sham fight.
The Tribune man who daily writes his
present quota Of lies, in direct contra !
diction of what he has for many years past
been writing, knows perfectly well how
deep is his infamy when he says this politi- |
cal movement is simply mock battle. No
one knows better than he that the men |
who have come to the front of the Demo.
cratic line of battle are terribly in earnest |
and know that they must work in order
TO get the Democratic majority they
anticipate. Yet he daily tells the non
Mormon Democrats that they have been
orioed by the Mormon church, and the
Mormons that they have been "ser aside,
to be Democrats.
There is not much advantage, in general.
n refuting at length every vile insinuation
and falsehood that malice and roguery NAV
put forth. There is, in the opinion of
many, only one rep-y that can properly bs
made to these mean If impotent attacks.
md that should be made by any and every
Democrat, wherever he may be- and where