Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-27
A Party Without Principle.

II issaid the Presidential campaign
Of this year Ia to DO one Of principles
rather than OF men. In Utah tho
national campaign cuts no figure, To
use a phrase. But Utah Is to
have a campaign Ia which there ~ no
principle Involved and In which
there Is really hut two motives ~ b.
berry and scll.dofcnso. On tho o. q
side is the recalled "Llberal" party
that ri.es likea Deaths head from It's
own grave to revive IT, own corpse for
the purrosc Of getting control Of the
public offices In tho town aud county
whore IL hirellngs are Ia the majority.
/ say this In no oaptlous spirit. The
party is too contemplate 10 excite
anger and too gross 10 be amenablo to
reason. Consequently, there Is
only one course In speaking
NJ L and that Is to tell
tho truth plainly AMI leave the
result with time. / make no mlstak q
In saying that the party motive OF the
alleged Tiiberals" IL possession II
public offices. The patty 10 declared
itself In it, recent conference. There
IL, therefore, no principle In the party.
IL would, n II could, control all Utah
FOR tho spOils Of office. IL Ia u menace
To property and n danger to good gov.
ernment.
Such being the case there IL but one
motive before all people who arc not
controlled by the pseudo "LiberapD
party, and that 4. telf.defensc.
Whether we are Democrats or Repub.
licans, whether we think we bolleve
In free trade or high tariff, there IL
but onc urgent duty before ", and that
IL 10 protect ourselves against the un.
priuciplei h'telinss anu office seekers
who mako up this una muricnl thing
calloI "the I.iberiP party"
I hal Intended TO quit work ia Utah
on my old line because thought that
most OF the honorable men hay.
lug lct Utah "LIherAiismn II was
dead, but tho men gone out u II, the
lower element romans and, uncon.
tFolled, manifests ite true character 10
more Ven0mous hiss than ever.
Hence | return 10 the field IA
lah0rer aud may lind It In my way
shortly to bavca paper OF my own In
salt Lake.
The thought which suggests this
communication was statement In
last Sundays Tribune. | have seen II
many times in that paper and have In.
tended to cali attention to IL. IL was
speaking OF "fOung Utah" The
Ir.buHs always assumes that It owns
TINT coutlgent and can put words iuto
TIA mouth aud talk for Il with perfec.
impucity," a. Mrs. PArtiugton used
to say. On this occasion the Tribune
assumes to lay 1t down for "Young
Utah" that II must tell the old folks
that II thinks something OF their
church, hut the only thing that II really
loves IL the country and that Il
lovesour country rightor wrong better
than all else on earth.
That IL catching phrase, hut Il 4.
sounding brass and Tnttling diahtaul
No more unpatrlotic, unphilosuphical,
immoral national sentiment vas over
uttered than sour country, right or
wrongu but II I. good thearetlc Utah
Liberalism. L, Is precisely the same
sentiment that was embodied in the
IribU1es expressed wish to SEQ brotb,ls.
anloona and gambling houses started In
Salt Lake To soduce young UtahU
from the salutary influence Of church
and home.
"Our country, right or wrong,D
means the same thing Bs "our party.
right or wrong" anu that has been Tie
shihbolelh Of Utah LiberAllem all lis
years, The man or men who have no
higher conception OF right than to
formulate that old, brutal anu i'm.
moral cry are unit to have
anything 10 do with the govern.
mcnt Of Territory, state or nation
or with the schooling OF people. The
daily paper that can Disseminate that
poison II unfit 10 circulate In the
hnmes Of tho people, ana the party that
has no higher conception OF right than
b follow the lead Of such an organ
writes Itself down ~ an immoral ele- |
mont, between which and avowed |
anarchy there Is only the distance he
.ween hop. aud realization. II Ia this
patty without principle against which |
he people OF Utah have TO defend |
themselves. Let them DO the work |
20 well this time that Il viii never
lnve TO be- repeated.