The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09
THE DEMONSTRATION.

The facts are SO plain and so easy of
demonstration that it is surprising that
anyone should attempt TO charge bad faith
Oh the part of Republican Mormons in the
recent elections. In Ogden more than in
any other city or town in the territory was
there al apparent division on national party
lines. This division began many months
ago and was so complete so far as
general observation could discover, that
the old parties were lost sight of and for
gotten. Long before the disbaudment of
the Peoples party in this and other
counties, they mad ceased 10 talk about the
Peoples party in Ogden. where no effort
was put forth to keep UP the organization.
The Liberal party also had to all appear
ances ceased to be thing of life, nearly
all of its leaders aud the great
majority of the rank and file
having publicly announced their
utilization with one or the other of the ma
t!onal parties. The Mormons, the ex mem
bers Of the Peoples party, also united with
the Democratic and Republican parties &C
cording to the principles upon which those
parties were founded agreed with their own.
Gus and energetic of any in the territory
The Democrats knew that the great ma
jority Of the Liberals were Republicans,
and feared that if any considerable number
OF the eX-membsrs of the Peoples party
were to JOIN the Republicans the latter
would sweep the city and county. Because
OF the danger the Democrats, both Mormon
and Gentle, worked earnestly among the
masses, aud we know that until few days
before the election they had little
hope of carrying Ogden city and
were not over confident as to Weber
county. Mormon and Gentle Repu blicans
also labored side by side among the people
and with more or less success, the con-
versions to their party being numerous
Finally the order went forth from this city
that the Liberal party must be resuscitated
and its members return to their allegiance
The bosses went up from here and har-
rsngued the dese-ters, and the result was
what we saw last Monday. The Republi-
can Liberals, in obedience to orders, rushed
back into the ranks and we are not certain
they did not humbly solicit pardon for
having dared to assert their independence
On election day they worked against the
Republican ticket which many Of them
had assisted TO make up and they voted
solidly for candidates Of their own who
had been hastily nominated after the
orders were given for Liberals TO
abandon the other parties. On the
other hand the ex-Liberal Democrats stood
trne, defying the Salt Lake bosses and de-
claring their independence and honesty
They continued to work, never letting up
for moment until the polls were closed
and they could do no more
And when the votes were counted what
was demonstrated. That the non Mormon
Republicans, amost to man, had returned
TO the Liberal fold and voted the Liberal
ticket; that the Mormons who had
declared their belief in the Republican
party had voted the ticket straight:
and that the ex-Liberal Democrats and the
ex-People's party Democrats had been true
rs steel to their convictions and their
tickets, and that minority party, the
Democratic, ha6 carried the city and the
county.
These are the plain facts and cannot be
successfully disputed. They are demon
strated by the figures. They are facts
which prove that the Mormons, both Re
publicans and Democrats, and the non
Mormons Democrats, were faithful, and
that the non Mormon Republicans went
back on their party principles and on their
implied if not direct pledges when they
organized and entered the Republican
party How any Liberal can charge un-
fsithfulness against anybody under. such
circumstances, in the light of such show
ing, can be explained only on the theory of
unexampled gail"
Right here THE HERALD would say few
words to the Mormons, and we do not say
them with the view of taking a mean i'd
vantage of any other party. The playing
false in the late election was by the Liberal
Republicans, and their victims were the
Mormon Republicans This will not be de-
lieve the denial, for they will know better
The ex-Liberal Democrats were true, in
Ogden, IN Salt Lake, in fact, everywhere.
Nov, under the circumstances, with which
party should the Mormons-we mean the
Mormons who have not yet taken sides and
made choice Of part;es-go, the one whose
members have proven their honesty, their
courage, their independence and their de- |
votion to principle, or the one whose men, |
bers can be switched from the straight
track by political bosses, and who have de- |
monstrated that their highest allegiance is |
TO party founded on hatred OF Mormons, /
rather than to the Republican organizations