The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-12

lts rapid approach were apparent eighteen
months ago and nine months later when
the Mormon church removed the cause
which had arrayed non- Mormons generally
against ii, the end was In plain view. II
only then remained for the working out Of
the details, and that was soon accom-
plished. That done, minded men saw
there was no longer occasion for keeping
up the parties which had no other excuse
for existence than the peculiar condition
which had prevailed and which had been
changed when the Mormons openly and in
frank and manly way yielded to the SEN
timent of the age and the laws of the coun-
try and declared their abandonment Of the
policy Of resistance which had been pur-
sued to such lengths. The Mormons no
longer giving cause for attack, the opposi-
ton naturally and necessarily weakened,
| and when a considerable number Of those
who had been most active in their assaults
upon the Saints announced that having
achieved what they set out to accomplish
they had done fighting along the line they
had been pursuing, only one result could
follow. The Peoples party would go to
pieces. 1t could not be held together, there
bSAh8 hOtuAak hulCu utMGuQtQ COu-
tinuance. Fair-minded Liberals grasped
the situation and at once concluded that
there was no common antagonist to attack,
nothing which could hold them together as
soldiers in the same political army; there
was nothing now to do in politics except TO
live up to and practice those principles
which had been laid aside during the local
struggle and which had a broader
bearing than the narrow preiudices which
had controlled. Democrats asserted them
selves as distinct from and independent OF
the old organizations; Republicans did tn
same; Liberals and Peoples partisans, no |
longer opponents, the cause of their an
tagonism having disappeared, found that |
they could stand upon the same political |
platform as Democrats or Republicans. and |
during the past weeks they have been |
gravitating towards each other by scores
and hundreds. The Peoples party has |
been formally dlsbanded, and its members |
will necessarily align themselves with Re-
publicans or Democrats according as their
Individual principles are in harmony with
those OF the parties named. The Liberal
organization is kept alive by the desperate
efforts of few men who imagine there will
be something better for them personally in
keeping alive the furious hates and vindic-
tiveness which la We afflicted and distracted
the community. They may succeed for a
little while and make some sort of show
ing, but in the very nature of things the
Liberal party must early go to pieces as its
opponent, the Peoples, has gone out Of ex-
istence. 1t is to the rank and file Of the
Liberals that we make this request, that
they as citizens will, in GOODNESS and DELHI
GRAFTON, look over the field and apply their
as to what is the true situation
and what the future portends. We ask
them to do this before reaching a conclu-
sion as to what they should do, and we ask
hem to be guided by their own wisdom
md knowledge, and not be led by dema
'ogues of the stage or tripod. If they do
his we believe they will one and all con-
Jude that Democracy as an organized party
s here 10 stay: that the Republican party
S here to stay; that the Peoples party is a
hing of memory only; that the Liberal
'arty is without solid foundation upon
which to rest, and must early collapse, and
he thing for its self-respecting and intel 7
gent members to do is TO get out while
hey can leave with credit to themselves Il
nd while they can carry with them a Ger
ain degree of influence which will De USE
IL in the future