The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-27
A DlRGE FOB THE LIBERALS.

The determination of the Washington
administration to give no official recogni-
ton to the Liberal party in this territory
was foreshadowed some time ago. 1t is
equivalent to q declaration that the
Liberals are considered mere guerillas or
bush-whackers," hanging on the TANKS
Of the regular army, and representing
none of its purposes. AS in border war
fare hostilities generally partake of the
hatreds and resentments of the actors, and
more or less of savage methods so it is de-
creed that the Independents must join the
organized forces and be subject to the
rules and articles of civilized political war,
or they cannot wear the uniform of Repub-
lican soldiers. In other words, the attempt
TO nationalize local "reminiscences will no
longer CO. The Liberals must run with the
machine or be run over by 1t. Whosoever
would break bread at the Republican table
must be Republican. No certificate that
will admit Republican aud Democrat
alike will answer for credentials.
The logic of this conclusion leaves
Democrats, but who have not been
voting the Democrtic ticket, In a
sorry plight Such an individual now
poses as the head of the Liberal party in
this territory. To what political feeding
ground is he leading his weakening forces (!
Can they not see the futility of further
effort in the ranks where they have been
serving! At Chicago was given the identi-
callesson, though in much more authorlta-
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just read TO the Liberals of Utah. The
old issues that divided the people are dead
Citizens of the United States of both politi-
cal parties most emphatically avow that
the Mormon war is over, and that to re-
ceive attention parties must array them
selves on national lines The Liberal
organization is IAN iridescent dream" as
INGALLS, said of reform ia politics.
The Utah commission. whose creation
aside from their partisan rancor to advo-
cate amnesty for the heads OF the church.
With their testimony to the sincerity Of
these priests and dignitaries, will they not
be obliged to seek certificates of their own
sincerity when they claim that anything
more is lacking before the federal chains
are taken off the sovereignty of our
peoplel Either the people are now
prepared and qualified for SELF
government, or else, according to Liberal
doctrine, the ecclesisstics are not desery-
ing of the clemency the commissioners
recommend. Though the administration
has for many months refused the act of
grace, albeit the attorney general hes
sought means to effect it, it in reality pro-
claims Mormonism Is no longer a sin by ie-
noring the demands of Liberals for terri
tcrial Office and appointing as marshal one
who says he will vote for man as dele
gate to Congress who was born and nur-
tured in the church of Latter-day Saints.
Thus the Liberal party of Utah is traps-
formed into mere clique, such as in their
day were the anti Mssons and the Know
Nothings. They are without an issue.
without a purpose. They exist on the
recollections Of the past. forgetting that
year by year the population is swelling
with those attracted hither by the coun-
try's magnificent natural resources. and
who feel no concern nor interest at all in
controversies relating to period long
since passed away.