The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-08
THE SITUATION.

1t is Indeed a situation that con
fronts, not us OF the pure bloode Demo-
cratic faith, but or friends, the enc
mics. The situation, summarize in as
brief synopsis as possible, is simply
this
The best minds and the truest hearts
of the erriiory had come TO an under
standing of The TACT lup till u Year or 50
ago, almost only IA visionary dream OF
few oplimisls) that change III our
political complexion was not only fea-
sible under the circumstances of the
present, but compulsory under the TX
igencies of the futdrt. as clearly seen
oy far-sighted patriots. This change
consisted II the aboItion of The race
hatred" that had been we gning as a
nightmare upon the il bosom of Utah
and tended to ralyze all her ac ions
and stun her ambitious. The incubus
nad to be lifted off ere there
could be free and untrammeled circu-
lation of the vital fluid through the po-
litical, social. ana commercial system
of the entire community, the best
strength and noblest efforts of which
were being wasted by the maintenance
of struggle, Justly defensive on one
side, and an aggressive, no longer jus
tiiable, one on the other side.
Though liable to be charged with
warming up stale broth, we must reit-
crate the simple, but steel-hard stale
ment that the polygamy distraction
ueing entirely removed from the social
horizon, and the church and state,
or "priesthood-rule" phantom having
evaporated into distantly evanescent
air, there was no longer any necessity
for Liberal party in Utah, not in the
sense of its inception or the spirit OF
Is recent management. The cGsuS Jeiii
having been removed. there could
no longer exist any necessity, OF even
excuse for belligelents, nothing re-
manning but IA few pompous drum
majors and some more hungry camp
followers. with few pious army chap
lains. The Liberal party, i. E. the as
sifed organization that had outlined
the vital life of moral strength refusing
to allow itself to be quietly laid away
and the ossuaIy of other relics OF The
past, the Peoples party, nevertheless,
recognized that the day had come for
its honorable Requiem, with the Rssurg-
anus of new and vitalized bodies,
standing on national platforms with
national adhesion and historic fund
mentality. The Peoples party, in dis
solving itself, could well leave the fu
ture safety OF the rights OF the people
with the ambitious Young successors /
to its honorable past career. 1t could
rust III the new parties to take care
of the social and material, as
well as political and ideal
interests of the people, and let the Lib
eral party-the rag-tag and bob-tail
that mi ght still retain The sickness of
simeon inue its existence and
crawl, sprawl, and spawn along till 1t
would die of its owe ordures. THemew
parties, the "Divisionists, " would keep
the hydra throttled, thoug1 they might
not vet be fully enabled, as the case
might be, to cut off all the envenomed
heads at one final swoop.
Mon ay, the third day OF August.
justified the confidence OF tie leaders
of the Peoples party, that by disband-
ing their loyal iosts after honorable
discharge, the masses would ally them
selves, according to their indiyid
ual intelligence and discelnpenr, with
nne or the other Of The two great ma
tional parties, and find all the leader
ship requisite to marshal them into
successful cohorts. AS the French used /
10 exclaim at the death Of
Il monarch: "The king is
dead, long live the king!''-so
it was fairly and truly announced:
The Peoples party is dead-long live
the peoplen' And the people live. Re
publicans and Democrats, and the Lib
eral party has only had another galvan-
ic shock of artificial resuscitation.
The situation is simply that the Lib
erals are no nearer to, nay, much far
ther from the attainment of their un-
hallowed ambition, than they feared
themselves. Their gains are fictitious
and imaginary. and out of all proper
ton with the imitation of their hopes,
the immensity of their arrogance, and
the sordidness of their motives. The
Peoples party's mantle has fallen upon
young but vigorous shoulders, should
erS strong enough to carry the vast
burden of governmental administra-
ton in Utah. And these shoulders are
bearing aloft the lovely,
proud and triumphant head
of DEMOCRACY they, themselves, up
borne and upheld by the inviolate
and immaculate, incorruptible and in
iomitable of the PEOPLE, who have
their loyalty and power in
the maintenance of local self-govern-
ment, unimpeded by a non-progressive
Daternalism or favoring of the few to
The detriment and spoliation of the
many.
Again, we come TO a closer clinching
IF the situation: DEMOCRACY has won +
he great battle for the People, DEMoc- /
aAcY, uninspired by outside influences
md undetered by brutal insinuati ms, :
las met the common enemy-the Lib
raj party-and defeated it with a bold '
ight-hander, at the same time dealing |
he enemy No. ,, loved non the more, !
,nly feared the less remotely under ex-
sting local circumstanceS)-we mean T